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Don't Interrupt Me, Por Favor
Don’t Interrupt Me, Por Favor is an interview show in Spanish and English for bilinguals and future bilinguals. Award-winning journalists Guillermo Fesser, Lisa Button, and Nick Leiber talk to bilingual guests navigating two worlds. The hosts and their guests speak the way many Spanish speakers in t...
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Are Natural Disasters Really So Natural?
The days of catastrophic flooding, the hours of devastating hurricane winds, the minutes of terrifying earthquakes--Mother Nature wreaks havoc. But hu...
Paola Santana Will Hack Your Brain and Fix the Government
Entrepreneur Paola Santana is building a business that makes it easier for government workers to do their jobs and to support local economies. She des...
Slinging Mud and Laughs with Jen Igartua
Jen Igartua helped create the irreverent political board game MUD to encourage all of us to think deep about politics and blow off some steam in the p...
He's the Glue Binding Brainiacs Fighting Covid and Cancer
“Help me help those who help.” Engineer and author Andreu Veà started the group CovidWarriors to organize people with diverse talents around the globe...
She's Crushing California's Wine Industry
Amelia Morán Ceja landed in Napa Valley in 1967 when her vineyard manager father brought his family from Jalisco, Mexico, to wine country in El Norte....
The Journalist Bringing the Art of Bilingual Storytelling to Students
Graciela Mochkofsky loves a challenge. The Argentine author and academic launched and runs the first bilingual journalism master’s program in the coun...
A Poopologist Takes on Covid
The answer to stopping the spread of Covid could be in your poop. Computational biologist Mariana Matus helped start Biobot Analytics in 2017 to find...
The Journalist Behind the Good News We All Need
People around the world turn to Michelle Figueroa's Instagram to find inspiration in the human spirit. The Colombian-American journalist puts a face o...
Luz Urrutia Finds Money for Entrepreneurs Who Need It Most
She’s made it her life’s work to finance the businesses of immigrants, women, and other entrepreneurs whose needs aren’t met by traditional banks. Now...
Alan Weisman: Friend of Homo Sapiens
Science journalist Alan Weisman’s prescient 2007 book "The World Without Us" described what would happen to nature if humans suddenly ceased to exist....
The Inimitable Luis Alberto Urrea
No one conveys the suffering, courage, joy, and spirit of those who dwell in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands better than Pulitzer finalist and master stor...
Making Movies in Paris (and Beyond)
Andrea Hachuel weaves in and out of Spanish, English, and French constantly as assistant director on Hollywood blockbusters and other films made in Fr...
A Medical Student Fights Ebola in Congo
Nico Fesser had been in Africa before. This trip was different. We speak to the second-year medical student about his work in the Democratic Republic...
A Powerhouse on the Front Lines of Women’s Health Care
As the director of maternal-fetal medicine at a public hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., obstetrician Rebecca Shiffman sees it all. She says women should be...
Lau Noah’s Lessons in Creativity
Enchanting singer-songwriter Lau Noah transports listeners to medieval times and beyond with her distinctive, bard-like music. In this interview-conce...
A Generation NAFTA News Anchor
Politicized humanitarian crises. Gerrymandering. Insults hurled at Spanish speakers. Univision news anchor Enrique Acevedo explains how he covers resi...
Knight’s Alberto Ibargüen Takes on the Local News Crisis
Alberto Ibargüen pulls no punches: “We do not have an informed citizenry” and fact and opinion are being conflated, he says. As president and CEO of t...
An Urban Beekeeper Tackles the Die-Off Crisis
The busy work of honeybees makes much of our food supply possible. But these bees are dying at alarming rates. Carolina Zuniga-Aisa, co-founder of Isl...
A Chilean Journalist Seduced by American Pop Culture
Raised on Hollywood movies and celebrity magazines, Manuel Santelices yearned for a life of excitement and glamour. Nearly 30 years ago, he made the m...
David Broza Is Giving Away 1 Million Guitars
Legendary singer-songwriter David Broza is known to his fans as Israel’s Bruce Springsteen. He’s a humanitarian activist and a prolific musician who h...
Puerto Rico’s de Facto Ambassador Dreams Big
Chef, entrepreneur, designer, public speaker — Manolo López is all those things. But this 30-year-old Puerto Rican describes himself as an unofficial...
Explaining “The Silence of Others”
What if your mother was buried in a mass grave and the government did not allow you to rebury her? Or the infamous torturer who beat you lived down th...
Driverless Buses in the Mountains of Fire
Engineer Ricardo Chicharro is leading a driverless bus project that aims to transport tourists to see the otherworldly Mountains of Fire in Timanfaya...
Manhattan's Favorite Bartender
Marcelo Hernández, the Ecuadorian bartender at Grand Central Station's legendary Oyster Bar, shares a few secrets about New York City, the lost art of...
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
We speak with Puerto Rican journalist Luis Trelles about his deep investigation into the discrepancies in the official death count in the aftermath of...
The Woman Disrupting Mixed Martial Arts
Jackie Hernández is a leader and a fighter, jumping from the top ranks of Spanish language media and landing in the mixed martial arts (MMA) arena. In...
Yo-Yo Ma on the Rio Grande
Why is cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach on the banks of the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo along the U.S.-Mexico border, and why are poets and environmentalists ta...
Reinventing Higher Education
Artificial intelligence isn't replacing anyone's job in education just yet, says Santiago Iñiguez, president of IE University, one of Europe's most hi...
Laughter in a Philippines Landfill
Children, some as young as 5 years old, live at a garbage dumpsite on the Philippine island of Mindanao. When the rooster crows, they show up at the d...
Franco, Fascism, and Spain Today
Spain plans to remove the remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen (a controversial memorial site) and rebury them e...
Reshaping the Latino Narrative
Latinos make up roughly 18 percent of the U.S. population, yet remain marginalized in many ways. We speak to media change makers Maria Hinojosa and Gu...
Latinx Superheroes
Are we in a golden age for Latinx superheroes and comics? Ricardo Padilla thinks so, and he should know–he co-founded the annual Latino Comics Expo. H...
Art, Gun Violence, Identity, and Activism
Artists Manuel Oliver and Julia Santos Solomon are using their work to spur change. Manuel is the father of Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, one of 17 people mu...
The Polymath Bagpiper
Cristina Pato is a master gaita player and classical pianist from Galicia, Spain, who has been bringing cultures together with her music for two decad...
When Foreign Students Bypass the U.S.
Many foreign students who remain stateside after graduating from U.S. universities make incalculable contributions to the economy, says Ángel Cabrera,...
Why We See What We See
Turns out artists and magicians can teach scientists more than a thing or two about perception and cognition. We chat with Susana Martínez-Conde, an a...
Money Heist’s Alba Flores
Alba Flores brings the badass bank robber character Nairobi to life in "Money Heist," a Netflix blockbuster that’s been earning international acclaim....
A Daughter and Mother Volunteer at the Border
Families fleeing gang violence and death threats in Central America are seeking asylum in the United States. One of the people helping them is Minneap...
Dr. Q's Brain Odyssey
We journey to the frontier of brain science with Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., a leading brain researcher and chair of neurologic surgery at the Ma...
Criminal Justice Reform
The push to make the criminal justice system fairer is gaining speed at the federal and state levels. Dr. Carlos Valle, a psychiatrist who works at Du...