Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting for racial and climate justice (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 4)
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“Don't allow dominant discourses around climate to silence your willingness to bring legacies of racial injustice, legacies of Indigenous dispossession into conversations about climate all the time, in every space.” – Imara Rolston (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 4)
In the second season of the NCCDH’s Mind the Disruption podcast, we explore social movements for social justice: groups of people working together to build collective power for change in service of a healthier, more just world.
As Director of the Community Climate Resilience Lab, Dr. Imara Rolston recognizes that the climate crisis is a health emergency that will disproportionally impact racialized communities. Explore this episode to learn how Imara and his team are bringing together non-profit leaders, grassroots leaders, academics, and policy makers and creating a Toronto-focused Racial Justice Climate Resilience framework. Through this work, they are supporting cites to reckon with historical slavery and colonialism and integrate community-driven solutions. Community outreach worker Diana Chan McNally then reflects on opportunities for public health to improve community engagement efforts.
You can discover this episode by listening to the episode and / or reading this episode companion document, which includes a written transcript of the episode, key quotes, curated related resources and reflection / discussion questions.
Use this resource to
- Use the reflection questions to facilitate discussion about how public health can advance racial and climate justice
- Learn about pressing health equity and social and structural determinants of health issues and solutions
- Explore embedded related resources from NCCDH and others to support public health action to disrupt the status quo
Related resources:
Community Climate Resilience Lab
Climate Change Resilience Part 2: Public health roles and actions
Let’s Talk: Determinants of health
Keeping it political and powerful: Defining the structural determinants of health
Let’s Talk: Community engagement for health equity
Reference
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. (2025). Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting for racial and climate justice (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 4). Antigonish, NS: NCCDH, St. Francis Xavier University.
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