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Time is flying — Erika Washington can't believe we're already halfway through the year. In this special roundup episode, host Erika Washington revisits the most powerful conversations from Season 3 of Sticky Note Conversations, a season that explored what it takes to build stronger, more resilient communities while defining and demanding democracy.
From organizers to writers, historians to community leaders, this season's guests proved that real change begins with honest conversations and the courage to fight for more. Relive the throwbacks:
- Alvin Hill – Boys Don't Cry: A raw conversation on masculinity, grief, and parenting, challenging the idea that strength means hiding emotion — especially for Black men.
- Gwen Frisbie-Fulton – Coal: A firsthand account of living next door to neo-Nazi recruiters, unpacking how economic hardship fuels extremism and how communities can fight back.
- Tomás Garduño – We Built This City: 25 years of grassroots organizing wisdom, distilled into hard-won lessons on humility, timing, and courage.
- Claytee White – Fight the Power: A tribute to the late Dr. Ruby Duncan, tracing her legacy of welfare rights organizing and the Black women who powered the movement behind the scenes.
- Dawn Blagrove – This Woman's Work: An unflinching take on electoral strategy, accountability, and building lasting community institutions beyond crisis response.
- Cecia Alvarado – Pura Vida: An honest look at immigration, identity, and why authentic outreach matters in reaching Latino voters.
Erika closes with a personal reflection on what it means to stay engaged — and why she refuses to just watch from the sidelines.
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Creators and Guests
Producer
Erika Washington
Composer
Wil Black
What is Sticky Note Conversations?
To keep my thoughts in order and my to-do lists remotely manageable I create arrays of sticky notes on my desk and wall. New idea? Stick note! Someone I want to meet with? Sticky Note! Need to remember to pay a parking ticket? Write it on a sticky note. Over the course of the last year, I have wanted to create a podcast that allowed me to dive deep into conversations with interesting people.. I wanted to have real conversations that were more than sound bites or regurgitated talking points about fluffy topics. My hope is that each episode feels like old friends catching up. Revealing great information but also humanity, struggle, victory, joy, grief, and possibly, a flicker of transcendence.
I hope you will enjoy these as much as I do creating them.
Join me here every Saturday as I pull a new sticky note off my desk.