A Movement to Rectify Digital Inequities

Building Local Power - A podcast by Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Thursdays

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Hosts Reggie Rucker and Luke Gannon are joined by guests Shayna Englin, the director of the Digital Equity Initiative at the California Community Foundation and DeAnne Cuellar, who works on the outreach team for the community broadband initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Shayna and DeAnne elucidate how the digital divide is interconnected with housing, healthcare, immigration, and civic education. As the pandemic moved everything online, they explained, we realized that connectivity is an issue that affects the entire human ecosystem.