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On tomorrow's show, Cecile talks with Katherine (Kati) Standefer about her incredible life journey as written about in her book, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life. It's a fascinating book and conversation. Tune in!
Named one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Fall 2020, it's been featured in People Magazine and on NPR’s Fresh Air, and was the November 2020 New York Times Book Review Group Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick

"What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator."

So excited and proud to announce that our co-host Patricia Trujillo has been appointed the Deputy Secretary of Higher Education. We know that the students of New Mexico have a dedicated and brilliant woman in their court! Congrats Patricia we ❤️ you!

This powerhouse Chicana from Espanola has a Masters degree in English/ Creative Writing and a PhD in US Latina/o Literature; has been tenured faculty at Northern NM College AND the Director of their Office of Equity and Diversity (which she started); and she is or has been a member of the boards at NewMexicoWomen.org, Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area, Tewa Women United, and LANL Foundation. She has published writings on cultural identity, Chicana feminism, indigeneity, and place-based identity and she was recently named the Creative Writing Editor of the “Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social,” a peer-reviewed journal our of Arizona State.

The New Mexico Higher Education Department is excited to welcome Dr. Trujillo in support of our ongoing commitment to increase access to higher education and support student success for all New Mexicans. https://hed.state.nm.us/news/dr-patricia-trujillo-namedhigher-educationdeputy-secretary

A great show today as Cecile talks about land regeneration and community health and well being with two amazing women community farmers, Beverly Grant, Founder, Seeds Of Power Unity Farm & Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace and Yvonne Sandoval, Founder Bueno Para Todos Cooperative. Both women finding ways to sustain their communities, reviving plant wisdom for youth and adults alike, and focusing on creating greater access to health and healing.

Something Scott Davis and Cecile and Patricia talk about often on the show -
“What is our society teaching men? It is teaching men that the only way to have dignity is not be a woman, not be weak, not be gay, always hit first and never present yourself as vulnerable or in need.

This dominant way of teaching men leads to the epic amounts of abuse and assault that women face, and it actually doesn’t really work for most men. It traps most men in images of ourselves that have failed most of us and that don’t fit our lived inner experience.”

How an Aversion to Masks Stems From ‘Toxic Masculinity’ A narrow idea of invincibility and invulnerability “traps most men in images of ourselves that have failed most of us,” argues the author Anand Giridharadas.