Defining “home” through a pandemic lens is complicated, especially when you’re in a new city, like host, producer Mariano Avila who just moved to Milwaukee. But whether you’re an immigrant who learned to make the US home through PBS kids shows, or eating lasagna in Cher’s mansion, like our general manager Bohdan Zachary, or parsing out the difference between being Native American in a reservation vs a city, like Ron Greiger, or researching how COVID influenced people to move in 2020, like D’Vera Kohn from the Pew Research Center, the significance of home is as personal as it is complex.

Join the conversation with hosts Mariano Avila, and life-long Milwaukeeans Lexi Mack and Scottie Meyers on this new episode of Speaking Of.

Milwaukee Area Resources:

• The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 800-799-7233.
• The Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee operates a 24-hour confidential hotline at 414-933-2722.
• We Are Here Milwaukee provides information on culturally specific organizations at weareheremke.org.
• The Women’s Center in Waukesha has a 24-hour hotline at 262-542-3828.
• The Asha Project, which provides culturally specific services for African American women and others in Milwaukee, provides a crisis line from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 414-252-0075.
• The UMOS Latina Resource Center in Milwaukee offers bilingual, bicultural domestic violence, sexual assault and anti-human trafficking supportive services and operates a 24-hour hotline at 414-389-6510.
• The Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center offers culturally sensitive, trauma-informed services for those who have experienced domestic or sexual violence and can be reached at 414-383-9526.
• Our Peaceful Home, which serves Muslim families and is a program of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, operates a crisis line at 414-727-1090.
• The Hmong American Women’s Association, which serves the Hmong and Southeast Asian community, has advocates available at 414-930-9352 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
• End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has a statewide directory of resources at ...