A New Angle

This week we bring you #10 in the S.E.A. Change series, an interview with the amazing Joyce Dombrouski. Joyce is Chief Executive for the Montana Service Area for Providence Health & Services. She’s also a newly appointed member of the Montana University System Board of Regents. Joyce and Justin have a far-ranging conversation and ponder the parallel challenges facing health care and higher education in Montana.

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Today’s episode is a special preview of this year’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which runs February 14-23. Executive Director Rachel Gregg (UM 2009, 2011) previews what to expect from this year’s selections and tells us all about the many other great things happening at the Big Sky Documentary Film Institute.

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In this second edition of our new monthly series, Bryce and Justin discuss the Future of Work and digest what we’ve learned on the podcast over the last two weeks. We reflect on Justin’s conversations with Scott Latham (12/31/19) and Michael Punke (1/7/20) and postulate some principles for thinking about our rapidly changing relationship to work and education. Justin also makes a bold promise – that this series will have a name...starting next month.

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Today we bring you a shining example of a #TomorrowProof person – Michael Punke. Michael’s career includes private law practice, a trade policy position in the Clinton administration, an ambassadorship to the WTO under President Obama, and now VP of Global Public Policy for Amazon Web Services. And we haven’t even mentioned the thing for which Michael is perhaps most known – writing the Revenant, among several other great books and screenplays.

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If you’re not concerned about the Future of Work, you’re not paying attention. UMass-Lowell Professor Scott Latham is an expert on the topic. No one can predict what jobs will be lost, created, or transformed by automation, artificial intelligence and other technologies, but Scott helps us understand how we should be thinking about the disruption we’re in.

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In this ninth edition of the S.E.A. Change series, we interview an amazing student. Kat Cowley earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Montana in Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies in 2018 and is now working toward her master of public administration. We discuss her pioneering leadership to establish the Food Pantry at UM as well as her personal experiences with food and housing insecurity.

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Today we click the century mark – 100 episodes of A New Angle – and in so doing, we bring back one of our favorite guests, economist Bryce Ward. In a new monthly series Bryce and Justin will investigate a broad theme: there’s lots going right in our society but something is clearly wrong. We’ll talk about economics, education, technology, health, media, happiness, and occasionally politics. We’ll debate and we’ll learn and hopefully you will too.

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Growth in Western Montana and its effect on our community are recurring themes of A New Angle. In this week’s episode we chat with Grant Kier, Executive Director of Missoula Economic Partnership. Grant’s job is to think hard about this stuff every day. His challenge is to guide, facilitate, and articulate a vision for growth that balances progress with character.

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Laurie Francis is Executive Director of Partnership Health Center, a critical provider of a broad array of health care services in Western Montana. Laurie’s wisdom on the social determinants of health and her conception of innovation in health care offer important clarity in an often murky space.

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In this 8th edition of the S.E.A. Change series, we interview Nichole Heyer, Homeless Education Liaison for Kalispell Public Schools and the Evergreen School District. Nichole is a graduate of the University of Montana's Masters of Social Work program, and was recently honored as the Homeless Education Liaison of the Year by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

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