Summer Friday: The State of Women, Teaching Girls Bravery Through Coding, The Hidden Power of Flags, Life After Prison, The Journalists of Tomorrow
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 1, 2017
It's another The Brian Lehrer Show best-of edition on our final "Summer Friday." Take a listen to some of our favorite conversations this year:
- Cindi Leive, Glamour Editor-in-Chief, and John Gerzema, the CEO of Harris Poll, social strategist, and author of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), discuss a surprising survey of 2,000 women that found 70% of respondents' top priority in life is to be financially secure.
- Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, NYC deputy public advocate and the author of Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, talks about her new book and her continued efforts to teach girls to code even after the contentious Google memo.
- Tim Marshall, a foreign affairs reporter, explains in his new book, A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols (Scribner, 2017), the symbolism and significance of national flags.
- Keesha Middlemass, an assistant professor of political science at Trinity University in Texas and author of Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry (NYU Press, 2017), examines prisoner reentry from the felons' perspective.
- Nineteen Bronx high school journalists weigh in on how their neighborhoods are covered and what stories they are following and want to follow.
These interviews originally aired earlier this year. Links to the unedited audio are here:
- The Underpaid State of Women (8/1/17)
- Teaching Girls Bravery Through Coding (8/21/17)
- How Flags Unite and Divide Us (7/5/17)
- The Challenges of Prisoner Reentry (7/6/17)
- The World According to the Journalists of Tomorrow (7/25/17)
