Ripple Effect: Positive Change Around the Sound

Ripple Effect: Positive Change Around the Sound
Podcast Description
Welcome to Ripple Effect: Positive Change Around the Sound, where we amplify the stories of local change-makers whose positive impact ripples across Puget Sound. Join us as we find out what brings our guests to this moment today, what drives and inspires them to create a better, more inclusive world, and how you can get involved. Sometimes, it only takes one person to make a difference, and that person could be you.
Thank you for joining us!
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The podcast focuses on themes of social change, community engagement, and cultural advocacy. Episodes explore specific subjects like the legacy of the Black Panther Party in Seattle, as well as contemporary issues in arts and culture advocacy, featuring immersive storytelling and personal experiences from guests like Rick DuPree and Manny Cawaling.

Welcome to Ripple Effect: Positive Change Around the Sound, where we amplify the stories of local change-makers whose positive impact ripples across Puget Sound. Join us as we find out what brings our guests to this moment today, what drives and inspires them to create a better, more inclusive world, and how you can get involved. Sometimes, it only takes one person to make a difference, and that person could be you.
Thank you for joining us!
Logic Amen is a sun, Father, recording artist, journalist, writer, educator and former Family Preservation Therapist. Amen is an award winning performing artist activist, recognized by The Songs of Black in 2025 for his excellence in performing arts and community service. Amen has a degree in English Literature, a master's in teaching, and a master's in educational leadership. Amen is one of the founding members of CORE which stands for Coalition of Restorative Education.
Amen considers himself to be a visionary learner and created the Griot Party Experience to support healing in marginalized communities via story telling. Amen seeks to help the people he serves feel safe and important. His life mission places a high premium on healing via education. Amen prides himself on his definition of Love: Seeing yourself in other people and serving the you in them. Amen is currently serving as an assistant principal at Lincoln High school in Tacoma Washington. He lives in Seattle Washington.
Support the Griot Party Experience – https://www.thegriotparty.com.
A machine-readable transcript of the episode is available here – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xr44WkKq90GmWpV31BILDfYAKbDJXoY4GShZ5Y1-nn8/edit?usp=sharing
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Episodes release on the fourth Wednesday of the month. See you in July!
About the Music: All music by Benjamin Marx – https://www.bnmrx.com/

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