The Voice Podcast with Zayda Sorrell-Medina
Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is an educator, social scientist, advocate, author, intellect, and podcaster dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and positive transformation among individuals and communities. The Voice Podcast combines storytelling and research to shed light on urban and social work topics. Featured topics are at the intersection of identity, social norms, adoption, foster care, poverty, resilience, youth empowerment, inclusion and exclusion, among others.
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Episodes
11 episodes
Episode 11 | First generation college students
This episode sheds light on the role of caring adults in paving the way for first generation college students and tips for success for first gen college students.
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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18:16
Episode 10 | Real moms and fake moms: Microaggressions in the foster adopt community
Drawing from my autoethnography and research on adoption microaggressions, this episode invites a critical interrogation of the words, terms, and phrases that we use that perpetuate the idea that the blood family is superior to any other family...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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19:52
Episode 9 | Coming Out of Stigma: Foster Care and Youth Homelessness
Drawing upon my personal narrative, this episode touches up themes related to foster care and adoption stigma and secrecy, race and ethnicity, and resilience.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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17:23
Episode 8 | Foster Care and Adoption: Invisible Oppression
This episode sheds light on the invisible oppression that individuals face with experience of foster care, adoption, youth homelessness. It is a call to action to for my listeners to take action to begin dismantling their oppression.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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7:19
Episode 7 | Embracing my unconventional family
This episode reveals the beauty and hiccups of having an unconventional family. I reflect upon my own unconventional family living with my Puerto Rican Jewish mom and Chinese siblings as a high school teenager. I conclude with tips...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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18:39
Episode 6 | Staying Positive: Smell the sopa de calabaza and corn tortilla
This episode invites listeners to foster gratitude and positive energy despite prevailing life challenges. As a former homeless youth, I tried to see the glass half full, which kept me going towards my master plan of going to college des...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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18:11
Episode 5 | Supporting teenagers
In this episode, I draw upon my experiences as a runaway teenager and social work educator to share tips on how parents can better support their teenager. Especially when the teenager is not your biological child, it is...
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13:23
Episode 4 | Black hair, gender, and pride
Drawing upon an experience from as a homeless youth, this episode interrogates black hair and gender norms. I share how listeners may foster pride over conformity and shame.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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14:37
Episode 3 | Becoming a homeless youth in the United States
There are millions of homeless youth in the United States, which represents a critical social problem to be addressed by social workers, scientists, policy makers, nonprofits, and other professionals. In this episode, I share my story on how...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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21:43
Episode 2 | White diamond: How foster and adoptive parents can honor their child’s parents
This episode invites you to think of ways to honor, acknowledge, and recognize your child's family of origin. This is especially relevant if you are a foster or adoptive parent, legal guardian, social worker, educator, or fam...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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18:58
Episode 1 | Out of the cold house: Reframing your adversity story
This episode invites you to reframe your adversity story. As a product of the 1980s crack epidemic in the United States, I was separated from my birth mother and went into foster care. This story shares how I now understand my story deca...
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Episode 1
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12:15