“Hannah Arendt: Between Worlds” a New Podcast Produced and Edited by Lisa

Arts / Audio / interview / Podcast Production

Listen here. In recent years many people have turned to the work of Hannah Arendt to try to understand what is happening in our world today. But who was Hannah Arendt? And why is she so relevant now? Over the course of seven podcast episodes, Samantha Rose Hill will be talking with artists, poets, writers, scholars, musicians, and activists who think with Hannah Arendt as they explore questions of solitude, peace, privacy, freedom, love, and politics. This podcast series was produced …

New Podcast for Bowdoin College by Lisa

Audio / Podcast Production

Listen here. Bowdoin Presents is a podcast produced by Bowdoin College that addresses current topics being considered in our classrooms, around our campus, and across culture and society. Season one of Bowdoin Presents is centered on topics related to democracy. Guests include subject matter experts who are Bowdoin alumni, faculty, students, staff, or other members of the Bowdoin community in conversation with journalist Lisa Bartfai.

WHY COVID-19 GOES FROM JAILS TO COMMUNITIES

70 Million / Audio / independent / Podcast Production

Listen here. This special roundtable of experts looks at how policing and incarceration practices are impacting COVID-19 rates in BIPOC communities around the country.  Because being jailed means an increased risk of getting COVID-19, those released might unknowingly bring the virus home, putting their loved ones and communities at risk. Our editor, Jen Chien, moderates the conversation with Nicole Lewis, senior editor of the jurisprudence section at Slate Magazine, Eric Reinhart, medical anthropologist, psychoanalyst and resident physician at Northwestern University, …

Silver – 2021 SFJ Excellence-in-Features awards

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Second place: Alexander Adams, Lisa Bartfai and Pamela Kirkland, LWC Studios – Lantigua Williams & Co., “70 Million: Season 3”Judge’s comments: This is a well-researched podcast – numerous facts and complicated issues are explained – but it’s done in such a way that manages to be both informative and entertaining. Read the full list of Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features recipients here.

Lisa honored to be a Report for America Mentor

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Report for America is a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. An initiative of the nonprofit media organization, The GroundTruth Project, it is structured to harness the skills and idealism of an emerging group of journalists plus the creative spirit of local news organizations. Corps members receive training to prepare them for the year ahead by world-class editors, technologists, academics and other supporters of the future of journalism, plus continued …

Luisa Neubauer on Dreaming as a Tool for Change

55 Voices for Democracy / Audio / Podcast Production

Listen here. The societal state as a crisis of imagination? German climate activist Luisa Neubauer is one of the main organizers of Fridays for Future in Germany, an international student movement demanding political action against climate change. In this episode, Neubauer talks about her activism and the momentum of the movement, climate awareness in the U.S. and Germany, and dreaming as a tool for change. “On the one side, we have to accept the catastrophes that are going to unravel. But on …

Keisha N. Blain on African American History and Selective Memory

55 Voices for Democracy / Audio / Podcast Production

Listen here. Historian Keisha N. Blain, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the African American Intellectual History Society, recently co-edited the acclaimed book Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 with her colleague Ibram X. Kendi. In this episode, Blain talks about how to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the pivotal moment in 1619, when the first group of twenty African captives arrived on “The White Lion” in Jamestown, Virginia. In her conversation with hosts …

Meet Lynnette Coney

1 in 5 podcast / Audio / Podcast Production

Listen here. Lynnette Coney had always dreamed of working in healthcare, but her educational journey was full of starts and stops. With multiple family caretaking responsibilities on her plate, support with childcare, parenting, and financial planning was critical. Reporter Lisa Bartfai details Lynnette’s setbacks and successes on her way to becoming a nurse.  Download and share the resource guide based on this episode here. You can read the episode transcript here. For more information on 1 in 5, click here.

John S. Adams on Donations as Threats for Democracies (Special Episode)

55 Voices for Democracy / Audio / Podcast Production

Listen here. In this special episode of our podcast, the award-winning investigative and political reporter John S. Adams talks about money, politics and its effect on democracy. While there was always “money in politics,” the practice of political donations has become a substantial threat to liberal democracies. “In the last several years, the flood gates have really opened,” states Adams in his conversation with hosts Tom Zoellner and Aida Baghernejad. What are the real motivations behind these donations and what …

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