Podcasts Archive | Page 19 of 31 | In Deep with Angie Coiro

A San Francisco High School Succeeds Against the Odds

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150905A_H1.mp3 Show #100 Hour 1 | September 5, 2015 | Mother Jones education reporter Kristina Rizga presents the hopeful tale of one of the nation’s most diverse public schools innovating against the odds. Mission High School has created engaging and effective classrooms, even while being classified as “low-performing” and struggling against closure and test scores. Guests: Kristina Rizga has been writing about youth and student issues for over a decade, most recently as an education reporter for "Mother Jones." Her writing has been published in "The Nation," "The American Prospect," and Global Post, among other publications. Prior to "Mother Jones," Rizga was the executive editor of "WireTap, "an award-winning political magazine for young adults. She is also co-founder and reporter at the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism, based in her homeland, Latvia. She lives with her husband Mike Stern in San Francisco. Permalink for this podcast here....

Speaking for the Dead with Authors Dr. Judy Melinek, M.D. and T.J. Mitchell

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150905A_H2.mp3 Show #100 Hour 2 | September 5, 2015 | Speaking for the dead | Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. Working Stiff is the fearless memoir of the young forensic pathologist’s “rookie season” as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases—hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex—that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Guests: Dr. Judy Melinek, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard University. She trained at UCLA in medicine and pathology, graduating in 1996. Her training at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York is the subject of her memoir, Working Stiff, which she co-wrote with her husband, T.J. Mitchell. Currently, Dr. Melinek is CEO of PathologyExpert Inc., and works as a forensic pathologist in Alameda county. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture on anatomic and forensic pathology and she has been consulted as a...

Defining Gender in Today’s Society

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150829A_H1.mp3 Show #99 Hour 1 | August 29, 2015 | What is gender? Angie asks about a recent campaign that established gender neutral toy sections at Target, a transgender death certificate law passed last year in California, and that Florida now offers gender neutral marriage licenses. Guests: Diane Ehrensaft is Director of Mental Health and founding member of UCSF's Child and Adolescent Gender Center. Dr. Ehrensaft also has a private developmental and clinical psychology practice in Oakland. Her work focuses on child development, gender, parenting, and parent-child relationships. Ja'Nina Walker is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Walker is a developmental psychologist focusing on identity development for Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescents and emerging adults. Permalink for this podcast here....

Novelist Joshua Mohr explores All this Life

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150829A_H2.mp3 Show #99 Hour 2 | August 29, 2015 | An ensemble novel that bounces between storylines as fast as the video and photo uploads of Mohr's characters. Guests: Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including “Damascus,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, as well as “Termite Parade,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” was recently published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Fight for 15 – Minimum Wage, Living Wage, and Labor

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150822A_H1.mp3 Show #98 Hour 1 | August 22, 2015 | An insightful panel discussion exploring economic and labor policies that impact inequality, minimum wage, and the living wage. Guests: Jason E. Taylor is the Jerry and Felicia Campbell Chair Professor of Economics at Central Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1998 and was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia between 1998 and 2003. He has been a professor at CMU since 2003 and joined the Mackinac Center's Board of Scholars in 2014. Cory Wolbach serves on Palo Alto's City Council where he's a member of the Policy and Services Committee and also serves as a Library Advisory Commission Liaison and Palo Alto Housing Corp. Liaison. He’s lived in Palo Alto for over 20 years, including graduating from Palo Alto's Gunn High School. Wolbach has a B. A. from University of California, San Diego in Political Science/International Relations. Bradley Cleveland is an urban planning specialist with particular...

From Child Abuse Victim to Mother and Voiceover Actor as told to David Shields

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150822A_H2.mp3 Show #98 Hour 2 | August 22, 2015 | A Huffington Post "Moving, Must Read Memoir" of 2015, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields changes the way we think and talk about trauma by addressing it straight on. Kirkus Reviews says the book is “an insightful, thought-provoking probe into the impulses of human desire.” Guests: David Shields is the author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications); The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (a New York Times bestseller); Black Planet (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and, due out next year, War Is Beautiful. His personal, insightful I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, co-written with former student Caleb Powell, has been adapted by James Franco into a film that premiered in April 2015 at Vancouver's DOXA documentary film...

Learning the World: Society and Politics in YA Literature

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150815A_H1.mp3 Show #97 Hour 1 | August 15, 2015 | Sharon Levin's been reviewing children's literature for 18 years. She founded and runs the Bay Area Children's Literature List. Her biggest passion, outside her family, is getting books into the hands of children and teens. Her blog Life, Literature, Laughter is available on the link below. Guest: Sharon Levin, YA Lit Reviewer and Blogger. Permalink to this podcast here....

Novelized examination of Corporate Personhood

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150815A_H2.mp3 Show #97 Hour 2 | August 15, 2015 | In her novel The Fifth Letter, Dr. Vivian Carpenter shows how Corporate Personhood is an evolving—and dangerous—threat to our individual basic rights. An accomplished scholar whose previous research was founded by The National Science Foundation and The Ford Foundation, Dr. Carpenter channels her platform to the U.S. Citizens through a riveting account of what could happen if this issue stays under the radar. Book description: What happens when a liberal Black female justice of the Supreme Court is caught between her conscience and the call of political expedience? Associate Supreme Court Justice Katherine Helena Ross, the first black female on the U.S. Supreme Court, gains the power to remove a conservative justice from the bench. Her quandary brings her face to face with a most urgent moral and judicial issue: who is a person with inalienable legal rights in America? Justice Ross struggles to do what is right, as her mother’s 1940s...

Trophy Hunting in the Crosshairs

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150808_H1_noclock.mp3 Show #96 Hour 1 | August 08, 2015 | The poaching of Zimbabwe's lion king Cecil has prompted worldwide outrage and a new focus on the practice of trophy hunting. Does money from big-game sport hunters actually forward the cause of conservation? Is the controversy another nine-days wonder, or could it have lasting effect on hunting laws and practices? In Deep takes a long look at Cecil's real legacy. Guests: Amy Gotliffe, Director of Conservation, Oakland Zoo. Craig Packer, author: "Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns," University of Chicago Press, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, and Director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Permalink for this podcast here....

The Haight, songwriter Bert Berns, and more from culture critic Joel Selvin

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_150808A_H2.mp3 Show #96 Hour 2 | August 08, 2015 | The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution Joel Selvin's written and curated an indispensable gallery of legendary photographer Jim Marshall’s Sixties-era San Francisco photography. The counter-culture movement of the 1960s is one of the most endlessly examined moments of the twentieth century. Widely regarded as the cradle of revolution, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury grew from a small neighborhood to a worldwide phenomenon—a concept that extends far beyond the boundaries of the intersection itself. Jim Marshall visually chronicled this area as perhaps no one else did. Renowned for his portraits of some of the greatest musicians of the era, Marshall covered Haight-Ashbury with the same unique eye that allowed him to amass a staggering archive of music photography and Grammy recognition for his work. In this one-of-a-kind book, the full extent of Marshall’s Haight-Ashbury photography is stunningly displayed. Written by bestselling music journalist Selvin, the story behind each of these incomparable images is disclosed through...