Fear & Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Hochschild, author of "Strangers in Their Own Land"
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Arlie Hochschild has been called "one of the most imaginative and productive feminist sociologists of the last thirty years." She's written a number of books including The Second Shift, The Time Bind and The Outsourced Self. She's a professor emerita at UC Berkeley and lately she's been spending her time trying to understand the rise of the American Right–the only way that she could do that was to leave her Berkeley bubble and go to Louisiana to meet the real people of the Tea Party, not the caricatures. She shares her five year journey in her new book "Strangers in Their Own Land. Anger and Mourning on the American Right".
ARLIE HOCHSCHILD
Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas co-Founders Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel, of Berkeleyside
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Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel are the co-founders of the "hyper-local" news site Berkeleyside.com and Uncharted, The Berkeley Festival of Ideas. We discuss the difference between having power and having ideas, and how the Uncharted line up is diverse by design, unlike other conferences which lean toward the usual (white, male) speakers. Listen in on iTunes or NPR One.
Tickets are on sale at berkeleyideas.com. Uncharted 2016 runs October 14th and 15th in Berkeley. I'll be talking with author Ruth Whippman on Saturday the 15th.
TRACEY TAYLOR
LANCE KNOBEL
Peace In Our Lifetime? Margarita Quihuis, Co-Director of Stanford Peace Innovation Lab
Using behavior design techniques and persuasive technology (like the kind that keeps you scrolling through your social feed), Margarita Quihuis and her team at BJ Fogg's Stanford Peace Innovation Lab are working out how to incentivize peace over destruction, and collaboration over conflict through "positive peace." Listen on iTunes and NPR One.
MARGARITA QUIHUIS
Kate Schatz, author of "Rad Women Worldwide"
Meet the author of "Rad Women Worldwide," Kate Schatz. She tells us why she is vocal about being a feminist, and we discuss how her books are changing perceptions about who gets to go down in history as extraordinary. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
KATE SCHATZ
Joan Blades & John Gable, Bringing Civil Conversations to Schools
Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising.org and Living Room Conversations.org, to provide a guide for meaningful conversations between people with different views. Now, she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on an initiative called AllSides for Schools to bring civilized conversations about controversial topics to the classroom. We talk about why students need these tools now and what these conversations were like in high school for Joan and John.
JOAN BLADES
JOHN GABLE
Amy Whitaker, author of "Art Thinking"
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How do we make space for innovation in our personal and professional lives? Move from a productivity-based metric to one that makes room for other measures of success. Amy Whitaker has written the book "Art Thinking. How to carve out creative space in a world of schedules, budgets and bosses." She tells us how a major shift in her personal life led her from business school to art school--and ultimately to write this book.
AMY WHITAKER
Photo by: Sheiva Rezvani
Roz Hudnell, Intel–Gender & Racial Diversity in Tech
Meet one woman leading the charge to literally change the face of technology by bringing in more women and people of color to the industry--starting as early as elementary school. Roz Hudnell is VP of Corporate Affairs at Intel, and President of Intel Foundation. She is also one of the few senior African-American women at the company--and she is on a mission to change that too.
A clarification from the intro to this piece: Intel’s $300 million Diversity in Technology initiative aims to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in its U.S. workforce by 2020. In addition, Intel has the goal of achieving $1 billion in annual spending by 2020 with diverse suppliers.
Roz Hudnell
Morgan Shanahan, BuzzFeed Parents
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Morgan Shanahan, a founding editor of BuzzFeed Parents makes visitors laugh daily about parenting challenges, yet she has suffered from maternal mental illness for most of her child's life. She tells us this is the "number one complication of pregnancy" and shares her story to help others who may be experiencing the same--as well as explains how this has helped her create some of the funniest content on the parenting internet.
MORGAN SHANAHAN
Vivien Labaton, Ending the "Lady Tax"
We've heard a lot about making things easier for families this election season, but the cost of childcare is still higher than college tuition in some states. Vivien Labaton has founded an advocacy organization called Make it Work to influence policies in support of paid family leave, equal pay and affordable childcare. She shares her personal story of growing up with a single dad, and what she experienced when her own child was born.
VIVIEN LABATON