COVIDCalls

EP #392 - 12.22.2021 - Marked by COVID Update w/Kristin Urquiza

Today I welcome Kristin Urquiza, founder of Marked by COVID. Kristin Urquiza, is the Co-founder, and Chief Activist of Marked by COVID

Kristin is a graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy where she has a Master of Public Affairs. She is an environmental advocate at Mighty Earth, where she works to hold corporations like Cargill accountable to their industrial agricultural practices that displace indigenous people from their lands and drive deforestation in places like the Amazon rainforest and beyond. Additionally, Kristin works closely with Liberation in a Generation, a group working to narrow the wealth gap between people of color and white families in the United States within a generation.

EP #391 - 12.20.2021 - Year of the Nurse Part 2 w/Cassie Alexander

Today I welcome Cassie Alexander back to CCalls, author of Year of the Nurse: A 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Memoir.

Cassie Alexander is a registered nurse of fourteen years -- burn, critical care transport, and ICU -- and a paranormal romance author. Her most recent book is Year of the Nurse: A 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Memoir about her experiences working in a covid ward in 2020. 

EP #390 - 12.16.2021 - The Long Haul w/Chimere L. Smith

Today I speak with Chimere Smith, writer and activist on behalf of Black women in America with Long COVID.

Chimére L. Smith is a writer and thought leader who has appeared on MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin, The Washington Post, Medium, and on PBS NewsHour. Since June 2020, she has used her social media platforms, engagement in grass-root Covid-19 support groups (notably Body Politic and BIPOC Women Long Covid “Long Hauler” Support Group), and strong media presence to raise awareness about the importance of Black voices in conversations on the prevention, treatment, and research of Long Covid in urban communities. In December 2020, she was a featured patient-led panelist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) workshop on Post-Acute Covid. Chimére is an independent member of The Long Covid Alliance and a recently-appointed board member of Body Politic. In April 2021, Smith was praised for her heart-wrenching and brazen testimony during a bipartisan Congressional hearing on Long Covid after becoming the first Black woman to detail her Long Covid experience.

 

EP #389 - 12.13.2021 - Public History and the Pandemic

Today I welcome public historian Jason Steinhauer, author of History Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past.

Jason Steinhauer served as Founding Director of the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest; is currently a Global Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; a contributor to TIME and CNN; a past editorial board member of The Washington Post "Made By History" section; and a Presidential Counselor of the National WWII Museum.  In 2020, he founded the History Club on Clubhouse, which he hosts regularly. The club has more than 100,000 members and averages 2,500 participants per week.

EP #388 - 12.08.2021 - Nutrition and COVID w/Dr. William Li

Today I welcome William W. Li, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.” 

William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.” His groundbreaking work has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments and impacts care for more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has been featured in USA Today, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and O Magazine. He is president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation and is leading research into COVID-19. 

EP #387 - 12.09.2021 - A Teacher and Students Discuss COVID @ KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Today I welcome KAIST students SeungChan Choi, Junha Yoon, and JaeHoon Kim for a group discussion on COVID-19 in Korea.

EP #386 - 12.08.2021 - Human-Animal Intections in the Pandemic

Today I welcome Dolly Jørgensen--Professor of History, University of Stav-anger, Norway. Her current research agenda focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction, and she recently published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019).

Dolly Jørgensen is Professor of History, University of Stav-anger, Norway specializing in histories of environment and technology. Her current research agenda focuses on cultural histories of animal extinction, and she recently published Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (MIT Press, 2019). She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Humanities and co-directs The Greenhouse environmental humanities program area at University of Stavanger.

EP #385 - 12.07.2021 - The WhoWeLost Project w/ Martha Greenwald

Today I welcome Martha Greenwald is the Founding Director, creator, and curator of the The WhoWeLost Project.

Martha Greenwald is the Founding Director, creator, and curator of the The WhoWeLost Project, which includes the websites WhoWeLost.org and WhoWeLostKY.org.  She is the author of the poetry collection Other Prohibited Items, which won the Mississippi Review Prize for Poetry. In 2020, she was the first prize winner of the Yeats Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, Nurture, Slate, Best New Poets, The Threepenny Review, and numerous other journals.  She has been both a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Pearl Hogrefe Fellow at Iowa State. She taught creative writing, literature, and ESL at the high school and college level for nearly twenty years. She is working on another poetry collection, a memoir called "Shivah Bullies," and seeking a publisher for an anthology of stories from the WhoWeLost Project.

EP #384 - 12.06.2021 - Surviving COVID and Experiencing Long COVID w/Majorie Roberts (And Yet Again I Smile)

Today I welcome Dr. Marjorie Roberts, COVID-19 survivor, Long Covid activist, and life coach.

Dr. Marjorie Roberts is a Certified Life Coach and Speaker who coaches her clients how to create the life of their dreams even after this life-altering virus, COVID-19. Living through this life-altering illness and learning to navigate life differently, she has  a real-time experience with what her clients deal with daily.

Dr. Marjorie's dynamic and authentic coaching style creates trust, motivates, and moves people toward positive change with actionable results. She assists her clients in finding their deep inner happiness after pain, helping them define and achieve goals as they consistently live a more joyful life.

She attended Capella University and obtained a Doctorate Of Business Administration with a Specialization in Strategy and Innovation in 2014. Additionally, Dr. Marjorie gained her Life Coaching Certification in November of 2019.

EP #383 - 11.24.2021 - Black Insercurity at the End of the World w/Justin Mann

Today I welcome Justin Mann author of “Black Insecurity at the End of the World.”

Justin L. Mann is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He has research and teaching interests in African American literature, Black feminist theory, Black speculative fiction, and security policy. His current book project, Breaking the World: Black Insecurity after the New World Order argues that Black speculative fictions are a critical but overlooked archive for understanding America’s security ambitions since the Reagan Administration. Bringing works by Octavia E. Butler, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead, and N.K. Jemisin (among others) into conversation with “white papers” Breaking The World argues that Black speculation rejects the false promises of securitization by figuring insecurity as a central mode for making political and social worlds. In his recent article “Black Insecurity at the End of the World,” published in Oct by MELUS, Dr. Mann examines the racialization of disease in Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel, Zone One, arguing that the novel offers different and distinct frames for understanding how disease maps onto logic of racial difference. Dr. Mann’s work has also appeared in the journals Feminist Theory, Surveillance & Society, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere.