Emmai Alaquiva uses the power of art to raise awareness. He recently created a public service announcement, “Unspeakable,” focused on American Sign Language and the Black deaf community. Alaquiva is an Emmy Award-winning producer, and composer. He also is CEO of Ya Momz House, a multimedia agency in Pittsburgh.
John Rudoff is a full-time freelance photojournalist who has been documenting the protests and federal response in Portland, Ore., where he lives. His principal current outlet is Sipa USA and AP Images, with whom he has worked for about three years. Recently he's also covered political events in Charlottesville, Va., Standing Rock, Colo., Greece, Bangladesh, …
Letrell Deshan Crittenden is assistant professor of communication and program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. A former police and government reporter, he is an emerging scholar who specializes issues related to diversity and inclusion in news, and community journalism. How can the media do better at a time when individuals and institutions should become …
West Virginia is known for its natural beauty, natural resources, and also, struggles. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Eric Eyre uncovered the story of companies flooding small towns in his state with prescription pain pills. He's concerned about those struggling with addiction amid COVID-19, what the government is doing, and how people might embrace a …
We don't know everything about how COVID-19 will change our world, but we do know that medicine and science can guide us. Listen in as Dr. Arvind Venkat discusses the novel coronavirus pandemic that's transformed our lives. He is vice chair for research and faculty academic affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine of Allegheny …
Listen in for in-between season updates….what happened after last week's editorial published in the New York Daily News, what's new at Postindustrial, and Season 2!
Coronavirus cases are spiking again in some areas. Wearing a mask might not be fun, or popular, but we implore you: Wear a mask, social distance, and take other precautions to protect yourself and others. And don't forget to come back for Season 2 – coming soon.
We are living through a global pandemic and a social justice movement: How are our communities faring across the region? In Issue 4 of the Postindustrial magazine, out soon, we'll take a look at how people are working toward re-imagining their communities, with hope and resilience, amid sorrow. And keep listening for new conversations — …
In this week's episode of the Postindustrial Podcast, host Carmen Gentile talks with scholar Rana Khoury, who wrote “As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation, about her home state. Khoury's insights into the effect of the Great Recession on some of her fellow Ohians are particularly valuable considering the even greater economic challenge we all …
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is an author and scholar who is studying what types of programs help cities struggling after economic decline. She is the author of “Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan.” Two other books are forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Murtazashvili also has advised the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Defense, the …
Jeff Newton has had a long career as an award-winning journalist, producing work for The Associated Press, “60 Minutes,” Vice, and National Geographic. among others. He's worked throughout the globe in conflict zones including Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Uganda, Egypt, Niger, and Haiti. Jeff's most recent work can be seen on National Geographic's “Chain of …
Julia Rendleman is an award-winning photographer based in Richmond, Va. who explores issues of health, access, and community. In this episode, host Carmen Gentile talks to Julia about people who were already struggling before the lockdowns might be affected now.
In this episode of the Postindustrial Podcast, founder Carmen Gentile talks to Heath Druzin, Boise State Public Radio’s Guns & America reporter, part of a national collaboration between 10 public radio stations examining all aspects of firearms in America. Carmen talks to Heath about groups protesting shutdown orders nationwide, and more. Listen in for this …
In the first episode of The Postindustrial Podcast, we talk to the chief of emergency medicine about how his suburban hospital is preparing for an anticipated onslaught of COVID-19 cases. The Postindustrial Podcast will featuring conversations about how the novel coronavirus is transforming life across the Rust Belt and Appalachia.
