A Radical Act of Hope is a five-part limited series exploring the remarkable life and work of Inuk climate and human rights advocate Siila Watt-Cloutier.

Siila is one of the most important climate justice voices of our time. Her work with the Inuit Circumpolar Council helped get the Stockholm Convention signed, ratified and enforced in record time. It’s one of the most successful UN treaties that has ever been made to protect the environment by banning the “dirty dozen”––the persistent organic pollutants that contaminate food and human bodies. She then went on to pioneer linking climate change and human rights in a way that has completely revamped how the world thinks about climate change.

Produced by Everything Podcasts in collaboration with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) at the University of Victoria, the podcast features Siila in conversation with Janna Wale and Ian Mauro from PICS, as well as guest appearances by Indigenous women leaders who have inspired Siila.

I was honoured to work on planning and development for this show, as well as show running, which included on-site podcast recording at Haus of Owl in Victoria.

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Awards:

A Radical Act of Hope with Siila Watt-Cloutier won a Listener’s Choice Award and Gold Award in the limited series category for the genre of activism, public service and social impact.

The Signal Awards, which celebrate the podcasts that “define culture,” recognized this year’s winners from an extraordinary range of voices and genres worldwide. Other 2025 winners include high-profile shows such as The Wonder of Stevie, The Mel Robbins Podcast, Crime Junkie and New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce.

The Signal Awards received more than 385,000 public votes this year, a 126 per cent increase over 2024, and featured submissions from across the globe, including the UK, Australia, Germany and Qatar.

Credits:

Hosts – Siila Watt-Cloutier, Janna Wale, Ian Mauro
Executive Producer – Jennifer Smith
Editor in Chief – Don Shafer
Showrunner – Jessica Grajczyk
Writer – Eva Grant
Sound Engineer – Scott Whittaker
Production Support – Cindy MacDougall