Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, March 30, 201803/30/2018

Making Amazing Kids Look & Feel Amazing

In Bill Newman

3/30: Noryn Resnick, Executive Director of Help Our Kids, along with two amazing young people from the foster care system.

Thursday, March 29, 201803/29/2018

Massie for Massiechusetts?

In Bill Newman

Wednesday, March 28, 201803/28/2018

The Mayor of New Orleans & His Profile In Courage

In Bill Newman

3/28: “Cool Films with Larry Hott” and political filmmaker, now political candidate, Kate Albright-Hanna; New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu whose new book is “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History.”

Tuesday, March 27, 201803/27/2018

Good Vibrations

In Bill Newman

3/27: “Your State U” with PHENOM founder Max Page; “Sex Matters” with sexologist Jane Fleishman.

Monday, March 26, 201803/26/2018

Compassion: Karuna in Rwanda

In Bill Newman

3/26: Olivia Dreier, Director of the Amherst-based Karuna Center for Peacebuilding on the reconciliation work in Rwanda, featured in this month’s National Geographic.

Saturday, March 24, 201803/24/2018

Western Mass Business Show 3.24.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

hear Ira speak with
ANGIE MONTALVO GREENE who, emerging from a bathhouse
on a 100° day in Japan, had their version of shaved ice, and knew she had to build a food truck and offer that at Western Mass fairs
and festivals, through her business, CHILL OUT. Hear how it is exciting, energizing, and scary. But also self- fulfilling, as her
growth plan includes teaching low-income college students
to run a food truck, in her growing business.

Saturday, March 24, 201803/24/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.24.18

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Larry Hott and I talk with Jim Kelly, director of the Covenant House for homeless youths in New Orleans. The shelter is the subject of a documentary by filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud. Check it out here:covenanthousenola.org/shelter-documentary/
We also get an update from Larry and Deb Krivoy, director of the 13th Annual Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival. Watch trailers and get film times here: pvjff.org
Arlene Akavian, professor emeritus and one of the founders of the Womens’ Studies Program at the Universty of Masachusetts at Amherst, on the #metoo movement.
Lillian Torres, la ponceña por excelencia, habla de los retos que enfrentan los boricuas al llegar a los EEUU a raíz del huracán María.
“Algún día volveré” by Natalia Muñoz

Friday, March 23, 201803/23/2018

LGBTQ in the era of T-R-U-M-P

In Bill Newman

3/23: Professor Lisa Stulberg, author of “LGBTQ Social Movements;” Olivia Dreier, Director of the Amherst-based Karuna Center for Peacebuilding –on the Center’s reconciliation program in Rwanda, featured in this month’s
National Geographic.

Thursday, March 22, 201803/22/2018

Listen To The 2018 NEF Spelling Bee

If you were smart enough to miss it live on the air, we bring you a podcast of three hours…

Thursday, March 22, 201803/22/2018

How Big Will Northampton Education Foundation’s Endowment Bee?

In Bill Newman

3/22: To bee or not to bee (the $1 million question) with Queen Bee Jeanne Hoose and NEF Board Member Megan Zinn; ranked choice voting –tonight’s presentation at Amherst College with Liz Popolo, Linda Castronovo and Andy Anderson; the Sci-Tech café on cosmic M &As with MHC prof Kathy Aidala; a very special Reverend and the Rabbi.

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