Adjunct professor

With over 130,00 people fleeing ISIS in Syria for Turkey we FEATURE Belinda Cooper. Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she directs the program on Turkey: Democratization, Human Rights and Security, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Cooper is an expert on human rights and international and transitional justice. Media experience includes: New York Times, World Policy Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Deutsche Welle Radio, Forward.

Dean, School of Communications

This week marks the new season for many TV shows, and the launch of others. We FEATURE Jannette Dates to give a gender and race analysis of their content. Dates is dean emerita of the School of Communications at Howard University, having served for nearly 19 years there as the dean. She is a nationally recognized authority on the issues of mass media and the depiction of African-Americans in popular culture.

A former media host, Dates has extensive media experience including: CSPAN, ABC News, NPR, BET.

President of Democracy in Color

Following actress Emma Watson's speech to the UN on feminism, we FEATURE Aimee Allison, the Director of Media and Community Outreach for the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. As the host of specials for Pacifica Radio, Link TV, and Clear Channel’s Green 960 she has extensive media experience including KPFA, Independent, Peace Work Magazine, Alternet.

Interim Chief Legal Officer

On September 29, at their first private conference of the new term, the Supreme Court could decide that they will hear a same sex marriage case in the coming months. To discuss the implications of such a hearing, we FEATURE Kate Kendall, who leads the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education. Media includes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Advocate, NPR, CNN.