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Wicked Smart
In collaboration with the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Harvard Square, Commonwealth Journal is pleased to present a special feature, "Wicked Smart". "Wicked Smart" is a four-part, quarterly series of conversations with some of the best and brightest in the area! Our first three guests have been Professor Padraig O'Malley the John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy at UMass Boston, Professor Peter Senge Senior Lecturer at MIT, and Professor Sara Lawrence Lightfoot of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Our next "Wicked Smart" conversation will be with David Gergen of the Kennedy School of Government. Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best selling author, and adviser to presidents, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. In 1993, he agreed to first serve as counselor to President Clinton on both foreign policy and domestic affairs, then as special international adviser to the president.
Mr. Gergen will join us on April 15, at 6:00 pm at the First Parish Unitarian Church, 3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge and the program will be recorded before a live studio audience. If you would like to attend as part of the studio audience, contact The Cambridge Center for Adult Education for ticket information here.
Please visit this site for additional information regarding future guests and upcoming taping and broadcast dates.
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topics of particular interest to Massachusetts listeners through
an exploration of Massachusetts current events, issues, culture, history, politics, art
and science.
Segments may be about farming in New England, family
ritual and consumer culture, what students are doing at the
state's science fair, Boston's Haitian community, or the cleaning
of the Charles River. Commonwealth Journal also looks at
the people and events of Massachusetts past, such as the life of
Charles Sumner, Massachusetts' anti-slavery Senator; the King
Phillip's War; the lives and times of McLean Hospital; the story
behind Massachusetts' diners; or, a discussion about the history
of marriage. Commonwealth Journal informs the state's
residents about those stories that have shaped the state and its
people, while providing a Massachusetts perspective to issues of
national and international concern.
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the Associated Press of
Massachusetts & Rhode Island, the Massachusetts
Broadcasters Association, the American Cancer Society, the Silver Microphone Awards and the
Agricultural Communicators in Education. The program also won a
second place national award from the Public Radio News Directors
Association.
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