With the Supreme Court back in session President Obama's immigration plan is under scrutiny, for commentary we FEATURE Marisa Franco. Marisa Franco is a community organizer, currently directing the #Not1More deportation campaign, which has sought presidential action to stem the deportation crisis. A veteran organizer with experience working across issue, language gender and place, Marisa returned to her home state of Arizona after the passage of SB1070 in 2010. As a staff member at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Marisa has worked to turn the tide on anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric in some of the most contentious political battle grounds, including the Southwest and Southeastern region. She has been quoted in NPR, the Washington Post, Univision, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.
For interviews on impeachment of Brazil's President Rousseff.
Brazil's lower house has voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, for analysis we FEATURE Heather Arnet. Heather Arnet is an advocate for women and girls rights locally, nationally, and internationally. As Chief Executive Officer of the Women and Girls Foundation, Arnet works to develop the female leaders of tomorrow while advancing women's rights today. She is the Writer/Director of the documentary film “Madame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.?” which premiered on WQED/PBS in 2014 and highlights the career of President Rousseff. Through the film, Arnet, the great-granddaughter of a suffragette, explores how so many other countries have elected female presidents prior to the U.S. and what Americans can learn from our international sisters. Arnet has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC and CBS Nightly News.
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
For interviews on earthquake in Ecuador.
To discuss the devastating Ecuador earthquake, we FEATURE Dabney P. Evans. Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Hubert Department of Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She is a mixed-methods researcher of issues affecting vulnerable populations at the intersection of public health and human rights. She is Director of the Center for Humanitarian Emergencies in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory University Institute of Human Rights. Through her scholarly research, Dr. Evans has long served at the forefront of scholars in both global health and human rights most recently offering a TEDx talk on this topic. Her public scholarship has appeared online and on radio. Media includes: The Hill, WABE (NPR affiliate), PBS, The New York Times, Infectious Disease News, Atlanta Journal Constitution.
On the day of the New York Primary, we FEATURE New York political expert Dr. Christina M. Greer. Christina Greer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University - Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campus. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, quantitative methods, Congress, New York City and New York State politics, campaigns and elections, and public opinion. She is a frequent political commentator on several media outlets, primarily MSNBC and NY1, and is often quoted in media outlets such as the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the AP.
With the news of a Ohio woman livestreaming her friend's rape, we FEATURE Latoya Peterson. One of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 rising stars in media for 2013, Latoya Peterson is best known for the award winning blog Racialicious.com – the intersection of race and pop culture. She is currently an Editor-at-Large at Fusion. Her essay, “The Not Rape Epidemic” was published in the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (Seal Press, 2008). Media includes: Newsweek, The Boston Globe, CNN