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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Are Natural Disasters Really So Natural?
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The days of catastrophic flooding, the hours of devastating hurricane winds, the minutes of terrifying earthquakes--Mother Nature wreaks havoc. But hu...
Paola Santana Will Hack Your Brain and Fix the Government
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneur Paola Santana is building a business that makes it easier for government workers to do their jobs and to support local economies. She des...
Slinging Mud and Laughs with Jen Igartua
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Igartua helped create the irreverent political board game MUD to encourage all of us to think deep about politics and blow off some steam in the p...
He's the Glue Binding Brainiacs Fighting Covid and Cancer
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Help me help those who help.” Engineer and author Andreu Veà started the group CovidWarriors to organize people with diverse talents around the ...
She's Crushing California's Wine Industry
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amelia Morán Ceja landed in Napa Valley in 1967 when her vineyard manager father brought his family from Jalisco, Mexico, to wine country in El ...
The Journalist Bringing the Art of Bilingual Storytelling to Students
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Graciela Mochkofsky loves a challenge. The Argentine author and academic launched and runs the first bilingual journalism master’s program ...
A Poopologist Takes on Covid
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The answer to stopping the spread of Covid could be in your poop. Computational biologist Mariana Matus helped start Biobot Analytics in 2017 to find ...
The Journalist Behind the Good News We All Need
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
People around the world turn to Michelle Figueroa's Instagram to find inspiration in the human spirit. The Colombian-American journalist puts a f...
Luz Urrutia Finds Money for Entrepreneurs Who Need It Most
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
She’s made it her life’s work to finance the businesses of immigrants, women, and other entrepreneurs whose needs aren’t met by traditional bank...
Alan Weisman: Friend of Homo Sapiens
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Science journalist Alan Weisman’s prescient 2007 book "The World Without Us" described what would happen to nature if humans suddenly ceased to exis...
The Inimitable Luis Alberto Urrea
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No one conveys the suffering, courage, joy, and spirit of those who dwell in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands better than Pulitzer finalist and master stor...
Making Movies in Paris (and Beyond)
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Hachuel weaves in and out of Spanish, English, and French constantly as assistant director on Hollywood blockbusters and other films made in Fr...
A Medical Student Fights Ebola in Congo
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nico Fesser had been in Africa before. This trip was different. We speak to the second-year medical student about his work in the Democratic Republic ...
A Powerhouse on the Front Lines of Women’s Health Care
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the director of maternal-fetal medicine at a public hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., obstetrician Rebecca Shiffman sees it all. She says women shou...
Lau Noah’s Lessons in Creativity
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Enchanting singer-songwriter Lau Noah transports listeners to medieval times and beyond with her distinctive, bard-like music. In this interview-conce...
A Generation NAFTA News Anchor
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Politicized humanitarian crises. Gerrymandering. Insults hurled at Spanish speakers. Univision news anchor Enrique Acevedo explains how he covers resi...
Knight’s Alberto Ibargüen Takes on the Local News Crisis
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alberto Ibargüen pulls no punches: “We do not have an informed citizenry” and fact and opinion are being conflated, he says. As president and CEO...
An Urban Beekeeper Tackles the Die-Off Crisis
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The busy work of honeybees makes much of our food supply possible. But these bees are dying at alarming rates. Carolina Zuniga-Aisa, co-founder of Isl...
A Chilean Journalist Seduced by American Pop Culture
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Raised on Hollywood movies and celebrity magazines, Manuel Santelices yearned for a life of excitement and glamour. Nearly 30 years ago, he made the m...
David Broza Is Giving Away 1 Million Guitars
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary singer-songwriter David Broza is known to his fans as Israel’s Bruce Springsteen. He’s a humanitarian activist and a prolific musician w...
Puerto Rico’s de Facto Ambassador Dreams Big
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chef, entrepreneur, designer, public speaker — Manolo López is all those things. But this 30-year-old Puerto Rican describes himself as an unoffici...
Explaining “The Silence of Others”
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What if your mother was buried in a mass grave and the government did not allow you to rebury her? Or the infamous torturer who beat you lived down th...
Driverless Buses in the Mountains of Fire
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Engineer Ricardo Chicharro is leading a driverless bus project that aims to transport tourists to see the otherworldly Mountains of Fire in Timanfaya ...
Manhattan's Favorite Bartender
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marcelo Hernández, the Ecuadorian bartender at Grand Central Station's legendary Oyster Bar, shares a few secrets about New York City, the lost art o...
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Puerto Rican journalist Luis Trelles about his deep investigation into the discrepancies in the official death count in the aftermath of...
The Woman Disrupting Mixed Martial Arts
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Hernández is a leader and a fighter, jumping from the top ranks of Spanish language media and landing in the mixed martial arts (MMA) arena. I...
Yo-Yo Ma on the Rio Grande
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why is cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach on the banks of the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo along the U.S.-Mexico border, and why are poets and environmentalists ta...
Reinventing Higher Education
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence isn't replacing anyone's job in education just yet, says Santiago Iñiguez, president of IE University, one of Europe's most h...
Laughter in a Philippines Landfill
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Children, some as young as 5 years old, live at a garbage dumpsite on the Philippine island of Mindanao. When the rooster crows, they show up at the d...
Franco, Fascism, and Spain Today
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Spain plans to remove the remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen (a controversial memorial site) and rebury them e...
Reshaping the Latino Narrative
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Latinos make up roughly 18 percent of the U.S. population, yet remain marginalized in many ways. We speak to media change makers Maria Hinojosa and Gu...
Latinx Superheroes
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are we in a golden age for Latinx superheroes and comics? Ricardo Padilla thinks so, and he should know–he co-founded the annual Latino Comics Expo....
Art, Gun Violence, Identity, and Activism
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artists Manuel Oliver and Julia Santos Solomon are using their work to spur change. Manuel is the father of Joaquin “Guac”...
The Polymath Bagpiper
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cristina Pato is a master gaita player and classical pianist from Galicia, Spain, who has been bringing cultures together with her music for two decad...
When Foreign Students Bypass the U.S.
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many foreign students who remain stateside after graduating from U.S. universities make incalculable contributions to the economy, says Ángel Cabrera...
Why We See What We See
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Turns out artists and magicians can teach scientists more than a thing or two about perception and cognition. We chat with Susana Martínez-Conde, an ...
Money Heist’s Alba Flores
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alba Flores brings the badass bank robber character Nairobi to life in "Money Heist," a Netflix blockbuster that’s been earning international acclai...
A Daughter and Mother Volunteer at the Border
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Families fleeing gang violence and death threats in Central America are seeking asylum in the United States. One of the people helping them is Minneap...
Dr. Q's Brain Odyssey
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We journey to the frontier of brain science with Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., a leading brain researcher and chair of neurologic surgery at the M...
Criminal Justice Reform
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The push to make the criminal justice system fairer is gaining speed at the federal and state levels. Dr. Carlos Valle, a psychiatrist who works at Du...
The Homeless World Cup
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mexico City's Zócalo hosts teams from around the globe for the 2018 Homeless World Cup. They may be struggling at the moment, but these players are g...
Natural Food Fever
14 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Food brings us together. Stories entertain us. The idea of authentic recipes and nutrition motivates us. A wave of entrepreneurs is going back to thei...
Influencers
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The term “influencer” means different things to different people. One thing, though, is clear: An influencer is probably taking a selfie in your f...
How José Andrés Helped Feed Puerto Rico
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Spanish-born chef José Andrés followed, by Humvee, by helicopter, by boat–whatever it took t...