By Bethany Romano, MBA’17
Heller community members are dedicated to sharing their work with the world, and regularly experimenting with new communications platforms to reach the communities they care about. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that plenty of Heller folks also moonlight as podcast hosts – or podcast guests – making it even easier for anyone to tune in and hear top social policy experts explore critical topics of the day.
Browse Heller-hosted podcast series, or jump in on a single episode with a Heller guest expert. The list below represents just a handful of examples from the last two years. Throw on your headphones and enjoy.
Heller-Hosted Podcast Series
Getting Even with Anita Hill
Host: Anita Hill
Day Job: Brandeis University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
What it’s about: “Getting Even is all about broad and inclusive equality for the twenty-first century. Listeners will hear from the activists, scholars, artists and thought leaders who are defining it, and who explain why there is an urgent need to reach it, and how we can achieve it.”
Where to get started: “Picking a favorite is hard,” Anita concedes – and we agree. For a popular pick, try Founding Critical Race Theory with Kimberlé Crenshaw, or Anita’s conversation with Misty Copeland on Her Own Terms.
Storm in a Teacup
Hosts: Alexis Faller, MA SID/MA COEX’23 and Ellen Sears, MA COEX’23
Day Job: Alexis is a recent graduate and Ellen is a grants manager at the International Institute of New England
What it’s about: Join Ellen and Alexis as they discuss peacebuilding through a critical lens. “Inspired by Heller courses, our goal is to explore the more radical components of peacebuilding that didn’t quite make the syllabus cut.”
Where to get started: Episode 4, Transitional Justice in the World of Harry Potter
Thinking Through with LJ
Host: Leopoldino Jeronimo, MA COEX/SID’22
Day job: Strategic Planning Specialist for the Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board
What it’s about: Ubuntulist, Jeronimo’s nonprofit podcast company, aims to deliver alternative research and decolonizing narratives through experienced practitioners and researchers in development and conflict analysis. This mission, he says, “is accomplished through monthly episodes of Thinking Through with LJ. The podcast uses a systems-thinking approach to discussing a variety of individual or combined topics for individual and public awareness-raising.”
Where to get started: Women and Laws in Mauritius, A Sophisticated Complex! With Mokshda Pertaub
Beyond the Frontline: Lessons From Healthcare Leaders
Hosts: Dr. Shaneeta Johnson, EMBA’20 and Dr. Linya Yang, EMBA’20, Founders, Health Leadership Brain Trust
What it’s about: “This dynamic podcast series by the Health Leadership Brain Trust discusses the present and future realities, obstacles, and opportunities of healthcare leaders. This season we discuss the realities of healthcare leadership from entrepreneurial, management, academic, clinical, and career viewpoints.”
Where to get started: Beyond the Frontlines Trailer
Ventilate with Syd
Host: Sydney Henderson, MS GHPM/MA SID’22
Day Job: Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
What it’s about: “Ventilate with Syd explores various topics, from dating to climate change, with guests such as family, friends, and peers. I hope listeners can relate to the complex emotions and real relationships presented in the episodes.”
Where to get started: Climate Change Talk with Sydney and Aimable
Engaging Health Equity
Host: Lindsay Rosenfeld
Day job: Scientist and Lecturer, Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy
What it’s about: “Engaging Health Equity is an eight part blog/podcast that highlights a variety of health equity issues to challenge us as individuals and as a greater community to think critically about ourselves, our interactions, and our work. Topics range from talking to children about structural racism to considering health literacy practice in health equity work to deconstructing teaching practice.”
Where to get started: Cycle of a Dream: A Kids' Introduction to Structural Racism in America, a conversation with the author, Dr. Kimberly Narain (#6)
RC Cafe Podcast
Hosts: Relational Coordination Collaborative
What it’s about: RC Cafes bring together researchers and practitioners who are using relational coordination approaches to quality improvement, performance improvement, worker well-being, organizational change, social change and more. Tune in for insights, inspiration and community!
Where to get started: RC Cafe March PodcastHeller Faculty Experts: Podcast Guests
The Regimen for Expanding Buprenorphine Access: Collaborative Pharmacy-based Induction
February 3, 2023
On The Regimen podcast, Professor Traci Green discusses a pivotal study of a pharmacy-based approach to buprenorphine treatment, giving listeners a behind-the-scenes look at the efforts that made this research possible and first-hand evidence of its impact on patients.
How does tech policy fall short in protecting people with disabilities?
August 08, 2022
On Brookings’ TechTank Podcast, Visiting Scientist Henry Claypool discusses how people with disabilities are affected by existing technology, while looking into necessary legislation and protection to rectify these wrongs.
The Federation’s Pigford Research Project with Brandeis University
January 29, 2022
On the Federation Conversation podcast, Professor Tom Shapiro discusses the Pigford Research Project and the efforts to understand how Black farmer lawsuits had an impact on farmers and their families.
HPC, Stuart Altman moving to next level
November 15, 2021
On The CommonWealth podcast, Stuart Altman reflects on his 10 years as chair of Massachusetts’ Health Policy Commission. He says he’s proud of his efforts to rein in health care costs, but it’s time to move to the next level.
Conducting Disability Inclusive Research with Teresa Nguyen and Sandy Ho
September 15, 2021
On her podcast, “The Heumann Perspective,” the late Judy Heumann interviews the Lurie Institute’s Teresa Nguyen and alumna Sandy Ho, MPP’22.
Loathing the Working Class, Censoring Conservatives, Future of Real Estate, Employment, Outsourcing
March 22, 2021
On the What Happens Next podcast, Professor David Weil discusses the fissured workplace, describing the misclassification of workers, the gig economy, and the challenges of outsourcing work.