April 14, 2026: Educating Aspects

Today is entirely educational, in one way or another. Parent Villages have been using a multi-generational approach to education, encouraging stronger communities while doing so for a number of years and spreading their mission further throughout the area. This Saturday, April 18th, they’ll host their 8th annual Education Matters Brunch, and we’ll talk with president, CEO and co-founder LaTonia Monroe-Naylor about this important program.Smith College is bringing an alumna back to campus to speak on her work in video games. Anna Megill has written for a number of fantastic titles including Dishonored, Control, Fable 2 and many others. We speak with her about her work and love of games and her talk on April 15th  at the Jacobsen Center.Amherst College’s Jen Acker has a new novel out today blending a love of goats with midlife crisis and small town daily life. Surrender is a book of many shifts for the characters within and we speak with its author before you can meet her and grab your own copy at Odyssey Bookshop tonight, April 14th. And Hampshire College has just announced that it will close at the end of 2026. We speak with Astronomer Salman Hameed about his tenure there, and the legacy of the institution.