Category: Academia

Darci Picoult is a force to be reckoned with.  She’s an actress, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, producer, teacher.  Her credits are long and varied and include her powerful and very personal one-woman show, “My Virginia,” which was presented in theaters and solo festivals around the country and broadcast on National…

It's both an honor and pleasure to introduce Melissa Salguero: teacher, musician, role model, mentor and...2018 Grammy Music Educator Award winner! She joined the faculty of P.S. 48 Joseph R. Drake elementary school in New York's South Bronx neighborhood in 2010. In the years since, Melissa has built its music program from the ground up, raising more than $160,000, including the $50,000 she received on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Melissa combines science and musical concepts by transforming her classroom into a Mad Scientist lab. You're about to listen to one uplifting, inspiring, feel good conversation.

Clearly a sin of omission when it comes to teaching American history and one Carol Berkin, PhD has worked to correct. The author of several books, including: First Generations: Women in Colonel America; Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence, Dr. Berkin has been a frequent contributor on PBS and The History Channel. There's much to learn in this fascinating, eye-opening, 'you're kidding' conversation!

You're about to meet activist, scholar, educator, critic, writer and publisher, Debbie Reese, Ph.D., an enrolled member of Northern New Mexico's Nambe Pueblo tribe. Her research and writing are centered on how Native Americans are represented in children's literature - from books for infants, through and including the young adult genre. She is the author of the critically acclaimed blog, American Indians in Children's Literature. This is one hell of an eye-opening, powerful and long overdue conversation.

Elizabeth Bucar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Boston's Northeastern University. She teaches Islam, Sexual Ethics and Comparative Religion. Professor Bucar's work, which revolves around ethical questions of gender and politics in everyday religious practices, has taken her to Iran, Indonesia, Spain, Turkey and Italy. She's also written several books, her most recent: Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress. We cover a lot of ground in this fascinating conversation.