Elevating Diverse Voices with Shalonda Ingram
Tune in to this special episode of the podcast Go Play In the Dirt. Host Lauren Bryson, BCHN interviews Shalonda Ingram, Founder of Born Brown and Bauman Wellness Integrative Facilitator, about diversity, community and the challenge of cultivating consciences.
Biodiversity is a word used to describe the vast variety of life on earth. This podcast celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion and is a safe space to elevate diverse voices. These conversations can support developing biodiversity in our own hearts to see each other as humans and encourage ways we can listen to, relate to and support one another.
True to the podcast’s mission, we chat with Shalonda Ingram, a placemaker, strategist, and producer, who will walk us through the depths of grassroots activism and how acknowledging one another's heritage, experience and diversity becomes a holding space for collective healing to occur.
Born and raised in St. Louis Missouri, Shalonda is committed to elevating consciousness and empowering collective liberation. Shalonda has deployed worldwide for the transformation of people, principles, practices, and systems. Native to grassroots activism, Shalonda works with social justice, spiritual, and corporate organizations to explore network effects and elevate opportunities for resource sharing while scaling.
In this Episode You’ll Discover:
Shalonda Ingram’s mission of elevating consciousness and empowering collective liberation
The importance of awareness, accountability and creating harmonious environments
Biodiversity of ancient wisdom, evolution, leveraging resources, taking risks, and learning from each other
Shalonda Ingram’s journey in the world of health and wellness
Why land acknowledgement is important
Community conversation of health and wellness for the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities
Allowing each other to live a biodiverse life
