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The office of Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services sat empty for 8 years in New Orleans, until Mayor Helena Moreno reinstated the role when she took the Mayoral office in January of 2026. The person for the job...
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PathBreakers
Hosted by The Kresge Foundation · business · EN
About this Podcast:
In America’s cities, progress doesn’t happen by accident. It takes courageous individuals to challenge systems, vision to imagine better futures, trust to bring along communities, and determination to create pathways where none existed. PathBreakers do all of this. They cut through the noise, the red tape, and the “we-always-do-it-this-way” mentality.In each episode, you’ll meet a different Pathbreaker, people working in cities to forge new ways forward and discover the possibilities, sometimes hidden in plain sight.
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What is PathBreakers about?
In America’s cities, progress doesn’t happen by accident. It takes courageous individuals to challenge systems, vision to imagine better futures, trust to bring along communities, and determination to create pathways where none existed. PathBreakers do all of this. They cut through the noise, the red tape, and the “we-always-do-it-this-way” mentality.
Who hosts PathBreakers?
PathBreakers is hosted by The Kresge Foundation. The show has published 14 episodes to date.
What has PathBreakers covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Dr. Jennifer Avegno is treating public health holistically" (28 October 2026, 32 minutes), "Tap Bui is strengthening green infrastructure with community heritage" (21 October 2026, 32 minutes), and "Mina Seck is farming for food sovereignty" (14 October 2026, 29 minutes).
How often does PathBreakers publish?
PathBreakers publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 14 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on PathBreakers?
Booking probability for PathBreakers is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. PathBreakers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. PathBreakers's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch PathBreakers?
The strongest fits for PathBreakers are Government & Politics and Associations, Unions & Political Groups. PathBreakers has a business audience.
About the host
The Kresge Foundation hosts PathBreakers, a business podcast with 14 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 21, 202632 minS2When Vietnamese families resettled in the US after the war, many came to New Orleans with the idea that its subtropical delta climate, French influence, and sizable Roman Catholic community would feel familiar. Housing...
Episode #14
Mina Seck is farming for food sovereignty
Oct 14, 202629 minS2Food access is an on-going challenge in New Orleans – a city mapped by a history of segregation, and a city with a track record of inconsistent re-investment since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Aside from issues like “food...
Episode #13
Mayor Helena Moreno is closing financial deficits while supporting civic and cultural infrastructure
Oct 7, 202632 minS2Cities across the country are confronting one of the defining questions of our era: Who has the power to decide how a city prepares for – and survives – climate change? And New Orleans is a city that lives on the direct...
Sep 30, 202632 minS2Danielle Bergstrom began her career as a city planner. That work, which she did in Fresno for 10 years, put her up close and personal with the goings-ons of City Hall. And seeing the “sausage making” there, as she says...
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Sep 23, 202629 minS2More than 200,000 immigrant farmworkers power Central California's agricultural industry, including over 60,000 people from many diverse and distinct Indigenous Mexican communities. Across those communities, more than...
Sep 16, 202629 minS2Hugo Morales grew up picking produce in the farm fields of Fresno with his family. When he returned to Fresno after college, he saw that his community – the Central Valley’s half-million Latino farmworkers – barely had...
Sep 9, 202632 minS2Fresno, California is smack-dab in the middle of the state, a city surrounded by farmland, seen by many as just the half-way point between San Francisco and Los Angeles. But Fresno is the 9th most diverse city in the...
Jul 29, 202633 minS2Anna McQuiston says the MidSouth is at a tipping point. While the region – which comprises 6 counties and 38 cities across West Tennessee, East Arkansas, and North Mississippi – has been facing population loss, it also...
Jul 22, 202633 minS2Most real estate developers have dollar signs in their eyes. But in the rare instance when the developers actually come from the communities being redeveloped, they are able to see the equations very differently. This...
Jul 15, 202634 minS2There’s a two-mile corridor along Walker Avenue in South Memphis that Marlon Foster calls The Knowledge Quest Kid Zone. It’s a multi-site neighborhood campus dedicated to holistically and measurably improving the lives...
Jul 8, 202636 minS2Memphis is a city with serious momentum and serious ambition. Neighborhoods that were written off are being reinvested. Families who have been here for generations are choosing to stay and build. Leaders across sectors...
Jun 2, 202628 minS2When a $6 billion bridge comes to your neighborhood, who decides what the residents get in return? Simone Sagovac and the community-elected Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition have spent nearly 20 years...
May 26, 202629 minS2A commercial corridor in Detroit went from 10% occupancy to a thriving neighborhood hub–and they’re just getting started. In this episode, co-hosts Tracey Pearson and Jamie Bennett talk to Caitlin Murphy about how one...
May 20, 202628 minS2You can’t shape your neighborhood if you don’t know what’s happening to it. In this episode, co-hosts Tracey Pearson and Jamie Bennett talk to Orlando Bailey about how he runs a newsroom to build infrastructure for...
May 13, 202627 minS2Season 2 of PathBreakers opens in Detroit — Kresge's hometown and a city whose comeback story has been told for a decade. But as hosts Tracey Pearson and Jamie Bennett note, that story has largely been written through...
May 6, 20262 minS2Four American cities. Sixteen people working to improve where they live. One central question: Who has power to shape what happens in their city? In Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, and Fresno, we talk with community...
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Helena Moreno
mayor of New Orleans, City of New Orleans
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Jerry Dyer
Mayor of Fresno, City of Fresno
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Paul Young
former Vice President of Product Management, BC Women’s Centre for Pelvic Pain & Endometriosis
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Caitlin Murphy
Director of Outreach and Tangible Property, Unclaimed Property Division, Massachusetts Office of the State Treasurer
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