McCormack Speaks

May 05 2024
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A public and global affairs radio show and podcast, brought to you by The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston; committed to student success in an equitable world, and broadcast exclusively on WUMB Radio. In depth public interest conversations include; inequality, urban issues, education in the 21st century, governance, foreign affairs, diversity, public service and policy careers, and more.

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Author and Activist Ellen Cassedy; Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie.

May 05 2024 29 mins  
Ellen Cassedy was a founder and longtime leader of 9 to 5, the national association of women office workers. Working 9 to 5 is her first-person account of this exciting movement, which began in the early 1970’s, mobilizing women across the country to organize for rights and respect on the job. The movement inspired Jane Fonda’s hit movie and Dolly Parton’s enduring anthem. 9

Part 2; African Economic Transformation in the 21st Century with Professsor Leonce Ndikum

Apr 21 2024 28 mins  
Leonce Ndikumana is a Burundian Professor of Economics and specialist in African economy development, macroeconomics, external debt and capital flight. He is particularly interested in the macro-economic policy and in Africa economy. He focuses his career on the causes of weak African economies, its consequences and solutions needed. He served as Director of Research and Operations

Part 1; African Economic Transformation in the 21st Century with Professsor Leonce Ndikumana..

Apr 07 2024 28 mins  
Leonce Ndikumana is a Burundian Professor of Economics and specialist in African economy development, macroeconomics, external debt and capital flight. He is particularly interested in the macro-economic policy and in Africa economy. He focuses his career on the causes of weak African economies, its consequences and solutions needed. He served as Director of Research and Operations

Deepening community partnerships, cultivating civic engagement, and fostering access, diversity, equity, and inclusion across higher education with Dr. Mary K. Grant, President of MassArt. Part 2.

Mar 24 2024 28 mins  
Dr. Mary K. Grant is a national leader in public higher education with more than 30 years of experience championing the arts, deepening community partnerships, cultivating civic engagement, and fistering access, diversity, equity, and inclusion across higher education. She is the President of Mass College of Art and Design.A McCormack Graduate School alumna, Grant served in leaders

Leadership change in Higher Education: from McCormack alum to MassArt President, with Dr. Mary K. Grant, Part 1.

Mar 10 2024 28 mins  
Dr. Mary K. Grant is a national leader in public higher education with more than 30 years of experience championing the arts, deepening community partnerships, cultivating civic engagement, and fostering access, diversity, equity, and inclusion across higher education. She is the President of Mass College of Art and Design.A McCormack Graduate School alumna, Grant served in leaders

Part 2 of our conversation with Adam Hinds, CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute of The US Senate, on governance and civil discourse.

Feb 25 2024 24 mins  
Senator Adam G. Hinds is an American politician. He currently serves as the CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. From 2017 to 2022 he represented the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden district the Massachusetts Senate. He attended Wesleyan University and then studied international law and negotiation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplom

Part 1 of our conversation with Adam Hinds, CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute of The US Senate, on governance and civil discourse.

Feb 11 2024 25 mins  
Senator Adam G. Hinds is an American politician. He currently serves as the CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. From 2017 to 2022 he represented the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden district in the Massachusetts Senate. He attended Wesleyan University and then studied international law and negotiation at the Fletcher School of Law and Dip

An engaging talk with journalist and Supreme Court legal scholar Dahlia Lithwick, on women, politics, and The Supreme Court.

Jan 28 2024 30 mins  
Dahlia Lithwick is an award-winning journalist and author, and Senior Editor at Slate, having written their Supreme Court Dispatches and Jurisprudence columns since 1999.Lithwick also hosts Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. Lithwick earned her BA in English at Yale and her JD degree at Standford. She has held visiting faculty posi

Sumbul Siddiqui joins McCormack Speaks, the first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history, talking about Policy and Cambridge City.

Jan 14 2024 30 mins  
Sumbul Siddiqui is an American lawyer and politician, who served as the 77th mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Siddiqui was elected mayor in 2020 by the Cambridge City Council, after serving in the body for 3 years. She succeeded Marc C. McGovern in January 2020, becoming the first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history.

Part 2 of our conversation with distinguished professor Barry Bluestone, founder of policy schools in Boston: UMB and Northeastern.

Jan 01 2024 30 mins  
Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy from 1999 to 2015, and the founding dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs