2007-52 (12/30/07)

Sustainable Solutions for the Industry and Consumers (Originally Aired 8/12/07)

Scott Cassel, Founder and Executive Director of the Product Stewardship Institute

826 Brings Educational Enrichment to Boston (Originally Aired 9/30/07)

Daniel Johnson, Executive Director of 826 Boston and Joel Arquillos, 826 National Director

2007-51 (12/23/07)

Village Help for South Sudan (Originally Aired 8/12/07)

Franco Majok & Ron Moulton, Franco is the Founder and Executive Director of Village Help for South Sudan, and Ron sits on the Board of Directors and is the Business and Technology Consultant.

The Varying Degrees of The Thermometer (Originally Aired 10/7/07)

Richard T. Porter, Founder and Owner of the Porter Thermometer Museum in Onset, MA

2007-50 (12/16/07)

Retiring Retirement

Lin Schreiber, Speaker and Certified Retirement Coach. Lin is also the author of 88 Tips for Planning A Healthy, Happy, Enriching Retirement Life and The Retirement Re-Tool Kit.

Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends and Eerie Events

Dan Gordon¸ co-author of Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends and Eerie Events

2007-49 (12/9/07)

Bridging the Gaps: Making Work Work for Massachusetts Families

Randy Albelda, Co-author of Bridging the Gaps Between Earnings and Basic Needs in Massachusetts and Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston.

The Braille and Talking Books Library

Kim Charlson, Director of the Braille and Talking Books Library at the Perkins School for the Blind

2007-48 (12/2/07)

Ten Points to End City Violence

Reverend Jeff Brown, Founder of The Boston Ten Points Coalition

Military Family Support

Christopher Overtree, Director of Psychological Services Center and the Associate Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2007-47 (11/25/07)

A Partnership for Your Health

Marilyn Schlein Kramer, Executive Director of the Partnership for Healthcare Excellence

The Silicon Valley of the late 19th and 20th Centuries

Joe Carvalho, President and Executive Director of Springfield Museums

2007-46 (11/18/07)

Planning Your Pension

Ellen Bruce, Executive Director of the Pension Action Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston

A Natural History of Boston’s North Shore

Kristina Lindborg, Author of A Natural History of Boston’s North Shore.

2007-45 (11/11/07)

Shaping Membership, Defining Nation

Professor Pashington Obeng, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and Harvard University and author of Shaping Membership, Defining Nation: The Cultural Politics of African Indians in South Asia.

2007-44 (11/4/07)

Dealing With Language Discrimination

Lee Valentine, Language Rights Policy Director, Massachusetts English Plus Coalition

The Liberian Media Support Initiative

Michael Keating, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development University of Massachusetts Boston

2007-43 (10/28/07)

Political Campaigns in the Age of the Internet

Michael Goldman, Senior Political Consultant for the Government Insight Group, and Lecturer at Tufts University

2007-42 (10/21/07)

Domestic Violence in the Immigrant Communities

Jamie Ramola¸ Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violenceand Carmelle Bonhometre, Domestic Violence Program, Association of Haitian Women

Healthcare for Artists: Keeping a Pulse on the Artist Community

Kathy Bitetti¸ Executive Director of the Artists Foundation and is also the director of the Lillian Immigrant Gallery at Emmanuel College

2007-41 (10/14/07)

"They Take Our Jobs: and 20 other myths about immigration"

Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College and author of They Take Our Jobs: and 20 other myths about immigration.

2007-40 (10/7/07)

The Face Behind The Store

Debbie Raisner Thompson, Founder of Indie Owned and Hank Eskin, Co-founder and web-designer

The Varying Degrees of The Thermometer

Richard T. Porter, Founder and Owner of the Porter Thermometer Museum in Onset, MA

2007-39 (9/30/07)

826 Brings Educational Enrichment to Boston

Daniel Johnson, Executive Director of 826 Boston, and Joel Arquillos, 826 National Executive Director

Story Bee

Shirley Vernick, Founder and Creator of StoryBee.org

2007-38 (9/23/07)

Text 4 Deaf

Kerry Thompson, Spokesperson for Text4Deaf Tracy Wemett, Text4Deaf Publicist. Please click here for transcript.

Grassroots Journalism

Eesha Williams, Author of Grassroots Journalism

2007-37 (9/16/07)

Keeping the Promise: 2007 Massachusetts Child Care Voucher Study

Valora Washington, Principle Investigator of Keeping the Promise: 2007 Massachusetts Child Care Voucher Study, and Director of the Schott Fellowship at Cambridge College and Lesley University s Center for Children, Families and Public Policy. Mary Reed, Founder, President and CEO of Tartt s Day Care Centers Inc. and President of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Children s Foundation

A Guide to the Childcare System in Massachusetts

Lisa Breagy, Program Director of Community Care for Kids Pam Kuechler, Program Director of PACE Child Care Works

2007-36 (9/9/07)

Navigating Healthy Eating (Repeat Originally Aired 10/15/06)

Walter Willett, M.D., Author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

2007-35 (9/2/07)

Transformation in Mask Theatre (Repeat Originally Aired 7/2/06)

Eric Bornstein, founder and artistic director, Behind the Mask.

Accents and the Diversity of Dialects (Repeat Originally Aired 7/2/06)

Amelia Broome, voice coach; artist in residence, performing arts faculty, Emerson College

2007-34 (8/26/07)

Combating Storm Water Pollution (Repeat Originally Aired 11/26/06)

Paula Jewell, Executive Director, Massachusetts Bays Estuary Association

Interpreting the World of Child Art (Repeat Originally Aired 12/17/06)

Claire Golomb, author, The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World; Professor Emeritus of Psychology, UMass Boston

2007-33 (8/19/07)

Lyme Disease in Massachusetts: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Dr. Bela Matyas - Medical Director, Epidemiology Program at the Massachusetts Department for Public Health

Local Game Inventor Gets Kids to Say 'Poppo!'

Michael Vien - Founder, and Executive Director of Poppo Games and the Poppo Fund

2007-32 (8/12/07)

Village Help for South Sudan

Franco Majok & Ron Moulton, Franco is the Founder and Executive Director of Village Help for South Sudan, and Ron sits on the Board of Directors and is the Business and Technology Consultant.

Sustainable Solutions for the Industry and Consumers

Scott Cassel, Founder and Executive Director of the Product Stewardship Institute

2007-31 (8/5/07)

How to Help Your Child With the Math and Sciences (Originally aired 5/20/07)

Josh Davis, Educational Director of the Boys Club and Girls Club of South Boston

The Tips and Myths of Starting Your Own Business

Mark Allio, Interim Director, and Managing Counselor for the Umass Boston Small Business Development Center & Minority Business Center

2007-30 (7/29/07)

The Saga of Japanese American Internment in the early 1940's (Originally Aired 4/1/07)

Linda Gordon a co-editor of "Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment"

A Benchmark Report on Diversity in State and Local Government (Originally Aired 4/8/07)

Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta, Director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston

2007-29 (7/22/07)

The Status of Hunger in Massachusetts (Originally aired 3/4/07)

Christina Jordan, Senior Manager of Community Initiatives at Project Bread

The Elderly Blind Community of Massachusetts (Originally aired 3/18/07)

Barbara Salisbury, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind Community Services

2007-28 (7/15/07)

Skid School - curbing automobile accidents (Originally aired 3/1/07)

Brett & Martha Bogart of Skid School

The Saga of Japanese American Internment in the early 1940's (Originally aired 3/1/07)

Linda Gordon a co-editor of "Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment"

2007-27 (7/8/07)

Understanding Hospice Care (Originally aired 2/4/07)

Ruth Capernaros, President and CEO, Hospice of Boston and Greater Brockton

The LGBT Aging Project (Originally aired 2/11/07)

Lisa Krinsky, Director of the LGBT Aging Project

2007-26 (7/1/07)

The World s Most Famous Game (Originally aired 1/28/07)

Philip Orbanes, author, Monopoly: The World s Most Famous Game. . .And How It Got That Way; Game Industry Executive, Inventor; Monopoly Historian; co-founder of Winning Moves Games.

Growing Shelter Poverty in Massachusetts (Originally aired 2/4/07)

Michael Stone, author, Housing Affordability for Households of Color in Massachusetts professor of Community Planning in the College of Public and Community Service at UMASS Boston.

2007-25 (6/24/07)

Genzyme Corporation: Giving Back, and Giving Life

Henri A. Termeer President, Chairman and CEO of Genzyme Corporation (UMass Boston Honorary Degree Recipient)

2007-24 (6/17/07)

Turning Pain into Peace

Clementina Chery, President and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute was awarded the Chancellor's Medal at UMass Boston's 2007 Commencement Ceremony

"Prep Me," a Free SAT Prep Pilot Program in the Boston Public School System

Michael Flaherty, Boston City Councilor at-large

2007-23 (6/10/07)

The Rose Kennedy Greenway

Peter Meade, Executive Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Understanding Asperger's Syndrome

Dania Jeckel, Executive Director of the Asperger s Association of New England, and John Hatton, Adult Advisory Council Member of Asperger's Association diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome as an adult

2007-22 (6/3/07)

Boston Workers Alliance Members Rally for Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) Reform

Stanley Porter & Maggie Brown, Steering Committee Members of Boston Workers Alliance

The First Time Home-Buyer s Guide

Dan Lebrun, Senior Loans Officer at Eastern Bank

2007-21 (5/27/07)

A Few Young People Who are Taking on the Mass Media One Stereotype at a Time

Cara Powers, Media Education Coordinator and Reggie Williams, Action Coordinator of Project Think Different

GRLZ Radio: The entrepreneurial spirit of young women with an ax to grind against degrading music. (Program originally aired March 11, 2007)

Dalida Rocha-Pena and Azia Carle, Rocha-Pena is the Training Coordinator Intern for GRLZ Radio, and Carle is an on-air announcer for the program.

2007-20 (5/20/07)

How to Help Your Child With the Math and Sciences

Josh Davis, Educational Director of the Boys Club and Girls Club of South Boston

No Ordinary Move: Relocating Your Aging Parents

Barbara Perman, Ph. D. and Jim Ballard co-authors of No Ordinary Move: Relocating Your Aging Parents Barbara is also President and Founder of Moving Mentor Inc., a company that provides moving management, consulting and organizational services. Jim is an experienced writer who has written a number of books on managing change and transforming the people side of business.

2007-19 (5/13/07)

An Untold Story of a Community's Struggles in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Jennifer Nguyen, Master's Degree Candidate and course instructor in the Asian American Studies Program at UMass Boston, and Rich Truong, undergraduate student at the UMass Boston

The First Public Language Immersion School Sets its Roots in the Pioneer Valley

Kathleen Wang, co-founder of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School

2007-18 (5/6/07)

A Report Card on the Deval Patrick Administration

Steve Crosby, Dean of the McCormack Graduate School at UMass, Boston and former member of the Deval Patrick Transition Team

Street Violence in the City of Boston

Alix Cantave, William Monroe Trotter Center for the Study of African American Studies, UMass Boston

2007-17 (4/29/07)

Howard Zinn, Reflections on War

Howard Zinn, historian, playwright, and social activist

A Look into Domestic and International Adoptions in Massachusetts

Martha Henry Director of Education at the Center for Adoption Research at the UMass Medical School. Anna Henry Korean adoptee and Vice-President of Boston Korean Adoptees Inc.

2007-16 (4/22/07)

Cyberarts, the Secret History of a Growing Art Form

George Fifield, Director of Boston Cyber Arts Inc.

"Where Elephants Weep" The First Contemporary Cambodian Opera

Arn Chorn Pond, is the founder of Cambodian Living Arts, and played an instrumental part in putting the music together for "Where Elephants Weep." John Burt, produced and developed "Where Elephants Weep" and is the Chair Emeritus of Cambodian Living Arts

2007-15 (4/15/07)

The Tips and Myths of Starting Your Own Business

Mark Allio, Interim Director, and Managing Counselor for the Umass Boston Small Business Development Center & Minority Business Center

A Guide to Choosing the Right College

Lisa Johnson, Associate Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

2007-14 (4/8/07)

A Benchmark Report on Diversity in State and Local Government

Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta, Director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston

How "Posses" Are Changing the Ways Students Get Into College, and Stay There

Sue Dalelio, Director of The Posse Foundation Boston Branch, and Malinda Barbosa, Posse Scholar at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania

2007-13 (4/1/07)

Skid School - curbing automobile accidents

Brett & Martha Bogart of Skid School

The Saga of Japanese American Internment in the early 1940's

Linda Gordon a co-editor of "Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment"

2007-12 (3/25/07)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Untold Story of Longfellow's Contributions to the Abolitionists

Jim Shea, Site Director for the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow National Historic Site

"A Dilettante's Tour of Boston"

Jean Lovett, Photographer of the "A Dilettante's Tour of Boston" Exhibit recently shown at the Newton Free Library in Amherst Massachusetts

2007-11 (3/18/07)

The Elderly Blind Community of Massachusetts

Barbara Salisbury, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind Community Services

How a farm in Amherst is growing the next generation of farmers in the state

Dan Kaplan, Manager of Brookfield Farm in Amherst Massachusetts

2007-10 (3/11/07)

The Documentary Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Susan Rivo and Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Rivo is a film producer, Director and editor. Ruthchild is a Women's Movement historian, professor, participant in the 1971 Harvard building takeover, and former President of the Women s Center in Cambridge

GRLZ Radio: The entrepreneurial spirit of young women with an ax to grind against degrading music.

Dalida Rocha-Pena and Azia Carle, Rocha-Pena is the Training Coordinator Intern for GRLZ Radio, and Carle is an on-air announcer for the program.

2007-09 (3/4/07)

Homes Within Reach: Springfield s 10 year plan to end long-term homelessness

Gerry McCafferty, Deputy Director of Homeless and Special Needs Housing for the City of Springfield

The Status of Hunger in Massachusetts

Christina Jordan, Senior Manager of Community Initiatives at Project Bread

2007-08 (2/25/07)

The Student Bridges Program

Mishy Leiblum, Graduate Coordinator of the Student Bridges Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Recycling that literally PAYS off

Jon Norton, Everett Recycling Coordinator

2007-07 (2/18/07)

A Portrait of the Massachusetts Portuguese Community

Jennette Barnes and Peter Pereira, co-authors of A Nossa Vida: The Portuguese Experience in America

The Museum of Russian Icons

Gordon Lankton, Founder, Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA

2007-06 (2/11/07)

The LGBT Aging Project: Working to Expand the Access to Social Services to the aging LGBT communities of Massachusetts

Lisa Krinsky, Director of the LGBT Aging Project

The Parkers Brothers Story

Philip Orbanes, author, The Game Makers: The Story of the Parker Brothers From Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit; Game Industry Executive, Inventor; Monopoly Historian; co-founder of Winning Moves Games

2007-05 (2/4/07)

Growing Shelter Poverty in Massachusetts

Michael Stone, author, Housing Affordability for Households of Color in Massachusetts professor of Community Planning in the College of Public and Community Service at UMASS Boston.

Understanding Hospice Care

Ruth Capernaros, President and CEO, Hospice of Boston and Greater Brockton

2007-04 (1/28/07)

The World s Most Famous Game

Philip Orbanes, author, Monopoly: The World s Most Famous Game. . .And How It Got That Way; Game Industry Executive, Inventor; Monopoly Historian; co-founder of Winning Moves Games.

Libraries and the Digital Revolution

Candy Schwartz, professor and coordinator of Doctoral Programs, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College.

2007-03 (1/21/07)

Fighting to Save a Way of Life: The Massachusetts Fishing Industry

Courtney Hayes and Tim Gallagher, filmmakers; co-producers and co-directors, A Fish Story

Honoring Public Service in the Commonwealth

Keith Motley, vice president, Business and Public Affairs, UMass President s Office

2007-02 (1/14/07)

Gravestones in Massachusetts History

Robert Drinkwater, charter member and past president, Association of Gravestone Studies

The Battle Over Urban Sprawl

Anthony Flint, author, This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America; public affairs manager, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

2007-01 (1/7/07)

Cultural Differences in the Classroom

Raul Ybarra, author, Learning to Write as a Hostile Act for Latino Students; associate professor, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston.

The Science Behind Climate Change

Part II from Raymond Bradley, Distinguished Professor, Geosciences Department; director, Climate System Research Center, UMass Amherst