The next Democratic primary debate is in Las Vegas, NV tonight. To discuss, we SPOTLIGHT Christy Setzer. Setzer is a political and communications strategist with more than 20 years’ experience in national politics, crafts hard-hitting strategies that win elections, inform policy and drive the national conversation. Setzer started New Heights in 2010 after more than a decade on campaigns and working for progressive causes. Media includes: The Hill, The Washington Time, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNBC’s “Kudlow” and “Squawk on the Street.”
President Trump grants clemency to Rod Blagojevich, Bernard Kerik and Michael Milken. Blagojevich was convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama's empty Senate seat and Kerik and Milken were both convicted of fraud. To discuss, we FEATURE Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Esq. Torres-Spelliscy is a professor, teaching courses in Election Law, Corporate Governance, Business Entities, and Constitutional Law at Stetson University College of Law. She is the author of the book Corporate Citizen? An Argument for the Separation of Corporation and State (Carolina Academic Press, 2016) and the book Political Brands (Edward Elgar forthcoming 2019). Torres-Spelliscy is an expert on money in politics and the judiciary to state and federal lawmakers. Media includes: The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Time, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Newsweek, NBC, NPR, Fox.
Healthcare has been an ongoing topic during the presidential election. To discuss, we FEATURE Robin Feldman. Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the UC Hastings Center for Innovation. Her work focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology and innovation, drug pricing and health care law, and artificial intelligence and data. Feldman has published four books, Drugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes: The Unstoppable Growth of Prescription Drug Prices (Cambridge 2019); Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices & Keeps Generics Off the Market (Cambridge 2017), Rethinking Patent Law (Harvard 2012) and The Role of Science in Law (Oxford 2009). Media includes: The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill.
The Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is still underway with the jury still deliberating on a verdict. To discuss, we FEATURE Fatima Goss Graves. Goss Graves is the President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. She currently overseeing the Center’s administration of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which connects those who experience sexual misconduct including assault, harassment, abuse and related retaliation in the workplace or in trying to advance their careers with legal and public relations assistance. Media includes: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, AP, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR.
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The Wuhan coronavirus has caused an economic fallout. With so many businesses and factories in China closed, businesses around the world are hit with delays. To discuss, we FEATURE Cora Francisca Jungbluth, PhD. Jungbluth is an economic expert and project manager in the program Mega Trends at the German Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh. Her research focus is on foreign direct investment and international trade (especially the role of emerging economies). As a freelancing consultant, she has worked on Asia-related projects with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), among others. Cora studied Chinese Studies and Economics at Heidelberg University, Shanghai International Studies University and Tsinghua University, Beijing. Media includes: The Economist, Xinhua News, El Pais, CGTN, NPR.
The Wet'suwet'en Nation in British Columbia are currently protesting the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which is being built through their territory. To discuss, we FEATURE Charon Asetoyer. Asetoyer, a Native American women's health activist, is the CEO and Founder of the Native American Community Board (1985) and the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (1988) on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. In August 2001, she facilitated a working group at the United Nations on “The Current Status of Health of the World’s Indigenous Peoples”, at a meeting convened by the High Commission on Human Rights. Clean water was a focus of this working group. Media includes: The New York Times, Jezebel, CNN, NPR.
The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy in order to compensate scouts that were sexually abused while with the organization. To discuss, we FEATURE Julia M. Fleckman, PhD. Fleckman is an Assistant Professor at Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. The primary focus of Fleckman's work is the prevention of violence. Her current emphasis is on understanding and evaluating mechanisms for the prevention of childhood exposure to violence and sexual violence. Much of her work contributes to better understanding the role of social norms, social supports, and community processes that influence behaviors, and how these factors can be influenced to improve well-being and reduce risk for family and sexual violence. Extensive media experience.
February is Black History Month and to commemorate, we FEATURE Janus Adams. Host and Co-Executive Producer of “The Janus Adams Show,” Adams is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and scholar of women’s and African-American history. Her book, “Glory Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American History,” was licensed by McDonald’s and reached more than 3 million readers. 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” public school segregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. Media includes: Ms. Magazines, The New York Times, Newsday, USA Today, The Washington Post, Essence, ABC, BET, CBS, CNN.















