Town Hall Seattle
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a journalist, known for having been the National Editor of The Washington Post.Chandrasekaran's first book, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone," was published in 2006. | Guest | |
Claire Dederer is a nonfiction writer and memoirist. She teaches writing at the Pacific University MFA program.Dederer's essays, reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Slate, Salon, and High Country News. Her first book, "Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses," was published in 2010. Her second book, "Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning," was published in 2017. Her third book, "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma," was published in 2023.Dederer began her career as the chief film critic for Seattle Weekly. | Guest | |
Brian Merchant is a technology writer, author, editor at Motherboard, and founder & editor of online fiction outlet Terraform at VICE. | Guest | |
Justin Driver is a legal scholar. Currently, he is a Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 2019.Previously, Driver taught at the University of Chicago Law School. Driver received his B.A. from Brown University, his M.A. from Duke University, his M.S. from Oxford University, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, Driver clerked for Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and Justice Stephen Breyer. | Guest | |
Christopher Leonard is an investigative journalist and author. | Guest | |
Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, author and main host of Democracy Now!. | Guest | |
Jen Sincero is a writer and success coach. | Guest | |
Masha Gessen is a journalist, author, translator, and activist. She is known for her criticism of Russia and of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. She has written several non-fiction books, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.In 1981, Gessen and her family moved to the United States. As an adult in 1991, she moved to Moscow, where she worked as a journalist. She has been described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist," and she quips that she was probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country for many years. She was on the board of directors of the Moscow LGBT rights organization Triangle. She was openly critical of Russia's ban on "homosexual propaganda" and other anti-LGBT laws, as well as the harassment and beating of journalists. In 2013, a few months after being physically assaulted in the street and worried about reports that the Russian government might take away one of her children because of her sexual orientation, she and her wife and family fled to New York City. | Guest | |
Christopher Sebastian is the director of social media for Peace Advocacy Network, he sits on the Advisory Council for Encompass, he is a senior fellow at Sentient Media, he is co-founder of VGN, and he lectures at Columbia University in the Department of Social Work for the graduate course POP: Power, Oppression, and Privilege. Using a multidisciplinary approach that includes media theory, political science, and social psychology, he focuses on how human relationships with other animals shapes our attitudes about race, sexuality, and class. | Guest | |
Dr. Margaret O'Mara (born 1970) is an American historian and professor at the University of Washington. She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, and connections between high-tech and the history of U.S. politics.O'Mara's writing on technology, politics, and society has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, and The American Prospect. Her first book, "Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley," was published in 2005. Her second book, "Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century," was published in 2015. Her third book, "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America," was published in 2019. O'Mara has also appeared on major broadcast television and radio outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, CBC, and NPR. She is a public speaker, regularly lecturing before general and academic audiences about Silicon Valley's evolution and the impact of its people, companies, and politics on the United States and the world and about the past, present, and future of the American presidency.Prior to her academic career, O'Mara served in the Clinton Administration, working on economic and social policy in the White House and in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.O'Mara received her B.A. from Northwestern University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. | Guest | |
Josephine Ensign is a Professor of Nursing. | Guest | |
Rachel Louise Snyder is a writer, professor and public radio commentator. Her first book, Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, was published in 2007. An excerpt of the book aired on This American Life and won an Overseas Press Club Award. Her second book was a novel entitled What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and was published 2014. Her third book, No Visible Bruises, was published in 2019. Her work has also appeared in the the New Yorker, New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Men’s Journal, Jane, Travel and Leisure, the New Republic, Redbook and Glamour. She hosted the global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio, and her stories have aired on Marketplace and All Things Considered. She is currently an assistant professor in the MFA creative writing program at American University. | Guest | |
Mark Robert Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic. He is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was adapted as a motion picture of the same name and received two Academy Awards. | Guest | |
Paula Pant is a Podcast host, writer, speaker, and media commentator on financial independence and real estate investing. She is also the creator and host of the Afford Anything Podcast. | Guest | |
Pramila Jayapal is a politician and activist. | Guest | |
Juan González is a progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter. He frequently co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. | Guest | |
Rick Steves is a travel writer, author, activist, and television personality. He has hosted Rick Steves' Europe, a travel series on public television and currently hosts a public radio travel show called Travel with Rick Steves. | Guest | |
Anand Giridharadas is a writer of Indian descent. He is a former columnist for The New York Times, and he is also the author of three books: India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, and Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. | Guest | |
CEO at Citizen University, Author of BECOME AMERICA. Contributor at The Atlantic. | Guest | |
Nesrine Malik is a writer, columnist, and author. | Guest |
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