# Laura Baird

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AEE - The Shared Experience Conversation | Part 1

The Shared Experience was a session Phil hosted at the International Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Conference. Those who attended had the opportunity to ask questions and as a collective group we answered those questions utilizing their shared experience. The questions asked; - H…

AEE - The Shared Experience Conversation | Part 2

In Part 2 of The Shared Experience, the group answers the following 2 questions; - How has the "Great Resignation" affected our industry? - How has the past 2 years influenced the way that we interact with our participants? Contributors to this episode were; Lisa Hunt - High 5 Trainer Danielle…

Mountain Talk Report: Knott County, One Year Later

July 27 & 28 mark the one-year anniversary of last year's catastrophic flooding in East Kentucky. One year on, in this special Mountain Talk report, we head to Knott County, to meet three different households who all lost their homes in the flood— to hear about what this past year has been like, wh…

Show 620: A Wednesday In April

Playlist: The Impossible Years - Attraction Gear Rain Parade - Sad Eyes Kill BIg Star - Kangaroo Rainy Day - Holocaust The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane David Crosby - Music Is Love Patrick Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard The Everly Brothers - Sigh, Cry, Almost Die Gene Clark - So You …

Mountain Talk: Recovery in the Mountains, Pt. II

In this edition of Mountain Talk, we bring you the second episode of the Free II Podcast, a brand-new radio series about recovery in East Kentucky. This series, which is a collaboration between WMMT and the FREE II Project, seeks to raise awareness and reduce the stigma around substance use diso…

Mountain Talk: Two Remarkable Black Appalachian Women + The 2026 KY State Budget

This week on Mountain Talk, in honor of Black History Month, we begin with two audio portraits of one-of-a-kind Black Appalachian women. First, we hear a profile of the local community organizer & activist Evelyn Williams, via a radio adaptation of a 1995 Appalshop film about Evelyn’s life (‘Evel…

Mountain Talk: The Scotia Mine Disaster

50 years ago this week, on March 9th and 11th, 1976, 26 people lost their lives in two separate methane explosions at the Scotia coal mine here in Letcher County. And in this special edition of WMMT’s Mountain Talk, we remember Scotia, by adapting and drawing from media related to the tragedy fro…

Mountain Talk: EKY Nurses on the Big, Beautiful Bill's Medicaid Cuts; plus Eula Hall & Martha Carson

“The Big, Beautiful Bill was a dirty, rotten deal,” said Perry County nurse Rachel Parks (pictured), at a public event in Whitesburg, Ky. last month. “What those politicians who supported the bill did was cold-hearted," she went on. "They knew that the bill would throw millions of people off heal…

Mountain Talk: Another Chemical Spill in 'Chemical Valley'; Land, Power & Our Economy; Hazel Dickens

Last month, a chemical leak once again rattled the community of Institute, West Virginia. On April 22nd, a leak at a plant which processes silver caused a violent chemical gas reaction which killed two people, and sent dozens more to the hospital. And after the leak, a shelter-in-place order was is…

Mountain Talk: The Big Lever—A Portrait of Mountain Politics c. 1981; Plus—Ray Hicks & Elaine Purkey

So, we of course just recently held our primary elections here in Kentucky. And while things have been calmer here, it’s been a tumultuous primary season so far across the South, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ‘Callais’ ruling that significantly weakened the Federal Votin…