The Chicago Humanities Festival announced it’s shaking things up with its leadership structure, hiring two co-creative directors.

Reset sits down with the directors to discuss the change and what CHF has planned for its fall programming and beyond.

Host: Natalie Moore

Producer: Andrew Meriwether

Guest: Michael Green, Lauren M. Pacheco

The Lesbian Bar Project listed only 21 lesbian bars in the country two years ago, and none were in Chicago.

Reset looks at why there are so few queer women focused spaces in the city and how they are evolving.

Host: Natalie Moore

Producer: Brenda Ruiz

Guest: Renauda Riddle, Angela Barnes, Zoe Schor, Hannah Viti

With the start of school on the horizon, many parents are concerned about how the upcoming school year will affect their child’s mental health. From the pandemic to the return of in-person learning, students have many stressors in their lives. So what conversations should parents be having with their children ahead of back-to-school?

Reset learns more from a child psychologist and a trauma therapist, two panelists from WBEZ and Illinois Latino News’ community conversation on Chicago student mental health.

Host: Natalie Moore

Producer: Marie Mendoza

Guest: Tara Gill, Lucia Del Rincon Martinez

Hundreds of thousands of local students prepare to return to school, while politicians head to Springfield for the Illinois State Fair.

Reset goes behind the week’s headlines in the Weekly News Recap.

Host: Natalie Moore

Producer: Andrea Guthmann

Guest: Sarah Karp, Heather Cherone, Ray Long

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Meha Ahmad

Guest: Dennis Rodkin

Students across the country are already flocking to college campuses for the school year, and most schools are easing COVID restrictions. For some, this comes as a relief—but for others, a maskless campus seems daunting.

Reset sits down with an education reporter and University of Illinois administrator to hear what schools are doing.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Sarah Stark, Daniel Tucker

Guest: Elissa Nadworny, Robert Jones

Asi Asi began as a new iteration of Fernando de Buen Lopez’s old band La Manana. De Buen Lopez, the group’s lead songwriter, spent the entire pandemic working on the band’s debut album, which comes out August 19th. The 8-track record blends elements of rock, dance, and Latin music together to create their own unique sound.

Reset checks in with Asi Asi ahead of their record-release show at the Hideout.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Marie Mendoza, Ethan Schwabe

Guest: Fernando De Buen Lopez

An AP-NORC poll released on Monday shows that In three years, the number of Americans polled who believe that their actions can slow climate change dropped from 66% to 52%. The poll also shows that the eco-friendly actions that people take are often motivated by finance, rather than environmental concerns.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guest: John Kotcher, Kim Cobb

In Chicago, 2,400 kids lost parents to gun violence over a five-year period, according to an analysis by the Washington Post.

Reset hears from a reporter who talked with kids and their families to explore this little-discussed facet of America’s gun violence epidemic.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Daniel Tucker

Guest: John Woodrow Cox, Oji Eggleston

Currently, survivors of domestic and sexual violence have to navigate a maze to access protective responses and services to help them meet their immediate physical needs and to heal in the longrun. But one Chicago advocate is working to centralize these services in one location called CAN Hope.

Reset checks in with the advocate behind this project to learn more.

Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

Producer: Lynnea Domienik

Guest: Char Rivette