Podcasts Featuring Fellows
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@THEBAR PODCAST: WAR IN UKRAINE
featuring Trisha Rich (LGC Fellow since 2021)
Trisha Rich, partner & co-chair of the legal profession team at Holland & Knight LLP, co-hosted two episodes of the Chicago Bar Association @theBar podcast about the war in Ukraine. Both episodes feature prominent experts and focus on the history of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, related international laws and the humanitarian crisis, as well as implications for the U.S. and United Nations. Listen here and here.
AFTER 1954 PODCAST: NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST IN BLACK EDUCATION
featuring Aimée Eubanks Davis (LGC Fellow since 2020) and Liz Thompson (LGC Fellow since 1991)
Traditionally, Black-led nonprofits have only received 2 to 4 percent of total philanthropic funding nationally. That’s in part why Liz Thompson co-founded The 1954 Project, which seeks to radically redesign how philanthropy connects with Black leaders in education. Every year, her organization awards a cohort of Luminaries with one million dollars each to continue their innovative work in education. In this episode, host Aimée Eubanks Davis is in conversation with Liz Thompson about her organization’s impact on the community. Listen here. For more episodes in this series, listen here.
YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT PODCAST
featuring Arne Duncan (LGC Fellow since 1995)
Arne Duncan, former US secretary of education and founder of Chicago CRED, joined the first episode of this podcast co-hosted by two former Tennessee governors and presented by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Arne discussed potential avenues to reducing gun violence. He calls the Safer Communities Act “a small step, but a significant step,” noting that it represents the first step forward in decades. Listen here.
INTERFAITH AMERICA WITH DR. EBOO PATEL
hosted by Dr. Eboo Patel (LGC Fellow since 2004)
Interfaith America President and Founder Dr. Eboo Patel reflects on the new American religious landscape with diverse civic leaders in his podcast series. In the first episode, titled "How do you see humanity in the face of hate?", Dr. Eboo is joined in conversation by author and activist Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, who reflects on being a Sikh American and how his faith inspires him to fight racism with love. Simran is the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program. Listen here.
HERSTORIES PODCAST
featuring Virginia Kendall (LGC Fellow since 2003)
From studying law in night school while raising a family, United States District Court Judge Virginia Kendall knows what it means to beat the odds. In this episode, Judge Kendall talks loss, what it's like to be underestimated, and recounts racing the clock to find and rescue a missing child in the gripping story of how the United States' human trafficking statutes came to be. Listen here.
HERSTORIES PODCAST
featuring Celena Roldan (LGC Fellow since 2011)
In this episode of the HerStories Podcast, hosted by The Chicago Network, American Red Cross of Illinois CEO Celena Roldan gives a rare look into what it's like to lead an organization that saves lives every day. HerStories is a series of frank conversations with leading women at the forefront of Chicago’s business, professional, cultural, nonprofit and educational communities. Listen here.
@THEBAR PODCAST: LEGAL GHOST STORIES
featuring Trisha Rich (LGC Fellow since 2021)
In this special Halloween episode, @theBar gets into the spooky spirit with author-historian, podcaster and tour guide Adam Selzer of Mysterious Chicago. Adam regales hosts Trisha Rich and Maggie Mendenhall Casey with tales of Chicago’s haunted past from graveyard ghosts to notorious serial killers. Learn about the Chicago resident who had his house legally declared haunted, the truth behind the Candyman urban legend, the lore surrounding H.H. Holmes and his alleged “Murder Castle” and more. Listen here.
THE DAILY GIST PODCAST
featuring Blake-Anthony Johnson (Daniel Burnham Fellow)
Blake-Anthony Johnson, CEO of Chicago Sinfonietta, joined Crain's Chicago Business Daily Gist podcast to discuss his work reimagining live music experiences, equity in classical music spaces, giving Chicago its creative and historical due, and more. Blake-Anthony is 2022 Crain's 40 Under 40 honoree. Listen here.
BLACK MEN SUNDAYS PODCAST
featuring Wheeler Coleman (LGC Fellow since 2006)
Wheeler Coleman, founder and CEO of Executive Consultants United, discusses embracing tech to grow your business. He offers business advice and discusses growing his business from $1 million to $10 million in total assets in six years. Wheeler also shares tips on what's in his portfolio and how he feels about real estate. Listen here.
THE EXECUTIVES’ EXCHANGE PODCAST
featuring Daniel Burnham Fellows Lynn Osmond and Teresa Wilton Harmon
Lynn Osmond, president and CEO of Choose Chicago, joins guest host Teresa Wilton Harmon, chicago office managing partner at Sidley Austin LLP, to discuss her tale of going from music to architecture to champion of all things Chicago. She details her mentorship experience, her 25 years with Chicago Architecture Center and why she’s passionate about Chicago’s future. Listen here.