Jackson, Mississippi, residents have brown water coming out of their faucets, caused by the ongoing water crisis in the state. To discuss, we FEATURE Elin Betanzo. Betanzo is the founder of Safe Water Engineering LLC, a small consulting firm working to improve access to safe drinking water through engineering and policy consulting. Elin has nearly 20 years of experience working on drinking water science, engineering, and policy issues. She worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water writing and implementing national drinking water regulations, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission where she led water system master planning and hydraulic modeling, and for the Northeast-Midwest Institute leading their Safe Drinking Water Research and Policy Program. Media includes: The Detroit News, Bridge Magazine, The New York Times, PBS.

Russia has attacked power stations in Ukraine, causing outages across the country. To discuss, we FEATURE Joan Rohlfing. Rohlfing became president and chief operating officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative in January 2010, after nine years as NTI's senior vice president for programs and operations. She was part of the original team that created the mission and scope for NTI in 2000. Once the organization launched in 2001, she played strategic roles in several of NTI’s hallmark projects such as the formation of the World Institute for Nuclear Security, the creation of the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance and the Nuclear Security Project with George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William J. Perry and Sam Nunn. Rohlfing is a member of the U.S. Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee as well as the Directorate Advisory Committee of the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Media includes: The New York Times, Associated Press, Huffington Post, Politico, BBC.

Doctors and lawyers in many states are grappling with how to comply with laws that prohibit abortions except to save the life of the mother, following the overturning of Roe v Wade. To discuss, we FEATURE Dr. Kristyn Brandi. Dr. Brandi is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist with a fellowship training in Family Planning (contraception and abortion services). Dr. Brandi currently serves as the Board Chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health, sits on several sub-committees for the Society of Family Planning and is a founding member of Centering Equity, Racial and Cultural Literacy in Family Planning (CERCL-FP). She has published research on contraceptive coercion by doctors to patients seeking abortion. Her master's degree concentration focused on Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, which she has focused her educational pursuits around abortion policy, contraceptive decision-making, and racial justice within medical education. Media includes: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Elite Daily, Mother Jones, Business Insider.

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A state funeral will take place on Monday for Queen Elizabeth, who died Thursday, ending her reign as the longest sitting British monarch. To discuss, we FEATURE Hilary Fordwich. Fordwich is a national Royal Watcher for national networks including CBS Sunday Morning and CNN. She is an expert on British royals, including history, weddings, and funerals. Fordwich's business development career spans over 30 years, covers the globe and combines media with Global BD experience, for international firms including KPMG. She founded Strelmark, LLC, (15 years ago) to grow businesses by bringing best practices to every facet of business development. Media includes: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS, NPR.

According to a new analysis, child poverty has fallen by 59% since 1993. To discuss, we FEATURE Aisha Nyandoro. Nyandoro is on a mission to holistically and compassionately support families as they work to exit poverty. As the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Springboard To Opportunities, she uses a “radically resident-driven” approach to end generational poverty. She’s both deeply practical, strategic and very impatient; launching the very first of its kind guaranteed income program for single Black mothers in the history of the United States – The Magnolia Mother’s Trust. The varied recognitions for her work distinguish her as a trailblazer in the larger national conversation about economic and racial inequity. Media includes: The Washington Post, Fast Company, The Nation, Essence Magazine, NBC, CNN, MSNBC.

COVID-19, which shows no sign of disappearing, is still keeping 500,000 people out of the workforce. To discuss, we FEATURE Fiona Lowenstein. Lowenstein is an award-winning independent journalist, producer, speaker, and consultant covering health justice, media, and more. They are also the founder of Body Politic, a grassroots health justice organization at the forefront of the patient-led Long Covid movement. Fiona is a Long COVID survivor – she contracted Covid-19 in March 2020 and wrote the first account of what we now call "Long COVID" in The New York Times that spring. She is the co-founder of Body Politic's COVID-19 Support Group on Slack, which houses close to 11K members and is one of the largest global private support groups for COVID patients and their caregivers. Fiona has been covering the pandemic and Covid-19 patient issues for publications like The New York Times, Vox, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Elemental, and The Columbia Journalism Review, among others.

The U.S. is currently experiencing cargo delays as the freight railroads halt shipments in order to have more leverage as contract negotiations with the two largest rail unions approach. To dicuss, we FEATURE Sarita Gupta. Gupta is director of the Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program, leading the team that oversees Ford’s efforts to actively shape a future of work that puts workers and their well-being at the center. Sarita joined the foundation with more than 20 years of experience working to expand people’s ability to come together to improve their workplaces, their communities, and their lives by creating solutions to the problems they face. She has deep expertise in policy advocacy, organizing, and building partnerships across the workers’ rights and care movements, having served as executive director of Jobs With Justice and co-director of Caring Across Generations. She is a nationally recognized expert on the economic, labor, and political issues affecting working people, and is widely acknowledged as a key leader and strategist in the progressive movement. Media includes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN.

Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin is suing his nephew after facing sexual assault allegations, which Martin says are false. To discuss, we FEATURE Ada Alvarez Conde, PhD. Born in Puerto Rico, Ada’s been working for 15 years on an international campaign of awareness of dating violence. A professor and freelance journalist, Ada is the author of the novel, Lo que no dije, which she wrote when she was 15 years old, becoming Puerto Rico youngest novelist. With this book she started giving conferences about dating violence and advocating for prevention of domestic violence. She has given more than 350 conferences in Middle School, High School, Universities, Community Centers, Churches and Government Agencies in Puerto Rico, United States, Mexico and Dominican Republic. She has won several awards for her activism and voluntary work; as well as public policy exchanges with the Dominican Republic’s and Mexico government, and was a panelist in the first Women and Media Conference of the UNESCO in Thailand (Dec 2013). Media includes: Al Jazeera, Univision, Azteca America, CNN.

Thursday is Democracy Day, which is a day to promote and uphold the principles of democracy. To discuss, we FEATURE Teresa Acuña. Acuña is reimagining our democracy. She is Associate Director for Democratic Governance at the Ash Center, a multi-disciplinary think tank leading real-world change at the Harvard Kennedy School. For over 10 years, Teresa has worked in political, legislative, and programmatic leadership roles at the state and national level. She formerly served at the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, leading the coalition's advocacy and national effort to increase diversity in presidential appointments and public leadership. She led policy teams in the U.S. House of Representatives and California state legislature, ushering legislation addressing civil and economic inequalities. She sits on various national non-profit boards including the League of Women Voters, New American Leaders and Student Learn Student Vote. Extensive media experience.

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. To discuss, we FEATURE Hilaire Kallendorf. Kallendorf is Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies and a Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching deal with many aspects of religious experience, especially as belief relates to literature and culture. She is the author of four academic monographs, Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain; Conscience on Stage: The Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain; Sins of the Fathers: Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain; and Ambiguous Antidotes: Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain. She is general editor of A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism, which won the 2011 Bainton Book Prize for Reference Works from the Sixteenth Century Society, as well as A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater and A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance. She translated Spanish Baroque poet Francisco de Quevedo’s Silvas into English. Extensive media experience.