Episode #5: Khoa Vo and Daniel Sheriff

In this episode, Daniel Sheriff—social worker and Associate Director of the SFU’s Black Student Centre—joins Khoa for a powerful conversation about individual and collective healing. Together, they explore how community can help move people from isolation, shame, and powerlessness towards connection, self-acceptance, and empowerment. Daniel reflects on his own experiences as a Black man, highlighting how systemic barriers like implicit racism impacts healing, and why vulnerability, safety, and brotherhood are essential. The discussion also delves into the transformative role of collective action and advocacy in creating change for individuals and communities.

This conversation includes references to sexualized violence. We encourage you to care for yourself and reach out to support resources if needed.

Episode #3: Ira Rishi and Tricia-Kay Williams

TThis episode is a gentle conversation between host Ira Rishi, and Tricia-Kay Williams, SFU’s counsellor who has been working with Black students on campus.They reflect on the importance of long-lasting, community-based support for survivors. They explore the deep responsibility and privilege of being entrusted with someone’s story, and what it means to receive that trust with humility. Through their conversation, they invite listeners to shift away from centering themselves and toward becoming attentive-patient listeners, steady resource-givers, and careful space-holders. This episode highlights how humility, presence, and intentionality can profoundly change the way we show up for survivors, and how our attitude, our openness, and our willingness to truly hold space, can transform not only the healing journey of survivors, but the culture of care within our communities.