Trinity School NYC Podmissum

Trinity School NYC Podmissum

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Trinity School NYC Podmissum episodes

  • Faculty author Monique Duncan

    This podcast features Lower School Learning Specialist Monique Duncan who has been at Trinity since 2017. Monique is dedicated to influencing youth positively through education and advocacy. She writes and illustrates multicultural children's stories that inspire, amuse, and foster a love of reading, while reflecting images and experiences with which children of diverse cultures can identify. She aims to help cultivate their understanding of themselves, their communities, and the world around them. Monique is passionate about representation in children's literature and wants Black children to feel affirmed when reading her stories. Her most recent book is When Mama Braids My Hair, which describes a young girl's experience of having her hair braided and the bond it creates with her mother. In 2019, When Mama Braids My Hair was nominated for an Ezra Jack Keats Award. It was also selected for the Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices 2019 best-of-the-year list, and it was featured on the PBS series, Let's Learn. 

    46 min
  • Alumnus author Vincent Katz class of 1978
    This podcast features Vincent Katz class of 1978. Vincent is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul and Previous Glances: an intense togetherness. He won the 2005 National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association, for his book of translations from Latin, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius. He was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome for 2001-2002. Vincent has done book collaborations with artists, including James Brown, Rudy Burckhardt, Francesco Clemente, Wayne Gonzales, and Alex Katz, and with poets, including Anne Waldman. He writes frequently on contemporary art and has published reviews, articles, and essays on a wide range of visual artists, including Ghada Amer and Reza Farkondeh, Jennifer Bartlett, Janet Fish, Nabil Nahas, Kiki Smith, Beat Streuli, and Cy Twombly. He curated a museum exhibition about Black Mountain College and he curated "Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt" for the Museum of the City of New York.
    1 hr 5 min
  • Alumnus author Vincent Katz class of 1978
    This podcast features Vincent Katz class of 1978. Vincent is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul and Previous Glances: an intense togetherness. He won the 2005 National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association, for his book of translations from Latin, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius. He was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome for 2001-2002. Vincent has done book collaborations with artists, including James Brown, Rudy Burckhardt, Francesco Clemente, Wayne Gonzales, and Alex Katz, and with poets, including Anne Waldman. He writes frequently on contemporary art and has published reviews, articles, and essays on a wide range of visual artists, including Ghada Amer and Reza Farkondeh, Jennifer Bartlett, Janet Fish, Nabil Nahas, Kiki Smith, Beat Streuli, and Cy Twombly. He curated a museum exhibition about Black Mountain College and he curated "Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt" for the Museum of the City of New York.
    1 hr 5 min
  • Alumna author Katherine "Kitty" Harvey class of 1999

    This podcast features alumna author Katherine "Kitty" Harvey class of 1999. Kitty is an adjunct assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is also on the board of advisors at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from King's College London. Previously, she served as an intelligence officer in the US Navy, with tours in the Middle East, Europe, and at sea. Her book is A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq, an exploration into why the Saudis refused to engage with Iraq's post-2003 Shia-led government, despite continual outreach by Iraq's new leaders and considerable pressure from the United States.

    42 min
  • Alumna author Katherine "Kitty" Harvey class of 1999

    This podcast features alumna author Katherine "Kitty" Harvey class of 1999. Kitty is an adjunct assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is also on the board of advisors at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from King's College London. Previously, she served as an intelligence officer in the US Navy, with tours in the Middle East, Europe, and at sea.  Her book is A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq, an exploration into why the Saudis refused to engage with Iraq's post-2003 Shia-led government, despite continual outreach by Iraq's new leaders and considerable pressure from the United States.

    42 min
  • Alumnus author Mark Prins class of 2007
    This podcast features alumnus author Mark Prins class of 2007. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Mark has received fellowships from the Truman Capote Trust, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. Previously, he studied literature at Williams College and Exeter College, Oxford. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His debut novel is The Latinist, a modern retelling of the myth of Daphne and Apollo set in the lofty world of cutthroat academia.
    53 min
  • Alumnus author Mark Prins class of 2007
    This podcast features alumnus author Mark Prins class of 2007. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Mark has received fellowships from the Truman Capote Trust, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. Previously, he studied literature at Williams College and Exeter College, Oxford. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His debut novel is The Latinist, a modern retelling of the myth of Daphne and Apollo set in the lofty world of cutthroat academia. 
    53 min
  • Alumna author Sophie Brickman class of 2002
    This podcast features alumna author Sophie Brickman class of 2002. Sophie is a writer, journalist, and editor whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Best Food Writing compilation, and the Best American Science Writing compilation, among other publications. She is currently a columnist at the Guardian. Her book is Baby, Unplugged, which explores the intersection of parenting and technology.

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    47 min
  • Alumna author Sophie Brickman class of 2002
    This podcast features alumna author Sophie Brickman class of 2002. Sophie is a writer, journalist, and editor whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Best Food Writing compilation, and the Best American Science Writing compilation, among other publications. She is currently a columnist at the Guardian.  Her book is Baby, Unplugged, which explores the intersection of parenting and technology.

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    • Purchase the app for iOS (download Podcast Box and purchase Podmissum in-app).
    • Purchase the app for Android that you may download to your device.
    47 min
  • Faculty author Justin Gohde
    This podcast features Head of Computer Science Justin Gohde, who has been teaching math and computer science for more than twenty years. He oversees Trinity's computer science curriculum and programs, including a design lab makerspace with a wide collection of rapid prototyping tools for supporting computer science, robotics, and other STEAM-focused projects. His book is Programming with OpenSCAD: A Beginner's Guide to Coding 3D-Printable Objects, a learn-to-code book that introduces core computational thinking concepts through the design of 3D-printable objects.

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    40 min

About Trinity School NYC Podmissum

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Podmissum, is the podcast series of Trinity School in New York City, a diverse community of learning creating engaged and inspired citizens since 1709. Trinity is a k-12, independent, coeducational school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. These podcasts highlight innovative education programs, explore k-12 education initiatives, and share the presentations of compelling speakers from within and from outside the Trinity community through interviews, guest speakers, documentaries, performances, athletic competitions, and other events at the School. We invite you to explore this library and subscribe to our audio show, the Trinity School Podmissum, through iTunes or by adding this URL (http://podcasts.trinityschoolnyc.org/rss) to your feed reader.