Maya Shankar
speaker
1,518 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jul
Maya Shankar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, I know how to write.
I can do this.
And he started to obsessively write poems, Simone, like day after day after day.
And when he would write a sufficient number, he would bind them together using thread from his pillowcase.
And we could create a little book, you know?
I'll save the details for anyone who reads The Other Side of Change because Dwayne will always say his story better than I will.
But fast forward, and today Dwayne is a Yale Law School graduate.
He's a MacArthur Genius Prize winner.
He writes some of the most stirring poetry I've ever heard on the topic of race in prison.
And what's so beautiful to me about his story is that, you know, you talked earlier about how uncertainty can be so constraining.
And that's the same for unexpected negative changes, right?
We impose our own mental filter onto that situation.
And we think, well, I have some expectations, some presumptions about what it means to be a prisoner or a widow or someone who's unemployed or someone who's chronically ill.
And we have a very limited imagination as a result about what that can look like.
And
I love the idea that moral elevation is actually available to all of us.
It's a form of awe in our everyday life, as long as we're willing to be present and to receive that inspiration.
And when we feel that doors are closing,
taking a walk and putting our phone away and just observing how people are, right?
Oh, wow, that was so nice the way that person was so kind to that elderly woman.
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