Category: Interviews

  • Why white liberals need to figure out how to talk about race KUOW.org: 94.9 FM, Seattle News & Information 2017-01-06 By Katherine Banwell & Jamala Henderson Professor Ralina Joseph at the University of Washington says to just start talking about race. University of Washington Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director…

  • Ep.9 – Genetics and Identity Scientifica Radio: a CKUT radio science magazine CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal, Canada 2017-01-27 On today’s episode, Rackeb Tesfaye and Brïte Pauchet explore the link between genetics and identity. Can genetic DNA testing determine our identity? Are they overhyped? Amanda Morgan, a genetic counselling graduate student at McGill University, explains what genetic…

  • A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History Gizmodo 2017-01-17 Rae Paoletta Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. Image: 20th Century Fox/YouTube First, it beat Star Wars: Rogue One. Now, for the second weekend since its wide-release debut, Hidden Figures—the true story of three black female mathematicians at NASA—is number…

  • 98-Year-Old NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson: ‘If You Like What You’re Doing, You Will Do Well’ People 2016-11-04 Caitlin Keating Katherine Johnson thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she’s been alive are “ordinary.” But to the rest of the world, they’re anything but. Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school…

  • Interview with Scenters-Zapico As Us Issue 2 (December 2015) Casandra Lopez, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief “As a poet, I’m interested in what art can be created from the anxieties of being from such a place. What can we create from these experiences? I’m a poet, not a rhetorician—it’s not my place to tell you as a reader…

  • Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritage CBC Radio 2017-01-11 Jesse Kinos-Goodin Author Joseph Boyden addresses the recent controversy surrounding his Indigenous ancestral claims. (Penguin) “A small part of me is Indigenous, but it’s a big part of who I am.” Is Joseph Boyden really Indigenous? It’s a question a lot of people have been…

  • Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. She is the author of The Verging Cities, which won the 2016 Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas FOCO Award, was featured as a top ten debut of…

  • Episode 199 – Michael Tisserand Virtual Memories: The chief of the Inner Station 2017-01-02 Gil Roth, Host “I always feel like Herriman’s a a step ahead of me. When I read Krazy Kat I think I know what I’m reading; the next week I read the same strip and I realize I’m reading something different…

  • BEST OF 2016: 12 on Tuesday with Matthew Braunginn Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-12-21 Henry Sanders Matthew Braunginn A founder of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Matthew Braunginn works to close the achievement gaps as a coordinator with UW’s PEOPLE program. [Since this came out, Braunginn has become the Student Engagement Specialist for the Middleton-Cross…

  • Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga’s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is…