A Podcast Interview with William Cleveland

Interviewers: Thomas Murray, MFA candidate in Theatre's Directing and Public Dialogue program; Sarah Lyon-Hill, PhD candidate in Virginia Tech's Planning, Governance & Globalization program

Podcast Interview with Amy Goldstein

On this episode of Trustees Without Borders, Amy Goldstein discusses her award-winning book Janesville: An American Story and her research in an industrial midwest town in Wisconsin that loses the backbone of its local economy, a General Motors facility, and how community members navigate the job loss and uncertainty that follows.

Amy Goldstein has been an author at The Washington Post for over 30 years, focusing primarily on healthcare and health policy issues. She has also covered the White House and many social policy issues. She is very interested in the intersection of policy and people - how policy affects regular, everyday folks. She has written an award-winning book called Janesville: An American Story, which examines what happens in a factory town when industrial jobs go away. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her national coverage of the September 11th attacks and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative journalistic work in the medical treatment of immigrants who have been detained by the federal government.

Interviewers: Vanessa Guerra, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Design and Planning; Mary Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate in ASPECT

Presented in partnership with VT College of Architecture and Urban Studies; VT School of Public and International Affairs; Urban Affairs and Planning Program @ VT; VT Department of Political Science; VT Graduate School; Institute for Policy and Governance; VT Institute for Society, Culture; and Environment; Outreach and International Affairs at VT; Virginia Cooperative Extension

Podcast Interview with Keryl McCord

In this episode, Keryl McCord asserts that "every theater is community-based," since all stories ultimately are born of, and draw on, human social experience. On this episode of Trustees Without Borders, Keryl reminds us that discrimination and prejudice are persistent forces in human society, and that the arts can play a significant role in creating space and agential possibilities for countering their malignant power.

Keryl McCord is President and CEO of the Equity Quotient, a national training and organizational development firm dedicated to supporting nonprofits interested in becoming more just and equitable community partners, with equity, diversity, and inclusion as outcomes of their work.

Interviewers: Neda Moayerian and Sarah Lyon-Hill, PhD candidates in Virginia Tech's Planning, Governance & Globalization program

Presented in partnership with the Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts

Podcast Interview with Wornie Reed

In this episode of Trustees without Borders, Sociology Professor Wornie Reed discusses the state of racism in the country, especially in the wake of President Trump's 2016 campaign victory, and how to improve current methods of activism.

Dr. Wornie Reed, Professor Emeritus and a professor of sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech, is also director of the Race and Social Policy Research Center in the Department of Sociology. He teaches courses in health and medical care, criminal justice, and Africana Studies.

Interviewers: Mary Ryan, Editorial Board, Community Change, Doctoral Candidate in the ASPECT Program; Jake Keyel, Ph.D. Candidate in Planning, Governance, and Globalization Program, Editorial Board for Community Change

Presented in partnership with the Race and Social Policy Research Center at Virginia Tech

Podcast Interview with Carolyn Zelikow and Brad Stephens

In this episode of Trustees Without Border, Carolyn Zelikow and Brad Stephens discuss their passion for social entrepreneurship and community innovation and the various initiatives they are involved in the Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, and Roanoke communities.

Carolyn Zelikow is the associate director of National Programs at the ASPEN Institute. She previously managed the Aspen Institute Urban Innovation Lab, a fellowship for social entrepreneurs in Baltimore and Washington. Brad Stephens is the director of Colab and Cityworks (X)po. He has spent the last several years cultivating the social entrepreneurship community in Roanoke and has been an integral part of organizing Cityworks (X)po.

Interviewers: Vera Smirnova and Sarah Lyon-Hill, PhD candidates in Virginia Tech's Planning, Governance & Globalization program

Podcast Interview with Amy Brooks

What is the story we are called upon to tell about ourselves, our community, and our future? This is the question Amy Brooks holds when making intercultural rural-urban performance. On this episode of Trustees Without Borders, Amy discusses arts and culture as a catalyst for equitable development across real and perceived divides.

Amy Brooks is the former Program Director and Dramaturg for Roadside Theater, the theater wing of Appalachian grassroots arts and media center Appalshop. A West Virginia-New York cultural hybrid who returned to Appalachia just before the 2016 election cycle, Amy investigates the confluence of dramatic narrative (“What is the story we choose to tell onstage?”) and public narrative (“What is the story we are called upon to tell about ourselves, our community, and our future?”) in intercultural rural-urban performance. Amy holds a BFA in acting from West Virginia University and an MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she co-founded and produced the first two seasons of the UMass New Play Lab.

Interviewers: Neda Moayerian, PhD candidate in Virginia Tech's Planning, Governance & Globalization program, and Vanessa Guerra, PhD candidate in Virginia Tech's Environmental Design and Planning program

Presented in partnership with the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech