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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are:

  • Robert Brigham - Professor of History and International Relations on the Shirley Ecker Boskey Chair at Vassar College. 
  • Catherine Tan - Associate Professor in the department of sociology at Vassar College. 
  • Larissa Phillips - Founder and director of the Volunteer Literacy Project and columnist for The Free Press. 
  • Justin Patch - Associate Professor of Music at Vassar College. 

With special appearance from WAMC's Live Show, Newscast, Podcast Editor Diane DeVore.

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Sam Dingman is WAMC’s Hudson/Catskill Bureau Chief. Previously, he was co-host and reporter at “The Show” on KJZZ, Phoenix’s NPR station. Prior to KJZZ, Dingman was the creator and host of the acclaimed podcast “Family Ghosts,” which has been hailed as a critic’s choice by NPR, the LA Times and the New York Times. Dingman also co-hosted the BlueWire original series “The Rumor,” which was featured in the Washington Post and New York Magazine, and was a Webby honoree for Best Podcast Writing. He was story editor for Lemonada Media’s Signal Award-winning series “Pack One Bag,” writer and showrunner for John Stamos’s Webby-winning podcast “The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra,” editor of Karina Longworth’s “You Must Remember This,” and a producer for WNYC’s Peabody-winning “On the Media.” He is a four-time winner of the Moth Grand and Story Slams, and has created, written, hosted, produced and edited podcasts for The Atlantic, Audible Originals, Gilded Audio, Gimlet Media, Lincoln Center, Panoply Media, Paramount Pictures, Pushkin Industries, Spotify, Slate, Stitcher, and Wondery.
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