About SideBar: Optimism in action
Who We Are
Podcast cohosts with experience as the deans of two nonprofit law schools - Jackie Gardina and Mitch Winick - continue their third season of SideBar: Optimism in Action featuring individuals and organizations who are pursuing positive change in our communities and our country. Seasons one and two also included thoughtful discussions about
Podcast cohosts with experience as the deans of two nonprofit law schools - Jackie Gardina and Mitch Winick - continue their third season of SideBar: Optimism in Action featuring individuals and organizations who are pursuing positive change in our communities and our country. Seasons one and two also included thoughtful discussions about challenges to our individual constitutional and civil rights. Each of their guests inspire listeners to respond to challenges by finding ways to contribute solutions for the common good.
What We Do
Season three of SideBar: Optimism in Action flips the narrative from our focus on policy issues to a focus on the individuals who pursue positive change. We are featuring lawyers, nonprofit leaders, advocates, and community members who represent extraordinary work that is improving the humanitarian, public policy, and charitable needs of
Season three of SideBar: Optimism in Action flips the narrative from our focus on policy issues to a focus on the individuals who pursue positive change. We are featuring lawyers, nonprofit leaders, advocates, and community members who represent extraordinary work that is improving the humanitarian, public policy, and charitable needs of our local, national, and global communities. We release new episodes on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month.
Why We Do It
Why We Do It
We believe that SideBar: Optimism in Action has the potential to inspire good works and potential change by highlighting the successes of lawyers and other leaders who have written books, created organizations, and started initiatives that directly address community needs.
community leaders inspiring positive change
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Three - Spotlight
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Three - Spotlight
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Three - Spotlight
DREAM.ORG is not just a dream - It is a movement! Nisha Anand is a driving force behind a movement for change, blending her roles as an Indian-American activist, devoted mother, and advocate for racial justice. With a firm belief in the transformative power of common ground, Nisha brings people together to make the American dream a reality for everyone. Her compelling TED talk, "The Radical Act of Choosing Common Ground," resonated with millions, igniting crucial conversations amidst today's divisive climate.
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Two - Spotlight
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Three - Spotlight
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Three - Spotlight
Madiba K. Dennie is an attorney, columnist, author, and professor whose work focuses on fostering an equitable multiracial democracy. Dennie is the Deputy Editor and Senior Contributor at the critical legal commentary outlet Balls and Strikes. In her previous role as a counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, she provided legal and policy analysis regarding a range of democracy issues including the census, the courts, and attempts to disempower communities of color.
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season One - Spotlight
SideBar: Optimism in Action Season Three - Spotlight
Optimism in action can be found in every community.
Legendary Supreme Court Correspondent Nina Totenberg discusses her fifty-year career as a reporter covering some of the most important Supreme Court decisions of our time. As a front-row witness to history, with unique access to Supreme Court Justices and Washington D.C. policymakers, Along with Susan Stamberg, Cokie Roberts, and Linda Wertheimer, Nina was one of the "Four Mothers of National Public Radio" who laid the foundation of one of the most respected news organizations in America.
Optimism in action can be found in every community.
Sometimes it only takes one good example to initiate positive change.
Optimism in action can be found in every community.
David Pepper, author of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines and Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American joined SideBar as its inaugural guest discussing shocking attacks on democracy that should motivate us to accept our individual critical roles in the battle to save democracy and to recognize signs of hope.
Sometimes it only takes one good example to initiate positive change.
Sometimes it only takes one good example to initiate positive change.
Sometimes it only takes one good example to initiate positive change.
Shaping Our Legal Structure - One Important Case at a Time. A formidable litigator with decades of experience, Roberta (“Robbie”) Kaplan is known for taking on, and winning, landmark policy changing cases like United States v. Windsor, Sines v. Kessler, and Carroll v. Trump. Kaplan litigates high-stakes commercial, civil rights and white collar matters at the highest level.
Protecting the lives of many can start by saving the life of one.
Sometimes it only takes one good example to initiate positive change.
Sometimes it only takes one good example to initiate positive change.
In his new book, Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All, Professor Robert Tsai chronicles attorney Stephen Bright's decades long fight to ensure equality under the law by representing unpopular Individuals --namely those on death row. Remarkably, he succeeded, winning all four cases he argued before the US Supreme Court.
