Bending the Arc

Bending The Arc explores the everyday work of creating inclusive, equitable and racially just communities. This podcast spotlights bold thinking and action by creative, passionate, experienced thinkers and actors from cities and communities around the US and Canada. Join us to learn about strategies to make communities diverse, vibrant places of well-being and opportunity. Bending the Arc is produced by the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and co-hosted by Dr. Mark Joseph and Dr. Amy Khare.

Bending the Arc is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode 38: ThirdSpace Action Lab Episode 6: Reflections and Future Trajectory

  Feb 7, 20261h 21mS0

  <p>This is the final episode in our podcast series focused on the powerful work of ThirdSpace Action Lab, a racial equity consulting firm based here in Cleveland. We welcomed back the founders of ThirdSpace, Evelyn Burnett and Mordecai Cargill, to reflect with me on the podcast series and consider the path ahead for ThirdSpace. We launched the series with Episode 32, where Evelyn and Mordecai talked to me about the origin story and mission of Thirdspace and set the stage for the episodes focusing on various elements of their work and mission.Evelyn Burnett is the CEO and Mordecai Cargill...

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  Episode 37: ThirdSpace Action Lab Episode 5: Reflections on the 2025 Summer of Soul

  Dec 19, 20251h 8mS0

  <p>This is the fifth episode in the podcast series Moving Toward Healing focused on the incredible work of ThirdSpace Action Lab, a racial equity consulting firm based in Cleveland. The series features seven episodes exploring the philosophy, strategies, and achievements of this extremely unique and innovative changemaking powerhouse. </p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode we focus on a specific example of ThirdSpace magic with a deep dive on the monthlong celebration of Juneteenth this past summer that they called the Summer of Soul, with the theme Bet on Black. We’re joined by two of the ThirdSpace te...

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  Episode 36: Our Center’s Second Decade Strategic Pivot

  Nov 3, 20251h 16mS0

  <p>We are coming up on two years since we launched a period of reflecting, reimagining and recommitting at our center’s tenth anniversary. We are now fully into a major strategic pivot on our quest to promote place-based social transformation. We dedicate this episode to bring our listeners fully up to speed on the next chapter of our mission. To describe the details of our organizational pivot, I am joined by two colleagues who are helping us to bridge from our first decade of work and a third colleague who has recently joined to advance our new focus.</p><p>...

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  Episode 35: ThirdSpace Action Lab Episode 4: Activating Liberated Spaces

  Jun 9, 20251h 22mS0

  <p>This is the fourth episode in the podcast series Moving Toward Healing focused on the incredible work of ThirdSpace Action Lab, a racial equity consulting firm based in Cleveland. The series features six episodes exploring the philosophy, strategies, and achievements of this extremely unique and innovative changemaking powerhouse. In this episode we focus on the Space in ThirdSpace, liberated space that is. And, for the first time ever, we recorded on-site at a guest location. We were joined by three members of the team who lead the space cultivation and hosting in the ThirdSpace Reading Room and the Black...

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  Episode 34: ThirdSpace Action Lab Episode 3: Antiracist Community Development

  May 16, 20251h 17mS0

  <p>This is the third episode in the podcast series Moving Toward Healing focused on the incredible work of ThirdSpace Action Lab, a racial equity consulting firm based in Cleveland. The series features six episodes exploring the philosophy, strategies, and achievements of this extremely unique and innovative changemaking powerhouse. ThirdSpace Action Lab was launched five years ago and is based in the historically Black neighborhood of Glenville where they also have a café and bookstore. They describe their purpose as follows: “The future of this country’s neighborhoods depends on our collective efforts to transcend the limitations of the popular imagi...

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