The Arik Korman Show

Anya Kamenetz is the lead digital education correspondent for NPR. She has worked as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine, and has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine.

Anya has won multiple awards for her reporting on education, technology, and innovation. She is the author of three books on education and technology: Generation Debt, DIY U, and The Test.

Her latest book is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media & Real Life. Anya was in the Northwest to speak at Phinney Center, presented by Town Hall Seattle and Phinney Neighborhood Association as part of the Civics series.

Sang-Hee Lee is a professor of anthropology and associate dean of the college of humanities, arts, and social sciences at University of California Riverside. Her research is multidisciplinary in nature, bridging biology and anthropology. Her approach is focused on “excavating” new knowledge by rephrasing a question, redefining a concept, and developing innovative methods—all in ways that make it possible to get empirical information from fossil data that have not been possible before.

Professor Lee’s new book is Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species.

She was in the Northwest to speak at the Greenwood Senior Center, presented by Town Hall as part of the Science series.

Charlie Lybecker is the co-founder and winemaker of Cairdeas Winery. Cairdeas is an ancient Gaelic word meaning friendship, goodwill, or alliance. Cairdeas is a very small artisan winery started in 2009 by Charlie and his wife, Lacey. Info at CairdeasWinery.com

Cairdeas Winery is featured at Taste Washington, celebrating 21 years of talented winemakers, award-winning chefs, educational seminars and fan-favorite events. This year’s Taste Washington festival line-up has grown even bigger with more options to sip, taste and learn about Washington wine and food. Don’t miss the Grand Tasting this Saturday and Sunday at the Century Link Field Event Center. Info at TasteWashington.org

Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor at Yale Law School. She is a noted expert in the fields of ethnic conflict and globalization, and the author of the bestselling books World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, co-written with Jed Rubenfeld.

Amy’s new book is Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. She was in the Northwest to speak at University Lutheran Church, presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Civics series.

Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and the best sellers Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, and Locked in the Cabinet.

His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is co-creator of the award-winning film Inequality for All, and is also chair of the national governing board of Common Cause.

Secretary Reich’s latest book is The Common Good. Follow him on Twitter @RBReich.

Nadine Burke Harris is a passionate advocate for children’s health, with four boys of her own. She is the founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point. She is the subject of a New Yorker profile and the recipient of a Heinz Award. Her TED talk, “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across the Lifetime” has been viewed over three million times.

Dr. Burke Harris’ new book is The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. Follow her @DrBurkeHarris

David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump. He has lectured on economics, journalism, and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica, and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors. He teaches at Syracuse University College of Law.

David has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now, and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, among other shows, and was a consultant for the Netflix series House of Cards.

His newest book is It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America. David was in the Northwest to speak at The Summit on Pike, presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the Civics Series.

Award-winning American tenor Ben Bliss has been singing professionally since his 2011 debut with the Los Angeles Opera, and has performed with world-class companies and in recital throughout the US and in Europe. He was a young artist at the LA Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and first became exposed to the operatic art form while watching his mother sing in the chorus of the Kansas City Lyric Opera.

Ben is in the Northwest for the Seattle Opera’s performance of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, running through January 27. Info at SeattleOpera.org and BenBlessTenor.com

Dr. Eliezer Sternberg is a resident neurologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has a background in neuroscience and philosophy, and is interested in how brain research can unlock the mysteries of consciousness and decision-making.

Dr. Sternberg is the author of three books, including Are You a Machine?, My Brain Made Me Do It, and most recently NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior.

Follow him on Twitter @EJSternberg

Eugenia Cheng was tenured in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, and is the Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2007, her YouTube videos explaining mathematical concepts have been viewed more than 8 million times.

Dr. Cheng is a trained concert pianist and trilingual in French, English and Mandarin. She is the author of How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics. Her new book is Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics.

Follow Dr. Cheng @DrEugeniaCheng