I’m your host, Hana Truscott. Some call me Hana T. (Хана Т.).

I’m a storyteller, descended from a line of storytellers. I’m also an educator for social change, focusing on preparing adults with skills for a pluriverse—what the Zapatistas referred to as “a world in which many worlds fit.” Ecosystems—both social and ecological—thrive through biodiversity, yet one of the ongoing lingering harms of colonization and globalization is that it has tried to impose a universal way of being, knowing, and doing—a “one-world world”—at the cost of both ecological and sociocultural biodiversity. As a white, U.S. American woman with European immigrant ancestry, I locate myself within the structures of whiteness and settler colonialism and take seriously the responsibility for critical self-reflexivity and accountability for historical and ongoing harms. I have witnessed how the one-world world has harmed people racialized as white, as well as those racialized as people of color, including Black and Indigenous individuals (BIPOC), in distinct ways.

To counter this legacy, my work involves unlearning universalist conditioning and creating space for diverse ways of being, knowing, and relating to take root again. Over the past two decades, I have pursued this unlearning personally and, for the past 12 years, facilitated aspects of it with multiracial adult groups. My approach integrates andragogy—adult-centered learning that values lived and embodied experience—alongside cultural humility, critical intercultural competencies, and the transformative potential of discomfort as pedagogy. Ultimately, my work is in service to the imagining and co-creation of new (or renewed) just, decolonial worlds. My roles within the social change ecosystem framework includes storyteller, visionary, and disrupter, committed to naming dominant narratives and amplifying ancestral, land-connected, and spirit-aligned wisdoms. I believe in the power of collective consciousness shifts and ground my work in daily spiritual and contemplative practices that root me in my values and remind me of my responsibility to more-than-human kin (ancestors, land). These rituals sustain me as I navigate life with chronic illness and honor the body as a site of knowledge.

This podcast emerged from a Reimagining Whiteness community study that I conducted in summer 2023 as part of my graduate program in Depth Pyschology, with a specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies. For the purpose of this study, I convened 26 co-researchers through a focus group and interviews. They are people I met throughout 40 years of life, work, school, and service and with whom I wanted to learn. Now, we share our conversations and stories with you through this podcast.