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This week the Hamilton College community lost a truly great member of its family with the death of Civil Rights activist Robert Moses. As a way to honor him, we share the audio of an on-campus event he did for the Days-Massolo Center in February 2019. Hear him talk about his work in the movement, the role education—particularly math education—played in it and the critical role it still plays today.

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From Circle Jerk, to Ratatouille: The Tik Tok Musical, to This American Wife, it’s been a wild ride of a year for producer, writer and performer Michael Breslin. He joins the show this week to talk about all of his recent success and how the theater program at Hamilton College put him on this path.

Learn more about Michael’s work: https://www.michaelstevenbreslin.com/

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Comedian Gabe Mollica joins this week to share what it’s like working in NYC as a stand up. He talks about how he got into comedy, how lessons learned at Hamilton College help him today, and how starting a podcast has helped him reconnect with people he hasn’t spoken to in a decade.

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Award winning journalist Edvige Jean-François was a driving force behind the creation of the very special “We Are Hamilton” issue of Hamilton Magazine. This week she joins to talk about the creation of the issue, the importance of amplifying the voices of black members of the Hamilton community and how working on the magazine helped her reconnect with her Hamilton experience.

Read the “We Are Hamilton” issue of Hamilton Magazine, edited by Edvige

Hear more about her career on Paid By The Word

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In the recent edition of Hamilton magazine, Michael Tennant writes, “The healing we are looking for might need to start from within.” This week he talks to Dave about how his quest for healing put him on a path to helping others find that healing and begin spreading empathy.

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This week’s guest Kat McGrory says watchdog journalism is critical to help local newspapers hold those in power accountable for their actions. That’s something she’s done so well in her career, she recently won a Pulitzer for her work in exposing questionable policing tactics by a local sheriff.

Hear the Deputy Editor of Investigations at the Tampa Bay Times talk about her work and the role her liberal arts education played in her career.

Read Kat’s Pulitzer winning work

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When Gillian Zucker heard Steve Ballmer was buying the LA Clippers she knew being President of the team would be the perfect job for her. This week she shares insight into her career through professional sports, how she landed her current job, and what it’s like as one of the highest ranking women in professional sports.

This episode was recorded as a live event. Please consider donating to Hamilton College as part of this event.

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Sarah Damaske is a sociologist, a professor, and an author. This week she tells Dave there is nothing else she’d rather be doing. During this great conversation we hear about Sarah’s path to discovering her calling as a sociologist (via a major in Comparative Literature) and we hear about her new book The Tolls of Uncertainty, which takes a deep look at the unemployment system in America.

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Like many first year college students Derek Brand thought everyone else had it figured out.  Over the course of his time at the school playing rugby and studying abroad he came to understand that few people had it figured out. This week Dave welcomes Derek, his classmate and former rugby teammate for a chat that explores Derek’s journey to becoming the Chief Operating Officer for New York Bio, the leading advocate for the bioscience industry in the State of New York.

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Fresh off completing a year that saw her team manage Hamilton’s COVID testing program and plan Commencement in a condensed timeline, Lisa Magnarelli joins to talk about her unique Hamilton experience. Lisa discovered the possibility of a career as a college administrator as a student intern in Hamilton’s Student Activities office and when she returned to the school twenty years ago she described it as coming home. This is a fun chat with someone who has dedicated almost their entire adult life to Hamilton.