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Rad Ops - The Podcast

Rad Ops - The Podcast

Sha Grogan-Brown & Yashna Padamsee 13 Episodes Apr 15, 2026

Rad Ops (Radical Operations) is a dialogue-based multimedia project and podcast for social justice organizations facing attack and turmoil. It offers principles, guiding questions, and tools to help groups assess the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. The podcast is one part of a broader effort to strengthen resilience in Left movement organizations. It encourages courageous, creative, and collaborative conversations so people can get real with each other and make collective agreements about how to act together. The goal is to strengthen relationships and political visions that can outlast internal conflict and external opposition.

Episodes

Life Cycle of Organizations w/Raquel Laviña
Life Cycle of Organizations w/Raquel Laviña Apr 15, 2026 01:09:01 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Culture of Care w/Adaku Utah
Culture of Care w/Adaku Utah Apr 13, 2026 01:07:06 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Resource Mobilization w/Allison Budschalow
Resource Mobilization w/Allison Budschalow Apr 8, 2026 00:54:16 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Role of Assistants w/Felicia Martinez
Role of Assistants w/Felicia Martinez Apr 6, 2026 00:58:55 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Human Resources w/Tara Shuai Ellison
Human Resources w/Tara Shuai Ellison Apr 1, 2026 00:41:06 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Non-Compliance w/Roberto Tijerina
Non-Compliance w/Roberto Tijerina Mar 30, 2026 00:48:36 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Who We Are: History, Framework, and Origin Stories w/Denise Perry
Who We Are: History, Framework, and Origin Stories w/Denise Perry Mar 25, 2026 00:41:46 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Safety & Security w/Che Johnson-Long
Safety & Security w/Che Johnson-Long Mar 23, 2026 00:50:00 The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions
Dear Rad Ops: Pivoting Budgets, w/ Nat Smith
Dear Rad Ops: Pivoting Budgets, w/ Nat Smith Nov 13, 2025 00:10:39 In this episode, Sha Grogan-Brown talks with guest Nat Smith, Finance & Development Director with House of gg and facilitator with A Bookkeeping Cooperative to offer advice to organizations needing to make major pivots to their budgets. In these wild times, many organizations are needing to revisit their organizational budget, either due to loss
Dear Rad Ops: Fear vs Risk Assessments, w/ Che Johnson-Long
Dear Rad Ops: Fear vs Risk Assessments, w/ Che Johnson-Long Nov 11, 2025 00:12:23 In this episode, Yashna Maya Padamsee talks with guest Che Johnson-Long, Community Safety Director at Vision Change Win, about how we can be making grounded risk assessments in these times of escalated fear. We’re in a moment where there is a chance that fear can lead our planning and decision making. It is a particularly escalated and scary time. An
Dear Rad Ops: Multi-Entity Infrastructure, w/ Le Tim Ly
Dear Rad Ops: Multi-Entity Infrastructure, w/ Le Tim Ly Nov 6, 2025 00:09:17 In this episode, Sha Grogan-Brown talks with guest Le Tim Ly, Chief Operating Officer of Center for Empowered Politics about how building “multi-entity infrastructure” can improve the resilience of organizations. While the Left faces many crises in these times, underpinning everything is the vulnerability of the operations and infrastructure of our o
Dear Rad Ops – Why Rad Ops?
Dear Rad Ops – Why Rad Ops? Nov 4, 2025 00:10:50 In a time where social justice organizations are under attack, we bring you Dear Rad Ops, a mini series advice vlog about live questions on the minds of movement operations workers. In this introductory episode, co-hosts Yashna Maya Padamsee and Sha Grogan-Brown discuss their own Rad Ops movement operations experience, and the lineages they draw from

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