Podcasts Archive | In Deep with Angie Coiro

Susan Fowler – Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_200418P.mp3 Show #266 | April 18, 2020 | Susan Fowler was born determined. From a life of childhood poverty she pushed her way to an Ivy League school. She swam upstream against misogynist Silicon Valley culture to land jobs in line with her energy and intellect. Then she blew it all wide open with a blog post in 2017, detailing the day-to-day sexism she'd had to confront as an engineer at Uber. That viral post, coupled with #MeToo, transformed both her own life and the halls of misogynist power. Fowler has capitalized on the phenomenon to advocate for equality, support, and fairness in Silicon Valley. She's worked for labor reforms, including a push to eliminate arbitration agreements. The New York Times cited Fowler’s "unique brand of courage, clarity of mind, and moral purpose" in hiring her as its technology opinion editor. Susan Fowler sat down with Angie Coiro to discuss her new book, Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice...

Conor Dougherty – Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_200404P.mp3 Show #265 | April 4, 2020 | Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. Angie sits down with New York Times economics reporter Conor Dougherty to discuss his new book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, a penetrating look into the crisis of housing in America.To embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/42" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio> ...

Diane Ravitch: Slaying Goliath – The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_200229P.mp3 Show #264 | February 29, 2020 | Privatized schools were sold to the American public as a cut above— an avenue to the best education, drawing from under-performing public schools that doomed children to lower standards. At the same time, says education authority Diane RavitchDiane Ravitch, Common Core was touted as the best route to at least basic educational success for all young students. Both, Ravitch says, have failed spectacularly. Privatization has turned schools into profit machines less concerned with student success than the bottom line. Public schools have been gutted in their wake. And Common Core has caused tremendous problems for students and teachers. Diane Ravitch served in education posts under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Her latest book, Slaying Goliath, takes on what she calls the "Disrupters," intent on promoting the privatization of our struggling education system. Unafraid of naming names, she cites the Koch brothers, the DeVos family, the Waltons (Walmart), Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

Kelly McGonigal: The Joy of Movement

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_200222P.mp3 Show #263 | February 22, 2020 | What if the key to feeling vividly alive and energetic in your body is closer than you think? No matter what your past experience with exercise has been—from finding it a chore to falling in love with a favorite activity—it is possible to find happiness and meaning through movement. Acclaimed Stanford research psychologist Kelly McGonigal, who once offered readers a transformative new approach to stress, now looks beyond the gym and around the world to find the secrets of joy in movement. To Tanzania, where one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world live; to a Julliard dance class for Parkinson’s sufferers; to London, where volunteers combine fitness with community service. Her new book The Joy of Movement draws on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology to illustrate the link between well-being and movement.To embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/40" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio>...

David Talbot: Between Heaven and Hell, the Story of my Stroke

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_200215P.mp3 Show #262 | February 15, 2020 | A deeply personal interview with David Talbot, bestselling author of The Devil's Chessboard, Season of the Witch, and numerous others. After Talbot suffered a debilitating stroke, the journalist and historian turned inward, and came away with shifting priorities and a touching, honest, and suprisingly uplifting examination of mortality.Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My StrokeTo embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/3z" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio> ...

Steve Inskeep: Imperfect Union, Jesse and John Fremont

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_200208P.mp3 Show #261 | February 8, 2020 | With an election year upon us, we are reminded that we have been through this before. The United States in the mid-1840s, for example, was a country in the middle of a major transformation, pushing its boundaries to extend from coast to coast to claim what many in that era asserted was America's Manifest Destiny. A new book by NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep tells us this story through the tale of a political power couple who personified the ambition of that era. His book, Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War, finds some similarities with today's political situation in the United States. Tamim Ansary and Angie Coiro discuss the price and the prospect of this singularly connected moment in human history. To embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/3y" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio> ...

Tamim Ansary: The Invention of Yesterday

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_191207P.mp3 Show #259 | December 7, 2019 | Thought leader Tamim Ansary returns for a discussion of his sweeping new nonfiction work, The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000 Year History of Human Culture, Conflict and Connection. Tamim Ansary sprang into prominence with Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. Now he turns that scrutiny to the histories of smaller groups of people into today's globally connected, fully-interwoven human populace, and discovers something prescient: even before disparate human cultures ever met, their innovations always influenced one another… and now that influence is only speeding up. The world's major cultural movements— Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Nomadism—have, he says, reached a new interrelationship inevitable in the march of human history. We are in a new time of revolutionary reinvention, as differing cultures overlap and transform rapidly due to global connectedness. What does this new proximity portend? Tamim Ansary and Angie Coiro discuss the price and the prospect of this singularly connected moment in...

Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein: College Behind Bars

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_191116P.mp3 Show #258 | November 16, 2019 | Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein examine the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women trying to earn college degrees, in their groundbreaking film College Behind Bars: Documenting The Bard Prison Initiative's Impact On Prisoners. Novick and Botstein, long-time associates of legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, invested years into filming inside the New York State prison system. College Behind Bars airs on PBS November 25 and 26, 2019. To embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/3v" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio> ...

Charles Postel: Inequality, An American Dilemma

http://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_191109P.mp3 Show #257 | November 9, 2019 | Charles Postel's new book, Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896, compares and analyses today's wealth and power disparities in light of their origins in the Gilded Age of a century ago. Charles Postel, Professor of History at San Francisco State Univerity, is also the author of The Populist Vision.To embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/3u" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio> ...

Cyrus Grace Dunham: A Year Without A Name

https://audio.indeepradio.com/r/InDeep_AngieCoiro_191102P.mp3 Show #256 | November 2, 2019 | For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations--lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman--until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable. Moving between Grace and Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about who we are and how we are constituted. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely theirs, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved queer coming of age story. To embed an audio player with this podcast on your site, use code snippet: <audio src="https://indeepradio.com/urls/3t" type="audio/mp3" controls="controls"></audio> ...