Sha Grogan-Brown & Yashna Padamsee
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Movement operations, made visible.
Rad Ops treats operations as movement work. Yeshna Maya Padamsi and Shah Grogan-Brown lead reflective conversations on care, safety, hiring, resource mobilization, assistants, and organizational life cycles.
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Rad Ops is a podcast about the operational realities of social justice organizations. It treats infrastructure as movement work. Yeshna Maya Padamsi and Shah Grogan-Brown guide conversations about what it means to build organizations under pressure without abandoning their values. The show is reflective, intimate, and practical. It speaks to the people who hold schedules, staff systems, fundraising relationships, HR questions, safety plans, care practices, and the difficult conversations that make collective work possible. Episodes do not pretend that values alignment is simple. They return often to contradiction, risk, grief, anger, care, and the pressure to override personal or organizational boundaries. A conversation on culture of care looks at grounded care, clear boundaries, feminist praxis, healing justice, embodiment, and transformative organizing. A resource mobilization episode honors fundraisers as people who hold the evolving story of the work while sustaining relationships and resources. The episode on assistants reframes administrative labor as strategy, memory, diplomacy, and care. Human resources becomes a site for equity, organizational development, and helping people do their best work. Non-compliance is handled carefully, with explicit reminders that the conversation is not legal advice and that teams must assess risk in their own context. Safety and security are explored through abolitionist and community organizing perspectives. The life cycle of organizations brings in questions of growth, viability, history, strategy, and personal transformation. The show also tells origin stories, including conversations with mentors and peers connected to grassroots leadership and progressive movements. Its language is values-rich, but the emphasis stays on use: guiding questions, team dialogue, and choices that can be brought back into organizational practice. Rad Ops is strongest when it names unseen labor clearly. It makes operations visible as connective tissue between vision and action.
Made for: For social justice staff, operations leaders, organizers, assistants, fundraisers, HR workers, and nonprofit teams trying to align internal practice with external commitments.
What sets it apart: Rad Ops focuses on the operational layer of movement work: the meetings, money, care practices, staffing systems, boundaries, and safety decisions that often determine whether values hold under pressure.
In a time where social justice organizations are under attack, we bring you Rad Ops (that stands for Radical Operations), a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Many organizations are in turmoil as they pivot to meet this moment. Rad Ops is a multimedia series offering principles, guiding questions, and tools that organizations can use to identify ways they can and cannot practice liberatory values in this unjust world. The Rad Ops podcast is one component of a project designed for social justice organizations looking to strengthen their...
This is the meeting after the mission statement, when your values have to survive the budget.
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A plainspoken look at how organizations build, pivot, and sometimes close without losing sight of their values.
Rad Ops treats organizational life as something built, maintained, rerouted, and sometimes wound down. It stays rooted in movement operations, but keeps widening the frame to ask how liberatory values hold up when pressure rises and the ground keeps shifting.
Care, boundaries, and the hard work of making values real.
Rad Ops treats culture of care as an operations problem, with Yeshna Maya Padamsi and Shah Grogan-Brown tracing where liberatory values meet the limits of real organizations.
Canarian community radio for poetry, justice, education, and democratic culture.
Care, systems, survival, and social change.
Workplace truth with lived-experience clarity.
Lectionary reflection with pastoral depth.
RAD Ops frames Radical Operations as a way to put liberatory values into practice while social justice organizations face attack.
RAD Ops's Culture of Care episode asks how social justice organizations keep liberatory values intact when crisis, surveillance, and burnout all rise at once.
Rad Ops: The Podcast hosts Yashna Maya Badamsi and Shaw Grogan-Brown speak with Allison Bujalov about resource mobilization as the movement of relationships, labor, community support, nature, and money.
This episode of RAD Ops discusses the crucial role of assistants in social justice organizations, featuring co-founder Felicia Martinez.
This episode introduces RAD Ops, a dialogue-based tool for social justice organizations to assess and discuss implementing liberatory values in their operations, featuring guest Tara Shuai Ellison.
Rad Ops - The Podcast examines non-compliance in an unjust world through a conversation with organizer Roberto Tijerina.
Rad Ops co-hosts Yashna Maya Padamsi and Shah Grogan-Brown explain how their framework grew from movement operations experience and an online community that expanded from 20 to more than 900 people.
This episode discusses safety and security from an abolitionist perspective with guest Che Johnson-Long, a community safety director and organizer.
A nonprofit operations expert advises on adjusting organizational budgets during internal conflicts and strategic pivots.
A discussion on distinguishing fear-based decisions from risk assessments in social justice organizations, featuring guest Chae Johnson-Long.