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The Editorial
by Heidi Legg
The Editorial's Heidi Legg brings you in-depth interviews with thought-leaders inside and around the cultural Petri dish we call Cambridge, MA. With Harvard, MIT, and a bevy of institutes and leading tech companies, we curate interviews that will change the way we look at the world and how we live. We think there is power in putting the Poet next to the Scientist, the Industrialist next to the Artist, and the Social Philanthropist next to the Techie to capture this moment in time.
Episodes
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Heidi Legg Interviews Lauren Kennedy
The young mom sitting next to me, while sleep-deprived, seemed entirely put together and to the point. She had me at "derailed careers" and explained why she had created Neighborhood Villages to help young mothers and parents of young children thrive in today's modern economy. Unbeknownst to me...
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Diana Yousef
GenX entrepreneur and social impact leader Diana Yousef, Founder and CEO of change:Water Labs, is bringing waterless toilets to refugee camps. One of the drivers for this Harvard graduate is that young women are often assaulted in the dark when they need to use the facilities at refugee camps...
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John Palfrey
As Americans loudly hammer out partisan views on the world stage these days, colleges and universities have been drawn into the fray as campuses, with speakers and their mobile-enabled audiences, become venues for audio and video that has a propensity to go viral. What was once considered healthy...
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Hillary Chute
Hillary Chute is the Author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere and a Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. Her new book focuses on the maturing field of Comics, as she likes to call it, with the popularity of the graphic novel form. In this interview she...
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Jennifer Childs-Roshak
Heidi sits down with Dr. Jennifer Childs-Roshak, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, to debunk some of the myths that are being propagated in this country while all other developed nations and allies such as the UK, Canada, Sweden, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium,...
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Michelle Kuo
Michelle Kuo taught English at an alternative school in the Arkansas Delta for two years. After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked legal aid at a nonprofit for Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, on a...
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Elizabeth Gardner
For the past seven years, independent documentary filmmaker Elizabeth O'Brien Gardner has been filming a young evangelical church planter, David, and his wife, Betsy, in Boston – a city Gardner says the evangelical movement calls 'The Preacher's Graveyard.' Her 72-minute documentary, The Frozen...
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Marieke Van Damme
As we spent time scouring the city for GenX voices bringing us emerging ideas, Marieke Van Damme's name kept popping up as a change maker. The irony is that she is the Director of a the Cambridge Historical Society, headquartered on fabled Brattle Street, but a few houses away from the poet Henry...
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Jessica Shattuck
Meet our first subject in our 20-part Generation X series where we hope to discover emerging ideas around us from the generation author Douglas Coupland called "Fantastical Creators and Heartfelt Storytellers" in his sleeper novel, GenerationX: Tales for an Accelerated Culture – those born…
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Ron Sullivan
Ron Sullivan is a Harvard Clinical Professor of Law, the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, and a Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project. His ideas around bias and the destruction of our black and brown men's lives fold into his thinking for how we move forward from the past, how we work...
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Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He is a prolific thought leader and author, regularly expressing his views on political issues in public speeches, television appearances, and top publications, including…
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Matty In The Morning
For over thirty years, Matt Siegel has been making Massachusetts residents laugh their way into their mornings. Matty In The Morning reaches people in a way our current election and media have not. He bridges the divide, even if many NPR listeners may hide the fact they listen in when things are...
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Michael Puett
Heidi talks with Michael Puett, a Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard.
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Mariana Ibanez
Born and educated in Buenos Aires, Mariana Ibañez has been teaching at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) for 10 years after working closely in London with globally-celebrated Zaha Hadid, her mentor, who passed away this winter leaving the world her iconic structures. Today, Ibañez and her...
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David Ting
In a digital age of healthcare, the security of patient files seems obvious. But in 2002? Not so much. Entrepreneurs are often said to be soothsayers and in 2002, David Ting founded Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company focused on keeping medical files private and locked online, allowing...
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Dean Bragonier
Two years ago, Dean Bragonier founded NoticeAbility in an effort to change student curriculum for dyslexic kids before his own son hits middle school. Why? Dean and his wife Sally Taylor are both dyslexic. What struck me most was when Dean explained that the invention of the Gutenberg printing...
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Thierry Weissenburger
Thierry Weissenburger is the Senior Trade Commissioner for Canada in Boston. In the past few months we have heard Trump declare that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was, possibly, the worst trade deal in the history of the U.S., watched BREXIT unfold, and are facing the inward...
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Tim Ericson
Notice the bike paths these days? There is bike traffic at stoplights and they seem ubiquitous in any big city allowing tourists and local alike to hop on and off whenever they need, today. Paris and Montreal were early to the game of community bikes where you buy a card or membership and now…
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Nick Roy
If you're not a drone junkie, you may still have heard that the US dronies" are waiting for the FAA to rule on who can own a drone and where they can fly it, you may have heard that a Hoverboard or Drone are on the top of every tech-head and 10-year old kid's Santa list, but do you know how...
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George Church
George Church, The Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical, has the largest research lab at Harvard and wants to build a culture in the field of genomics based on sharing and transparency in an effort to bring us all into the discovery.
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David Rose
David Rose, CEO of Ditto Labs and author of Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things.
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David Edwards
Heidi talks with David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire Paris, Le Lab & Café, and ArtScience Cambridge. David now teaches at Harvard University and practices inside his labs in Paris and Cambridge. Today he is quickly becoming a leading thinker on scent integration into the digital experience,...
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Arthur Ganson
Heidi talks with Arthur Ganson, a renowned kinetic sculptor and mechanical artist. Ganson has long been the hero of a cult following of technologists and artists. With more permanent work than any other artist or innovator inside the hallowed halls of the MIT Museum, Machine with Paper and…
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Rebecca Eaton
Heidi talks with Rebecca Eaton, The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS's Masterpiece. Eaton has brought American audiences Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, the recent hits Sherlock, Poldark and Downton Abbey — the most-watched drama in PBS history — as well as high-profile titles such as Mr Selfridge,...
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Ben Mezrich
Heidi talks with Ben Mezrich, author of best-sellers like Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires. His latest book is Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs.
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Ben Bradlee Jr.
Heidi talks with Ben Bradlee Jr, former editor of The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team and author of The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Editorial's Heidi Legg brings you in-depth interviews with thought-leaders inside and around the cultural Petri dish we call Cambridge, MA. With Harvard, MIT, and a bevy of institutes and leading tech companies, we curate interviews that will change the way we look at the world and how we live. We think there is power in putting the Poet next to the Scientist, the Industrialist next to the Artist, and the Social Philanthropist next to the Techie to capture this moment in time.
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Heidi Legg
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The Editorial's Heidi Legg brings you in-depth interviews with thought-leaders inside and around the cultural Petri dish we call Cambridge, MA. With Harvard, MIT, and a bevy of institutes and leading tech companies, we curate interviews that will change the way we look at the world and how we live....
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