Neighborhood Villages Announces Launch of Podcast About Child Care Crisis Featuring ABC’s Gloria Riviera
Second Season Of “No One is Coming to Save Us,” Produced with Lemonada Media, Airs Today
Boston, MA (March 24, 2022) — Neighborhood Villages, a Boston-based non-profit that advocates for solutions to the greatest challenges faced by the early education sector, today announced the launch of the second season of the podcast, “No One is Coming to Save Us,” in partnership with Lemonada Media.
Listeners will join award-winning journalist Gloria Riviera as she explores the issue of America’s ongoing child care crisis and the people impacted by it. The first and second episodes of Season Two air today, March 24. Neighborhood Villages is co-producer of the podcast along with Lemonada. The first season, released in May 2021, received over 1.5 million impressions and more than 500,000 downloads.
The hit mini-series is back now as a weekly podcast covering America’s child care crisis and the people impacted by it. Every Thursday, veteran reporter Gloria Riviera examines what’s broken in the system and how we can work together to fix it. The episodes explore how lack of quality, affordable childcare wreaks havoc on parents and creates an achievement gap that can last a child’s entire lifetime. It also dives into how the pandemic has revealed the deep flaws in our childcare system that continue to disproportionately affect lower-income and Black and brown families.
“Nearly a year ago, we launched this podcast as a way to shed light on how our current child care system is failing everyone – children, families and educators,” said Sarah Siegel Muncey, Co-Founder of Neighborhood Villages. “Nearly a year later, the unfortunate reality is that we have seen little progress and the situation is increasingly dire and urgent. We hope that through this podcast, we can educate and empower listeners to demand meaningful change as we work together to save ourselves.”
The podcast takes a deep dive into the child care crisis, highlighting the Ellis Early Learning Center in Boston, a local partner center of Neighborhood Villages. The podcast will provide an update on families, providers and early childhood educators from the center, who in season one shared their stories and provided a first-hand look into early education.
“Ellis is a longtime partner of Neighborhood Villages, which has provided critical support to our educators and families, particularly throughout the pandemic,” said Lauren Cook, CEO of Ellis Early Learning. “We are excited to join the second season of the podcast to highlight the impact of our failing child care system on providers and families, and to compel a much-needed overhaul of this sector.”
To listen and learn more about season two of the “No One Is Coming to Save Us” podcast, visit https://www.neighborhoodvillages.org/podcast-no-one-is-coming-to-save-us or subscribe to the podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/NOICTSU.
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