How To Welcome A Refugee- Christina Psarra of Doctors Without Borders

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Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe and to start a new life. Christina Psarra of Doctors Without Borders gives up everything to help them. The only thing she knows for months at a time is the arrival of refugee after refugee after refugee.

So what’s left over for her? The other side of the refugee story is the stress for the aid workers and their 24/7 schedule. And with Christina putting so much of herself into her work, what does it take not to burn out and what keeps her coming back? Listen to our conversation.

Learn more life as a refugee at ForcedFromHome.com

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

Nancy Santiago Negrón, Opportunity Finance Network

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Nancy Santiago Negrón is the Chief External Affairs officer at the Opportunity Finance Network--an organization that brings together lending institutions that "benefit low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities across the nation." She shares her vision for OFN along with her work at the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor to improve the well-being of women who serve and have served in the military.

NANCY SANTIAGO NEGRÓN

Jennifer Harris, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

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Pentagon and related budgets will account for more than half of all federal discretionary spending--almost $600 billion in 2015. That's roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined--while non-defense related spending continues to shrink. How much are we getting for those billions? And more to the point, what are we losing? Jennifer Harris, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to Hillary Clinton during her tenure in the State Dept-- has co-authored a book called "War by Other Means. Geoeconomics and Statecraft" proposing new prescriptions for how the government spends our money. 

JENNIFER HARRIS