 Julia Taylor
Julia Taylor hosts and produces 51% each week. She also co-hosts The Roundtable on WAMC with Joe Donahue each morning. Julia started out with WAMC in its Hudson Valley bureau, reporting on the environment and culture around the river. With a long-abiding love of telling and hearing stories, Julia is smitten with public radio. She's also written for Chronogram Magazine and the Central Penn Business Journal. Julia double-majored in journalism and Spanish at Northwestern University, took a smattering of gender studies courses, and capped her education with an internship at NPR's All Things Considered. 
Jeanne H. Neff
President, The Sage Colleges Co-host, 51% Dr. Jeanne H. Neff is in her twelfth year as President of The Sage Colleges. She came to Sage from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, where she served as Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. Dr. Neff is an alumna of Wheeling Jesuit University and received her graduate degrees from Rice University and Carnegie-Mellon University. While at CMU, she received one of the first Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies and went to publish scholarly articles and her own poetry. Early in her career she taught at Carlow University (PA) and then returned to WJU, where she served for 16 years as a faculty member, academic dean and academic vice-president. A leader within the independent sector of higher education, in the early 1990’s Dr. Neff helped to launch a national consortium of comprehensive colleges focused on innovation and best practices, the Associated New American Colleges. She has served as Chair of the American Conference of Academic Deans and as a member of the Board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is currently Vice-President of the Board of the Council of Independent Colleges and a member of the advisory committee for the Online Consortium of Independent Colleges and Universities. Locally, Dr. Neff is Chair of the Board of the University Heights Association and a member of the Boards of Albany Medical Center and Capital Bank and Trust Company. She is also co-chair of the Historic Troy 2020 community planning group and a director of the Troy Redevelopment Foundation. |
