Yes we get to talk to scientists too... We spoke with Neuroscientist Dr.

Doug Steel about the effects of full-spectrum light on sleep patterns, mental health

and behavior. Tip: get a night-time screen filter app for your phone.

For more info on Doug Steel, visit: http://www.neuro-sense.com

Stephanie Skora and Ellen Mayer, authors of "Girl I Guess", a progressive voter guide to 2018 elections, joined Jill Hopkins to discuss why you should vote... even if you're not too excited about it.

To view their guide, follow the link here-

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YSCeWltWZ51HFchtPSadTHl4KIqCA_BRdJBPO1hOtAo/preview#heading=h.kqjdbsg6tsz9

Delia Kropp, an actor, director, and transgender advocate joined Jill

Hopkins in the studio to promote two projects essential to fighting back against the

trans erasure begun by this presidential administration. TRANS SCRIPTS has its

premiere Chicago reading, at Theatre Wit for About Face Theatre, November 18, at 5

pm. This is a rare stage event for Chicago audiences: seven trans women’s tales told

entirely in their own words – and brought to life exclusively by transgender actors.

LANDLOCKED tells the story of Nick, who reunites with his estranged, transgender

father to scatter his mother's ashes off the coast of Georgia. Set against the

backdrop of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, LANDLOCKED subtly and thoughtfully

examines the Evangelical church's tenuous relationship with marginalized communities

as dramatized through the fraught family dynamics of Nick and Briana.

Studio B is a workplace comedy about a Chicago-based recording studio that

is struggling to make a comeback. Some of the cast and crew of the web-series

stopped by the studio to talk about the show, and provide some insight on what to

expect moving forward.

Les Innocents/The Innocents is a world premiere theatrical event running

this October. Inspired by a real concert held in the Paris Catacombs in 1897, The

Innocents is an immersive queer thriller for every soul. Creator/Director Ann

Kreitman and a few cast members join the AMp to discuss details.

Founded and established for and by post incarcerated and marginalized Black

people in Chicago, Equity And Transformation strives to uplift the faces, voices,

and power of the vast disenfranchised and excluded Black workforce in Chicago.

Founder Richard Wallace spoke with Jesse Menendez about E.A.T.'s initiative and

upcoming events.

Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) recently released the second edition of

its annual Report on the Status of Chicago’s Women and Girls. The report uses 2016

data from the U.S. Census and Illinois Department of Public Health to track the

Chicago region’s progress towards gender equity. Kyle Ann Sebastian, with Chicago

Foundation for Women joins the Amp to talk about the report.

On November 6th, Illinoisans will decide on a number of offices including

who will be the state’s next Comptroller, Secretary of State, Attorney General,

Governor and more. WBEZ Politics reporter Becky Vevea joins the Amp to tell us about

the candidates and their respective campaigns. She’ll also touch on On Background,

WBEZ’s weekly political podcast and their event On Background: Everything You Wanted

to Know About the 2018 Elections.

Two Black police officers patrol the notorious neighborhood on Chicago’s

long-neglected south-east side known to locals as “Terror Town.” As veteran cops who

“happen to be Black”, these men must navigate the streets, the policies of policing,

and the deeply conflicted roles that they play in the lives of those that they are

supposed to “serve and protect.” Set in 2016, these officers find themselves at

ground zero when long-suppressed evidence surfaces (via the media) illuminating an

officer involved shooting on the very streets that they patrol. Jesse Menendez spoke

with playwright Shepsu Aakhu about the play and the circumstances that spawned it.

Black and Blue is currently being staged at The Greenhouse Theater Center. For more

info, visit: https://www.greenhousetheater.org/blackandblue

Greg Foster-Rice, curator of The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold Exhibit, spoke

with Jesse Menendez about the new art display and gave information on its opening.

The exhibit tells the story of Ralph Arnold, a gay African-American veteran who

expressed his views on gender, sexuality, race, and politics through collage art in

the 1960's-80's. For more information visit: www.mocp.org