The People's Vaccine Alliance has warned that rich countries are hoarding coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer countries out of vaccine distribution. To discuss, we FEATURE Donna A. Patterson. Patterson is chair of the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy at Delaware State University. She also directs the Africana Studies Program. Patterson is the author of Pharmacy in Senegal: Gender, Healing, and Entrepreneurship. Patterson is currently working on two larger projects on transnational drug consumption and public health and on the West African Ebola epidemic. She has published scholarly articles on pharmaceutical markets, women pharmacists and Ebola in the Journal of Women’s History, Anthropologie et Santé, Journal of Global Health Reports and the Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved. Media includes: The Washington Post, Slate, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Vox, NPR.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear an elections case involving a provision of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race. To discuss, we FEATURE Khalilah L. Brown-Dean. Brown-Dean is Associate Professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University. With a keen eye toward the practical implications of democratic conflict, her research interests center on voting rights, criminal justice, election administration, and public policy. She has published numerous academic and popular pieces including a co-authored report on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was presented during the 50th anniversary celebration of the historic Bloody Sunday March in Selma, Alabama. Media includes: The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, NPR.

While stimulus talks were underway in Congress, there were conversations of increasing the minimum wage to $15. While the plan was dropped, many workers are still campaigning for higher wages. To discuss, we FEATURE Jennifer Epps-Addision. Epps-Addison is currently the Network President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy. Formerly, she was the Chief Program Officer of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a social justice foundation in Los Angeles that funds grassroots community organizing campaigns for social change. She was also the Executive Director of Wisconsin Jobs Now, a nonprofit fighting for social and economic justice with collective, direct action as a fundamental organizing principle. Jen has nearly 15 years of organizing experience and a history of playing an integral role in winning campaigns on a variety of economic and social justice issues. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Guardian, International Business Times, Politico, MSNBC, NPR.

Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Alabama are mobilizing to unionize, which if successfully done, will make it the first U.S.-based Amazon union. To discuss, 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. Gupta 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. Media includes: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News.

CBS News reported that female McDonald's workers have been discriminated against and face sexual harassment from male employees. To discuss, we FEATURE Sheerine Alemzadeh. Alemzadeh is an attorney and the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, a non-profit organization building a worker-led movement to end gender violence. A legal expert on workplace sexual violence, Alemzadeh has forged strategic partnerships across the nation to develop community-based, survivor-centered responses to gender-based violence against low-wage workers. In addition to litigating sexual harassment, sexual assault, and civil rights cases, Sheerine co-founded the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence, a collaboration between rape crisis agencies, civil rights organizations, workers centers, and government agencies. Media includes: Chicago Business, U.S. News & World Report, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Vox.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is currently facing allegations of sexual harassment by two former female aides. To discuss, we FEATURE Amy Epstein Gluck. Gluck serves as a trusted legal advisor to business owners and in-house counsel advising employers about workplace culture, compliance with anti-discrimination laws (Title VII, ADA, FMLA, ADEA, FLSA, etc.), HR policies, retaliation, and navigating #MeToo issues while complying with federal, state, and local employment laws with an eye toward preventing organizational problems, not just reacting to them. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post.

Chloé Zhao became the first Asian woman to win the Golden Globe for best director for the film, Nomadland. To discuss, we FEATURE Nancy Wang Yuen. Wang Yuen is a sociology professor at Biola University. Her book, Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2016, Rutgers University Press), examines the barriers actors of color face in Hollywood and how they creatively challenge stereotypes. With a research team, Wang Yuen pioneered the first policy report on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in primetime television in 2006. Media includes: Associated Press, New Republic, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed.

Iran has rejected an offer to negotiate a new nuclear deal with the U.S. To discuss, we FEATURE Firoozeh Kashani Sabet. Sabet is the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History and director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a scholar of modern Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the Persian Gulf, having published extensively on these topics. She is also an expert on boundary disputes and politics in the Middle East, as well as an established scholar on the history of US—Iranian relaitons. Media includes: Voice of America, Newsday, NBC, NPR.

Crowds of people have gathered in Myanmar to protest the military coup. So far at least 18 people have died. To discuss, we FEATURE Akila Radhakrishnan. Radhakrishnan is the President of the Global Justice Center. She directs GJC’s strategies and efforts to establish legal precedents protecting human rights and ensuring gender equality. In her role, Akila has authored numerous shadow reports, legal briefs and advocacy documents and provided legal expertise to domestic and international stakeholders and policymakers, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, the European Union and state governments. Media includes: The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, Women Under Siege, Ms. Magazine, Rewire.

March is Women's History Month. To commemorate, we FEATURE Kirsten Swinth. Swinth is Professor of History and American Studies at Fordham University in New York and has a Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in the history of women, work, and family as well as the history of feminism and the women’s movement. She comments on issues of work-life balance; care work and emotional labor; labor in the U.S.; and women in the workforce. She recently published a book on the 1960s and 70s U.S. women's movement and written on the politics of work and family in the 1980s. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, WorkingMother.com, CNN, WFUV, WNYC.