Knowledge Unbound

In this week’s episode, Jaclyn Reeves-Pepin discusses the many misconceptions the public has towards teachers and how NABT focuses on leaving a mark in the teaching experience for both mentor and students by helping teachers grow professionally in academia.

In this week’s episode, Christian Fauria and Constanza Bartholomae discuss how to make a learning environment for students based on providing the support and enthusiasm they need to move forward in their careers and in their lives.

In this week’s episode, Aubrey Sirman and our guest undergraduate student, Angie Catalina Aguilar, discuss the struggles students face in academia regarding tuition, future planning, and how proper teaching plays a key role in creating an ideal environment for learning.

In this week’s episode, Kelly Mack discusses her grad experience and the sacrifices she had to give in order to accomplish her career path, as the vision of success institutions have created a variety of challenges towards their students. 

In this week’s episode, Joianne Smith talks about the importance of building connections and an environment for students to feel recognized during their time at academia. She also highlights the crucial role of the faculty in providing those connections and resources to improve the students' experience in their community.

In this week’s episode, Thomas Tobin talks about the importance in distributing a proper learning space for students to learn to manage their learning process while building an environment that isn’t built on barriers.

In this week’s episode, Dr. Lawrence Blumer, a professor from Morehouse College, and undergraduate mentor to host Bryan Dewsbury, discusses his 35 years at Morehouse teaching, mentoring and living out a lifetime of academic curiosity.

In this week's episode, I reflect on themes of teaching, learning, and life choices with my former student Aria Mia Loberti. We discuss going from triple majoring to being cast as the lead in the Netflix short series 'All the light we cannot see' based on the book by the same name. Aria gets into her own physical journey of legal blindness to sightedness, and the platforms it provided her to be an advocate for those with disabilities. 

In this week’s episode, Juan Ramirez Lugo joined us from Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Ramirez discusses his personal experiences and cultural challenges he encountered while conducting research during grad school, as well as the mindset one must adopt when joining it.

To kick off this new season of Knowledge Unbound, Bryan Dewsbury invites Dr. Asia Eaton to the studio for an insightful discussion on the evolution of society, gender norms, and interpersonal relationships in the modern age. As a social and behavioral psychologist, Dr. Eaton highlights key issues both men and women face - from the manosphere’s ideals of restricting one’s emotions to women forgoing structural support in the household - and how they each contribute to the social disconnect that impede the growth of relationships, among other issues.

This week we talk to Greg Spottedbird and Mariko Rooks about the Youth Ambassador program, formed for the descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre and Japanese internment camp to be in community with each other. I am joined by Rae Solomon of KUNC, the NPR affiliate in Northern Colorado. Episode recorded at the Sand Creek National Historic Site. 

This week we are joined by members of Nuevas Voces, here to talk about an incredible partnership between them and mathematics researchers to develop a real time climate change resource tool for the Woonasquatucket community. With Jenny Mercado and Rebekah Greenwald, we discuss the value of humility, listening, and sharing common goals for human uplift and how those values informed an incredible partnership between academics and a local community organization.

In this episode, Dr. Cavanagh reminds us that teaching the whole student includes deep considerations of their emotional and mental health. Using her own research and deploying her delightful narrative style, she helps us think about what this means for our teaching and general support of students.  

In this episode Clayton State University professor Dr. Leon Professor Prieto joins us to discuss how his journey from Trinidad to his education in Business at the undergraduate, Masters and PhD level informed his work and thinking on blackness and business. We discuss what this means for those of us finding deep meaning and historical relevance in our teaching practice. 

This week, Dr. Cully joins us to discuss her anthropological research, its connection to the broader discussion on social constructs of gender, and her own journey to exploring issues in accessibility. 

We are joined this week by Dr. Maha Bali of American University, Cairo. We talk teaching, AI, diversity, open, and other possibilities for transformative education in the Egyptian and international context. Thanks to Maha for hosting me and having this great conversation. 

In today's episode Dr. Riddell shares her journey in higher education particularly as it led towards the writing of one her books 'Hope Circuits' and the concept of Hope University. We will explore a more expansive view of hope, necessary as higher education continues to chart paths into uncertain futures. 

This week, longtime educator Kimberly Minors joins me to talk teaching, education and general social change in the Conmonwealth of the Bahamas. Kimberly discusses her experience as a classroom teacher and as a consultant to the education system there, highlighting the reality that educating well is about knowing the whole person and the society education is meant to improve.  

This week I was joined by Dr. David Asai. David shared with me his journey, his father's journey, and how lessons from both tell us a lot about race, ethnicity and belonging in America. We discuss this rich personal history and muse on what it means for our collective responsibility to offer a rich, meaningful higher education experience.  

In this, the first episode of Season 2, I talk with Heather Beem, founder of the Practical Education Network, about serving others, your why, and her own journey to designing an organization that makes cool science available to all, regardless of resource level. Heather talks about her journey from MIT field trip to the reach that her organization has across the continent of Africa. 

In this special bonus back-to-school episode, Roxanna Elden, former high school teacher and author of See me after class: Advice for teachers by teachers and Adequate Yearly Progress talks to us about unpacking all the tiny things about effective classrooms that perhaps we don't always want to discuss. We hope this witty conversation provides useful tips for you as we enter into this academic year together. 

This week, in our final episode of Season 1, Dr. Mays Imad shared with us her journey from Baghdad, Iraq to Connecticut College and her internationally renowned work on trauma informed education. She implores us to think of education as opportunities for healing and growth, such that both our students and us can become more whole from the experience.

Maisha Moses, Executive Director of the Young People's Project (YPP) talks with us about the organization's founding and the ways in which it has built off of the work of civil rights leader, and her father Robert (Bob) Moses. Sprung from the Algebra Project (AP), a program that works with secondary school students who live in conditions that do not support their success, YPP helps cultivate agency among AP students who then go on to teach middle students algebra. We talk about what it means to cast your bucket, as in to go deeply into a problem with a community of students.

 Executive Director of Exchange for Change joins us to discuss providing education to the incarcerated, education as a human right, and the ways in which her life experience impacted her desire to center humanism in education. Kathie was a journalist in Haiti for 30 years and shares with us lessons from that experience that informs her current work.

In this episode we discuss the formation of an incredible partnership around teaching and the ways in which that partnership led to classroom transformation, an acclaimed book on inclusive teaching, and professional development that continues to transform campuses nationwide. Our discussion helps explore the underbelly of what it really means to teach with students fully in mind.

Dr. Eatman talks with us in this episode about the Honors Living Learning community at Rutgers University, Newark. He describes the version that led to the vision, and the ways in which the LLC is reimagining what it means to be educated.

President Bush is the co-founder and President of College Unbound. His team has developed a remarkable approach that allows us to rethink and re-recognize college's social possibilities. He talks to us here about his personal journey and path to that vision. College Unbound is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

This week Dr. Vijai Bhola, critical care and infectious disease doctor discusses his journey to international medical work, and the ways in which that work has impacted the lives of others and his own. We discuss what it means to engage in medical practice in a mindset of 'beyond', and the behaviors that makes that sustainable.

In this episode, Mekdelawit discusses the path to her doctoral work and the evolution of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project. We discuss the aspects of her journey that led to her current work and the value of being in service of your why. Mekdelawit is from Addis Ababa Ethiopia and is pursuing doctoral studies in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Florida International University. She is also an Edward Bouchet doctoral scholar. 

In today's conversation Dr. Montgomery talks about her journey into the academy and what led to her work on inclusive mentoring. We discuss ways in which pivotal life moments taught lessons that have shaped her approach to her work. Dr. Montgomery is the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College and the author of the book 'Lessons from Plants'. 

Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies talks with us about her vision for the RIOS (for a Racially-Just Inclusive Open STEM education) Institute, and her own journey navigating and disrupting traditional spaces in STEM. We talked about her own growth into her professional and personal identity, and the opportunities it presented for her to provide more opportunities for others in Math, and the general landscape of STEM.