Amy Bach • Following the data to a fairer criminal justice system
You can’t change what you can’t see. And good data, Amy Bach believes, is one of the keys to seeing what’s not working in our criminal justice system. She is the founder of Measures for Justice, a nonpartisan, non-profit organization developing data tools to help both community advocates and law en…
Shari Davis • You—yes, you—can decide how the government spends money
Shari Davis first began dreaming about how to empower young people as a teenager, while serving on the Mayor's Youth Council in Boston. In 2014, the Mayor of Boston asked Shari to launch the country's first youth-focused “participatory budgeting” effort—a democratic process in which community membe…
Can't Hardly Wait
In this season finale, Eleanor Kagan joins Rachel and Aviv to revisit the late-90s teen comedy that carries the same name as this week's needle-drop, The Replacements' Can't Hardly Wait.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/insync/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bran…
David Domenici • Is it possible to build a great school in a prison?
Each year, more than 200,000 young people are held in hundreds of juvenile-detention centers across the U.S., many of which do not provide a quality education to the students in their care. David Domenici is working to change that. He co-founded the Maya Angelou Schools, a successful network of alt…
Sheila Davis • What the AIDS epidemic taught this nurse about keeping the world healthy
Sheila Davis began her career as a nurse working on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Boston. Today, lessons from that experience guide her work as the CEO of Partners In Health, the global health nonprofit with nearly 20,000 people, providing care across 11 countries, from Rwanda to Hait…
Diana Tellefson Torres • If farmworkers picked the food, shouldn’t they get a seat at the table?
Tonight at dinner, you are likely to eat something that was picked by a farmworker. This is back-breaking work, involving long hours in the hot sun. And yet farmworkers, many of whom are immigrants to the U.S., often do not have basic workplace protections like heat standards or overtime pay. “The …
Sara Zewde • The anti-slavery roots of America’s public parks
When Hurricane Katrina barreled toward her home stretch of the Gulf Coast, Sara Zewde had not yet decided what she wanted to do professionally. But the aftermath of the storm inspired her to work across ecology, infrastructure, and culture as a landscape architect. Today, she runs Studio Zewde, a l…
Tiana Epps-Johnson • Want to protect democracy? Hug an election official.
Across the U.S., local election administrators are the unsung heroes of democracy, helping to protect our right to vote. But who is protecting them? Scarce resources and increasing threats of violence are causing many in the profession to find new jobs. Fortunately, Tiana Epps-Johnson has big ideas…
Joan Salwen • You can do WHAT with seaweed???
Joan Salwen has a thing for cows. After all, she grew up helping her grandfather tend to the livestock on his farm in Iowa. But as an adult, Joan was shocked to learn that cows are pretty terrible for the environment: they burp huge amounts of methane, a destructive greenhouse gas driving climate c…
Perfect / Wear Out The Grooves
Repeat guest Eleanor Kagan is back with Aviv and Rachel to discuss the 1985 box office flop Perfect, an American romantic drama film starring John Travolta as a reporter and Jamie Lee Curtis as a never-been-hotter fitness instructor. This is one of the weirdest and worst journalism films ever made.…
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