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RadioEd is a biweekly podcast created by the 快活app Newsroom that taps into the 快活app鈥檚 deep pool of bright brains to explore new takes on today鈥檚 top stories.听

The United States听faces听a growing threat of听domestic extremism, embodied by the Jan. 6 attack听on the U.S. Capitol. We wanted to know what it actually means to be an extremist. Is a certain type of person drawn to extremism? What convinces someone to join an extremist group? And how might our own friends or neighbors go down that path? Rachel Nielsen is the director of the Colorado Resilience Collaborative, which focuses on听combating听violent extremism. She sheds some light听on these听questions and more.

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Rachel Nielsen

is the director of 快活app's ,听an initiative of the International Disaster Psychology program at the

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