Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns

David J. Johns

Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on education, racial justice, access, and the effects of public policy, typically featuring academics, authors, researchers, and movement leaders. Agencies could credibly pitch education scholars, youth-development experts, civil-rights advocates, reparations researchers, and policy leaders with substantial subject-matter expertise, published work, or organizational leadership; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 127

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

teachthebabiesdjj@gmail.com

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Host

David J. Johns - Educator and social-justice advocate focused on education, access, race, and public policy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Academics, authors, education and youth-development experts, civil-rights advocates, policy researchers, and movement leaders with substantial field expertise or organizational leadership.

Required Achievements:

Published books or significant research, Leadership of advocacy organizations or policy networks, Academic appointments at respected universities, Direct involvement in legislation, organizing, or public-policy initiatives

Recent Guest Discussions

Christina Greer - Black Women Political Leaders, Democratic Participation, Historically White Colleges And Universities, Political Giving, And Building Democratic Institutions.

Bianca Baldridge - Black Youth Work, Community-based Support, Youth-worker Labor Conditions, Education, And National Youth Policy.

Dreisen Heath - Reparations Legislation, Economic Justice, Black Veterans' Benefits, Racial-justice Organizing, And The Infrastructure Of Repair.

Recent Topics

Racial Justice, Education, Public Policy, Civil Rights, Youth Development

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns

Preserving Legacy and the Power of Mutual Aid with Deesha Dyer

August 25, 2026

Summer Rewind EpisodeIn this deeply personal and politically urgent conversation, Dr. David Johns welcomes his White House family—Deesha Dyer, former Social Secretary to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama—for a raw discussion about what we lose when power demolishes history, and what endures when community builds with intention.Deesha takes us inside the moment she saw excavators tearing down the East Wing of the White House in October 2025—the space where she orchestrated s...

Refusing the Shame — with Dr. Terrell Winder

August 18, 2026

I'm from Los Angeles. So when I picked up Dr. Terrell Winder's Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA, it read like a love letter to a home I'm watching change—and a map of how young Black gay men build family, selfhood, and joy inside all that change anyway.This week, Dr. Winder—sociologist and urban ethnographer at UC Santa Barbara—pulls up to the classroom to teach us unspoiling: his framework for refusing shame and rejecting the burden of stigma outright, no matter what it co...

TTB Rewind: Kimberlé Crenshaw: Born a Backtalker

August 11, 2026

In case you missed it... In this rewind episode, I'm in conversation with the brilliant Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw—legal scholar, civil rights advocate, chief architect of Critical Race Theory. From her parents' kitchen table discussions that shaped her critical consciousness, to her groundbreaking work challenging legal institutions, to founding the African American Policy Forum, Professor Crenshaw has spent decades translating academic theory into tools for resistance. In this powerful con...

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