Nancy Y. Bekavac is an American academic and former lawyer who served as the sixth president of Scripps College from 1990 to 2007, becoming the first woman to lead the institution. Raised in Clairton, Pennsylvania, she earned her undergraduate degree...
Miguel Cardona began his career as a fourth-grade teacher before becoming the youngest principal in Connecticut and later the state’s first Latino Commissioner of Education. As the second Secretary of Education of Puerto Rican descent, Cardona over...
David Himmelstein is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College in New York City. He is known for his widely cited studies on patients’ rights issues and structural problems within the US healthcare system. His 1984 study on patie...
This is the second installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Eric Hirsch is a distinguished urban sociology professor at Providence College. He spends much of his time outside of the classr...
This is the second installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Eric Hirsch is a distinguished urban sociology professor at Providence College. He spends much of his time outside of the classr...
Gray Davis was born in 1942 to Doris Meyer and Joseph Graham Davis Sr., in the Bronx borough of New York City. After his family moved to the West Coast in the 1950s, Davis established himself in the state over the course of the succeeding decades: Af...
Gray Davis was born in 1942 to Doris Meyer and Joseph Graham Davis Sr., in the Bronx borough of New York City. After his family moved to the West Coast in the 1950s, Davis established himself in the state over the course of the succeeding decades: Af...
Reid Pauly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pauly received his BA in History and Gover...
Reid Pauly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pauly received his BA in History and Gover...
This is the third installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Megan Smith is a social worker who has worked with the homeless community in Rhode Island for seventeen years. She works with Hou...
This is the third installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Megan Smith is a social worker who has worked with the homeless community in Rhode Island for seventeen years. She works with Hou...
Bradford Gibbs is the Urry and Comfort Family Lecturer in Economics at Brown University. His focus is applied finance, and he teaches courses including Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions. Before his time at Brown, Gibbs co-founded a Sub-Sah...
Bradford Gibbs is the Urry and Comfort Family Lecturer in Economics at Brown University. His focus is applied finance, and he teaches courses including Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions. Before his time at Brown, Gibbs co-founded a Sub-Sah...
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker was three years old in 1942 when the American government sent her and her family to Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp in southern Colorado. After leaving the incarceration camp in 1945, Tinker and her family move...
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker was three years old in 1942 when the American government sent her and her family to Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp in southern Colorado. After leaving the incarceration camp in 1945, Tinker and her family move...
Dr. Megan Ranney is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and advocate for innovative approaches to health. She currently serves as Deputy Dean of the Brown School of Public Health and founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digita...
Dr. Megan Ranney is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and advocate for innovative approaches to health. She currently serves as Deputy Dean of the Brown School of Public Health and founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digita...
Joan Lunden is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and former co-host of Good Morning America. Lunden is the host of the PBS television series “Second Opinion with Joan Lunden,” host of the Washington Post podcast series “Caring for Tom...
Joan Lunden is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and former co-host of Good Morning America. Lunden is the host of the PBS television series “Second Opinion with Joan Lunden,” host of the Washington Post podcast series “Caring for Tom...
Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis and one of the leading historians of the US abortion debate. She has written many books on social movement struggles around reproduction, autonomy, and the law. Her most recent...
Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis and one of the leading historians of the US abortion debate. She has written many books on social movement struggles around reproduction, autonomy, and the law. Her most recent...
This is the first installment of Organizing Around Homelessness, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. K. Joseph Shekarchi has served as the Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives since January 2021 and was re-el...
This is the first installment of Organizing Around Homelessness, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. K. Joseph Shekarchi has served as the Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives since January 2021 and was re-el...
Joan Lunden is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and former co-host of Good Morning America. Lunden is the host of the PBS television series “Second Opinion with Joan Lunden,” host of the Washington Post podcast series “Caring for Tom...
Joan Lunden is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and former co-host of Good Morning America. Lunden is the host of the PBS television series “Second Opinion with Joan Lunden,” host of the Washington Post podcast series “Caring for Tom...
[Editor’s note: This interview took place before State Senator Eric Lesser left office on January 4, 2023.] Former State Senator Eric P. Lesser represented nine communities in the First Hampden and Hampshire District, proudly serving Western Massac...
[Editor’s note: This interview took place before State Senator Eric Lesser left office on January 4, 2023.] Former State Senator Eric P. Lesser represented nine communities in the First Hampden and Hampshire District, proudly serving Western Massac...