{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Side by Side","title":"Savannah Barrett, co-founder of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange, reflects on 12 years of building relationships across rural and urban places","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0f9f96e9\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2782,"description":"Ellen talks with Savannah Barrett, co-founder of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX), which brings together people from rural and urban communities to build relationships, deepen understanding, and strengthen civic life. Through storytelling, shared experiences, and immersive gatherings, RUX creates space for participants to explore differences, hold complexity, and imagine shared futures. Savannah reflects on RUX's origin and growth over the past decade as well as what she's learned along the way about the value and challenges of building place-based relationships.\nEpisode Highlights:\n02:14 Savannah’s Rural Urban Roots\n06:19 Kentucky’s Urban Centers\n07:19 Founding the RUX Exchange\n15:38 Water as Connector\n23:14 RUX Rewards, Challenges and Complexity\n27:07 Beyond Partisan Bridging\n35:21 Media Narratives of Bridging Programs & Rural Places\n\nMore Information:\nSavannah Barrett is Exchange Director for Art of the Rural, a national organization that works to resource rural and Native artists and culture bearers to build the field, change narratives, and bridge divides. She co-founded the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange in 2014, and leads this work alongside hundreds of Kentuckians to combine grantmaking, leadership and network development, narrative change, and institutional bridging to strengthen Kentucky’s communities across racial, economic, and geographic divides. https://www.kyrux.org/leadership\nhttp://kyrux.org/\nwww.artoftherural.org \nwww.graysonspringsinn.com\nKentucky Rural-Urban Exchange\nhttps://www.philanthropy.com/opinion/a-second-chance-to-get-rural-america-right/ \nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/national-divisions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFE.Df0z.9bfFCQp7nUcr&smid=url-share \nQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?  Email us at sidebyside@umn.edu. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tlqGC47eNrIE2gpnsGBGmlOp6kISW7ZNG8gy-TLNnz8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ3OTMzLzE3MDMx/MDQxNzMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}