2008-24 (6/15/08)

The Life and Time of Hubie Jones

Hubie Jones is an activist and elder statesman of Boston and a Dean Emeritus of the Boston University School of Social Work.

The Economic Impact of Cranberries on the Commonwealth

Jeffrey LeFleur is the Director of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association

2008-23 (6/8/08)

The Big Read in Massachusetts

Dave Kipen, National Endowment of the Arts' Director of Literature and program director of The Big Read.

Proust and The Squid: The Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf Ph.D., Author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

2008-22 (6/1/08)

Environmentalists and Environmentalism in the 21st Century

John Kerry, Co-author of This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision of the Future and United States Senator for Massachusetts

Recollections of Jazz in Boston

Phil Wilson, Professor of Brass at Berklee College of Music

2008-21 (5/25/08)

The Remaining Gap Regarding Women's Earnings

Evelyn Murphy, President of the WAGE Project and author of Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About It

2 Million Minutes: Are American Schools Running Behind?

Robert Compton, Executive Producer of the film 2 Million Minutes

2008-20 (5/18/08)

The Disease of Depression

Charles Welch, Director of Electroconvulsive Therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital

What It Takes to Make a Great Arts Festival

Linda and Geoffrey Post, Founders of the Paradise City Arts Festival

2008-19 (5/11/08)

White Privilege: How Full is Your Knapsack

Peggy McIntosh PhD, Associate Director of the Stone Center for Women at Wellesley College

2008-18 (5/4/08)

Come On, People!

Alvin Poussaint, Co-author of Come On, People!

The Labor Market and Our Economic Crisis

Paul Harrington, Assistant Director of the Center for LAbor Market Studies at Northeastern University

2008-17 (4/27/08)

Liz Walker's Journey Through Broadcasting

Liz Walker, Journalist, documentarian, and Human rights activist

2008-16 (4/20/08)

Debunking Hollywood's Myths on Handwriting Analysis

Eileen Page, Graphoanalyst and member of the President's Advisory Council for the International Graphoanalysis Society

Youth Leading Youth in the Hyde Square Task Force

Jesus Gerena, Director of Community Development and Organizing, and Ashley Cotton, Community Organizer and overseer of Community Development Artists at the Hyde Square Task Force

2008-15 (4/6/08)

Lowell Film Festival: An Avenue for Young Filmmakers

Stacie Hargis, Organizer for the Lowell Film Festival and Filmmaker, Maureen McNamara

Where's Your Money? Ask Where's George

Hank Eskin, Founder of www.wheresgeorge.com

2008-14 (4/6/08)

50 Years of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

Federico Cortese, Music Director of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Worm, BYSO Member

Winter Water Pollution

Paula Jewell, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bay Estuary Association

2008-13 (3/30/08)

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

Charles Shields, Author Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

2008-12 (3/23/08)

The League of Women Voters: Past, Present, and Future

Diane Jeffery, President of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters

Angell Animal Medical Center: Inside the Animal ER

Dr. Nick Trout, Surgeon at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston and Author of Tell Me Where It Hurts.

2008-11 (3/16/08)

Addressing the causes of hunger and poverty worldwide

Anna Lappe, Founder, Small Planet Fund

2008-10 (3/9/08)

Dealing With Language Discrimination

Lee Valentine, Language Rights Policy Director, Massachusetts English Plus Coalition

Text 4 Deaf

Kerry Thompson, Spokesperson for Text4Deaf Tracy Wemett, Text4Deaf Publicist. Please click here for transcript.

2008-09 (3/2/08)

Keeping the Promise: 2007 Massachusetts Child Care Voucher Study

Valora Washington, Principle Investigator of Keeping the Promise: 2007 Massachusetts Child Care Voucher Study, and Director of the Schott Fellowship at Cambridge College and Lesley University s Center for Children, Families and Public Policy. Mary Reed, Founder, President and CEO of Tartt s Day Care Centers Inc. and President of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Children s Foundation

A Guide to the Childcare System in Massachusetts

Lisa Breagy, Program Director of Community Care for Kids Pam Kuechler, Program Director of PACE Child Care Works

2008-08 (2/24/08)

The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

Seth Shulman, author of The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

Seeing With a Different Eye

Kathy, Curator of the traveling art exhibit, Seeing With a Different Eye, Asperger's Association of New England. Sharleene Hurst, Artist featured in Seeing With a Different Eye.

2008-7 (2/17/08)

Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art

Dr. John Silber, Former President and Chancellor of Boston University and author of Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art.

2008-06 (2/10/08)

The Struggle for Urban Orchards

Christine James, Executive Director of Earth Works and Ben Crouch, Urban Forestry Program Director of Earth Works.

The Nursing Shortage in Massachusetts

Nancy Hoffart, Chairperson for the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing at Northeastern University.

2008-05 (2/3/08)

Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival

Connie Chin, General Manager of the Ted Shawn Theater home to the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival in Beckett Massachusetts.

A Literary Map of Massachusetts

Sharon Shaloo, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

2008-04 (1/27/08)

Domestic Violence in the Immigrant Communities (Originally aired 10/21/07)

Jamie Ramola, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Carmelle Bonhometre, Domestic Violence Program, Association of Haitian Women.

Healthcare for Artists: Keeping a Pulse on the Artist Community (Originally aired 10/21/07)

Kathy Bitetti, Executive Director of the Artists Foundation and is also the director of the Lillian Immigrant Gallery at Emmanuel College

2008-03 (1/20/08)

The Art of Cooking For Couples

Sean Leonard, Director of Recreational Programs at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts and Jamie Nickerson, Instructor at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts.

Osteoporosis

Dr. Rami Rustum, Director of the Pain Management Center at Lawrence General Hospital

2008-02 (1/13/08)

Stepping Up Health

Kathy Cunningham, Senior Program Manager of the Boston Steps Program at the Boston Public Health Commission

Carbon Monoxide: The Invisible Danger

Colleen Longfellow, Education Coordinator of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention.

2008-1 (1/6/08)

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Eric Jay Dolan author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America