Amy Goldstein: Putting A Human Face on The Post-Industrial Midwest

Podcast Interview with Amy Goldstein On this episode of Trustees Without Borders, Amy Goldstein discusses her award-winning book Janesville: An American Story and her research in an industrial midwest town in Wisconsin that loses the backbone of its local economy, a General Motors facility, and how community members navigate the job loss and uncertainty that follows. Amy Goldstein has been an author at The Washington Post for over 30 years, focusing primarily on healthcare and health policy issues. She has also covered the White House and many social policy issues. She is very interested in the intersection of policy and people - how policy affects regular, everyday folks. She has written an award-winning book called Janesville: An American Story, which examines what happens in a factory town when industrial jobs go away. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her national coverage of the September 11th attacks and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative journalistic work in the medical treatment of immigrants who have been detained by the federal government. Interviewers: Vanessa Guerra, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Design and Planning; Mary Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate in ASPECT Presented in partnership with VT College of Architecture and Urban Studies; VT School of Public and International Affairs; Urban Affairs and Planning Program @ VT; VT Department of Political Science; VT Graduate School; Institute for Policy and Governance; VT Institute for Society, Culture; and Environment; Outreach and International Affairs at VT; Virginia Cooperative Extension