A public and global affairs radio show and podcast, brought to you by The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston; committed to student success in an equitable world, and broadcast exclusively on WUMB Radio. In depth public interest conversations include; inequality, urban issues, education in the 21st century, governance, foreign affairs, diversity, public service and policy careers, and more.
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Author and Activist Ellen Cassedy; Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie.
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Ellen Cassedy was a founder and longtime leader of 9 to 5, the national association of women office workers. Working 9 to 5 is her first-person account of this exciting movement, which began in the early 1970’s, mobilizing women across the country to organize for rights and respect on the job. The movement inspired Jane Fonda’s hit movie and Dolly …
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Leonce Ndikumana is a Burundian Professor of Economics and specialist in African economy development, macroeconomics, external debt and capital flight. He is particularly interested in the macro-economic policy and in Africa economy. He focuses his career on the causes of weak African economies, its consequences and solutions needed. He served as D…
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Part 1; African Economic Transformation in the 21st Century with Professsor Leonce Ndikumana..
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Leonce Ndikumana is a Burundian Professor of Economics and specialist in African economy development, macroeconomics, external debt and capital flight. He is particularly interested in the macro-economic policy and in Africa economy. He focuses his career on the causes of weak African economies, its consequences and solutions needed. He served as D…
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Deepening community partnerships, cultivating civic engagement, and fostering access, diversity, equity, and inclusion across higher education with Dr. Mary K. Grant, President of MassArt. Part 2.
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Dr. Mary K. Grant is a national leader in public higher education with more than 30 years of experience championing the arts, deepening community partnerships, cultivating civic engagement, and fistering access, diversity, equity, and inclusion across higher education. She is the President of Mass College of Art and Design. A McCormack Graduate Sch…
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Leadership change in Higher Education: from McCormack alum to MassArt President, with Dr. Mary K. Grant, Part 1.
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Dr. Mary K. Grant is a national leader in public higher education with more than 30 years of experience championing the arts, deepening community partnerships, cultivating civic engagement, and fostering access, diversity, equity, and inclusion across higher education. She is the President of Mass College of Art and Design. A McCormack Graduate Sch…
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Part 2 of our conversation with Adam Hinds, CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute of The US Senate, on governance and civil discourse.
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Senator Adam G. Hinds is an American politician. He currently serves as the CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. From 2017 to 2022 he represented the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden district the Massachusetts Senate. He attended Wesleyan University and then studied international law and negotiation at the…
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Part 1 of our conversation with Adam Hinds, CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute of The US Senate, on governance and civil discourse.
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Senator Adam G. Hinds is an American politician. He currently serves as the CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. From 2017 to 2022 he represented the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden district in the Massachusetts Senate. He attended Wesleyan University and then studied international law and negotiation at …
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An engaging talk with journalist and Supreme Court legal scholar Dahlia Lithwick, on women, politics, and The Supreme Court.
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Dahlia Lithwick is an award-winning journalist and author, and Senior Editor at Slate, having written their Supreme Court Dispatches and Jurisprudence columns since 1999. Lithwick also hosts Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. Lithwick earned her BA in English at Yale and her JD degree at Standford. S…
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Sumbul Siddiqui joins McCormack Speaks, the first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history, talking about Policy and Cambridge City.
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Sumbul Siddiqui is an American lawyer and politician, who served as the 77th mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Siddiqui was elected mayor in 2020 by the Cambridge City Council, after serving in the body for 3 years. She succeeded Marc C. McGovern in January 2020, becoming the first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history.…
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Part 2 of our conversation with distinguished professor Barry Bluestone, founder of policy schools in Boston: UMB and Northeastern.
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Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy from 1999 to 2015, and the founding dean of the School o…
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Part 1 of a conversation with distinguished professor Barry Bluestone, founder of policy schools in Boston: UMB and Northeastern.
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Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy from 1999 to 2015, and the founding dean of the School o…
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Part 2 of an in depth conversation with Tania Fernandes Anderson, including Boston City Council's Apologizing for Slavery Bill.
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Tania Fernandes Anderson was born in Cape Verde and age 10 she immigrated to Roxbury, MA., two places she says formed the foundation of her unwavering commitment to community. Councilor Anderson was elected to the Boston City Council in November 2021, becoming the first African immigrant and Muslim-American elected to the Boston City Council. She p…
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Part 1 of an in depth conversation with Tania Fernandes Anderson, including Boston City Council's Apologizing for Slavery Bill.
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Tania Fernandes Anderson was born in Cape Verde and age 10 she immigrated to Roxbury, MA., two places she says formed the foundation of her unwavering commitment to community. Councilor Anderson was elected to the Boston City Council in November 2021, becoming the first African immigrant and Muslim-American elected to the Boston City Council. She p…
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