PODCAST

SHELTER is a podcast series looking at housing insecurities in a time of pandemic and the role academic and religious institutions can play in partnering with the community to find solutions.

Winner, Best Podcast, Digital Division, NJ Society of Professional Journalists, 2022.

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Ep. 6 Project Reflection

How are academic and religious institutions reexamining their own histories with respect to persons of color and economically vulnerable communities?

Ep. 5 Models for Engagement

SHELTER highlights some of the projects at Rutgers University and New Brunswick Theological Seminary that are actively and successfully achieving local social impact by working in partnership with the local community.

Ep. 4 Housing First

The best way to dramatically improve someone’s life is to provide permanent, good quality housing.

Ep. 3 Reentry

How has the pandemic impacted NJ state and county incarceration policy?

Ep. 2 What Shelter Means to Me

In this episode, we share some of our community’s first-person experiences from the pandemic, captured through oral history, interview, and self-produced narrative.

Ep. 1 What Is Shelter?

What is home? What is homelessness? What is shelter? How do you shelter in place when you have no shelter?

Producer: Scott Gurian

Associate Producer: Diana Molina

Community Producer Team: Vivian Campbell, Christopher Dorvil, Zeynep, Jean-William Mackler, Alyssa Miller, Cecilia Morales, Liliana Vela

Theme Music: Dave Seamon and Carlos Vasquez

Editing Team: Colin Jager, Nathan Jéremie-Brink, Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Dan Swern