Khalilah Brown-Dean
Host, Disruptedis an award-winning scholar and author of . She is Wesleyan University Professor and Executive Director of the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life. She's also a frequent contributor to media outlets across all platforms.
With a keen eye toward the practical implications of democratic conflict, Dr. Brown-Dean is a preeminent expert on issues of American politics, criminal punishment, mass incarceration, voting rights, and U.S. elections. In 2021 she was recognized by the 黑料吃瓜网 Women's Hall of Fame as a Spotlight Recipient for her work on justice and civic engagement.
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For our fifth anniversary, Beverly Daniel Tatum breaks down what it's like to be a college president and discusses some of the biggest news stories involving academia. -
We talk to people spreading Black joy. Hear from the founders of a Black Joy summer camp and the owner of a local woodworking business called Black Joy Creations. -
We're talking to disruptors breaking barriers. We hear from Hamden's historic Fire Chief, someone fighting for inclusive economic growth in New Haven and CT State Gateway's new Campus President. -
This hour, we learn from oral historians about a Black person imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp and the history of 黑料吃瓜网's Puerto Rican communities. -
We talk with a gun violence expert who argues it's time for a new approach to preventing gun violence鈥� one that looks at the culture of gun ownership in the U.S. -
Journalist Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years reporting on the death penalty. In 2020, she started witnessing the executions she'd write about. This week on 'Disrupted,' we examine the human impact of capital punishment. -
Listening to the news, it feels like there are more natural disasters than ever. This hour, we learn the climate science behind that and look at how the word disaster affects our thinking. -
We learn how craft can be a part of activism, and we hear from a local potter whose indigenous Wangunk ancestry informs the way he understands his work. -
黑料吃瓜网 entrepreneurs Karin Smith of Kindred Thoughts Bookstore, Vincencia "Vee" Adusei of VASE Construction and Yves Joseph of RJ Development open up about the joys and challenges of running a Black-owned business. -
Shizuko Tomoda's mother survived the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima. Dr. Tomoda talks about the bomb's intergenerational impact and her documentary Memory of Hiroshima through Imagination.
