Tonight's show featured the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!

Erin Castro, outgoing director of the University of Utah Prison Education Project, which is hiring its first-ever paid Director of Prison Education this spring. UPEP is also moving into the Office of Undergraduate Studies to join a robust portfolio of community engagement initiatives, including the STEM Community Alliance (STEMCAP) and INSPIRE program. Together, these three programs will comprise UPEP’s efforts to engage with incarcerated adults and youth-in-custody throughout the state.

Organizing Starbucks with local organizers Jacob Lawson and Brittany Glazier. They both work at the Cottonwood Heights store, where they’re leading a union push. To learn more about the push to organize the chain nationwide, follow @SBWorkersUnited and @CMRJB.

Student organizer Sadie Nelson-Stippich reported in on the walk out she helped organize earlier today at West High. Students were showing their support for their transgender peers affected by a ban enacted by lawmakers in the final hours of the legislative session last month. 

Debating solutions for the Great Salt Lake, featuring:

KRCL Producer/Host
For more than 30 years, Lara Jones has been helping people tell their stories. Her résumé includes stints as a teenage disc jockey, a business reporter, a public radio host, and the first civilian public relations director for the Salt Lake City Police Department under Chief Chris Burbank. She also was part of a small group of communications professionals invited to draft language for The Utah Compact, a document of universal values on which to base immigration reform and discussions. Currently, Lara is executive producer and host of RadioACTive, a community affairs show that highlights grassroots activists and community builders weeknights at 6 p.m. on 90.9fm KRCL.
 

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