Technology has been influential in many aspects of our lives. Host, Jennifer Price, talks with Dr. Rod Berger about its effects in education as well as its future. While some educators have been receptive to technology's accessibility; others have not. Dr. Berger discusses some of his research about technology in education and where the future lies. 

Host, Jennifer O. Price, talks with Professor Ken Zeichner of the University of Washington about community schools.  In this discussion, Professor Zeichner makes the case for why teachers should utilize community leaders in teachers' continuing education curriculum to enable them to become better teachers.

John E. Wetzel is the Secretary for the Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections.  I spoke with Secretary Wetzel about some of the programming the DOC has to connect the inmates with their children and what the DOC is doing, legislatively, to effectuate change. Available now. Rate and review on iTunes!

Anna Hollis is the Executive Director of Amachi Pittsburgh, the local chapter of Amachi. Amachi Pittsburgh works with a unique network of secular and faith-based partners to strategically provide encouragement, guidance, and support to children with an incarcerated parent. Hear about their programming and what brought Anna to this line of work in the first place. 

Professor Elizabeth Mansley created The Storybook Project, a project that connects children to their incarcerated parents through books. The inmates record the books and send them home for their children to read over and over again.  Listen to how this project has transformed Professor Mansley, her students, and the inmates.

Vanessa Brantley-Newton is a children's book illustrator who used her love of drawing as an outlet to pursue her creativity.  Vanessa had disabilities that challenged her as a child, but she always enjoyed drawing.  Fast forward some years into adulthood, hear how Vanessa has become a celebrated children's book illustrator and how her southern roots affected her journey. 

Vivian L. Croft always loved writing and used it as a creative outlet emotionally and intellectually. When she moved to Pittsburgh, she noticed a missing element in the city - a creative writing outlet for young girls. Finding a problem, she created a solution. Listen to her story of starting the nonprofit, Girls Write PGH, and the journey of how she got there.  

Professor Louis Picard of the University of Pittsburgh has partnered with his wife to create the ASA Social Fund which focuses on raising money for the needs of children, primarily from Uganda, Africa. Hear how the money is used projects, from named scholarships to infrastructure development for the homes. Listen to how these two change makers are leading the charge towards social change in Uganda, incorporating students from the University of Pittsburgh.

Criminal defense attorney, Mark Rubenstein, created a nonprofit titled Pittsburgh Youth Leadership where he cycles with underprivileged students from Pittsburgh and beyond.  His challenging cycling routes have included trips across state lines into Ohio and New York, as well as cross-country trips.  Hear the way he has changed the life and outlook on the kids and how they have done the same to him. 

Podcast host, Jennifer Oneal Price, interviews Bibhuti Aryal, the founder and CEO of Rukmini Foundation.  The Rukmini Foundation is a foundation that educates girls in Nepal, Bibhuti's originating country.  In this interview, they talk about the Foundation, Bibhuti's motivations for starting it, and why it's such an important foundation, locally, domestically, and internationally.