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March 02, 2015
Experts on Affordable Health Care, ISIS destruction of artifacts, Police Tactics, Space, and Iran
This week we feature experts to give commentary on the King v. Burwell Supreme Court case that will decide if families can continue to receive tax credits through the Affordable Care Act, ISIS destruction of museums and artifacts in Iraq and Syria, police tactics following the LA police shooting on Skid Row, space walks, and Netanyahu's address to Congress.
Expert Spotlight
Masum Momaya
Global Cities Fellow
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
For interviews on ISIS destruction of museums and artifacts in Syria and Iraq.
Following the destruction of artifacts by ISIS in Mosul, we FEATURE Masum Momaya. Masum is a Curator at the Smithsonian Institution - her current exhibition is “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation,” at the National Museum of Natural History. Formerly, Dr. Momaya has done curatorial work at the International Museum of Women in San Francisco and the Indo-American Heritage Museum in Chicago. She has served as a lead researcher and writer of the Association for Women's Rights in Development and on the boards of Third Wave Foundation, Amnesty International's Women's Human Rights Program and the Women's Intercultural Network. Her work has been featured by NPR, the Associated Press, BBC News, Agence-France Presse, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Times of India, The Hindu, Vogue India and Feministing.com.
Areas of Expertise:
Activism and advocacy, Arts and Culture, Human rights, Immigration, International, Media and Entertainment, Philanthropy, Race and ethnicity, Social justice, Social media
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Featured Expert
Imani Perry
Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies
Harvard University
For interviews on police tactics following fatal shooting in LA.
With more questioning of police tactics being raised after the fatal shooting of another unarmed African American man - this time in Los Angeles, we FEATURE Imani Perry, a Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and an inter disciplinary scholar of law, culture and race. She is the author of More Terrible, More Beautiful: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the U.S. and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. In addition, she has published a variety of articles in the areas of law, cultural studies, and African American studies. Her work has been featured in CNN, the Huffington Post, New York Times and Roctober.
Featured Expert
Emily Lakdawalla
Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist
The Planetary Society
For interviews on space walks.
As astronauts complete their third space walk in a week, we FEATURE Emily Lakdawalla. Emily is Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist at The Planetary Society. She is a passionate advocate for space exploration and through various blogs, videos, and other mediums, she shares the adventure of space exploration with the world by reporting on space and explaining planetary science. She appears weekly on the Society's "Planetary Radio" show, aired on more than 200 public radio stations and Sirius and XM satellite radio, answering listener questions or rounding up the latest space news from the Planetary Society blog. Her media experiences include: BBC America, BBC World News and Planetary Radio.
Featured Expert
Nancy Duff Campbell
Co-Founder and former President
National Women's Law Center
For interviews on King v. Burwell, Affordable Health Care.
As the Supreme Court prepares arguments in King v. Burwell on Wednesday, which will decide if low and moderate income families can continue to receive health tax credits through the federal health insurance Marketplace, we SPOTLIGHT Nancy Duff Campbell. Nancy is the President and Co-Founder of National Women's Law Center and a recognized expert on women's law and public policy issues. For over thirty-five years, Nancy has participated in implementing key legislative initiatives and litigation that protect the rights of women, with an emphasis on issues affecting low income women and their families. She was named by Working Woman magazine as one of the top 25 heroines whose actions over the last 25 years have advanced women in the workplace. Extensive media experience.
Featured Expert
Noura Erakat
Professor; Co-founder & Co-editor; Legal Advocacy Consultant
Rutgers University; Jadaliyya.com; Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee & Residency Rights
For interviews on Iran, Netanyahu, U.S.-Israeli relations.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to address Congress on Tuesday causes more debate in the U.S. and abroad, we FEATURE Noura Erakat. Nora is a human rights attorney and writer. Additionally, she is a Freedom Teaching Fellow at Temple Law School and the US-based Legal Advocacy Consultant for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights. She is a frequent commentator on the Palestininan-Israel conflict, US Middle East foreign policy, and international human rights in the Middle East. She has appeared on Fox News, NBC, MSNBC and Al Jazeera.
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Senior Director of Litigation for Education & Workplace Justice
National Women’s Law Center
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