Ulcca Joshi Hansen, a researcher and education advocate, is the author of The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive. Stew talks with Ulcca about what we want our children to learn, what they are actually being taught in our schools, what it means to be “smart” in today’s in today’s complex world, and how the educational system we have had for centuries has to change…[Click for more]
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Reverend Charles “Chaz” Howard is the first-ever Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of five books including most recently Pond River Ocean Rain, a collection of brief essays about going deeper with God, and The Bottom: A Theopoetic of the Streets, to be released on November 1, 2020. Stew and Chaz discuss the difficulties in bridging social divides -- across race, class, gender, and other categories -- and why striving to do so, especially now, is essential…[Click for more]
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Dr. Howard Stevenson is the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies, in the Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.; the Executive Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative (REC) at Penn; and the Director of Forward Promise, a national program office funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Stew and Howard discuss the subtle, sometimes unintended ways by which we communicate about race, and demonstrate, using Stew as his subject,..[Click for more]
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Stephanie Creary is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School whose research aims to identify and understand how we manage identity in asymmetric relationships and examines the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion practices. Stew and Stephanie discuss how to be an effective ally and confront systemic racism…[Click for more]
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Dr. Marisa Porges is head of The Baldwin School. Before that she served in the Obama White House; was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School where her research focused on counterterrorism efforts; and served in the US Navy as one of eight female aviators. Her new book is What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women.. Stew and Marisa discuss the unique challenges educators and parents are y facing during the pandemic; the resurgent awareness of what we must do to pursue a just society; and the perennial difficulties of empowering young women...[Click for more]
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