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Social Justice & Activism episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to activists, environmental organizations, indigenous groups, artists, writers & others who have devoted their life to making a difference.

Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EARTHDAY.ORG, Neil Gaiman, UNESCO, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Seliger, Acropolis Museum, Hilary Mantel, Songwriters Hall of Fame, George Saunders, The New Museum, Lemony Snicket, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries, Joe Mantegna, PETA, Greenpeace, EPA, Morgan Library & Museum, and many others.

The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.



Episode Date
Building a Vital Earth for Everyone with President of Environmental Defense Fund’s EDF Action DAVID KIEVE
Aug 26, 2025
The Poetics & Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde &Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College w/ DANICA SAVONICK
Aug 26, 2025
Art Without Borders - RAJIV MENON'S Vision for South Asian Art
Aug 20, 2025
What Do We Do with the One Life We’re Given? - Scientists, Writers, Philosophers & Changemakers Share their Stories
Aug 13, 2025
Every Monument Will Fall - DAN HICKS Explores Remembering & Forgetting
Aug 10, 2025
From 'Bee: Wild' to the 'Kiss the Ground' Regenerative Agriculture Documentary Trilogy - Highlights
Aug 10, 2025
All About Bees, Soil & Regeneration with Documentary Filmmaker REBECCA TICKELL
Aug 05, 2025
Revolutionizing Investment Strategies with Carbon Tracker - MARK CAMPANALE - Highlights
Jul 29, 2025
Can Finance Revolutionize Climate Action? with MARK CAMPANALE, Founder of Carbon Tracker
Jul 29, 2025
Exploring  Organic, Biodynamic & Regenerative Agriculture with LOUIS DE JAEGER - Highlights
Jul 26, 2025
SOS: Save Our Soils: How regenerative food & farming will save your health & the planet w/ LOUIS DE JAEGER
Jul 26, 2025
Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
Jul 25, 2025
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN - Highlights
Jul 23, 2025
Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA - Highlights
Jul 16, 2025
Disspelling the Myths & Correcting the Record About Haitian Migrants w/ GABRIELLE APOLLON & POOJA BHATIA
Jul 11, 2025
The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON
Jul 11, 2025
On Writing, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power with Author VIET THANH NGUYEN
Jul 09, 2025
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072
Jul 04, 2025
A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future w/ MONICA FERIA-TINTA
Jun 29, 2025
Constitutional Collapse & the Possibilities of a New Democracy w/ AZIZ RANA
Jun 27, 2025
Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America From Around the Globe w/ NATASHA HAKIMI ZAPATA
Jun 26, 2025
THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI
Jun 22, 2025
Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights
Jun 19, 2025
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space with IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR.
Jun 10, 2025
"We're connected to the lives of every creature on the planet" EIREN CAFFALL - Highlights
May 29, 2025
All the Water in the World with Writer & Musician EIREN CAFFALL
May 28, 2025
On Motherhood & Memory, Trauma & Survival with Author HALA ALYAN - Highlights
May 25, 2025
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home - Author HALA ALYAN on Motherhood & Memory, Trauma & Survival
May 23, 2025
Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
May 16, 2025
Exploring Trauma, Healing & the Creative Process with Author LIZ MOORE - Highlights
May 01, 2025
Family, Addiction & Overcoming Trauma - LIZ MOORE on Long Bright River starring AMANDA SEYFRIED
Apr 30, 2025
PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights
Apr 24, 2025
On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH
Apr 23, 2025
OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE - Environmentalists, Artists, Scientists & Earth Defenders Share their Stories
Apr 22, 2025
On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights
Apr 11, 2025
The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE
Apr 11, 2025
Why is there so much conflict over people, land and resources? AUDREA LIM - Highlights
Mar 29, 2025
Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty & Climate Chaos with AUDREA LIM
Mar 28, 2025
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
Mar 21, 2025
What is Deliberative Democracy & How Can it Serve Society? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN
Mar 20, 2025
Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education with JESSE HAGOPIAN
Mar 17, 2025
Feminism in the 21st Century
Mar 13, 2025
The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence & the Sociopathology of Elon Musk
Mar 12, 2025
"Carbon is really a flow that animates everything we love, everything that's alive on this planet." - PAUL HAWKEN - Highlights
Mar 05, 2025
CARBON: The Book of Life with PAUL HAWKEN
Mar 05, 2025
On the Significance of the Recent Elections in Germany: ADRIAN DAUB on Rushing to the Right
Mar 02, 2025
Archipelago of Resettlement & the New Southern Question with EVYN LE ESPIRITU GANDHI
Feb 28, 2025
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” OMAR EL AKKAD on The Deadly Consequences of the Liberal Conscience
Feb 28, 2025
TAO LEIGH GOFFE on Poetics, Poesis & Un-making the Climate Crisis
Feb 17, 2025
The Enduring Power of Palestinian Transnational Identity & Activism w/ MAHA NASSER & KARAM DANA
Feb 17, 2025
The Art of Fiction with Author, Musician, Satirist T.C. BOYLE - Highlights
Feb 13, 2025
A Life in Writing with T.C. BOYLE
Feb 13, 2025
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition with MAYA SCHENWAR & KIM WILSON
Feb 03, 2025
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Jan 28, 2025
From Spy Thrillers to Police Dramas w/ Writer, Creator, Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY
Jan 28, 2025
Behind the Scenes of The Rookie & The Recruit w/ Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY
Jan 28, 2025
Are We Witnessing the Decline of the American Empire? RICHARD D. WOLFF - Highlights
Jan 27, 2025
Understanding Capitalism with RICHARD D. WOLFF - Co-founder of Democracy at Work
Jan 27, 2025
Who Defends the Defenders? UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders MICHEL FORST
Jan 19, 2025
Why is it a Crime to Protest the Destruction of Our Planet? with MICHEL FORST
Jan 19, 2025
How to change our extractive mindset to a regenerative mindset? PAUL SHRIVASTAVA - Highlights
Jan 14, 2025
The Club of Rome & The Limits to Growth w/ Co-President PAUL SHRIVASTAVA
Jan 11, 2025
How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together: Conversation w/ DEAN SPADE - Highlights
Jan 10, 2025
LOVE in a F*cked-Up World: DEAN SPADE on How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together
Jan 08, 2025
Building Worlds Beyond Modernity’s Double Fracture: A Discussion with Azucena Castro & Malcom Ferdinand
Jan 06, 2025
Shaping Iranian Diasporic Identities in Times of Crisis & Change: A Conversation with Persis Karim & Roya Ahmadi
Jan 06, 2025
The Dialectic is in the Sea: A Conversation with Christen A. Smith on the Work of Black Feminist Beatrix Nascimento
Jan 06, 2025
Can We Redefine Our Relationship with Nature? Scientists, Writers & Activists Share Solutions
Dec 27, 2024
How Do We Protect Democracy? Writers, Philosophers & Thought Leaders Speak Out
Dec 24, 2024
Palestinian Poetry Reveals the Truth Institutions Silence w/ HUDA FAKHREDDINE & ANTHONY ALESSANDRINI
Dec 23, 2024
Art, Community & Connection - Filmmakers, Musicians & Artists discuss their Creative Process
Dec 16, 2024
Voices for the Planet: Scientists, Activists, Farmers & Filmmakers Speak Out
Dec 16, 2024
Elon Musk, Putin's Russia, Murdoch's Fox News: How Billionaires Shape Our World with DARRYL CUNNINGHAM
Dec 13, 2024
JULIAN LENNON on Art, Empathy & Creativity - Highlights
Dec 02, 2024
Life’s Fragile Moments with JULIAN LENNON - Photographer, Musician, Documentary Filmmaker
Dec 02, 2024
What Does It Mean to Live a Good Life? Artists, Writers, Visionaries & Educators Share their Stories
Nov 06, 2024
Activists, Scientists, Writers & Educators on Regenerating Earth’s Ecosystems & Environmental Justice
Nov 04, 2024
COSTS OF WAR: One Year Later—The True Cost of Israel’s War on Gaza & the West Bank
Nov 03, 2024
The Power of Writing To Shape Our World w/ Ada Limón, Jericho Brown, Neil Gaiman, E.J. Koh, Marge Piercy & Max Stossel
Nov 01, 2024
Environmental Justice, Human Flourishing & Navigating the Climate Crisis
Oct 31, 2024
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: A Conversation with Shourideh Molavi
Oct 30, 2024
On Abolition Sanctuary & Environmental Activism from Below
Oct 27, 2024
The New Indonesian Regime & Revitalizing the Decolonial Critique
Oct 20, 2024
Democracy & Economic Inequality w/ Philosopher ARASH ABIZADEH - Highlights
Oct 11, 2024
Democracy at a Crossroads: Exploring Modern Political Challenges w/ Philosopher ARASH ABIZADEH
Oct 11, 2024
Social Justice, Political Engagement & the Growth Dilemma w/ Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND
Oct 04, 2024
The Human Smart City: Balancing Ecology & Economy with CARLOS MORENO - Highlights
Oct 03, 2024
The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time & Our Planet with CARLOS MORENO
Oct 03, 2024
Volunteers to Stop the Destruction of Palestinian Villages & Homes
Sep 23, 2024
How Can Museums Stay Relevant & Engage with Communities? - Highlights - STEPHEN REILY
Sep 11, 2024
The Future of Museums - STEPHEN REILY, Founding Director of Remuseum on Transforming Cultural Spaces
Sep 11, 2024
Wetlands, Methane & Restoring Earth’s Garden of Eden with EUAN NISBET
Aug 30, 2024
How can journalism make people care about crises & create solutions? - NICHOLAS KRISTOF - Highlights
Aug 26, 2024
Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Aug 26, 2024
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science with RENÉE BERGLAND
Aug 20, 2024
Germany's Postwar Legacy: Lessons for Today's Crises - Highlights - FRANK TRENTMANN
Aug 15, 2024
Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 with FRANK TRENTMANN
Aug 14, 2024
How can music disrupt oppression & bring about social change? - Highlights - JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN
Aug 06, 2024
The Architecture of Oppression with JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN
Aug 06, 2024
The SDGs & UN Summit of the Future - Highlights - GUILLAUME LAFORTUNE
Jul 31, 2024
How Can We Unite 193 Countries for a Sustainable Future? - GUILLAUME LAFORTUNE - VP, UN SDSN, Paris
Jul 31, 2024
PRIYAMVADA GOPAL & FRANÇOISE VERGÈS on the Recent Elections in Britain & France
Jul 26, 2024
How Do Utopian Visions Shape Our Reality & Future? - Highlights - S. D. CHROSTOWSKA
Jul 25, 2024
Utopia in the Age of Survival with S. D. CHROSTOWSKA
Jul 24, 2024
Climate Change, Mental Health & Fighting for a Better Future - Highlights - CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG
Jul 19, 2024
The Mind, Climate Change & Community Resilience with CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG
Jul 19, 2024
How and when will we transition to a clean energy future? - Highlights - RICHARD BLACK
Jul 16, 2024
The Future of Energy - RICHARD BLACK - Director, Policy & Strategy, Ember - Fmr. BBC Environment Correspondent
Jul 15, 2024
The Long Tradition of American Jewish Critiques of Israel & Their Suppression
Jul 11, 2024
Making Impactful Films with Oscar & Emmy-winning Director SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY - Highlights
Jul 05, 2024
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG: Woman in Charge w/ Oscar-winning Director SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY
Jul 04, 2024
What is Behind the Devastating War & Famine in Sudan? - Dr. Osman Hamdan & Umniya Najaer
Jul 02, 2024
What Do the June 2024 Elections in India Mean? with Angana Chatterji & Siddhartha Deb
Jul 01, 2024
Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love with REBECCA VILKOMERSON & RABBI ALISSA WISE
Jun 21, 2024
PETA Founder INGRID NEWKIRK turns 75: A Lifetime of Animal Advocacy
Jun 21, 2024
Resisting Fascism & Ecological Collapse with Writer-Organizer-Activist CHRIS CARLSSON
Jun 20, 2024
How Can We End the Climate Crisis in One Generation? - Highlights - PAUL HAWKEN
Jun 07, 2024
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation with PAUL HAWKEN
Jun 07, 2024
How Will Our Cities, Communities & Country Cope with Climate Migration - Highlights - ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
May 31, 2024
On The Move: The Overheating Earth & the Uprooting of America with ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
May 31, 2024
How Can Music Heal Trauma & Foster Identity? - Highlights - MATTIA MAURÉE
May 29, 2024
Exploring the Sensory World of Autism, ADHD & Non-Binary Artists with MATTIA MAURÉE
May 29, 2024
Apocalyptic Optimism: How We Can We Save Ourselves from the Climate Crisis? - Highlights - DANA FISHER
May 24, 2024
Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action - DANA FISHER
May 24, 2024
Working to Restore: Harnessing the Power of Business to Heal the Earth - Highlights - ESHA CHHABRA
May 20, 2024
How can Regenerative Business Help Heal the Earth? - ESHA CHHABRA
May 20, 2024
How to Protect Bookstores and Why - Highlights - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
May 15, 2024
What Lies Ahead for Bookstores in the Age of Generative AI? - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
May 15, 2024
Humanity's Deadly Shadow: The Toll on Birds and Wildlife - Highlights - BEN GOLDFARB
May 10, 2024
How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet with BEN GOLDFARB
May 10, 2024
Feminism, Resistance & the Global South - Highlights - INTAN PARAMADITHA
Apr 25, 2024
Travel, Literature & Identity with INTAN PARAMADITHA - Author of The Wandering
Apr 25, 2024
Voices of the Earth: Reflections on Nature, Humanity & Climate Change
Apr 24, 2024
How does a changing climate affect our minds, brains & bodies? - Highlights - CLAYTON ALDERN
Apr 16, 2024
How climate change is making us sick, angry & anxious - CLAYTON ALDERN - Neuroscientist turned Eco-Journalist
Apr 16, 2024
There’s another side to every war. Satire, War & Hollywood - Co-creator DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer
Apr 16, 2024
DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer with Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Park Chan-wook
Apr 15, 2024
JEFFREY SACHS & NOURA ERAKAT on Possible Futures for Palestine
Apr 14, 2024
Imagining a New Left Internationalism Outside the Legacies of the Settler State - SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE
Apr 08, 2024
How has travel contributed to the ecological degradation of the planet? - Highlights - MICHAEL CRONIN
Apr 03, 2024
Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene w/ MICHAEL CRONIN - Author, Prof. of Culture, Literature & Translation
Apr 02, 2024
Black Geographics with CAMILLA HAWTHORNE - SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE
Mar 29, 2024
How to Live a Good a Life - Stoic Wisdom & the Founding Fathers - Highlights - JEFFREY ROSEN
Mar 26, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness - JEFFREY ROSEN - President & CEO of the National Constitution Center
Mar 26, 2024
Creating Safe Spaces: ITA O’BRIEN & the Art of Intimacy Coordination - Highlights
Mar 22, 2024
Intimacy Coordinator ITA O’BRIEN on I May Destroy You, Sex Education & Creating Safe Spaces
Mar 22, 2024
The Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights
Mar 19, 2024
Exploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS III
Mar 19, 2024
Revolutionizing Sustainability: BERTRAND PICCARD's Path to a Cleaner Planet - Highlights
Mar 14, 2024
Beyond the Horizon: Pioneering Green Aviation with BERTRAND PICCARD - Aviator, Explorer, Environmentalist
Mar 14, 2024
Who were the Neanderthals? - Highlights - DR. LUDOVIC SLIMAK
Mar 12, 2024
Will human efficiency destroy the planet and us? - DR. LUDOVIC SLIMAK - Author of The Naked Neanderthal
Mar 12, 2024
Seeing the Life of Jesus through the eyes of his Mother: MACIEJ HEN - Award-winning Author & Filmmaker
Mar 05, 2024
The Tale of a Wall: A Palestinian Prisoner’s Devastating Memoir
Mar 04, 2024
The Art of Bringing Stories to Life - Highlights - LISA EDELSTEIN
Mar 01, 2024
LISA EDELSTEIN - From Acting to Directing, Writing & Visual Art
Mar 01, 2024
What does the future hold for our late-stage capitalist society with mega-corps controlling everything? - Highlights - KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI
Feb 27, 2024
Comics, Music, Ethics & AI: KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon Man
Feb 27, 2024
Reshaping Our World: Climate Change, Education, Mental Health & Advocacy for Nature
Feb 26, 2024
Songs of Nature - Musicians, Writers, Ecologists, Philosophers on the Mysteries of the Natural World
Feb 25, 2024
Climate Education: Does Healing the Planet Begin in the Classroom? - BRYCE COON - Director of Education - EarthDay.ORG
Feb 21, 2024
KATHLEEN ROGERS - President of EarthDay.ORG - Planet vs. Plastics Campaign 2024
Feb 20, 2024
The Unseen Invasion of Microplastics in Our Lives - KATHLEEN ROGERS - President of EarthDay.ORG
Feb 16, 2024
Forty years of Bringing LGBTQ+ Stories to the Screen - Highlights - ALAN POUL
Feb 15, 2024
ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director - Tokyo Vice - Six Feet Under - Tales of the City - My So-Called Life
Feb 15, 2024
How can we improve animal-human relationships? - Highlights - POORVA JOSHIPURA
Feb 07, 2024
POORVA JOSHIPURA - Senior VP, PETA UK - Author of Survival at Stake: How Our Treatment of Animals is Key to Human Existence
Feb 07, 2024
What Does the Recent ICJ Finding with Regard to Israel’s War in Gaza Mean?
Jan 31, 2024
How can we develop AI systems that are more respectful, ethical, and sustainable? - Highlights - DR. SASHA LUCCIONI
Jan 31, 2024
DR. SASHA LUCCIONI - Founding Member Climate Change AI - Climate Lead & AI Researcher - Hugging Face
Jan 31, 2024
How can enlightened self-interest advance social equity & climate action? - Highlights - DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR
Jan 30, 2024
DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR - Fmr. European Chair for Sustainable Development & Climate Transition - Sciences Po
Jan 30, 2024
Artists, Activists & Anarchists Seize Wetlands from the French Republic: We Learn How
Jan 23, 2024
How can we reverse biodiversity loss and restore our ecosystems? - Highlights - THOMAS 
CROWTHER
Jan 17, 2024
THOMAS CROWTHER - Ecologist - Co-chair of the Board for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - Founder of Restor
Jan 17, 2024
PETER DITLEVSEN - Professor of Physics, Ice, Climate & Earth at the Niels Bohr Institute
Jan 16, 2024
Does having too many choices make us unhappy? - Highlights - DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ
Jan 12, 2024
DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ - Author of The Paradox of Choice & Why We Work
Jan 12, 2024
KOHEI SAITO on Degrowth Communism & the Need for Radical Democracy
Jan 11, 2024
SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE: BEN FRANTA on Weaponizing Economics - Big Oil, Economic Consultants & Climate Policy Delay
Jan 09, 2024
Genocide and Beyond: A Conversation with OMER BARTOV & PENNY GREEN
Jan 06, 2024
What’s it like to film a supernatural thriller in darkness at minus 17 degrees? - Highlights - FLORIAN HOFFMEISTER
Jan 04, 2024
FLORIAN HOFFMEISTER - Cinematographer - True Detective: Night Country starring Jodie Foster & Kali Reis
Jan 04, 2024
International Law & Mass Violence: Colonial Roots & Practices
Jan 03, 2024
How can we learn to speak the language of the Earth? - Highlights - TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE
Dec 29, 2023
TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE - Founder/Host of First Voices Radio - Founder of Akantu Intelligence
Dec 29, 2023
Guernica & Gaza: Linking Antifascist Solidarity & Solidarity with Palestine
Dec 29, 2023
21 Voices from Israel & South Africa: Why the Palestine Struggle Matters
Dec 25, 2023
What makes a good life? - Highlights - ROBERT WALDINGER, Psychiatrist, Author, Zen Priest
Dec 22, 2023
ROBERT WALDINGER - Co-Author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Dec 22, 2023
Does privacy exist anymore? Or are humans just sets of data to be traded and sold? - Highlights - WENDY WONG
Dec 15, 2023
WENDY WONG - Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
Dec 15, 2023
Highlights - JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Photographer, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground
Dec 08, 2023
JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Photographer, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground
Dec 08, 2023
DUANE L. CADY - Philosopher, Author of Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking & From Warism to Pacifism
Dec 05, 2023
HOWARD GARDNER - Author of A Synthesizing Mind & Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Co-director of The Good Project
Nov 29, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: BILL McKIBBEN, Co-Founder of 350.org, Founder Third Act & CAROLINE LEVINE, Author of The Activist Humanist
Nov 27, 2023
GLADYS KALEMA-ZIKUSOKA - Founder/CEO, Conservation Through Public Health - UN Champion of the Earth for Science & Innovation
Nov 24, 2023
MARY HAYASHI - Healthcare Advocate, Former Assemblymember - Author of Women in Politics
Nov 20, 2023
WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY
Nov 20, 2023
Highlights - UN Young Champion of the Earth GATOR HALPERN - Co-Founder & President of Coral Vita - Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur
Nov 16, 2023
GATOR HALPERN - Co-Founder & President of Coral Vita - UN Young Champion of the Earth - Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur
Nov 15, 2023
Highlights - LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Nov 13, 2023
LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist - Founder of IE Platform & @GreenGirlLeah
Nov 13, 2023
Highlights - MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History
Nov 10, 2023
MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History
Nov 08, 2023
Highlights - SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Fmr. Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress
Oct 31, 2023
SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Fmr. NASA Chair at NASA
Oct 30, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: LIZA BLACK & JOSEPH PIERCE discuss When “Natives” Aren’t: The Epistemic & Communal Violence & Re-storying
Oct 23, 2023
Highlights - APRIL GORNIK - Artist, Environmentalist, Co-founder of The Church: Arts & Creativity Center
Oct 20, 2023
APRIL GORNIK - Artist, Environmentalist, Co-founder of The Church: Arts & Creativity Center
Oct 20, 2023
Highlights - DEAN SPADE - Professor at SeattleU’s School of Law - Author of Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Oct 19, 2023
DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Oct 13, 2023
Highlights - ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Host of Climate Connections - Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment
Oct 11, 2023
ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Founding Director of Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - Host of Climate Connections
Oct 10, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: VEENA DUBAL discusses how Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash…use algorithmic wage discrimination against their workers
Oct 10, 2023
SUCHITRA VIJAYAN · FRANCESCA RECCHIA · ANAND TELTUMBDE
Oct 06, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: JUNE CHOI, YANNAI KASHTAN & BELINDA RAMIREZ on the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability
Sep 29, 2023
Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Sep 28, 2023
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Sep 27, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: LIZA FEATHERSTONE on Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)
Sep 25, 2023
Highlights - NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation
Sep 22, 2023
Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Sep 20, 2023
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
Sep 20, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: SARA AHMED discusses The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
Sep 19, 2023
The Subversive Seventies: A Conversation with Political Theorist MICHAEL HARDT
Sep 13, 2023
ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage
Sep 11, 2023
Highlights - LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author, IPCC 4th, 5th Assessment Reports - Biology Professor, Macquarie University
Sep 08, 2023
LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author of IPCC 4th & 5th Assessment Reports - Director of Climate Council of Australia
Sep 08, 2023
Highlights - JAMES BROWNING - Founder & Exec. Director, F Minus Research & Advocacy Group
Sep 06, 2023
JAMES BROWNING - Founder of F Minus: Calling for Divestment from Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Sep 06, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: MANIJEH MORADIAN discusses This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
Sep 05, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: TIM HEWLETT - Co-founder of Scientist Rebellion, Activist, Astrophysicist
Aug 30, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: ANTHONY ARNOVE & HALEY PESSIN discuss Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
Aug 28, 2023
Highlights - Actress CATHERINE CURTIN (Orange is the New Black) & Artistic Director KATE MUETH (Director, Educator, Choreographer)
Aug 25, 2023
Actress CATHERINE CURTIN (Stranger Things) & Artistic Director KATE MUETH (Neo-Political Cowgirls)
Aug 25, 2023
Highlights - STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - Population & Sustainability Director, Center for Biological Diversity
Aug 22, 2023
STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - Author of The Animal Lover’s Guide to Changing the World & Take Action: Save Life on Earth

Aug 22, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: SILVIA FEDERICI discusses Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Aug 22, 2023
Highlights - Nobel Peace Prize-winning Climate Scientist MARK HOWDEN - Director, Climate Change Institute at ANU - Vice Chair of IPCC
Aug 18, 2023
MARK HOWDEN - Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Director, Climate Change Institute at The Australian National University
Aug 18, 2023
Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
Aug 11, 2023
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
Aug 11, 2023
Highlights - SUE INCHES - Fmr. Director, Maine Department of Marine Resources - Fmr. Deputy Director, State Planning Office

Aug 08, 2023
SUE INCHES - Author of Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action
Aug 08, 2023
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
Aug 03, 2023
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
Aug 03, 2023
SIMON DALBY - Author of Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World
Aug 02, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: SUSAN ALBUHAWA discusses “Palestine Writes”
Aug 01, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: JEFF CHANG discusses the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision on Affirmative Action
Jul 28, 2023
“Beyond Kafkaesque”: Will Hassan Diab Receive Justice?
Jul 27, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: CHING-IN CHEN & KATE HAO discuss the cancellation of the Asian American Literary Festival 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: JENNIFER JACQUET discusses The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World
Jul 24, 2023
Highlights - JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
Jul 21, 2023
JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill”
Jul 21, 2023
ELLIOT LEE - Alt Pop Singer/Songwriter, LGBTQIA+ Openly Non-binary - Autism Awareness Advocate
Jul 18, 2023
Highlights - TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Jul 14, 2023
TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Jul 14, 2023
Highlights - MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, UCLondon
Jul 13, 2023
MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, University College London
Jul 13, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: CYNTHIA G. FRANKLIN discusses “Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea”
Jul 10, 2023
Highlights - SERGEI GURIEV - Political Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators
Jul 05, 2023
SERGEI GURIEV - Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Jul 04, 2023
Highlights - JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums
Jul 04, 2023
JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums
Jul 04, 2023
JEFFREY SACHS - Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia - President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Jun 21, 2023
ANTHONY WHITE - Artist - What is the Role of Artists in Society?
Jun 20, 2023
MARGE PIERCY - NYTimes Bestselling Novelist, Poet & Activist
Jun 16, 2023
ALICE NOTLEY - Poet & Artist - Academy of American Poets Award Winner
Jun 13, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: DR. JENNIFER M. GÓMEZ discusses “The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women and Girls”
Jun 12, 2023
RICHARD VEVERS - Founder & CEO of The Ocean Agency · Featured in Netflix’s Chasing Coral
Jun 08, 2023
WORLD OCEANS DAY
Jun 08, 2023
Highlights - DITTE LYSGAARD VIND - Circular Economy & Design Expert - Founder of The Circular Way
Jun 06, 2023
DITTE LYSGAARD VIND - Circular Economy & Design Expert - Author of Danish Design Heritage & Global Sustainability
Jun 06, 2023
Special World Environment Day Stories - Environmentalists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet
Jun 05, 2023
CARL SAFINA - Ecologist - Founding President of Safina Center - NYTimes Bestselling Author
Jun 04, 2023
ANTHONY JOSEPH - T.S. Eliot Award-winning Poet, Novelist & Musician, Lead vocalist of The Spasm Band
Jun 03, 2023
PABLO HOFFMAN - Whitley Award-winning Conservationist - Exec. Director & Co-Founder of Sociedade Chauá
Jun 02, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: OLIVIA HARRISON discusses “Natives Against Nativism”
Jun 01, 2023
Highlights - ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
May 24, 2023
ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Icelandic Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
May 24, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: IMRAAN MIR & HALEY DUSCHINSKI discuss Human Rights in Kashmir
May 23, 2023
Highlights - RACHEL ASHEGBOFEH IKEMEH - Whitley Award Winner - Founder of Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project
May 19, 2023
RACHEL ASHEGBOFEH IKEMEH - Whitley Award-winning Conservationist - Founder/Director, Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project
May 19, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: ADAM ARON discusses “The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements”
May 16, 2023
Highlights - MADELEINE WATTS - Author of The Inland Sea
May 16, 2023
MADELEINE WATTS - Author of The Inland Sea - Creative Writing Professor, Columbia University
May 16, 2023
SAGARIKA SRIRAM - Founder of Kids4abetterworld, Youth Climate Change Initiative
May 11, 2023
We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
May 05, 2023
What Kind of World Are We Leaving for Future Generations? - Part 3 - Activists, Environmentalists & Teachers Share their Stories
May 04, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: ASHLEY DAWSON discusses “Environmentalism from Below”
May 03, 2023
Highlights - JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis - Moonstruck
Apr 29, 2023
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Academy Award-winning Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams - Moonstruck
Apr 29, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: NAOMI ORESKES discusses “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government & Love the Free Market”
Apr 27, 2023
EARTH MONTH STORIES - Part 2 - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers Speak Out & Share How We Can Save the Planet
Apr 26, 2023
Highlights - DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner of The Diplomat starring Keri Russell - Exec. Producer Homeland, Grey’s Anatomy
Apr 24, 2023
DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner & Executive Producer of Netflix’s The Diplomat starring Keri Russell & Rufus Sewell

Apr 24, 2023
Special Earth Day Stories - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet - Part 1
Apr 22, 2023
Highlights - MAX RICHTER - Award-winning Composer - Pianist - Environmentalist - Activist
Apr 22, 2023
MAX RICHTER - Award-winning Composer - Pianist - Environmentalist - Activist
Apr 22, 2023