The Loving Uprising

The Loving Uprising explores the radical possibilities of love. Through intimate conversations with visionary leaders, organizers, and disruptors, we explore how love can be centered in work and life. These conversations invite listeners to step towards a world where belonging, collective flourishing, and joy are our primary goals and to imagine what becomes possible when love informs how we live and work.

Contributors

Host

Jessica Aviva, Ph.D.

Jessica Aviva, Ph.D. is a movement builder, strategist, author, and educator exploring how love, play, and shared humanity can transform the ways we lead, work, and build community. As a podcast host, she brings curiosity, warmth, and thoughtful questions to stories and conversations with people imagining and creating a more flourishing world.

Jessica is the founding director of The Fruition Coalition, where she convenes The Garden Party for a Flourishing World, publishes Fruition Journal, writes books, and creates collaborative learning experiences. Drawing on more than 25 years of nonprofit experience and 14 years of university teaching, she bridges scholarship and practice to explore how we cultivate flourishing, belonging, and connection.

https://www.jessaviva.com

Guests

Guest

Diane Kahn

Diane Kahn has been a teacher and social justice advocate for more than two decades, and she’s the founder and Executive Director of Humans of San Quentin. She worked inside San Quentin for seven years helping incarcerated men earn their high school diplomas, and as co-director of the Academic Peer Education Project she trained them to teach and mentor their peers. In 2017 she helped win approval of California's Rehabilitative Achievement Credit, which lets participants in programs like these earn time off their parole dates.

Diane started Humans of San Quentin during the pandemic with Juan Haines, an incarcerated journalist she met while teaching. Through Humans of San Quentin, they share the stories, art, poetry, and recipes of more than 4,500 people in prisons across the US and around the world, through interviews, a podcast, an audio series, and published books. A third of their team is currently behind bars.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-kahn-1a04b1b4/