Tonight is the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, South Carolina. To discuss, we FEATURE Professor Shirley Staples Carter of South Carolina. Carter teaches Multicultural Communication, Ethics, Mass Communication and Society, and Public Relations and Media Management. Her research areas include Freedom of Expression and Values Analysis in Advertising, Open Government, Women and Leadership, and Multicultural Issues in Journalism and Mass Communication. Extensive media experience.

The World Health Organization has warned that countries should prepare for a pandemic as the coronavirus continues to spread. To discuss, we FEATURE Renata Schiavo, PhD. Schiavo is a public health, global health, healthcare, social innovation, and health communication specialist with more than 20 years of experience in a variety of settings, including the United States and several countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa. She is Founding President of Health Equity Initiative, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to building and sustaining a global community that engages across sectors and disciplines to advance health equity. Media includes: Bloomberg News, The Signal, The Nation's Health.

The Supreme Court will hear a case involving a Catholic adoption agency suing the city of Philadelphia for excluding them from placing children in foster homes as the agency does not allow same gender couples to foster. To discuss, we FEATURE Jennifer Chrisler. Chrisler is the Executive Director of Family Equality Council, and one of the foremost national advocates dedicated to full equality for modern American families. As head of the Family Equality Council, she works to support, represent and connect the one million families in the U.S. with parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and their two million children. Chrisler’s leadership, Family Equality Council has grown into the leading policy advocate on federal and state issues that impact today’s modern families, including foster care and adoption, safe schools, family medical leave, parenting protections, domestic partnership and marriage. Media includes: The New York Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, NBC, CNN, NPR.

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who helped put a man on the moon, has died at 101. She was part of a group of African American women who did crucial work for NASA. The movie Hidden Figures was based on her story. To commemorate her life, we FEATURE Edythe E. Weeks, Esq. Weeks is a professor, space law scholar and author, and is working to raise pre-awareness and stimulate knowledge inclusion for a broad range of people throughout the global general public about outer space development. Weeks teaches at Washington University, Webster University and Northern Arizona University on International Law and Politics of Outer Space; The New Space Rush; Introduction to International Relations; African Americans and the Law; and Diversity, Politics and Law. Media includes: PR Newswire, Arizona Daily Sun, Channel 12 Arizona.

The Israeli election is on March 2. To discuss, we FEATURE Naomi Chazan. Chazan is Dean of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo and spent the year 2004-2005 as the Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies at MIT. She completed three terms as a Member of Knesset on behalf of the Meretz (Democratic Israel) party in February, 2003. During her parliamentary career (l992-2003) she served as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (concentrating on issues of the peace process and Israel’s foreign relations), the Economics Committee, the House (Knesset) Committee, the Education Committee, and the Committee on the Status of Women. Media includes: The Jerusalem Post, Israel Authority Broadcasting Radio/TV.

February is Black History Month and to commemorate, we FEATURE JeffriAnne Wilder. Wilder is a sociologist and leading scholar specializing in diversity, race relations and women’s empowerment. She is currently a Research Scientist for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), a national non-profit organization aimed at broadening the participation of women and girls in computing. Prior to joining NCWIT, Wilder was a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations at the University of North Florida. As a black woman and sociologist, Wilder is very passionate about connecting sociology to the everyday issues occurring within our society, especially issues that impact women, girls, and communities of color. Media includes: The New York Times, Black Enterprise, The Grio, NPR, CNN.

Conservation groups have filed a legal petition to challenge the Trump administration's plan to allow 3,500 new gas wells to be built in Wyoming. To discuss, we FEATURE Betsy Lopez-Wagner. Lopez-Wagner is on the board of directors for Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice in San Francisco. She is a communications officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation with expertise in environmental and bilingual communications, political and advocacy campaigns, branding, and media relations with a racial justice lens. She most recently worked at the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) as the communications director of LCV’s Chispa, a community organizing program that is growing the political power and leadership of Latino families to influence climate action at the national and state levels in six states. Media includes: Univision, Telemundo, La Opinion, Associated Press.

In response to the high death rate linked to the opioid epidemic, counties in Tennessee are now teaching kids how to administer Narcan, a nasal spray that prevents drug overdoes from being deadly. To discuss, we FEATURE Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, DABAM. Dr. Roy is an internal medicine physician board certified in addiction medicine and serves as clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health. As the former Chief of Addiction Medicine for New York City jails, including Rikers Island, Dr. Roy oversaw substance use treatment and recovery efforts at the nation’s 2nd-largest jail complex. Previously, she was a primary care doctor to Boston’s vulnerable homeless population among whom the leading cause of death was drug overdose. Media includes: The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CBS, CNN, PBS.

President Trump has confirmed that he has compiled a list of "disloyal" government officials he plans to fire and replace with Trump loyalists, as was first reported by Axios. To discuss, we FEATURE Rebecca E. Deen. Deen is Chair and Associate Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. An expert in US politics, she has published research findings on women in the political process, the U.S. presidency, and effective pedagogy in journals such as Women & Politics, State and Local Government Review, Congress & the Presidency and Judicature. Media includes: The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, NPR.

A recent study by the U.N. World Food Program found that one-third of Venezuelans are not able to meet the minimum nutrient requirements and are facing hunger. To discuss, we FEATURE Erika Guevara-Rosas. Guevara-Rosas is a feminist lawyer and human rights activist, who currently serves as the Americas Programme Director at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. She is responsible for leading the organization’s human rights work across the region. Erika has more than fifteen years of international experience in the fields of human rights and social justice philanthropy. Extensive media experience.