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A new season of Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice, is back! Hosted by Ashley C. Ford, we’re bringing you inspiring stories from unexpected heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. Like a singer/songwriter whose music headlines protests; an award-winning journalist whose story of being undocumented is changing how journalists discuss immigration; a WNBA champion who is using her influence to fight cannabis injustice and so much more. Tune in weekly to experience these amazing stories of courage, creativity, joy and justice. And don’t miss our previous seasons for more stories of struggle and success from communities across the world, plus conversations about art and activism, with friends of Ben & Jerry’s like John Legend, Big Freedia, and Ava DuVernay.
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- Today41 min
Dario Pena and Brent Buell: From Sing Sing To The Stage
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. You might not expect a script and a stage to have such a profound impact inside one of the toughest correctional facilities. But that’s exactly what Rehabilitation Through the Arts have done. Brent Buell walked into Sing Sing Correctional Facility at a moment of personal disillusionment and found his life's work inside a system built to break people down. Dario Peña entered prison in survival mode but through the RTA theater arts program, uncovered the version of himself he’d never had the opportunity to find. Together, their story (and the film Sing Sing, which grew out of this work) proves that accountability shouldn’t be measured by cruelty, and that transformation is possible when people are treated as the human beings they are. Brent and Dario join Ashley C. Ford on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, to talk about what justice could actually look like and what happens when we finally choose people over prison. Join Ben & Jerry’s in the fight to truly abolish prison slavery by telling your representatives to support amending the Constitution to end the 13th amendment exception! You can click here to learn more about Rehabilitation Through the Arts. Check out the film “Sing, Sing” inspired by RTA. Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- 1 weeks ago39 min
Joy Oladokun: Becoming The Voice of The People
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. For a music artist, you'd think a record label cutting your album budget by 90% would end your music career. For Joy Oladokun, it's what catapulted hers: self-produced, uncompromising, and part of the soundtrack of protest. Joy Oladokun became a songwriter to help other artists survive. She ended up becoming the artist she'd been trying to save. When her label cut her advance by nearly 90%, she made the record anyway, self-produced, uncompromising, and built for the people who needed it most. A singer-songwriter and producer working at the intersection of Americana, soul, and Afrofuturism, Joy's music is confessional, politically grounded, and built for the person on the bus, on the way to a protest, carrying more than anyone can see. Her new album, Hope Is a Heavy Thing, is out now. Ashley C. Ford sits down with Joy on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice to discuss the importance of speaking up even when it’s costly. Follow Joy here! Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- 2 weeks ago44 min
Renee Bracey Sherman: Liberating Abortion
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. You might not have expected abortion to be relitigated 50 years after Roe v. Wade passed. But thirteen states now enforce total abortion bans. Five more restrict abortion at six weeks — before most people know they're pregnant. The fight for reproductive justice has never been more urgent and who gets to tell that story has never mattered more. Renee Bracey Sherman had an abortion at nineteen. She paid $450 out of pocket on an $8.50-an-hour salary and kept it secret for six years. When she finally shared her story with the world, she was inspired to build a career liberating abortion from stigma. From founding We Testify to publishing her book Liberating Abortion to a Ph.D. centered on abortion narratives, Renee’s work is a testament to the power of storytelling. Renee joins Ashley C. Ford on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, to talk about stigma, reproductive justice, and what it means to tell the truth in a room that wasn't built for your story. Want to learn more about Renee’s work? Follow Renee here. Check out her book, Liberating Abortion. And take the pledge with Ben & Jerry’s & ACLU to fight for reproductive freedom. Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- 3 weeks ago43 min
Jose Antonio Vargas: Defining American
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. You might expect someone undocumented to stay invisible. Jose Antonio Vargas built a renowned career, won a Pulitzer Prize and then chose to reveal his truth. It changed his life and his life’s work in ways he never expected. Jose Antonio Vargas came to the United States from the Philippines at twelve years old. He grew up here, built a prolific career in journalism here, won a Pulitzer Prize here, and did all of it without documentation. In 2011, he decided to self-report as undocumented and it changed his life, but not in the ways he expected. Jose’s story is about what it costs to be seen as an immigrant, and why the stories we tell about immigration need reform. The stakes couldn't be higher right now. How we talk about immigration matters– storytelling has always been a tool for immigrant rights, but in this climate, visibility can also mean vulnerability. Jose is calling on journalists to rethink how they report on immigration: humanity over othering, community over isolation. Jose sits down with Ashley C. Ford on this episode to discuss the alarming state of human rights in America today and how urgently the way we talk about it and report on it needs to change. You can follow Jose’s work with Define American to humanize the immigrant story here. Take action with the ACLU and Ben & Jerry’s and demand all eyes on ICE Detention NOW HERE. Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- 4 weeks ago39 min
Kyle Mesteth: Building Community One Skateboard At A Time
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. You'd never expect skateboarding to be a growing movement amongst indigenous communities in the US. For generations, the story told about reservation life has been defined almost entirely by what's missing: by poverty rates, by unemployment, by absence of resources. What rarely makes the headline is what people are building on their own terms, with their own hands, for their own communities. Kyle Mesteth grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation, sovereign Oglala Lakota land in so-called South Dakota. After experiencing devastating loss, he turned to the one thing that kept him going, skateboarding. What started with a borrowed building and a stack of donated skateboards became Ground Control: a skate park, a recording studio, a film set, a music stage, and a garden where Lakota youth can create, compete, and see themselves as the main characters of their own story. Kyle joins Ashley C. Ford on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice to talk about community, creativity, and what it looks like to build hope from the ground up. Want to support Ground Control? You can follow Kyle and all things Ground Control here. Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- Oct 7, 202637 min
BG: More Than A Game
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. You might not expect a basketball superstar to become a cannabis justice advocate. BG spent nearly ten months detained in a Russian prison for traveling with cannabis oil in her luggage. She came home to a cannabis justice system that is still arresting and locking people up for possession of a substance now legal in nearly half the country. The same world that punished her for simply being who she is, in locker rooms long before she ever set foot in a foreign cell. She decided to fight harder. BG, a WNBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and one of the most compelling voices in the fight for cannabis justice and the wrongfully incarcerated, joins Ashley C. Ford on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice. Join Ben & Jerry’s and The Last Prisoner Project in the fight for clemency for those who are incarcerated for cannabis. Call on your governor to grant clemency for those with cannabis-related convictions here. Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- Sep 30, 202633 min
Marley Dias: Protecting Every Story
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. You'd think challenging the publishing industry would take the combined efforts of writers, publishers, and activists. Instead, one ten-year-old (now twenty one) sparked the conversation. Marley Dias was ten when she looked at the books being assigned in her school and noticed that girls who looked like her were almost nowhere to be found. She didn't wait for someone else to fix it. She launched #1000BlackGirlBooks — a campaign to collect and distribute books featuring Black girls as the main character — and what started as a three-month project became an international movement that put diverse books into the hands of children around the world. Now a Harvard graduate with her own books out, Marley has grown her work from fighting for representation to transforming the systems that prevented it in the first place. Marley joins Ashley C. Ford on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast to talk about representation, resistance, and what it looks like to rewrite the rules from the inside. Want to get involved? Pledge to fight for your First Amendment rights with Ben & Jerry’s and the ACLU. Follow Marley Dias and learn more about the #1000BlackGirlBooks Order Marley's new book “I Am The Dream Come True” Support the Grassroots Community Foundation in rebuilding the Saint James Parish Library in Jamaica Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
- Sep 23, 202635 min
Vermont Green FC: From Stadiums To Sustainability
Welcome to Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice. This season, we’re swirling up inspiring stories from progressive heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. When you think of sustainability and social justice, you might not think of a Vermont soccer team leading the charge. With the professional sports industry generating roughly 350 million tons of carbon every year, most pro teams don’t even put sustainability on the bench. But what if sports could be fun and score big for sustainability and social justice? Not as a tagline or a charitable add-on but structurally: in how it runs, how it travels, what it does with its waste, its relationship with the community it plays for, and what it asks of the people who wear its jersey. Vermont Green Football Club became an answer to those questions. Patrick Infurna, co-founder of the 2025 championship-winning Vermont FC joins Ashley C. Ford on Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice to talk about environmental justice, compassionate masculinity, social justice and what it looks like to build true community. Want to support the work of Vermont Green FC? You can follow them here. Support the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund. And check out Vermont Green FC’s partnership with Vermont Works for Women. Music provided by Shearaton Carter: Slow Season, Epidemic Sound. Custom Music by: Rondell Patterson.
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A new season of Into The Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice, is back! Hosted by Ashley C. Ford, we’re bringing you inspiring stories from unexpected heroes. People who didn’t set out to be activists, but found themselves stepping up for something bigger than themselves. Like a singer/songwriter whose music headlines protests; an award-winning journalist whose story of being undocumented is changing how journalists discuss immigration; a WNBA champion who is using her influence to fight cannabis injustice and so much more. Tune in weekly to experience these amazing stories of courage, creativity, joy and justice. And don’t miss our previous seasons for more stories of struggle and success from communities across the world, plus conversations about art and activism, with friends of Ben & Jerry’s like John Legend, Big Freedia, and Ava DuVernay.
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