Mixed Chicks Chat

EPISODE 123 - Mixed Chicks Chat with writer Liberty Hultberg

EPISODE 122 - Miscellaneous Mixedness

Comedian Sunda Croonquist was born in Paterson, New Jersey to an African-American mother and Swedish father. Inspired by her father's career as a musician and having a stage/pageant mom always having her involved in the arts, Sunda knew she wanted to be an entertainer at a very young age. �?�¢??My father was always proud of writing his own �?�¢??patter�?�¢??, patter is when a musician talks to the crowd between songs,�?�¢?? she explains. �?�¢??And I was just like okay�?�¢?�?�¦ that�?�¢??s it! That�?�¢??s what I want to do. I want to talk to people on stage.�?�¢??

Today we read some listener e-mails that have touched & taught us more about this Mixed experience.

Author of Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008) Editor of Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon Press, May 2008) and The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 1997)

EPISODE 118 - Sheila Ganz, director of Unlocking the Heart of Adoption

EPISODE 116 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Mat Johnson

This won't be a live show, but some listeners requested that we schedule it anyway so that they can keep the chats going! Enjoy guys & we'll talk to you in a couple weeks!

This won't be a live show, but some listeners requested that we schedule it anyway so that they can keep the chats going! Enjoy guys & we'll talk to you in a couple weeks!

Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D., born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 1977 with degrees in Psychology and Sociology. She subsequently attended Claremont University in Claremont, California receiving her Masterâ??s degree in Cognitive Psychology in 1979. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1983 with an emphasis in minority mental health. Dr. Root resides in Seattle, Washington where she is an independent scholar and clinical psychologist. She has been in practice for over 20 years. Her general practice focuses on adult and adolescent treatment therapy, which includes working with families and couples. Dr. Rootâ??s working areas of knowledge are broad with emphasis on culturally competent practice, life transition issues, trauma, ethnic and racial identity, workplace stress and harassment, and disordered eating. In the early 1980s, she established a group treatment program for bulimia that grew out of her dissertation work. Subsequently, she trained other professionals to recognize and treat people with a range of disordered eating symptoms. She continues to treat people with eating disorders. Dr. Rootâ??s practice also includes formal psychological evaluation. She works as a consultant to several law enforcement departments. She also works as an expert witness in forensic settings performing evaluations and offering expert testimony in matters that require cultural competence and/or knowledge of racism or ethnocentrism. Dr. Root is a trainer, educator, and public speaker on the topics of multiracial families, multiracial identity, cultural competence, trauma, work place harassment, and disordered eating. She has provided lectures and training in New Zealand, England, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States for major universities, professional organizations, grassroots community groups, and student organizations. Dr. Rootâ??s publications cover the areas of trauma, cultural assessment, multiracial identity, feminist therapy, and eating disorders. One of the leading authorities in the field of racial and ethnic identity, Dr. Root published the first contemporary volume on mixed race people, Racially Mixed People in America (1992). Including this book, she has edited two award-winning books on multiracial people and produced the foundational Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People. The U.S. Census referred to these texts in their deliberations that resulted in an historic â??check more than oneâ?? format to the race question for the 2000 census. Dr. Root is past-President of the Washington State Psychological Association and the recipient of national and international awards from professional and community organizations. She is also a clay artist, and maintains a website about her work at Primitiva Pottery and Tile.

Melting Pot MomsTM is a national organization bringing together families of different ethnicities and cultures, in an effort to create a diverse and nurturing environment for our children, while promoting multiculturalism in our communities. All moms who value diversity are welcome!

Carleen Brice is author of the novels Orange Mint and Honey (which was optioned by the Lifetime Movie Network)- a #1 Denver Post best-seller and Essence Magazine Recommended Read - and Children of the Waters, which One World/Ballantine will release in June 2009. She also wrote Lead Me Home: An African American�¢??s Guide Through the Grief Journey (HarperCollins), and edited the anthology Age Ain�¢??t Nothing but a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife (Beacon Press, Souvenir Press). Her book Walk Tall: Affirmations for People of Color sold over 100,000 copies and was in print with traditional publishers for 10 years. It is now available from iUniverse. In 2008, she won the Breakout Author of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards Show and in 2009 she received the First Novel Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She is a finalist for the 2009 Colorado Book Award in literary fiction, and is a two-time finalist for the Colorado Book Award in nonfiction (for Lead Me Home and Age Ain't Nothing but a Number). She lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats where she gardens and works on her third novel, Calling Every Good Wish Home.

EPISODE 110 - Mixed Chicks on Sororities & Fraternities

EPISODE 109 - Mixed Chicks Chat with another Mixed Family: Lisa Kurtz

Mike directed the film 'What Are You? A Dialogue on Mixed Race' which was shown at the 2009 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.