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UEPodcast
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An original podcast series from the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. This podcast is co-created with the entire UEP community - students, faculty, alumni, and more!
Episodes
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Making Urban Streets Safe For All with Kristiana Lachiusa
In this week’s episode, Allie sits down with Kristiana Lachiusa. She is currently a Master of Public Policy (MPP) student at UEP. Before this, Kristiana was the Director of Transit and Outreach at Livable Streets where she led the transit advocacy team. Kristiana discusses how a near-death...
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President Lincoln Made Death Care Trendy and MSS Intern Updated with Abbie
In this week’s episode, Allie and Peter get another water quality update from Abbie at her internship with the SFPUC. Peter explains how the death care practice of embalming became trendy in the United States. Abbie reflects on her time in the drinking water lab; they discuss the challenges the...
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Show us the Money! Social Impact Investing with Lara Isiolaotan
In this week's episode, Peter meets Lara for a coffee chat. They discover their shared love of mushrooms, not on their plates, but as an innovative building material; discuss their most impactful class of the semester and more. Lara Isiolaotan is in her first year as a Master of Public Policy...
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Denver Airport Sustainability with Chelsea Spaman
Peter and Allie sit down with Chelsea Spaman, MSS Candidate, and professional dumpster diver, to catch up about their current semester and learn about her experience as the Environment and Sustainability Intern at the Denver International Airport. Listen now to learn what scope emissions are and...
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Failed Community Promises in SF with Abbie
San Francisco is home to some of the cleanest drinking water in the country, says Abbie. Stick around to hear why. Later in the episode, hear Abbie's perspective on SFPUC's Community Benefits Approach Policies and whether a utility company can truly foster sustainable community development. Tune…
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Coffee Chat with Deniz Karabakal
In this week’s episode, Peter and Deniz meet for the first time and chat as a part of the department’s Coffee Chat series. All current students and alumni are invited to participate in coffee chats. If you’re interested in joining next semester, please look out for an email from Casey Auch or...
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Water Quality Testing in San Francisco with Abbie Kubota
Wondering how we keep municipal drinking water safe and free of contaminants? Stay tuned to hear from Abbie Kubota, a second-year MS Sustainability candidate, who is completing her 6-month long internship with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) tasked with sampling drinking…
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Student to Lecturer, A Conversation with Mark Chase
Listen in for a conversation with UEP Lecturer and Alumni, Mark Chase. Mark is Founder and Principal at Neighborways Design, a Boston area based firm specializing in low stress streets, placemaking and public art on the street. He was part of the senior management team that launched the…
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Cultivating Connections with Allie Christensen
Please join me in welcoming our new co-host, Allie Christensen, to the podcast. Allie is from Connecticut and is in her second year of the MA program in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy at UEP. Her career interests are in transportation planning and accessibility. She is currently...
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How to Save the Bees, Go for a ride on a Pollinator Safari, and the Value of Deep Observation
Have you ever wondered how bees can survive in urban places? Supporting pollinator populations, like bees, in cities is easier than you may think! Join us this week for an in-depth conversation with Nick Dorian, co-founder, and Jessie Thuma, co-president, of the Tufts Pollinator Initiative (TPI)....
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Introduction to Season 2 with Peter Federico
In this week’s episode, we are introducing the new UEPodcast co-producer, Peter Federico. Ella and Peter discuss what’s new for season 2 of the podcast, what they’re excited about for the fall semester, and what brought them to the UEP Program.
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UEPodcast Episode 9: The B-Change with Eric Friedman
This week on the UEPodcast, we collaborated with the B-Change podcast to interview Eric Friedman, the director of Massachusetts's Leading By Example program, which works to reduce the environmental footprint of state government across the state's many programs. We spoke with Eric about his…
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UEPodcast Episode 8: Natural Hazards and GIS with Aggeliki Barberopoulou
Welcome back to the UEPodcast! On this week's episode, UEPodcast co-producer spoke with UEP's new GIS instructor, Aggeliki Barberopoulou about her expertise in natural hazards and what she hopes to bring to Tufts!
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UEPodcast Episode 7: Mapping Inequality with Dr. Robert Nelson
On this week’s episode, Dr. Robert Nelson, the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, discusses American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History, which includes “Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America”.
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UEPodcast Episode 6: The Past, Present, and Future State of Cities with Kurt Kohlstedt
This week's episode, produced by Shareable, features the final Cities@Tufts colloquium session in which 99% Invisible's Kurt Kohlstedt is interviewed by UEP alumni Lily Linke. This colloquium session was presented by Student Policy & Planning Association (SPA).
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UEPodcast Episode 5: Introducing New Sustainability Lecturer Kate Davies
Episode 5 of the UEPodcast is now streaming! This week, Ella Brady speaks to UEP’s new full-time lecturer in sustainability, Kate Davies, about her work navigating equitable transformations to sustainability and what she hopes to bring to UEP in the fall!
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UEPodcast Episode 4: A Conversation with Ben Downing
This week's episode of the UEPodcast features UEP student Bailey Hu's interview with UEP alumni and former state senator Ben Downing. The conversation involves his run for state senator while attending UEP, his current run for state governor in 2022, and his work to bridge practice with vision....
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UEPodcast Episode 3: Boston's Commons, Reclaimed
In this second episode of their mini-series, Kaili and Celia discuss food justice, youth empowerment, environmental justice, and transit justice in some of Boston’s marginalized neighborhoods. They speak with community leaders Liz Wang of the Dorchester Food Co-Op, as well as David Noiles and…
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UEPodcast Episode 2: Boston's Wicked Problem
This is the first of a two episode mini-series by recent Tufts graduates Celia Bottger and Kaili Chen. Celia and Kaili were inspired to produce these episodes after taking Professor Julian Agyeman's "Developing Sustainable Communities" course in Spring 2020. In this episode, they discuss the...
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UEPodcast Episode 1: Introduction
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the UEPodcast! In this episode, producers Lily Linke and Ella Brady talk about why storytelling is so critical for urban planners, and what motivated them to start a podcast for UEP. Take a listen and find out how you can participate!
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UEPodcast Trailer
A sneak peek at what's to come! Launching February 9th, 2021!
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An original podcast series from the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. This podcast is co-created with the entire UEP community - students, faculty, alumni, and more!
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How many episodes does UEPodcast have?
UEPodcast currently has 21 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is UEPodcast about?
An original podcast series from the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. This podcast is co-created with the entire UEP community - students, faculty, alumni, and more!
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UEPodcast has 21 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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