Hi everyone, it's Sophia and welcome back to Work in Progress.

Today's guest is a leader at the intersection of culture and justice.

She is an award-winning educator, organizer, activist, writer, news contributor,

and a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics. She is Brittany Packnet,

cunning him, and I am over the moon excited to have her with us on the show today.

You might know Brittany from her own news and justice podcast, Undistracted,

which I always listen to for her keen whipsmart insight into politics and what's going on

in current events. Or maybe you've heard her as a co-host of the political podcast,

Pod Save the People, which she worked on for three years. Brittany is also an NBC News and MSNBC

contributor. She's graced magazine covers like the September 2020 cover of British Vogue

and the April 2017 cover of Essence magazine. And she was named one of Time Magazine's 12 new faces

of Black leadership. She was honored at the 2018 BET Awards as one of the fiercest activists of our

time. And President Barack Obama cited her as a leader whose voice is going to be making a

difference for years to come. I'm so very honored today to sit down with such a respected and

sought-after voice in the arenas of social justice and empowerment. And to have had the

opportunity to ask her about the motivations behind her social justice work, what it's like to

organize protests, call for societal change at the policy level, and also in our interpersonal

relationships. To ask her about the work that she does out there in the world and also on her

self at home, she joined me today to talk about politics and movements, but also about her personal

relationship to faith and how much the lessons she learned growing up a minister's daughter

taught her about character and how character relates to activism today. As always, it comes back

to the central tonnit of love and that is at the root of all the incredible ways she's used her

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