The World Health Organization is calling for trans fats to be eliminated by 2023 because of their link to millions of premature deaths. To discuss, we FEATURE Renata Schiavo, PhD. Renata 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. She was recognized as one of 300 Women Leaders in Global Health (2015) by an initiative of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Media includes: The Signal, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, The Nation's Health, Bloomberg News.

President Trump has pledged to help save ZTE, a Chinese telecoms company, in order to save jobs that will be lost should the company go out of business. To discuss, we FEATURE Ann Lee. Ann is an internationally recognized leading authority on China’s economic relations and an adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University.   She is also a former visiting professor at Peking University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives. She consults with policymakers from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. about U.S.-China relations, international finance and trade, and China’s political economy. Media includes: MSNBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, NPR, CCTV, BBC.  

Many journalists across different outlets and platforms have claimed that they will put in a bigger effort to find more women sources for their articles in order to fix gender disparity in news. To discuss, we FEATURE Kate McCarthy. Kate is the Director of Programs for the Women's Media Center with responsibility for WMC SheSource – our database of women experts and WMC training.  In this role she is responsible for amplifying women’s voices in the media by ensuring that journalists and producers have access to a diverse range of qualified experts. Media includes: MSNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC, Motherboard.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have agreed to meet on June 12 in Singapore. To discuss, we FEATURE Jean H. Lee. Jean is a Seoul-based Global Fellow with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., an analyst for CNN television and a contributing writer to Esquire magazine and The New York Times. Jean led the Associated Press news agency’s coverage of the Korean Peninsula as bureau chief from 2008 to 2013. In 2011, she became the first American reporter granted extensive access on the ground in North Korea, and in January 2012 opened AP’s Pyongyang bureau, the only Western text/photo news bureau based in the North Korean capital. Since 2008, she has made dozens of extended reporting trips to North Korea, visiting farms, factories, schools, military academies and homes in addition to interviewing top officials in the course of her exclusive reporting across the country. Media includes: Associated Press, CNN, BBC, PRI, NPR, PBS, Al Jazeera, The New York Times. 

After President Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal last week, Iran's relations with other Middle Eastern countries is up in the air. To discuss, we FEATURE Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. Firoozeh 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 has studied Arab/Persian relations, as well as Sunni/Shia conflicts. She is also an expert on boundary disputes and politics in the Middle East, as well as an established scholar on the history of U.S.—Iranian relations. Media includes: NBC Philadelphia, Voice of America, NPR, Newsday. 

The Cannes Film Festival has been met with protest from women in Hollywood speaking up about gender inequality at the festival-- only 82 female-directed films have been up for prizes compared to 1,600 male-directed films. To discuss, we FEATURE Angela Marie Hutchinson. Angela is an author of five published books, a film producer, casting director, scriptwriter, former talent agent and founder of the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Breaking into Hollywood (BiH). Within the BiH umbrella, Hutchinson serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Hollywood & Vine magazine, Executive Director of the Hollywood & Vine Film Festival and Publishing Director of Hollywood & Vine Books. She recently produced and directed the documentary “H.U.S.H.,” about Hollywood’s Uncovered Sexual Harassment. Media includes: BBC World News, CBS Los Angeles, Style Magazine, 89.3FM South California Public Radio.