Penn Loh's guest appearances

Penn Loh

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B-Change

Aaron Tanaka

Robbie Samuels

Maria Sirois

Marc Cordon

Marcus Santos

Elmer Pleitez

Woullard Lett

Shirronda Almeida

Joanne Brunn

Sheerine Alemzadeh

Tomas Aguilar

Marcy Goldstein-Gelb

Eben Weitzman

Julian Agyeman

Allentza Michel

OwlTail

Penn Loh didn’t expect to become the executive director of the environmental justice nonprofit ACE. He felt most comfortable as a resource ally — and not the definition of a traditional leader. In this episode, Penn talks about:   - Re-imagining his potential to serve as executive director of a grassroots organization.   - Finding his own voice as a facilitative leader.  - Tools and resources that were most useful to him.  Tools and resources mentioned in this episode include:  Popular education (Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Friere  https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;hl=en-us&amp;q=Paulo+Freire&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3MKqwMLd8xOjMLfDyxz1hKatJa05eYzTh4grOyC93zSvJLKkUUuNig7JkuHilELo0GKS4uRBcnkWsPAGJpTn5Cm5FqZlFqQCHDYRcYgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj96M7r5YzjAhUtiOAKHQzjB_UQgYUCCI4BKAAwDA&amp;biw=375&amp;bih=553)  Interaction Institute for Social Change  https://interactioninstitute.org/  Teaching Democracy https://teachingdemocracyblog.wordpress.com/coordination-and-design-team/  United for a Fair Economy http://www.faireconomy.org/  Tufts Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning https://as.tufts.edu/uep/

Penn Loh didn’t expect to become the executive director of the environmental justice nonprofit ACE. He felt most comfortable as a resource ally — and not the definition of a traditional leader. In this episode, Penn talks about:  - Re-imagining his potential to serve as executive director of a grassroots organization.   - Finding his own voice as a facilitative leader.  - Tools and resources that were most useful to him. Tools and resources mentioned in this episode include: Popular education (Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Friere <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;hl=en-us&amp;q=Paulo+Freire&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3MKqwMLd8xOjMLfDyxz1hKatJa05eYzTh4grOyC93zSvJLKkUUuNig7JkuHilELo0GKS4uRBcnkWsPAGJpTn5Cm5FqZlFqQCHDYRcYgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj96M7r5YzjAhUtiOAKHQzjB_UQgYUCCI4BKAAwDA&amp;biw=375&amp;bih=553" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;hl=en-us&amp;q=Paulo+Freire&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLUz9U3MKqwMLd8xOjMLfDyxz1hKatJa05eYzTh4grOyC93zSvJLKkUUuNig7JkuHilELo0GKS4uRBcnkWsPAGJpTn5Cm5FqZlFqQCHDYRcYgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj96M7r5YzjAhUtiOAKHQzjB_UQgYUCCI4BKAAwDA&amp;biw=375&amp;bih=553</a>) Interaction Institute for Social Change  <a href="https://interactioninstitute.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://interactioninstitute.org/</a><a href="https://interactioninstitute.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>Teaching Democracy <a href="https://teachingdemocracyblog.wordpress.com/coordination-and-design-team/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://teachingdemocracyblog.wordpress.com/coordination-and-design-team/</a><a href="https://teachingdemocracyblog.wordpress.com/coordination-and-design-team/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>United for a Fair Economy <a href="http://www.faireconomy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.faireconomy.org/</a> Tufts Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning <a href="https://as.tufts.edu/uep/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://as.tufts.edu/uep/</a>

Penn Loh (part 2): Leadership As Jazz

Years before he became executive director at Boston-based Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), Penn Loh was fulfilling his parents' dream: He was attending MIT to become an electrical engineer.    In part 1 of our interview, Penn tells the story of:   - How his experience as a child of immigrants shaped his early aspirations.  - The unexpected influence one MIT class had in transforming his world view.  - How coming face to face with the defense industries’ influence on MIT spurred him to develop his organizing chops.

Years before he became executive director at Boston-based Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), Penn Loh was fulfilling his parents' dream: He was attending MIT to become an electrical engineer.   In part 1 of our interview, Penn tells the story of:  - How his experience as a child of immigrants shaped his early aspirations.  - The unexpected influence one MIT class had in transforming his world view.  - How coming face to face with the defense industries’ influence on MIT spurred him to develop his organizing chops.

Penn Loh (part 1): From Electrical Engineering to Environmental Justice