The Visible Voices

Jill Wine-Banks: Watergate Prosecutor and The Watergate Girl Author

In today’s episode I speak with Jill Wine-Banks: attorney, author, podcaster legal analyst, and the only woman on the legal prosecution team for the Watergate trial. We cover her book, The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President which has been optioned by Katie Holmes to become a movie. She is a legal analyst on MSNBC, a co-host of two Politicon podcasts, #SistersInLaw with 3 other MSNBC contributors (Joyce Vance, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Barbara McQuade) talking about pressing legal issues each week and iGenPolitics with Victor Shi, a UCLA student, bringing an intergenerational approach to political issues with interviews of leading politicians, activists and journalists.Find us the Visible Voices Podcast on YouTube.

Karen Catlin Author of Belonging In Healthcare with Kavita Babu

In today’s episode I speak with workplace ally Karen Catlin and emergency medicine physician toxicologist Kavita Babu. We discuss Karen’s book Belonging in Healthcare. We also highlight what belonging in the workplace can mean at the holidays.For 25 years Karen Catlin built software products and served as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, Today, she is a highly acclaimed author and speaker on inclusive workplaces. She is the author of five books: Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces, Belonging in Healthcare, The Better Allies Approach to Hiring, Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking, and The Better Allies Way. ​​Kavita Babu, MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine Chief Opioid Officer, and Director, Division of Toxicology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She is a graduate of Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University where she also did her residency, followed by her Medical Toxicology Fellowship training at the UMass Chan Medical School.  

Julieanna Richardson President & Founder of The HistoryMakers

In today’s episode, I speak with Julieanna Richardson. She is the founder and president of The HistoryMakers. We talk about her life and her life’s work.The HistoryMakers represents the single largest archival project of its kind since the recording of former slaves during the WPA period of the 1930s. The purpose of this archive is to educate and to show the breadth and depth of this important American history as told by the first person; to highlight the accomplishments of individual African Americans across a variety of disciplines; to showcase those who have played a role in African American led movements and/or organizations; and to preserve this material for years and generations to come, creating a priceless collection of 15,000-20,000 of recorded African American testimony.Julieanna L. Richardson, Public Historian and Founder/Executive Director of The HistoryMakers and principal investigator for ScienceMakers has a unique and diverse background in theatre, television production and the cable television industry. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, where she double-majored in Theatre Arts and American Studies. After conducting oral histories on the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes, Richardson attended Harvard Law School. After graduation, she worked as a corporate lawyer, prior to serving in the early 1980's as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago Office of Cable Communications. There she established the Chicago Cable Commission, the City's regulatory body. She went on to found Shop Chicago, a regionally based home shopping channel. She was driven to start The HistoryMakers out of a strong desire to make a difference and to leave a living legacy.

Hanni Stoklosa and Eileen Barrett Innovators and Advocates on National Rural Health Day

In today's episode on National Rural Health Day, I speak with two physicians with extensive experience providing patient care in rural environments. We talk about human trafficking, the opioid epidemic, rural healthcare access, and more.Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking, is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) with appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She is an internationally-recognized expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the wellbeing of trafficking survivors in the U.S. and internationally through a public health lens. She has advised the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of State, and the National Academy of Medicine on issues of human trafficking and testified as an expert witness multiple times before the U.S. Congress. Eileen D. Barrett, M.D., MPH, SFHM, MACP, is Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), representing internal medicine physicians, related sub specialists, and medical students. She is a rural internal medicine hospitalist and Faculty with IHI. Dr Barrett She completed a Rural Faculty Development Fellowship through the University of Arizona in 2009 and a Medical Justice and Advocacy Fellowship through Morehouse School of Medicine and the American Medical Association in 2022.

Celeste Mergens Author Advocate and Founder of Days For Girls International

In today’s episode I speak with author, advocate, and entrepreneur Celeste Mergens. We speak about human centered design when it comes to the health and safety of girls and women. We focus on period equity, her organization Days for Girls, and her book The Power of Days.Celeste is an innovative thought leader, who has founded several successful organizations, including her global award-winning Days for Girls International. Days for Girls was named by the Huffington Post as a ‘Next Ten’ Organization poised to change the world in the next decade. 

Mirtha Macri and Ruthie Shatz on the Netflix Docuseries Emergency NYC by Yulari Films

In today’s episode, I speak with emergency medicine physician Mirtha Macri and documentary film maker Ruthie Shatz. We discuss the Netflix docuseries, Emergency NYC. Previously, Ruthie and Mirtha joined me in episode 50, where we discussed the Netflix docuseries Lenox Hill. Ruthie Shatz is an award winning filmmaker. She and her husband Adi Barash are the founders of the Brooklyn based Yulari Films an award winning director - producer - writer team. Mirtha Macri is an emergency medicine physician. She trained at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Roosevelt in New York City, and currently works at Northwell Health. She is the quality director for the Lenox Health Greenwich Village hospital.

Barbara Ross-Lee DO First African American Woman Dean of a Medical School and Change Agent

In today’s episode, I speak with Barbara Ross-Lee DO. She is an osteopathic family medicine physician, health policy expert, and overall trailblazer in the fields of medicine and health policy and medical education.  Dr. Ross-Lee is the first African American woman dean of a medical school and a health policy expert. She has played a pivotal role in breaking down barriers and reshaping the landscape of medical education. A graduate of Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, she made history as the first African-American woman to lead a medical school in the United States. Her visionary leadership has been instrumental in promoting diversity in the healthcare workforce and addressing healthcare disparities. Dr. Ross-Lee's dedication to expanding access to quality healthcare and medical education has left an indelible mark on the industry, making her a respected and influential figure in the world of medicine. 

Minda Harts Workplace Expert Speaker Author of The Memo and Right Within

In today’s episode, I speak with Minda Harts. She is an award winning speaker, author, podcaster, and workplace consultant. We focus our conversation on toxic workplaces, leadership, healing, and two of her books: The Memo and Right Within.Minda speaks on advancing equity in the workplace, leadership, and career development. She has written three bestselling and award-winning books called The Memo, Right Within, and You Are More Than Magic. She is currently writing her fourth. She is an assistant professor of public service at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. In 2020, she was named by LinkedIn as the #1 Top Voice for Equity in the Workplace. In 2022, she was named by Business Insider as one the top 100 People Transforming Business. She hosts a podcast Secure The Seat.

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Professor and Award Winning Author of Big Girl

In today's episode I speak with novelist, author, and professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D. Our conversation focuses on her coming of age young adult debut novel Big Girl. Mecca is the author of the novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel, Blue Talk and Love, winner of the Judith Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary, and The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the MLA. She has earned honors from Bread Loaf, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Fiction, the NEA and others. Originally from Harlem, NY, she is an Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington DC.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Organizational Psychologist Author I,Human

In today's episode I speak with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. Tomas is the author of the book I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique. We talk about AI's ability to predict good leaders, and how this new technology can aide in better selecting people, free of bias.Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. He is the author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It), upon which his TEDx talk was based.