EngageNWA

An entire month’s worth of activities is inside Welcoming Week NWA, an intentional collection of events to affirm the importance of being a welcoming and inclusive place.

Hosts Rachell Sanchez-Smith and Rogelio Garcia Contreras, director of social innovation for the Walton College of Business, speak with Lia Uribe, founder of RefleXions, Steven Byess, music director of the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra, and Margot LeMaster, director of EngageNWA, about the reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into The Four Seasons of Latin Jazz. Also, what diversity and equity work looks like through creative justice.

EngageNWA, which is part of the Northwest Arkansas Council, has launched a strategic plan focused on the region's diverse community of immigrants and…

A summit later this month will invite men to the Jones Center in Springdale to discuss health.

On today’s show, we spend most of the hour listening to a discussion recorded in the Carver Center for Public Radio that is part of our ongoing series…

We spend much of our hour today talking with nine residents of northwest Arkansas in their twenties and thirties about living here at their age. We began…

Our conversation as part of a collaboration with Engage NWA continues with nine people in their twenties and thirties living in northwest Arkansas. We…

Eight of our nine guests for the latest Real People, Real Conversations special moved to northwest Arkansas from somewhere else. We asked for their…

We finish this edition of Real People, Real Conversations, with a simple question: what do you want to change in the next decade?

A series of discussions in northwest Arkansas are designed to foster discussion between neighbors and strangers. We have a preview of what the…