Exiles in the City

Exiles in the City Episode 10 with Dan Frey

Conversation with Dan Frey, director of peer support organization "City Voices" about how the urban environment impacted his own experience, and ways that peer support organizations can help facilitate social connection among marginalized communities.

Exiles in the City Episode 9 with Sasha Warren

Conversation with Sasha Warren, author of "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia and Revolt" about how social/historical changes led to the development of asylums and related places, the alternatives that were created in places like Trieste, Italy in the 1970's, and what the US can learn from these approaches.

Exiles in the City Episode 8 with Lori Leigh

Conversation with Lori Leigh, Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago in Wellington in New Zealand, about facilitating a sense of place in housing for the Maori and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Exiles in the City Episode 7 with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Conversation with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, author of "The Cities We Need" and "Contested City," about how urban design can be more inclusive of marginalized groups. Conversation includes a discussion of how the Urban Development Corporations created affordable housing on Roosevelt Island (formerly Blackwell's Island).

Exiles in the City Episode 6 with Jazmine Russell

Conversation with Jazmine Russell, co-editor and author of "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health," and host of the Depth Work podcast, about the field of mad studies, and her lived experience of psychosis while living in New York City, and thoughts about how the urban environment can be both a stressor and resource..