Episodes

Friday Jul 14, 2017
Expert Extra #8: Melissa Reed, CEO of Planned Parenthood Keystone
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Friday Jul 14, 2017
This week's Expert Extra features Melissa Reed, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Keystone. We discuss the challenges to women if the GOP repeals the #ACA, what Planned Parenthood does and what defunding actually means, plus how Planned Parenthood Keystone is fighting back on a regional level and what you can do to help.
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Friday Jun 30, 2017
Friday Jun 30, 2017
This week's Expert Extra features Dr. Jenni Levy, a board-certified physician with specialties in internal medicine, hospice, and palliative medicine, who provides a medical doctor's perspective on how health insurance works now and how it might change if the GOP gets its way. We talk about caps and pre-existing conditions, what it means that the American Medical Association has come out against the Republican healthcare plan, and who should be worried.
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Wednesday Jun 14, 2017
Expert Extra #6: Heather Lopes discusses the therapist on Big Little Lies
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017
This week's Expert Extra features Heather Lopes, a licensed professional counselor and psychotherapist in New Jersey with 15 years of experience, especially with women's trauma. Our discussion focuses on some of the problems and potential misinformation related to the therapist character in HBO's Limited Series, Big Little Lies.
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Announcing our first fundraiser! Join us on June 17 at 12:30pm for yoga, wine, and games (try to pin the covfefe on Trump!) at Shine Yoga Center in Perkasie, PA. Suggested donation $10. Please visit our Facebook event page to RSVP, or if you want to help us out, but can't make the event, you can make a one-time donation at our GoFundMe page.
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Friday Jun 02, 2017
Expert Extra #5: Christopher Ayala and Organizing 101
Friday Jun 02, 2017
Friday Jun 02, 2017
This week's Expert Extra features Christopher Ayala, state organizer for our faculty union, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF). Our discussion focuses on how you can take some easy, practical, and methodical steps to change something in your neighborhood - Chris makes organizing principles accessible to everyone! Listen and learn how you can begin.
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Announcing our first fundraiser! Join us on June 17 at 12:30pm for yoga, wine, and games (try to pin the covfefe on Trump!) at Shine Yoga Center in Perkasie, PA. Suggested donation $10. Please visit our Facebook event page to RSVP, or if you want to help us out, but can't make the event, you can make a one-time donation at our GoFundMe page.
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Friday May 05, 2017
Expert Extra #4: Amy Kozel and gender studies in high school
Friday May 05, 2017
Friday May 05, 2017
This week's Expert Extra features Amy Kozel, a high school teacher who stood up publicly to a critical school board member over her gender studies class, a discussion about gender studies as a field and the challenges of teaching gender studies to high school students.
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Friday Mar 10, 2017
Expert Extra #3: Dr. Vera Cole on Scott Pruitt, the EPA, and climate change
Friday Mar 10, 2017
Friday Mar 10, 2017
This week's Expert Extra features Dr. Vera Cole, head of the Energy and Sustainability Policy Program at Penn State and a discussion about Scott Pruitt, newly confirmed head of the EPA, and climate change.
We will occasionally interview an expert in a field for additional perspective and in-depth information about current events. If you have questions or want more information about something we've covered in an episode, please let us know so that we can arrange an Expert Extra!
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Saturday Feb 25, 2017
Saturday Feb 25, 2017
This is a SPECIAL EDITION of our new feature, Expert Extra. Please enjoy the entirety of the opening panel session of our KU Political Boot Camp, featuring four experts: PA State Senator Judy Schwank, Siobhan Sam Bennett (candidate for mayor of Allentown this year), Gail Hoover (former Allentown City Councilwoman), and Chris Ayala, state organizer for APSCUF, the 5,500 member faculty union for the PA State System of Higher Education. We are so grateful for their time - please listen and learn.
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Saturday Feb 11, 2017
Saturday Feb 11, 2017
Introducing a new feature: Expert Extra. We will occasionally interview an expert in a field for additional perspective and in-depth information about a particular issue addressed in a podcast episode. If you have additional questions or want more information about something we've covered in an episode, please let us know so that we can arrange an Expert Extra!
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