PODCAST

The Jubilee College podcast features the people and ideas motivating Jubilee College.

Srinija Srinivasan, Host

Explore conversations about our research inquiries such as: Can we pay people to protect the water rather than to destroy it? What is the role of the human? How do we embrace “unlikely allies”? Can we bring the sacred into the digital world? Can we listen to water? How can hospitality for the “stranger” become a laboratory for the heart?

Read more about Srinija here.

Srinija Srinivasan Co-President, Board Chair, Design Team

Born in India and raised in Kansas, Srinija’s bicultural upbringing sparked a lifelong curiosity about consciousness, from the arts to artificial intelligence. After working in foundational AI at the Cyc Project, she joined Yahoo! as their fifth employee, where for over 15 years, initially as Ontological Yahoo then Editor in Chief, her work centered on the human experience. She also chaired the board of non-profit SFJAZZ, and her twin experiences in tech and the arts led her to co-found Loove, a Brooklyn-based music venture exploring how artistic values can guide our markets, rather than market values leading our culture. She is a board member of the On Being Project and a former vice chair of Stanford University’s Board of Trustees.

Current research

Practices and capacities for mutual liberation – navigating and evolving the porous relationship between “me” and “we” – at the level of individuals (in relationship), groups (in shared purpose), and societies (across diverse values and priorities).
Recent examples of explorations:
- Superhuman Intelligence: Meet AI with our deepest humanity
- Wisdom of Improvisation

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Current research

Practices and capacities for mutual liberation – navigating and evolving the porous relationship between “me” and “we” – at the level of individuals (in relationship), groups (in shared purpose), and societies (across diverse values and priorities).
Recent examples of explorations:
- Superhuman Intelligence: Meet AI with our deepest humanity
- Wisdom of Improvisation

Our first episodes:

Don Shaffer

Join Don and Srinija, the two co-presidents of Jubilee College, in a conversation about why they started the College and the where/what/how that students can expect from their experience here.

Chief Caleen Sisk

Join Winnemem Wintu spiritual leader and tribal chief Caleen Sisk and Srinija, in a conversation about living well in this unique place on Earth and the need to support more young people to become future elders.

Orland Bishop

Join Orland and Srinija, in a conversation about how these times ask us for a shift from education to initiation, from the head to the heart, and from innovating based on what we already know – to sourcing real creation.

Michelle Long

Join Michelle and Srinija, in a conversation about founding a College at this particular place on Earth, and the importance of reconnecting the wisdom of these mountain headwaters with the creative fire of the human spirit in the Bay.

Kotaro Aoki

Coming December 1st, 2026

Michael Preston

Coming December 1st, 2026

“There is a difference between the unknown and the unknowable. The unknown is merely what we haven’t measured yet — a frontier, a problem, a dare. The ego loves the unknown. It builds telescopes and particle colliders and sends rockets into the dark, certain that with enough cleverness, the dark will yield. The unknowable is something else entirely. It is not a gap in our knowledge. It is a country where knowledge itself kneels. To the ego, the unknowable feels like failure. To the heart, it is the entry ticket.”
~ Nipun Mehta