Today our guest is Lydia Cotton. She serves as the North Charleston-Hispanic Liaison, City Of Charleston-Latino Ambassador, Mayors' Commission on Homelessness, and on the Commission on Women's City of Charleston

Today we spoke with Dr. Ann Eisenberg. 

Professor Eisenberg is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law.  Her research applies the lens of law and political economy to rural marginalization, examining how law, policy, and public institutions influence rural economic opportunity. 

 Her work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous law journals and book chapters, including the Southern California Law Review, the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Boston College Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review.  In the fall of 2020, the University of South Carolina TEDx selected Professor Eisenberg to give a talk entitled, “Reviving Rural America.” 

Her book project by the same name is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2022.  

In today's episode, we had the pleasure to sit down with Victoria Smalls, the Executive Director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. 

Today, we sit down with University of South Carolina Medical Students Alyssa Campanelli, Katherine Kelly, and Bryce Jerin. We discuss their journey through medical school during the pandemic, the health needs of rural areas, and much more. 

Today, we sit down with Dr. Saundra Glover, State Director for SC Rural Development within the US Department of Agriculture. We discuss the history of rural development, current initiatives, and what it means to Grow Rural.

Today, we speak with Dr. Nick Patel, Chief Digital Officer at PRISMA and Vice Chair at University of South Carolina. We discuss new ways to think about technology in rural healthcare, closing care gaps, and using outreach to improve delivery.

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This week, we sit down with Dr. Brittany Rainwater, clinical psychologist at the McLeod Medical Center in Florence. We discuss integrated behavioral health, care models, and the future as we continue to adjust to the COVID pandemic.

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Today, we sit down with Amy Splittgerber and Amanda Metzger of Healthy Learners. We discuss identifying the health needs of children both before and during the COVID pandemic, reaching them where they are to meet those needs, and expanding services to help more children in more places.

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This week, we sit down with three pediatricians within the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and PRISMA Health: Dr. R. Caughman Taylor, Dr. C. Osbourne Shuler, and Dr. Heather Staples.

We discuss outreach clinics, subspecialty programs, and the sudden but long-lasting changes brought about by COVID.

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• Dr. Taylor

It's Here! A very special episode to look back on the conversations we've had so far, and the ones still to come. Please enjoy a super cut of answers to the question we ask all our guests: "what does rural mean to you?"