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Notes on the Intersection of Racism and Homelessness in America: A Conversation with Jeff Olivet

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published September 28, 2016 at 2:47 PM CDT

Aired on Wednesday, September 28th.

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we speak with Jeff Olivet, who is the President and CEO of the Boston-based Center for Social Innovation. Olivet is also a nationally recognized expert on homelessness, poverty, affordable housing, behavioral health, public health, and HIV -- and he'll be speaking about "Racism and Homelessness in America" at this year's National Zarrow Mental Health Symposium, which happens here in Tulsa from today (the 28th) through Friday (the 30th) at the Cox Business Center downtown. The theme for this year's symposium is "Ready For Zero: Innovative and Sustainable Solutions for Housing and Recovery," and you can learn more about this three-day gathering -- which will "bring together more than 1,000 stakeholders from across the country to engage, share, and learn about strategies and best practices to end homelessness" -- at this link.

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Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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