Dave Cantor

Malika Kidd discusses the Chopping for Change program.

Reporter Matt Richtel discusses his series 'The Inner Pandemic,' as well as his latest book.

Architect Jason Korb discusses the construction of a mass timber building set to be the tallest of its kind.

PEN America's Jonathan Friedman explains how challenges of school library books might impact free speech and public education as a whole.

Dr. Lucas Morel, head of the politics department at Washington & Lee University, joined the Academic Freedom Alliance when it was founded in March 2021.

Ismail Ali, the director of policy and advocacy for MAPS, joins The Best of Our Knowledge to explain the legal and regulatory framework around psychedelic research.

In 2017, Terri Lyne Carrington founded the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, a program at the distinguished Boston school premised on dismantling a patriarchal system that’s disenfranchised female and nonbinary performers.

At one point, there were several labs in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains collected data on precipitation and snowpack. Now, just one associated with the University of California Berkeley and helmed by Dr. Andrew Schwartz is collecting information.

Jeff Griggs helps explain some important concepts that underpin improv comedy, as well as how different teachers might offer unique approaches to the craft.

Mike Pierce serves as executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center and joins The Best of Our Knowledge to discuss the economic impact of student loans, what NPR reporting might mean for reforms of the loan system and why he first became interested in the topic.