Chris Staros


Chris Staros is publisher and editor of Top Shelf Productions, former president of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and author of Yearbook Stories, 1976–1978 (Top Shelf). Producer: Jon-Barrett IngelsManager: Sarah BeckerHost: Jon-Barrett IngelsGuest: Christ Staros

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Libby Flores


Libby Flores is a writer and program manager at PEN Center USA's Emerging Voices Fellowship and Craft Sessions. Producer: Jon-Barrett IngelsManager: Sarah BeckerHost: Jon-Barrett IngelsGuest: Libby Flores

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Karen Cushman


Karen Cushman is the author of children's historical fiction novels such as the Newbery Award winner The Midwife's Apprentice (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the Newbery Honor book Catherine, Called Birdy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the recently-released fantasy novel Grayling's Song (Houghton...

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Krys Lee


Krys Lee is author of the short story collection Drifting House (Viking, Penguin Random House) and the forthcoming novel How I Became a North Korean (Viking, Penguin Random House). She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story...

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Aimee Bender


Aimee Bender. Aimee is the author of five books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful...

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Joe Pan


Joe Pan is a poet, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, Fiction Editor for the arts magazine Hyperallergic, Small Press Editor for Boog City, author of books such as Hiccups (Augury Books) and Autobiomythography & Gallery (BAP), and founder of...

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Conversations highlighting the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for confronting issues in our communities while collectively progressing toward a more equitable future.

Produced with Orange County Grantmakers with support from Orange County Community Foundation.

A program concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations carried out against communities or populations on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

Supported by the California State Library.

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University is committed to leading the conversation in our community on issues of humanity, unity and justice. As such, the college has undertaken, semester-long examinations of key societal issues.

These interdisciplinary conversations promote thoughtful dialogue; mindful reflection; social tolerance; awareness and respect; peace and kindness.

Documenting process and purpose, this interdisciplinary series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of visual, performing, and literary arts at the intersection of technology, science, history, and health.

Medium History explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation.

Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures.

An education program that considers unresolved symptoms of The Fire Problem.

This special podcast series will examine and explain underlying challenges and vulnerabilities with our climate, environment, politics, and vegetation.