Ep. 100 - It's a BnB Celebration! ft. Samantha Grund-Wickramasekera & Camille Williams

BrownTown on BrownTown. Join Caullen and David as they celebrate
BnB's 100th episode with guest hosts and homies Samantha
Grund-Wickramasekera and Camille Williams. Sam is a long-time
listener and SoapBox board member while Camille was one of the
first podcast guests. As collaborators and friends of BrownTown,
they have seen the podcast and SoapBox as a whole grow over the
years and detail that as they lead a reflection on where the
podcast has been, where it is, and where it's going. Here's to
100 more!


Transcriptions available here!


GUESTS
Samantha Grund-Wickramasekera is a proud Chicago native and
Chicago Public School graduate who grew up in West Rogers Park.
She graduated summa cum laude from DePaul University with a
double major in political science and women and gender studies,
with a minor in LGBTQ studies. Samantha became a Double Demon
when she attended DePaul’s College of Law and graduated with a
Juris Doctor and a Healthcare Law certificate in 2017. Since
then, she has served as the senior judicial law clerk to the
Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama in the Circuit Court of Cook
County and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of
Illinois. Currently, she serves as an appellate judicial law
clerk to the Honorable Cynthia Y. Cobbs in the Illinois Appellate
Court, First District, where she reviews and decides state-based
criminal and civil appeals. She also serves as an adjunct
professor at DePaul’s College of Law, focusing on appellate
advocacy. Samantha has served as a board member on Soapbox’s
Board of Directors since 2020 and has authored various editorials
for the organization. Finally, Samantha is the granddaughter of
Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a Sri Lankan immigrant.
She is proudly brown, Jewish and intersectional, loves lifting
weights and playing soccer, will judge a restaurant entirely on
the quality of its French fries, and is the mother of the best
doggo in the world, Hallo Mahalo.


Camille Williams is a South Side resident, a community member
whose foundation is built on advocacy. Camille is currently
studying Health Science at Rush University and is the Inclusion,
Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Lead at Chicago Votes.


Mentioned Episodes:


Ep. 7 - Public Health & The Death Gap ft. Jessica Puri

Ep. 8.3 - Sexism in Mixed Company

Ep. 14 - Chi DNA: Electoral & Radical Politics ​ft.
Camille Williams

Ep. 19 - Happy Father's Day ft. Larone Ellison

Ep. 25 - *LIVE AT DEPAUL* Chi DNA: Exile, Refuge, &
Displacement ft. Jessica Puri & Heavy Crownz

Ep. 29 - Code Switching ft. Heavy Crownz

Ep. 37 - Public Health 2.0 ft. Le Greta Hudson

Ep. 53 - Police Abolition ft. Ariel Atkins

Ep. 95 - Home

The Collective Freedom Project (2021)

Whiskey & Watching (2022-Present)



 


Opinions on this episode only reflect Samantha,
Camille, David, and Caullen as individuals, not their
organizations or places of work.


 


CREDITS: Intro music Celebration by Kool
& The Gang and outro instrumental Weakest Link by
Woozy & GENTA. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles. Episode
photo by Aidan Kranz. Testimonials in order: Genta Tamashiro,
Dakota Sillyman, Emma Terrazas, and Ernest Hudson. Listen to all
the episodes on your chosen podcast application and
SoapBoxPO.com/Podcast for more information.


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