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Talkin Story
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The Talkin Story podcast is a project of Well Organized. It features local people of the global majority (PGM) who are quietly acting as flashpoints for social and cultural transformation within Port Townsend/East Jefferson county. These are the people who have been steadily working almost under the radar to craft a world in which they exist with sovereignty and creativity. They may or may not be in designated leadership roles, but their very existence is a source of inspiration and a touchstone within the PGM community primarily and the broader community as well.
The first season of this intergenerational podcast is co-hosted by Oceana Sawyer, Ezra Kikue Cook, and Lorenzo McCleese.
The second season is co-hosted by Oceana Sawyer and Cameron Jones.
Oceana (she/we/they) is an eldering person of African descent who has been working to weave PGM community via food sovereignty and land stewardship in space beyond capture and towards liberation. They are a poet and a writer with a vision of community of local PGM that has the capacity to navigate the reality of liquid modernity.
Cameron (he/him) is a mixed Black, White, and Indigenous community organizer, policy advocate, and land steward in Port Townsend, Washington. Through Well Organized Jefferson County, he integrates Afro-Indigenous stewardship, housing equity, and food sovereignty into local policy while advancing participatory governance models. Trained in Permaculture and yoga, Cameron pairs land-based knowledge with sharp structural critique to mobilize grassroots coalitions for systemic transformation. He identifies as a liberatory eco-socialist with anarchist tendencies, committed to liberation for all people and achieving human–nature symbiosis from within, while willing to dismantle failing systems to build just, regenerative alternatives from without.
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Ezra is an ever changing force for change. As much as they talk, you'll never really understand them. His look is always changing and his list of passions is always expanding. Professionally he is known for working at Centrum for the last three years as both a grip and a videographer/broadcast technician. Ezra has years of experience in theater tech, acting, and media production. They are a writer and director with dreams of putting out original films on the big screen. They believe in the importance of advocacy and integrity- the fight for what is right at the small level. They are particularly involved in activism for Queer and Transgender support systems at the local level.
Lorenzo being born & raised in Port Townsend, Lorenzo is eager to move out to Seattle and study Environmental Science at the University of Washington. He hopes to continue engaging with his passion for equity and diversity in Seattle. Lorenzo is a member of the 7th...
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Creating Community in Place, with guest Cendre Hunt
Oct 3100:56:41Tap to summarizeCameron and Oceana are joined by their colleague, Cendre Hunt, to riff on the experience of organizing and creating solid PGM community in this place settlers call Jefferson County.It's also worth noting that last December, the board of Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County-Well Organized voted to change the name of the organization to Well Organized of Jefferson County.Learn more about Well Organized & Nourishing Beloved Community:well-organized.orgnourishingbelovedcommunity.com---Music Credits, Episode 7:Another Holiday, JustnormalThe White Birch, Moorland SongsSoft Pine, JobiiDreamers Of The Shore, Volcan PeaksStereo Sunrise, Rebecca Mardel, james.lfo---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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Community Thru the Arts (replay of Season One episode), with guest Camelia Jade
Oct 2400:43:33Tap to summarizeOctober, 2025:While we finalize the final episode of Season 2, we want to offer a replay of the conversation we had two years ago with Camelia Jade in Season 1 about making music and community.Not only is it a good segue into the next and final episode, "Creating Community in Place," it's also an opportunity to highlight the artist of the theme song for Season Two.Enjoy!---In this episode we spend a bit of time with local musician and audio engineer, Camelia Jade, on a journey of the senses as we wind our way through culture and the arts on our way to community.Since 2006, Camelia Jade has worked in audio production for music, live sound, radio, podcasts, analog and digital preservation, independent film, on-location recordings as well as youth audio workshops, gallery installations and more.As a musician composing on guitar, charango, rhythm and voice, Camelia weaves tradition and innovation into songs that are lush and percussive, joyous or bittersweet. Camelia (pronounced kah-MEL-ee-ah) creates instrumental explorations that become a living soundtrack and sings with a voice that is both soothing and strong.https://cameliajade.com/---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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Making Home in Place, with guest Eileen Kindling Spirit
Oct 1700:23:42Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Cameron and Oceana sit down with Eileen Kindling Spirit to discuss her experience farming livestock in Jefferson county.Woodbridge Farm is a beautiful, 20+ acre property in Chimacum that she has poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into, and is proud to call her home.Eileen Kindling Spirit is originally from Philadelphia and has lived in Jefferson since the 1980’s. She and her son Peter are one of the few Black land-owning farmers in Jefferson County. Eileen has a life-long passion for animals and people in need. Note: When this episode was recorded last year, we made an erroneous claim that Woodbridge was the only Black-owned farm in Jefferson, and even Clallam County. We have since learned that is not the case. ---Music Credits, Episode 5:Stereo Sunrise, Rebecca Mardel, james.lfoIt's All For You, Volcan PeaksPost Traumatic Love Disorder, Rain JewelsAnother Holiday, Justnormal---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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Birthing in Place, with guests Savannah Hansel and Sasha Marshall
Oct 1000:36:24Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we explore the otherside of giving birth as we chat with a couple local PGM folx - Savannah and Sasha - who both recently have given birth.The effects that community can have on families is poignantly explored in this episode, which could be heard as the second half of the previous episode with Meshell.Sasha Marshall is a local parent, dreamer, and data nerd. She finds joy in building up community and watching things flourish through the chaos.As an enrolled Haida tribal member, mother of three, wife, and golden doodle mamma, Savannah Hansel is a verified NW boss lady. She grew up between Port Townsend, where her dad's family lived since the 1960s, and Seattle's Native Alaskan diaspora on Capitol Hill. Over the past 20 years in PT, she has managed restaurants, worked in healthcare, run for county office on a substantive progressive platform, and was sponsored by the local Democrats as a fellow in a state democratic leadership program. Savannah takes pride in her work at Centrum promoting the next generation of youth creatives. At home, she's a masterful cook and food preserver, and fierce leader for her family. ---Music Credits, Episode 4:Reunited, FeinbergTrevande, William ClaesonBastard, Ramin---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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A Body in Place, with guest Meshell Orozco
Oct 300:49:59Tap to summarizeIn this episode Cameron and Oceana traverse the vast territory of body sovereignty with our friend Meshell.We touch on food as family, what it's like to try in a body related profession as a PGM, and gender fluidity in a traditionally femme dominated midwifery profession.Their fearless advocacy for culturally relevant agency over the body is nothing short of inspired.Meshell (they/she) is a Xicana Partera, a Certified Professional and Licensed Midwife (CPM, LM) and a Community Herbalist who centers community and ancestral knowledge in their work.Learn more about Raices Midwifery:raicesmidwifery.comIG - @raicesmidwifery---Music Credits, Episode 3:No Distractions, Staffan CarlénStarry Night, Collin LimTarifa, VendlaThere is Always Tomorrow, Staffan Carlén---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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Creating Art in Place, with guest davy (Bobby4Bobby)
Sep 2600:42:19Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Oceana and Cameron get into some provocative material with davy regarding the intersectional identities and how to convey those as an entertainer, without it feeling extractive, as well as the near-taboo topic of colorism inside PGM community.davy is a Chimacum-based farmer, artist, performer, and radically tender human. Their art and the way they move through the world is informed by their experiences as a mixed race queer person. They are one half of the drag performing duo Bobby4Bobby.Find Bobby4Bobby on Instagram:@bobby.4.bobby---Music Credits, Episode 2:Aguas de Cordillera, Paramúcura y ChirigüeMorgontimma, Christian NanzellGratitude Loop, HATAMITSUNAMIKiri o koete, Sugoi---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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Writing in Place, with guest Lisbeth White
Sep 1900:41:18Tap to summarizeWelcome to Season 2 of Talkin' Story. In this first episode, "Writing in Place", Oceana sits down with author/poet Lisbeth White in a conversational ramble through writing grounded in relationship to the Earth, and what impact that can have on our individual and collective liberation.Lisbeth White is an enchantivist writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of American Sycamore (Perugia Press, 2022), and co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, 2023).Her nonfiction chapbook, A Most Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir (Red Mare Press, 2025), won The Master’s Review Open Chapbook contest.Lisbeth has received support for her work from Artist Trust, VONA, Callaloo, Tin House, Roots.Wounds.Words., The Watering Hole, and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference.She is a 2025 Periplus fellow and is at work on her first novel.Lisbeth's website:http://www.lisbethwrites.comLisbeth's socials:IG: @earthmaven,Bluesky:@earthmaven.bsky.socialDr. Daneil Black HBCU Commencement Addresshttps://youtu.be/F25OAzSzhfM?si=wm_zMrbKirbsxerK---Music Credits, Episode 1:Aguas de Cordillera, Paramúcura y ChirigüeEffort, Katori Walkerhöstlöv, bomullmånskensvals, bomull---Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.
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Talkin Story: It's a Wrap on Season 1
Dec 6, 202300:07:38Tap to summarizeThank you for joining us for the first season of Talkin Story podcast.Over the course of the past six months of recordings, and the past 9 weeks of episodes, we have traveled through the complex terrain of racialized challenges, profound insights, far more laughs than tears, and many, many moments of delight.What emerged and grew was a sense that our collective capacity and vision can, and in fact is, generating unique and resilient ways of living and creating in these shifting times.We extend our deep thanks and appreciation to the many contributors to this podcast, for sharing their insight, perspective, wisdom, struggles and hope.As we turn our attention towards season two, please consider supporting us on this journey. Sponsorship inquiries can be addressed here: info@well-organized.orgThis episode concludes with the playing in full of our theme song, "Melanin" by Ben Wilson, in collaboration with Ave Avelino, and Morgan Tigerman, which has been a wonderful contribution. You can also find it on Spotify here:Melanin by Ben Wilson-----Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and monetary donations. Thank you!
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Bonus Episode: Conversation with Chiyokten
Nov 27, 202300:34:33Tap to summarizeIn our search for the right music for the Landback/Reparations episode, we had the pleasure of crossing paths with renowned flutist, Chiyokten. He spent a bit of time sharing with us how the life he has lived and is living is informed by ancestors, elders, and more-than-human beings.We hope you enjoy this special bonus episode.Paul Chiyokten Wagner is the founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea, an indigenous-led organization dedicated to protecting and restoring our Salish Sea through direct actions.Chiyokten is also a cultural educator, bringing forward the words given by his Coast Salish ancestors which have allowed the First Peoples here to co-create paradise for many thousands of years.Chiyokten and Protectors have stood on the front lines of many places of indigenous led resistance such as Standing Rock, Line 3, Sabal Trail Pipeline, Lelu Island, Mauna Kea, Thacker Pass and Fairy Creek, Olympia State Capitol Climate Change Occupations, Chase Bank divestment campaigns and Salish Sea Prayer Walks.Chiyokten is an award winning Coast Salish Native flutist and storyteller and has performed with a few greats such as Kitaro of Japan and Seattle Symphony Orchestra.You can support his work via Venmo @PaulWagner13.Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and monetary donations. Thank you!
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Landback/Reparations
Nov 24, 202300:53:35Tap to summarizeThis is a very special episode in which local indigenous people and an African-descended community member talk about their efforts and viewpoints on reparations and landback. It gets personal as well as hopeful.The original flute music in this episode was generously provided by Paul Chiyokten Wagner, a member of the Saanich tribe of Vancouver Island.Chiyokten is a knowledge keeper of Coast Salish ways of educating and governing pertaining to co-creating Paradise from the time of the animal people to before Settler colonial contact. He is also a Frontline warrior and has spent much time at many indigenous lead occupations, most recently Fairy Creek.Most importantly, he is the founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea an Indigenous led group who has occupied the Washington State Capitol three times to help create a future for our wild salmon, our whales, the circle of life and all children.Jessaca Lee is a Łingít two-spirit femme with two lineages indigenous to Turtle Island, as well as European ancestry. She was raised on Łingít aaní and Dena’ina territory, born into the Tongass rainforest of Southeast Alaska where a piece of her heart will always remain. She now resides in Qatáy (Port Townsend), with gratitude to the traditional people of this land, the Chemakum, S’Klallam, Twana, Makah and more. She is growing roots and weaving dreams of a permanent home.While bed-bound from chronic illness in early 2019, she imagined the Jefferson County Anti-Racist Fund into being. JCARF is a grassroots community project, providing white folks with an opportunity to enact reparations and mutual aid.Naiome Dawn Krienke is a mixed tribal woman working on rematriating the lands of their ancestors and bringing back traditional ways.Chasity Sade is a mother, naturalist, earth-tender and mentor to youth. Connecting with her ancestral roots, supporting indigenous empowerment, and upholding social justice are all dear to her heart. She has lived in Chimacum, Washington for twelve years, intent on cultivating right relationship with the land and the people of the land.Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and monetary donations. Thank you!
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