Cathead Conversations

Ginger talks about her various projects in film-making, her experience at CAT and elsewhere and the future of robots and artificial intelligence.

Matt is so CAT that I made him the cover photo for the podcast. These interviews just keep getting better but I don't know how anyone can top this. Matt is a polished speaker and he talks about art, teaching and the art of creating controversy to drive engagement.

Alyssa talks about CAT and how it prepared her for college. She has valuable insight about the transition from high school to college and interesting reflections on differences between SF and New Orleans.

Shari talks about the history and evolution of CAT and how she earns the trust of her students. It is also very much a history lesson and a dialogue about the impact that CAT had on our careers.

Ben talks about his journey through education and experiences at CAT. We talk a bit about cell phones and the challenges they present in the classroom and about history and the future.

Daniel was one of the best leaders I've worked for in all my years. He is as much of a deep thinker, skilled communicator and active doer as anyone I've known, so I was really lucky to get him to come on and share his reflections on CAT and his views on education in general.

Tee and I talk about her experiences at CAT and about race from our different perspectives. She brings an interesting lens as a student with a powerful voice that didn't feel like that voice necessarily came out at school.

Tim talks about life, wisdom, his children's book and rides 8 miles with 2 children in tow while I sit on my chair. We talk about education and he points out how people of all different backgrounds relate through struggles and trauma.

Cres talks to me about his experiences at CAT and UCLA and since graduating college. He has valuable things to say about social media and what he shares about the transition from CAT to college is incredibly important. Not to place blame on CAT, but, at least imo, to draw attention to a major challenge in addressing systemic racism within our academic institutions.

Thai was nice enough to chat with me about a recent facebook post where he cautioned people about using the word ethnic to refer to anything that's not white. It was a very interesting conversation about identity and humanizing people who've been dehumanized.