Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory where she researches malign narratives online. She has advised Congress, the State Department and many other institutions. She also writes for the Atlantic, Wired and many other publications.

Harvard Professor Dr.Zoe Marks explains why countries led by women have suffered six times lower death rates than those led by men.

Megan Greene is a renowned economist who has gained worldwide attention, correctly predicting Greece's financial crisis. She has advised central banks and governments in the US, Europe, and Japan. In this episode, she breaks down why this deal is historic and what is so unique about it.

Dr. Dan Barouch is leading Harvard's efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine together with Johnson and Johnson. In today’s conversation, we sat down to talk about what this journey has been like, how we get to the finish line, and when we will finally get a vaccine.

Sharon Block directs the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, which focuses on the world of work and its impacts on society. She has had a long career in public service, including eight years working for the Obama White House.

In this episode, she talks about the workers who had to choose between losing their job and being exposing to coronavirus and why the system failed to protect them.

On this episode Megan Ming Francis discusses the abolition movement and, in conversation with Paloma Strelitz, calls on us to imagine a world without police.

Megan Ming Francis is a visiting associate professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. She specializes in the study of American politics with interests in criminal punishment, black political activism, philanthropy and the post-civil war south. Francis is the author of the award-winning book, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State.  

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning historian whose work focuses on human rights and social movements. He teaches at Harvard Kennedy School and was also a founding member of President Obama’s LGBT Leadership Council. In this episode, he discusses the importance of this moment, activism in times of social media and why this is a protest like no other.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad discusses the context behind calls to defund the police, systemic racism and America’s urgent need for criminal justice reform.

Harvard President, Larry Bacow, talks candidly about leading the University through Covid, why the endowment is more complicated than we think, and the future of education.

Cornell William Brooks is the former president of the NAACP. He is a civil rights attorney, an ordained minister and a professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice at the Harvard Kennedy School.