The Voice Podcast with Zayda Sorrell-Medina
Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a social scientist and educator. Her podcast integrates research and personal narratives to shed light on urban and social work topics affecting marginalized communities. Season 1 features topics related to foster care, youth homelessness, and adoption.
Episodes
9 episodes
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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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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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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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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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 | From adversity to resilience
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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Season 1
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Episode 1
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12:08