As the impeachment inquiry continues, another whistleblower has stepped up as a witness to the Ukraine dealings. To discuss, we FEATURE Dana L. Gold. Gold is an attorney and currently serves as the Director of Education with the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. In addition to having represented and/or worked with dozens of whistleblowers over the past 25 years, Gold is also a former Network Fellow with Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the co-founder and former Director of the Center on Corporations, Law & Society at Seattle University School of Law. She has unique expertise and perspective as both a whistleblower advocate and corporate governance educator on the role whistleblowers play in promoting institutional accountability and democracy. Media includes: Slate, The Hill, WNYC's On the Media, KUOW, NowThis Politics.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard a case that will decide whether LGBTQ individuals are protected from sex discrimination in employment based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. To discuss, we FEATURE Melissa R. Michelson, PhD. Dr. Michelson is Professor of Political Science at Menlo College. Author of five books, she is a nationally recognized expert in voter mobilization, Latino politics, LGBTQ politics, and California politics. Her books include Mobilizing Inclusion: Redefining Citizenship through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns and Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights. Media includes: The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, The Los Angeles Times.

The next Democratic debate will be on October 15th and to discuss, we FEATURE Dr. Christina M. Greer. Dr. Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies at Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus). Her primary research and teaching interests are racial and ethnic politics, American urban centers, presidential politics, and campaigns and elections. Dr. Greer's book Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013 ) investigates the increasingly ethnically diverse black populations in the US from Africa and the Caribbean and was the recipient of the WEB du Bois Best Book Award in 2014 given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Media includes: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Associated Press, MSNBC, NY1, WNYC.

The NBA has recently faced backlash after they apologized to the Chinese following a team manager tweeting support for Hong Kong protestors. To discuss, we FEATURE Bonnie Glaser. Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at CSIS, where she works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with a focus on Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the CSIS Pacific Forum. Glaser has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. Media includes: The New York Times, Al Jazeera, CNN, the PBS News Hour, BBC, NPR, CNN. 

It's currently Hispanic Heritage Month and to commemorate we FEATURE Laura Jiménez. Jiménez became the Executive Director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice in September 2011. Jiménez has over 20 years of experience working with women of color organizations across the country on issues of reproductive justice, including the National Latina Health Organization (Oakland), the Dominican Women’s Development Center (New York) and being part of the founding of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (Atlanta). Media includes: Univision, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post. 

More than 5,000 hotels across the U.S. have given employees safety devices as to protect them from sexual harassment, which is a big issue faced by hotel workers. To discuss, we FEATURE Noreen Farrell. Farrell is the Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), one of the nation’s leading women’s rights organization, where she has led landmark litigation and policy reform efforts to improve the lives of women and girls at work and school. ERA has also recently launched an ambitious worker justice campaign with ROC-United to tackle rampant sexual harassment, job segregation, and wage theft against women in the restaurant industry. Media includes: The New York Times, ProPublica, The Huffington Post, NBC.  

Nearly one million migrants were arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019— this is the most arrests since 2007. To discuss, we FEATURE Maria Echaveste. Echaveste is the Policy and Program Development Director at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy. Echaveste joined University of California’s Berkeley School of Law as a Lecturer after co-founding a strategic and policy consulting group, serving as a senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official.  From 1998 to 2001, she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.  Among her responsibilities in this role was overseeing issues relating to Mexico and Latin America. Echaveste is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for American Progress working on issues such as immigration, civil rights, education and Latin America. Extensive media experience.

California has made deepfakes illegal in order combat both revenge porn and doctored political videos. To discuss, we FEATURE Dr. Charlotte Laws. Dr. Laws is an expert on revenge porn and cyber harassment. She is known throughout the world as the “Erin Brockovich of revenge porn.” She launched an investigation of the “most hated man on the Internet,” uncovered an illegal hacking scheme, got the FBI involved (which led to arrests and imprisonment) and helped victims all over the country remove or block their unauthorized photos from the Internet. Laws also worked with legislators to pass anti-revenge porn laws. She is a board member at the Cyber Civil Rights initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to helping victims of cyber harassment. Media includes: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Fox, MSNBC, CNN.

Astronomers have discovered 20 new moons orbiting around Saturn. To discuss, we FEATURE Emily Lakdawalla. Lakdawalla is a passionate advocate for the exploration of all of the worlds of our solar system. Through blogs, photos, videos, podcasts, print articles, Twitter, and any other medium she can put her hand to, Lakdawalla shares the adventure of space exploration with the world. She has been writing and editing the Planetary Society Blog since 2005, reporting on space news, explaining planetary science, and sharing beautiful space photos. Media includes: BBC World News, Sky and Telescope Magazine, Planetary Radio.