Home: Stories about science and community
b"This week, we present two stories about finding community with science.\\n Part 1: Keoni Mahelona leaves his home in\\xa0Hawaii in pursuit of science.\\n Part 2: After growing up wealthy, Chuck Collins' thinking\\xa0is transformed by his work with mobile home park tenants.\\n Aloha. O Keoni ko\\u02bbu inoa. No Hawai\\u02bbi au. I t\\u0113nei w\\u0101, noho au i Taip\\u0101. Keoni Mahelona is\\xa0a melting pot of diversity in so many ways -- ethnicity, education, hobbies, sexuality, and possibly personality hahahahaha. He's had a seemingly random journey through engineering, business, and science that's somehow thrown him into media.\\xa0Today\\xa0he\\xa0works at a M\\u0101ori social enterprise whose mission is to promote and preserve te reo M\\u0101ori o Muriwhenua, and they\\xa0use science and innovation to create the tools they\\xa0need to achieve their\\xa0mission. He hopes his\\xa0story will encourage other M\\u0101ori and Pacific Islanders to pursue a future in STEM.\\xa0\\xa0\\n Chuck Collins\\xa0is an organizer, agitator, researcher and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org, a global web site focused on the income and wealth divide. He is author of\\xa0Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality,\\xa0Bringing Wealth Home, and\\xa0Committing to the Common Good.\\xa0In his late twenties he worked with residents of mobile home parks around New England to buy their parks as cooperatives.\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"