Utah's Fireside Chats
The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy is proud to present Fireside Chats! These fireside chats are short conversations with Utah’s citizen diplomats who are reformulating the American worldview by bringing their global experience back home. We hope that the embers of this conversation will light a fire in you to also make the global - local.
Podcasting since 2020 • 20 episodes
Utah's Fireside Chats
Latest Episodes
The Yazidi Community: A Community of Peace and History of Genocide
DISCLAIMER: This episode briefly mentions some topics of violence, especially towards women. In this episode, Dawood Saleh, a Yazidi native and refugee, comes on to discuss the truth of what the Yazidi community entails. Through th...
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Why Was the Turkey & Syria Earthquake so Deadly? Comparing and Contrasting with Utah's Infrastructure
In this episode, Jessica Chappell, a structural engineer and member of the Utah Seismic Safety Commission, comes on to discuss how and why the infrastructural damage took place after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this year. The di...
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Women of the World: Embracing Culture through Clothing
Every year Women of the World hosts a fashion show and cultural gala to embrace the refugee community of women in Utah who come from all over the world. In this episode, Samira and Ryan come on to talk about this event, how it came to be, and...
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