Town Business with Lateefah Simon and Sarah Kirnon...LIVE! - a podcast by Alicia Garza

This week’s interviews took place at Lady Don’t Take No’s very first live show, recorded at Copper Spoon in Oakland on October 21st, 2021. Alicia Garza is joined by Lateefah Simon, President of Akonadi Foundation, and Chef Sarah Kirnon, owner of Miss Ollies in Oakland. Simon gives us an update since her appearance on our very first podcast. Kirnon shares about her next project, Sanctuary. Plus, Alicia heads back to the studio for a fresh weekly roundup you won’t want to miss!

Lateefah Simon on Instagram and Twitter

Chef Sarah Kirnon’s Miss Ollies, and to learn more about Sanctuary, visit: https://www.sanctuaryfsa.org

Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook

Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube

This pod is supported by the Black Futures Lab

Production by Phil Surkis

Theme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by Latyrx

Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia was recently named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do. 

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