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SUMMARY:Policy Talks @ the Ford School: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo
DESCRIPTION:Policy Talks @ The Ford School \nTalk streams on Monday\, Oct. 2 at 8:00 PM EDT \nPolicy Talks @ the Ford School presents U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo. Secretary Raimondo will reflect on economic growth\, innovation\, and American competitiveness in conversation with Professor Betsey Stevenson. \n\nGuest Biographies\nGina M. Raimondo\, Secretary of Commerce\nDepartment of Commerce \nGina M. Raimondo serves as the 40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce and was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on March 3\, 2021. \nAs Secretary of Commerce\, she is focused on a simple but vital mission — to spur good-paying jobs\, empower entrepreneurs to innovate and grow\, and help American workers and businesses compete. \nSecretary Raimondo was formerly the 75th Governor of Rhode Island and its first woman governor. She grew up in Smithfield in a tight-knit Italian American family. Her family history and her childhood experiences shaped her core beliefs in hard work\, opportunity for all\, and the importance of financial security. \nShe graduated with honors from Harvard\, where she was recognized as the top economics student in her class. She won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where she earned a doctorate and met her future husband\, Andy Moffit. She later graduated from Yale Law School. Secretary Raimondo clerked for US District Judge Kimba Wood and served as founding employee and senior vice president at Village Ventures. \nWanting to start her own business and be close to family\, she returned home to Rhode Island and founded Point Judith Capital\, a venture capital firm. In November 2010\, Secretary Raimondo was elected to serve as General Treasurer of Rhode Island\, receiving the largest number of votes of any statewide candidate. When she took office as General Treasurer\, she tackled the state’s $7 billion unfunded pension liability. Secretary Raimondo was sworn into office as Governor in January 2015 and won a second term in 2018. During her time as Governor\, Secretary Raimondo kick-started the state’s economy and made record investments in infrastructure\, education\, and job training. She focused on creating economic opportunities and good-paying jobs for all Rhode Islanders. Early in her administration\, she launched an innovative workforce development program that develops business-led partnerships to address unique workforce challenges. \nShe also served as chair of the Democratic Governors’ Association in 2019. \nBetsey Stevenson\, Professor of Public Policy and Economics\nStevenson is a labor economist who publishes widely about the labor market and the impact of public policies on outcomes both in the labor market and for families. \nHer research explores women’s labor market experiences\, the economic forces shaping the modern family\, and how these experiences and forces influence each other. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011\, participating as the secretary’s deputy to the White House economic team.
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SUMMARY:2023 Hispanic Heritage Month - Author Highlights
DESCRIPTION:Streams on Wed.\, Oct. 4\, 8 pm ET | 5 pm PT \nOver the years\, PBS Books has interviewed numerous talented Hispanic authors who write across various genres and for ages. In Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month\, PBS Books pays tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively impacted and enriched our nation and society. To celebrate US Latinos and their culture and history\, PBS Books will feature moments of our conversations with Hector Tobar\, Maria Hinijosa\, Kelly Lytle Hernández\, Juliet Menendez\, Claribel Oretega\, Meg Medina and many more.    \nTo see the full PBS Books Library of Author Talks and our suggested booklist\, go to pbsbooks.org/hispanicheritage.  \nFeatured Authors\nHector Tobar \nMaria Hinijosa \nKelly Lytle Hernández \nJuliet Menéndez \nClaribel Ortega \nMeg Medina
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SUMMARY:The Land of the Sun and the River of Spirits with Carolina Caycedo\, David de Rozas\, and Juan Macias Somi Se’k | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event is recorded live on Thursday\, September 28\, 2023\, at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nSomi Se’k (The Land of the Sun-La tierra del Sol) is how the Estok Gna\, the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas\, refer to the lands on both sides of the River of Spirits (Rio Grande)\, comprising the Chihuahuan Desert\, the Rio Grande Valley\, and its delta. Somi Se’k\, is not just a name\, nor a neutral place\, but a multilayered net of universes where the region’s present\, past\, and future are still in conversation. Caycedo\, de Rozas\, and Mancias’s talk will focus on Texas’ native people’s philosophy\, their profound knowledge and relationship to the land\, and their continuous struggle to maintain their culture and lifeways against ongoing forms of colonization\, erasure\, and extraction. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2023 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/carolina-caycedo-david-de-rozas-and-juan-macias-the-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: Author Talk with Carlos Eire
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodes \n Streams on Wednesday\, Oct. 11\, 2023 8pm ET | 5pm PT  \nProgram Description:\nPBS Books and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)  are partnering on "Visions of America: All Stories\, All People\, All Places\,"   PBS Books premiered "Visions of America: A Journey to the Freedom Tower – Stories of Cuban Migration to Miami" in September. The inspiration for this episode is Carlos Eire's "Waiting for Snow in Havana" and "Learning to Die in Miami". IMLS Director Crosby Kemper speaks with award-winning writer and scholar Carlos Eire to discuss his books\, his life\, and his experiences as an immigrant\, an exile\, and an American. Gain personal insights into a Cuban's experience and Pedro Pan\, an unaccompanied children's exodus from Cuba. As you celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month\, don't miss this opportunity to hear a lesser-known American story.  \nTo hear more about "Visions of America: A Journey to the Freedom Tower – Stories of Cuban Migration to Miami" go to visionsofamerica.org.  \nAbout the Author: Carlos Eire\nCarlos Eire is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe at Yale University who focuses on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; the history of the supernatural\, and the history of death.  \nRead More\nAt Yale he has served as chair of the Religious Studies Department and the Renaissance Studies Program. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996\, he taught at St. John’s University in Minnesota and the University of Virginia\, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for two years. He is the author of War Against the Idols (1986); From Madrid to Purgatory(1995); A Very Brief History of Eternity (2010); Reformations: The Early Modern World (2016); and The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography (2019)\, and They Flew: A History of the Impossible (2023). He is also co-author of Jews\, Christians\, Muslims: An Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (1997). In 2003 he won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003)\, which covers the Cuban Revolution and its immediate aftermath and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.  \nHis second memoir\, Learning to Die in Miami (2010)\, explores his early years in exile. His book Reformations won the R.R.Hawkins Prize for Best Book of the Year from the American Publishers Association\, as well as the award for Best Book in the Humanities. It was also awarded the Jaroslav Pelikan Prize by Yale University Press. All of his books are banned in Cuba\, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state – a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors.   \n“Waiting for Snow in Havana” \nRead More\n“Waiting for Snow in Havana“ is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos’s youth—with its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas—becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Fidel Castro ousts President Batista on January 1\, 1959. Suddenly the music in the streets sounds like gunfire. Christmas is made illegal\, political dissent leads to imprisonment\, and too many of Carlos’s friends are leaving Cuba for a place as far away and unthinkable as the United States. Carlos will end up there\, too\, and fulfill his mother’s dreams by becoming a modern American man—even if his soul remains in the country he left behind. Narrated with the urgency of a confession\, Waiting for Snow in Havana is a eulogy for a native land and a loving testament to the collective spirit of Cubans everywhere.  \n“Learning to Die in Miami” \nRead More\nThe memoir\, “Waiting for Snow in Havana”\, won the 2003 National Book Award. Carlos Eire narrates his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands of other children—to begin their new life in Miami in 1962. It would be years before he would see his mother again. He would never again see his beloved father.  “Learning to Die in Miami ” opens as the plane lands and Carlos faces\, with trepidation and excitement\, his new life. He quickly realizes that in order for his new American self to emerge\, his Cuban self must “die.” And so\, with great enterprise and purpose\, he begins his journey.  We follow Carlos as he adjusts to life in his new home. Faced with learning English\, attending American schools\, and an uncertain future\, young Carlos confronts the age-old immigrant’s plight: being surrounded by American bounty\, but not able to partake right away. The abundance America has to offer excites him and\, regardless of how grim his living situation becomes\, he eagerly forges ahead with his own personal assimilation program\, shedding the vestiges of his old life almost immediately\, even changing his name to Charles. Cuba becomes a remote and vague idea in the back of his mind\, something he used to know well\, but now it “had ceased to be part of the world.”  \nAbout the Moderator: Crosby Kemper\nCrosby Kemper is the sixth director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He was commissioned by the White House on January 24\, 2020\, following his confirmation by the United States Senate. IMLS\, an independent government agency\, is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries.  \nRead More\nKemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds. He came to IMLS from the Kansas City Public Library\, where as director\, he established the library as one of the city’s leading cultural destinations and a hub of community engagement. Kemper also served as chair of the board of directors of the Schools\, Health\, & Libraries Broadband Coalition\, which supports open\, affordable broadband connections for local community organizations.   \nBeginning his IMLS tenure at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Kemper provided exceptional support and leadership to communities by elevating issues of pandemic impact\, poverty\, race\, and the digital divide as part of the IMLS grantmaking process. Understanding the urgent need\, Kemper delivered American Rescue Plan Act and CARES Act monies to grantees quickly and efficiently\, with a focus on community impact in a time of extreme dislocation. Under his leadership\, IMLS also created the REALM (REopening Archives\, Libraries\, and Museums) project using CARES Act funds\, a partnership to directly respond to the lack of information on the virus specifically for library and museum materials and spaces\, as well as to research protocols and procedures for reopening.  \nAlong with leaders of fellow cultural agencies the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)\, Kemper is a member of the re-established President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities\, as well as the congressionally mandated Information Literacy Taskforce.  \nHe is an ex officio member of the US Semiquincentennial Commission. As such\, he has engaged museum\, library\, and arts leaders in deep conversations about American history and the Semiquincentennial. He also launched IMLS’s 250 initiative\, “IMLS 250: All Stories. All People. All Places.” 
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SUMMARY:Recover Faster: Building Resilience in Uncert(AI)n Times with John Maeda | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event is recorded live on Thursday\, October 5\, 2023\, at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nLife is a series of hurdles\, and setbacks are inevitable. Join John Maeda as he explores the art of recovering faster and developing resilience in the face of adversity. In this talk\, Maeda shares practical strategies for overcoming obstacles\, bouncing back from failures\, and navigating the many uncertainties in life. And given that we have entered a new era of disruptive AI technologies\, Maeda also walks through how to deal with the new breed of uncert(AI)nties coming our way. \nJohn Maeda (MBA\, PhD) is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business\, design\, and technology merge to make space for the ​“humanist technologist.” \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2023 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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SUMMARY:Climate Conversation with Author Ben Goldfarb
DESCRIPTION:Streams live on Wed. October 18\, 2023 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT \nProgram Description:\nPBS Books talks with award-winning journalist and author Ben Goldfarb to discuss his latest book “CROSSING: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet” and his Award-winning book “Eager: The Surprising\, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter”. This program is offered in conjunction with the new PBS initiative to explore the environmental and climate impacts on the country and planet; PBS Books is committed to highlighting the environment and its impacts on history and society.  \nBen discusses the science of how roads and transportation infrastructure have shaped our natural world\, the importance of habitat connectivity that can impair wildlife access to resources needed for survival\, and the efforts to balance how humans and nature can co-exist in this ever-changing world. Ben also talks about the importance of re-introducing North America’s greatest architect\, the beaver\, who can help bring back much of the North American natural landscape.   \nPBS is committed to bringing together the very best in science\, history\, and news programming.  PBS is proud to offer a broad slate of programs\, building on more than 200 hours of climate and environmental content currently available on its various platforms. The programs explore climate change from a diversity of perspectives and include new productions such as “Human Footprint“;  Season Two of  “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston” \, “NOVA” and “Nature“;  ”Weathered“\, a digital-first series from PBS Digital Studios; and more. \nAbout the Author:\nBen Goldfarb\, Award-Winning Conservation Journalist & Author \nBen Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has appeared in publications including National Geographic\, the Atlantic\, and the New York Times.  He is the author of “Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet” and “Eager: The Surprising\, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter”\, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He lives in Colorado with his wife\, Elise\, and his dog\, Kit — which is\, of course\, what you call a baby beaver. \nAbout the Book:\n“CROSSING: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet” \nAn eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads\, from the award-winning author of Eager. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth\, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. \nWhile roads are so ubiquitous they're practically invisible to us\, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In "Crossings"\, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone\, but as the new science of road ecology shows\, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. This book explores these impacts.  \n 
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SUMMARY:His Final Presentation with Chris Van Allsburg | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, October 12\, 2023\, at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nChris Van Allsburg is one of America’s most innovative picture book creators. Since 1979\, his books have blurred the line between fantasy and reality. His illustrations are provocative and eerie\, often hinting at an alternate reality lurking behind the next page. His book Jumanji and its sequel Zathura became a series of Hollywood films. His most recognized book\, The Polar Express\, was also adapted for the big screen and is one of the bestselling children’s books of all time. \nVan Allsburg has written and/​or illustrated 21 books. He was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Jumanji and The Polar Express and received a Caldecott Honor for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. He has received the Regina Medal for lifetime achievement in children’s literature\, a National Book Award\, and has been inducted into The Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame\, among many other honors. He lives outside of Boston\, Massachusetts. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2023 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/chris-van-allsburg-the-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Martin Baron and Stephen Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Talk streams live on Monday\, Oct. 23 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT \nProgram Description:\nFor eight years\, Martin Baron served as executive editor of The Washington Post\, leading its newsroom from Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the paper to the election and presidency of Donald Trump. Join Baron in conversation with Stephen Henderson for a discussion on Baron’s new book\, “Collision of Power: Trump\, Bezos\, and The Washington Post\,” as he details his tenure at The Post and examines larger issues of the press and its role in democracy.  \n The author’s book will be available for sale onsite by Source Booksellers. \nSee more Wallace House events>>
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/an-evening-with-martin-baron-and-stephen-henderson/
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: Exploring the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle - Stories of the Asian Pacific American Experience
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodes \nProgram Description:\nIn this episode\, Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Crosby Kemper explores Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) history and culture in Seattle beginning with a visit to the Wing Luke Museum. Established in 1967\, the Wing Luke Museum is an art and history museum that focuses on art\, history\, and culture of Asian Americans\, Pacific Islanders\, and Native Hawaiians; it is the only pan-Asian community-based museum in the US. \nAfter a museum exhibition tour with current director Joel Tan\, Crosby meets with recently retired director Beth Takekawa and author Lawrence Matsuda for a discussion of the resilience of Japanese Americans during the internment of World War II. Then\, former Washington governor Gary Locke shares about his own Seattle roots and the history of the city’s Chinatown-International District before a visit with Bettie Luke\, the youngest sister of Wing Luke. Bettie discusses her brother’s legacy in the community and her own lifetime spent working for social justice concerns. \nAbout Visions of America\nVisions of America – All Stories\, All People\, All Places\, hosted by Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Crosby Kemper\, explores our great nation and uses its diverse collection of museums\, libraries and historians both familiar and new to tell some of the lesser-known stories that have flown under the radar in our shared legacy of American Independents. Over the course of 3 half-hour episodes in its first season\, the program journeys to different historical sites throughout the nation for conversations that will tell the engaging but sometimes hidden stories that resonate with where we are at as a nation today. and maybe give some insight and inspiration on how we got here. But history doesn’t just exist in a museum. Each episode will also venture out into the cities these institutions call home to delve further into what makes each of these communities so important to our national identity\, all with the help of local historians who know the stories of their community better than anyone. \n\nGuest Biographies:\nJoël Barraquiel Tan\, Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum \nJoël Barraquiel Tan is the executive director of the Wing Luke Museum\, a community-focused Asian and Pacific Islander museum in Seattle dedicated to arts\, culture\, heritage and preservation. An executive with 30 years of leadership experience\, Barraquiel Tan is responsible for leading the Wing Luke Museum through its growth and expansion. A passionate cultural entrepreneur and artist with a proven track record of success\, he brings experience in community building\, innovating new programming and promoting arts engagement to his role.      \nRead More\nBarraquiel Tan earned a BA from the University of California\, Berkley\, an MFA from Antioch University and an MFT from Northcentral University.  \nAffiliated with the Smithsonian Institute and the National Parks Service\, the Wing Luke Museum is the only pan-Asian and Pacific Islander Museum in the country that promotes inspired action through authentic storytelling and community co-created exhibitions\, tours\, public programs\, retail\, advocacy\, media\, and a wide array of educational programs.  \n  \nBeth Takekawa\, Former Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum \nBeth Takekawa retired in August 2021 from her position as Executive Director of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (The Wing). She joined the Museum staff 24 years previously as its first Associate Director. She became Executive Director in January 2008.  \nRead More\nThe Wing Luke Museum is a community-based cultural anchor in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. It is the nation’s only museum representing Asian Americans\, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The Wing is the first Smithsonian Institution affiliate in the Northwest\, and an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service.   \nAt the start of her employment The Wing’s operating budget was under $1Million and it leased a historic auto garage as its home. During the next ten years the Museum’s board\, staff and supporters strengthened its public impact and financial strength. They conducted an unprecedented capital campaign and expansion project\, raising $25 Million. With these funds the museum purchased a historic 1910 rooming house in Seattle’s Chinatown\, the first major structure in the neighborhood. Over the years it became largely vacant when the descendants of the early Chinese immigrants who built it were unable to maintain it.  \nIn 2008 the Wing Luke Museum opened its doors in its rehabilitated home\, the East Kong Yick Building. Simultaneously the 2008/9 Great Recession occurred. This was an intensely difficult climate to expand the business\, especially in a low-income urban setting. Everybody pulled together and learned fast\, resulting in a successful expansion. Today the Museum is recognized as the district’s economic driver\, and it programs its business offerings to serve this role.  \nBeth served as a board member of the National Museum and Library Services Board (2017-2023)\, nominated by President Obama in 2016. Former WA state governor Christine Gregoire appointed her a Washington State Arts Commissioner (2009-2015). She was a National Planning Committee member for the Minidoka National Internment Site\, which recognizes the U.S. government’s unjust incarceration of 120\,000 Americans of Japanese descent during WWII\, including her entire family.  \nBeth is a 2011 Salzburg Global Seminars Fellow\, one of 56 leaders worldwide discussing museums and libraries in the era of participatory culture. She continues over 21 years of service as a board member for the International District Emergency Center\, an emergency response nonprofit serving Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.   \nShe is a former cellist\, with music degree from University of Minnesota/Hunter College.  \n  \nGary Locke\, 21st Governor of Washington State\, U.S. Secretary of Commerce\, and American Ambassador to China \nAs Governor of Washington State (the first Chinese American to be elected governor in United States history and the first Asian American governor on the mainland)\, U.S. Secretary of Commerce\, and America's Ambassador to China\, Gary Locke has been a leader in the areas of education\, employment\, trade\, health care\, human rights\, and the environment.  \nRead More\nAs Washington’s 21st Governor from 1997-2005\, the nation’s most trade dependent state\, Mr. Locke increased exports of Washington State products and services by leading trade missions to Mexico\, Europe\, and Asia\, more than doubling the state’s exports to China.   \nDuring his tenure\, he achieved bipartisan welfare reform and oversaw the gain of 280\,000 private sector jobs\, despite two national recessions. Mr. Locke also had the most diverse cabinet in state history.  More than half his judicial appointments were women and 25% were people of color.    \nHis innovations in government efficiency\, customer focus\, and priority-based budgeting\, as well as successful and under-budget management of high-risk initiatives\, have won him acclaim from nationally recognized authors and organizations\, including Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In his two-terms as Governor\, Washington was ranked one of America’s four best managed states.  \nU.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2009-2011\, he led President Obama’s National Export Initiative to double American exports in five years; assumed a troubled 2010 Census process but which under his active supervision achieved the most accurate Census in U.S. history\, on time and $2 billion under budget; and achieved the most significant reduction in patent application processing in the agency’s history: from 40 months down to one year. With U.S. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates\, Mr. Locke also oversaw a significant first step in the president’s export control reform effort that strengthened national security\, while making U.S. companies more competitive by easing their licensing burden for high-tech exports.  \nAs U.S. Ambassador to China from 2011-2014\, he opened markets for made-in-USA goods and services; reduced wait times for visa interviews of Chinese applicants from 100 days to 3 days; and through the Embassy’s air quality monitoring program\, exposed the severity of the air pollution in China\, causing the Chinese people to demand action by the government and the government in turn beginning to address the issue.   \nHe is currently Interim President of Bellevue College\, the third largest higher education institution in Washington State.  \nMr. Locke is Chairman of Locke Global Strategies\, providing strategic advice and consulting services to businesses in the U.S. and China across a spectrum of issues including international trade.   \nHe currently serves on the boards of AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:  AMC)\, and nLight  (Nasdaq:  LASR).   \nMr. Locke began his career in public service in the Washington State House of Representatives\, serving from 1983-1994. He was then elected King County Executive\, serving from 1994-1997.     \nHe is an Eagle Scout and is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He attended Yale University\, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in political science and received his law degree from Boston University.  \nFull Length Conversation with Gary Locke \nCrosby Kemper full conversation with former Washington governor Gary Locke who shares about his own Seattle roots and the history of the city's Chinatown-International District.  \nLawrence Matsuda\, Writer and Poet \nLawrence Matsuda was born in the Minidoka\, Idaho Concentration Camp during World War II. He and his family were among the approximately 120\,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese held without due process for three years or more years.   \nRead More\nMatsuda has a Ph.D. in education from the University of Washington and was:  a secondary teacher\, university counselor\, state level administrator\, school principal\, assistant superintendent\, educational consultant\, visiting professor at Seattle University (SU)\, and school design consultant.  He retired in 2000 from the School District and from Seattle University in 2006.   Currently he is a poet and writer.    \nIn July of 2010\, his book of poetry entitled A Cold Wind from Idaho was published by Black Lawrence Press in New York.  In 2014\, Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner was released\, a collaboration between Matsuda and artist Roger Shimomura\, who contributed 17 original sketches.     \nIn 2015\, Matsuda collaborated with artist Matt Sasaki\, and produced two graphic novels:    \nAn American Hero – Shiro Kashino and Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers funded by the National Park Service and available through the Nisei Veterans Committee Foundation or the Wing Luke Museum.  The Shiro Kashino animated version won a 2016 regional Emmy and is available online. \nAlso in 2016\, he and Tess Gallagher collaborated on Boogie-Woogie Crisscross\, a book of poetry developed from e-mails they exchanged over a period of three years when she was in Ireland and he was in Seattle.  It was reprinted by Cave Moon Press in 2023.     \nIn 2019\, his novel based on his mother's life\, My Name is Not Viola \, was published by Endicott and Hugh Books.  His latest book of poetry\, Shape Shifter\, A Minidoka Concentration Camp Legacy\, was released in 2022 by Endicott and Hugh Books and won an honorable mention for the 2022 Idaho Book of the Year award.   \n  \nBettie Luke \nBettie Luke is the sister of Wing Luke\, after whom Seattle's Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is named. Her career spans over four decades\, during which she has been a champion for diversity and cultural competency. She has conducted diversity training in 36 different states\, serving K-12 and higher education institutions\, government bodies\, and businesses.   \nRead More\nIn 1986 and 2011\, she organized significant events to commemorate the 1886 Expulsion of Chinese from Seattle and also played a key role in the dedication ceremony of the new Wing Luke Elementary School in August 2021. In September of 2023\, she was awarded the prestigious Spirit of America Award by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance.   \nLuke is also an artist and co-author of two Chinese activity books for children. \nFull Length Conversation with Bettie Luke \nCrosby Kemper full conversation with Bettie Luke\, the youngest sister of Wing Luke\, where she discusses her brother's legacy in the community and her own lifetime spent working for social justice concerns.  \nFull Length Roundtable Conversation at Wing Luke\nCrosby Kemper full conversation with recently retired director Beth Takekawa and author Lawrence Matsuda for a discussion of the resilience of Japanese Americans during the internment of World War II. 
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SUMMARY:"Little Amal" Artist Talk with Amir Nizar Zuabi
DESCRIPTION:Streams on Thursday\, Oct. 26 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT \nProgram Description:\nThis PBS Books presentation of “Little Amal” shares the power of artist Amir Nizar Zuabi extraordinary message of “One Little Girl. One Big Hope.” as his embodiment of a 10-year-old girl is brought to life in the form of a 12-foot puppet who journeys\, as many young refugees have\, over many miles and many countries. \nLittle Amal has become a global symbol of human rights and has received invitations from towns and cities all over the world\, from people who are eager to help her spread her urgent message: “Don’t forget about us”. \nAs “Little Amal Walks Across America”\, our PBS partner station Detroit Public Television captures the experience in the series One Detroit. Amir reflects on his humbling experience in the creation along with the impact the project has had within himself\, the people who have come to share in the experience and Little Amal herself. \n\nFind out more about Little Amal and where her journeys will take her next at WalkWithAmal.org 
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SUMMARY:AI with a Thinking Brush with Refik Anadol | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:This speaker event is recorded live on Thursday\, October 19\, 2023\, at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nIf machines can ​“learn” or ​“process” individual and collective memories\, can they also dream or hallucinate about them? Since 2016\, world-renowned new media artist Refik Anadol has been exploring the relation between the human mind\, aesthetics\, machine learning technologies\, and architecture to speculate responses to this question. Coining the terms ​“AI Data Painting\,” ​“AI Data Sculpture\,” and ​“latent cinema\,” Anadol has been reflecting on new multi-sensory forms of narrating collective memory in physical and virtual spaces and inviting his audience to imagine alternative and dynamic realities. \nAnadol\, a Turkish native who is based in LA\, is a pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material\, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator\, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. Anadol’s site-specific data paintings and sculptures\, live audio/​visual performances\, and immersive installations take many forms\, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world\, collective experiences\, public art\, decentralized networks\, and the creative potential of AI. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Fall 2023 Season\nThis winter\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/refik-anadol-the-penny-stamps-distinguished-speaker-series/
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