{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ronderings","title":"Whistleblowing With Rhythm: Coast Guard Reform, Carnival Energy, and Practicing the Future with Dr. Kim McLear","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4243,"description":"Civic designer and movement strategist Dr. Kim McLear spent twenty years in the Coast Guard, and ten of them running a whistleblowing campaign built on carnival rhythm instead of the lone hero.\n\nIn this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Kim, a systems engineer turned artist and movement builder, to talk about how she reimagined whistleblowing as a collective practice with rhythm and discipline.\nKim is a first generation American raised by Trinidad and Tobago immigrant parents who each served nearly thirty years in the military. She started school in Okinawa and finished high school in Germany, with 18 cities behind her before she could vote. She still has a scar on one finger from opening a reinforced steel door during a cyclone to get a better look at the trees dancing. Hours under the hood of cars with her father taught her that changing one part changes the whole system, which is the thread that runs to her PhD in systems engineering.\nShe picked the Coast Guard because it was the furthest thing from anything she knew, water included. When she spoke up, she refused the single hero version and built a survivor led coalition of thousands while continuing to serve as an officer and teach as a professor. She stayed disciplined about describing behavior rather than calling people names, and over a ten year arc that work helped surface a CNN investigation and new federal laws.\nTune in to hear why Kim calls despair a design feature of oppressive systems, and what practicing the future looks like when it starts with a paint bucket and a couple of friends.\n \nChapters:\n🧵 02:39 Dr. Kim McLear: engineer, professor, and Coast Guard whistleblower\n🌍 07:47 Dignity for all living systems, not just the human ones\n🌀 11:55 Cyclones and car engines: the making of a systems engineer\n⚓ 25:45 Why she joined the branch furthest from her comfort zone\n🥁 30:18 Whistleblowing with carnival rhythm: no one whistles a symphony alone\n📰 38:36 The ten year arc behind the CNN...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jvG73cd3wc0Fdf0M72sv961IPvlbb4AzdtSqHEUr3iE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3MjYyLzE2NzE3/OTA1MTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}