Category: Podcast

Complex Trauma & Mental Illness on Skid Row

      Featuring Amy Turk, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness.   What’s the one common denominator among women experiencing homelessness? Is homelessness a moral failing, or a consequence […]

How Medicare for All Could Help End Homelessness

    Featuring Amy Turk, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness.   Why is it that 60% of the women on Skid Row are African-American?  What happens […]

Coronavirus & Skid Row

      Featuring Amy Turk, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness.   What special challenges do people without permanent housing face with coronavirus? And what programs […]

Domestic Violence, Homelessness & Health Care

    Featuring Amy Turk, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness.   What are the root causes of homelessness among women? What role does gender-based violence play? What policies […]

Health Care’s Transformative Moment

      Featuring Michael Lighty, founding fellow of the Sanders Institute and former healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020: Why won’t our legislators take up the political fight against health insurers and pharmaceutical companies? How can we shift the definition of what’s politically possible […]

How to Win Medicare for All

      Featuring Michael Lighty, founding fellow of the Sanders Institute and former healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020: What’s holding the U.S. back from Medicare for All? (Hint: It’s not just Trump.) What about California? In this second episode in a podcast series […]

The Health Equity X-Factor?

    Featuring Michael Lighty, founding fellow of the Sanders Institute and former healthcare constituency director for Bernie 2020: Will “a little bit of this and a little bit of that” solve America’s healthcare problems? Is COVID-19 a game-changer in the fight for single-payer? In […]