
New York's 'Vaccine Passport'; Chauvin Trial Opening; Groundbreaking Women; Vaccine Appointment Help

On today's show:
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New York recently launched a vaccine passport called the "Excelsior Pass." Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Linux Foundation of Public Health, talks about what it is, and how people in the open source community are advocating for systems like these to be linked, so people don't need to use multiple apps. Then, Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) at the Urban Justice Center, a New York–based civil rights and privacy group, and a fellow at the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law, shares concerns about privacy and the digital divide.
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Elie Honig, CNN legal analyst, host of the CAFE daily impeachment podcast Third Degree and author of the forthcoming book Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department (HarperCollins, 2021), offers insight and analysis on the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd.
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As Women's History Month draws to a close, Alexis Coe, historian and author of, now out in paperback, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (Penguin Books, 2021) joins to discuss some groundbreaking women who were the first in their industries, and listeners call in to share their favorites.
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As vaccine eligibility expands around the county the question remains: Is everyone eligible getting the shot and if not, is it because of hesitancy -- or the difficulty of scheduling appointments? In a series of conversations, Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, joins to talk about how about how ID requirements can be a barrier for some vulnerable or undocumented New Yorkers.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.