Donald Trump has issued multiple executive orders, including orders concerning immigration, funding freezes, birthright citizenship, and EEOC commissioner firings. To speak on the legality of the orders and the impact of these orders on local elected officials, we FEATURE Jill Habig. Habig is a former civil rights prosecutor and policy advisor to Kamala Harris, and the founder and president of Public Rights Project (PRP). PRP works with local governments and community partners to help ensure that laws are enforced equitably and civil rights are protected, including workers rights, voting rights, immigrant rights, housing rights, and more. She is currently a lecturer at Berkeley Law School, teaching state and local impact litigation, and previously taught a local government law course at Yale Law School with Prof. Heather Gerken (now dean of Yale Law School). Media includes: USA Today, The 19th, Daily Kos, Fortune Broadsheet, The Washington Post, Reuters, WRHU 88.7 FM.

Elon Musk, who created and runs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has turned his attention to the Education Department. To discuss, we FEATURE Elaine Weiss. Weiss is the National Coordinator for the Broader Bolder Approach to Education, where she works with a high-level Task Force and coalition partners to promote a comprehensive, evidence-based set of policies to allow all children to thrive. She moved to BBA from the Pew Charitable Trusts, where she served as project manager for Pew's Partnership for America’s Economic Success campaign. In that capacity, she worked with researchers to assemble evidence on the economic benefits of early childhood investments, developed advocacy materials, and worked with state partners to engage business leaders to promote effective early childhood programs. Media includes: The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Jesse Jackson Keep Hope Alive Radio Show, WVON Talk of Chicago.

Donald Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum. To discuss, we FEATURE Amanda Phalin. Phalin is associate instructional professor, Department of Management, at the University of Florida, Warrington College of Business. She has a wide range of expertise in international economic and political issues and is available to speak about trade and tariffs, global economic activity and political issues that may affect the U.S. and worldwide economy. Media includes: The Wall Street Journal, Gainsville Sun, New York Sun, Foreign Policy Magazine, CNN International, WWRC AM, WRGW.

With USAID being dismantled, many NGOs are being defunded, including those working human trafficking. An important aspect of trafficking involves people being exploited to conduct online scams targeting people in the U.S. and other wealthy countries. To discuss, we FEATURE Caitlin Wyndham. For more than 18 years, Wyndham has contributed her knowledge and skills to advancing the mission of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, a prestigious NGO that has been leading the fight against human trafficking in Vietnam for over 20 years. Currently, Wyndham is Blue Dragon’s Research and Learning Leader. In this role, she oversees the organization’s research publications and knowledge products, which have shed light on human trafficking trends in Southeast Asia, the characteristics of human trafficking victims and perpetrators in Vietnam, the root causes driving their vulnerability to this crime and other important issues. Media includes: The Telegraph, Vietnam News, The Straits Time.

On Sunday, Kendrick Lamar performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. To discuss, we FEATURE Imani Perry. Perry is appointed jointly as professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies. Her writing and scholarship primarily focus on the history of Black thought, art, and imagination crafted in response to, and resistance against, the social, political and legal realities of domination in the West. She seeks to understand the processes of retrenchment after moments of social progress, and how freedom dreams are nevertheless sustained. Media includes: The New York Times, Huffington Post, CNN.

In a strongly worded letter, Pope Francis has called out President Trump's plans to conduct mass deportations. To discuss, we FEATURE Nyasha Junior. Junior is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program at Temple University in Philadelphia. Prior to coming to Temple, she taught at Howard University’s School of Divinity and the University of Dayton’s Department of Religious Studies. She has taught and published on religion, race, gender, and their intersections for over 12 years. Media includes: Religion & Politics, DAME Magazine, Bitch Media, The Washington Post.

February is Black History Month. To commemorate, we FEATURE Janus Adams. Adams is the host of public radio’s “The Janus Adams Show” and podcast. A pioneer of issue-oriented African-American and women’s programming she has hosted and produced talk shows for public broadcasting and cable news. Her news writing for TV’s Black News earned her a special Emmy. She is author of eleven nonfiction works, including Glory Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American History. Engaged by history since childhood, a northern school desegregation pioneer at 8, she was one of the four children selected to break New York’s de facto segregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. At 10, she was introduced to Dr. King. Media includes: Essence, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, USA Today, ABC, BET, CBS, CNN.