In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

Show #99, Hour 2 | Guest: Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including “Damascus,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller, as well as “Termite Parade,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” was recently published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. | Show Summary: An ensemble novel that bounces between storylines as fast as the video and photo uploads of Mohr’s characters.

Show #99, Hour 1 | Guests: Diane Ehrensaft is Director of Mental Health and founding member of UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center. Dr. Ehrensaft also has a private developmental and clinical psychology practice in Oakland. Her work focuses on child development, gender, parenting, and parent-child relationships.Ja’Nina Walker is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Walker is a developmental psychologist focusing on identity development for Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescents and emerging adults. | Show Summary: What is gender? Angie asks about a recent campaign that established gender neutral toy sections at Target, a transgender death certificate law passed last year in California, and that Florida now offers gender neutral marriage licenses.

Show #98, Hour 2 | Guest: David Shields, writer. | Show Summary: A Huffington Post “Moving, Must Read Memoir” of 2015, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields changes the way we think and talk about trauma by addressing it straight on. Kirkus Reviews says the book is “an insightful, thought-provoking probe into the impulses of human desire.”

Show #98, Hour 1 | Guests: Jason E. Taylor is the Jerry and Felicia Campbell Chair Professor of Economics at Central Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. From the University of Georgia in 1998 and was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia between 1998 and 2003. He has been a professor at CMU since 2003 and joined the Mackinac Center’s Board of Scholars in 2014. Cory Wolbach serves on Palo Alto’s City Council where he’s a member of the Policy and Services Committee and also serves as a Library Advisory Commission Liaison and Palo Alto Housing Corp. Liaison. He’s lived in Palo Alto for over 20 years, including graduating from Palo Alto’s Gunn High School. Wolbach has a B. A. From University of California, San Diego in Political Science/International Relations. Bradley Cleveland is an urban planning specialist with particular focus on how workers in the informal economy can improve their jobs and livelihoods in ways that also enhance the resilience of their environments. A journ

Show #97, Hour 2 | Guest: Dr. Vivian Carpenter is a writer, motivational speaker, and teacher. She holds three degrees from the University of Michigan: a BSE in industrial engineering and operations research and MBA and a Ph.D. In business administration. As an academic, she has won several awards and grants for her scholarly work in institutional theory from the National Science Foundation, Governmental Accounting Standards Board, Kellogg Foundation and Ford Foundation. As a business professional, she served as a Deputy State Treasurer of the State of Michigan, was Director of Academic Programs at FAMU’s School of Business and Industry (SBI), and served as chairperson of the board of MotorCity Casino in Detroit, Michigan. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida and Birmingham, Michigan. | Show Summary: In her novel The Fifth Letter, Dr. Vivian Carpenter shows how Corporate Personhood is an evolving—and dangerous—threat to our individual basic rights. An accomplished scholar whose previous research was founded by

Show #97, Hour 1 | Guest: Sharon Levin, writer. | Show Summary: Sharon Levin’s been reviewing children’s literature for 18 years. She founded and runs the Bay Area Children’s Literature List. Her biggest passion, outside her family, is getting books into the hands of children and teens.

Show #96, Hour 2 | Guest: Joel Selvin, former Senior Pop Culture Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. | Show Summary: Joel Selvin’s written and curated an indispensable gallery of legendary photographer Jim Marshall’s Sixties-era San Francisco photography. The counter-culture movement of the 1960s is one of the most endlessly examined moments of the twentieth century. Widely regarded as the cradle of revolution, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury grew from a small neighborhood to a worldwide phenomenon—a concept that extends far beyond the boundaries of the intersection itself. Jim Marshall visually chronicled this area as perhaps no one else did. Renowned for his portraits of some of the greatest musicians of the era, Marshall covered Haight-Ashbury with the same unique eye that allowed him to amass a staggering archive of music photography and Grammy recognition for his work. In this one-of-a-kind book, the full extent of Marshall’s Haight-Ashbury photography is stunningly displayed. Written by bestselling m

Show #96, Hour 1 | Guests: Amy Gotliffe, Director of Conservation, Oakland Zoo; Craig Packer, author: “Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns,” University of Chicago Press, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, and Director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesot | Show Summary: The poaching of Zimbabwe’s lion king Cecil has prompted worldwide outrage and a new focus on the practice of trophy hunting. Does money from big-game sport hunters actually forward the cause of conservation? Is the controversy another nine-days wonder, or could it have lasting effect on hunting laws and practices? In Deep takes a long look at Cecil’s real legacy.

Show #95, Hour 2 | Guests: Joanna Rudnick made her directorial debut with the award-winning In the Family and other credits include Crossfire Hurricane (four Creative Arts Emmy nominee), Prisoner of Her Past and A Good Man | Show Summary: From Emmy-nominated filmmaker Joanna Rudnick (In the Family) and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films comes a story about challenging norms and redefining beauty. On Beauty follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry’s standard of beauty. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows to change the way we see and experience beauty.

Show #95, Hour 1 | Guests: Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst with RH Reality Check, and co-host of This Week in Blackness Prime; Doug McAdam is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. | Show Summary: This month, two young black women charged with minor offenses died in police custody, both reported suicides. They’re two of many cases of suspected or confirmed abuses of police procedure in America, and add to a growing body count of black men and women at the hands of authorities. The Black Lives Matter movement has amplified cries for reform. Their takeover of a candidate’s forum at the Netroots Nation convention sharply divided liberal activists. In Deep looks at the roots, tactics, impact, and goals of Black Lives Matter.

Show #94, Hour 2 | Guests: Jennifer Ring, writer. | Show Summary: Author Jennifer Ring discusses the history of women athletes and the barriers they still face today.

Show #94, Hour 1 | Guests: Julie Lythcott-Haims, writer and academic. | Show Summary: A bracing look at the issue of overparenting. Angie sits down with author Julie Lythcott-Haims, Dean of Freshman at Stanford University, to discuss how things got so out of control, and what to do about it.

Show #93, Hour 2 | Guests: Gay Dillingham, filmmaker; Zach Leary, digital artist. | Show Summary: Angie sits down with documentary film director Gay Dillingham, along with Zach Leary to discuss their new film “Dying To Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary.”

Show #93, Hour 1 | Guests: Jessica Jackley, writer, activist. | Show Summary: Author Jessica Jackley discusses her new book Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least.

Show #92, Hour 2 | Guests: Bernice Yeung and Daffodil Altan, reporters with Center for Investigative Reporting. | Show Summary: Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting collaborated to report on sexual assault and lack of due process for overnight workers. GUESTS: Bernice Yeung and Daffodil Altan, CIR reporters.

Show #92, Hour 1 | Guests: Michael Kohn, Bay Area for Bernie; Matt Dallek, Assistant Prof. Of Political Management in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University, visiting scholar at Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West. | Show Summary: What motivates long-shot presidential candidate? Is it possible for a third-party runner – or a Democratic or Republican dark horse – to get to the White house? If it’s not about winning, what’s to gain? Guests: Michael Kohn, Bay Area for Bernie; Matt Dallek, Assistant Prof. Of Political Management in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University, visiting scholar at Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West.

Show #91, Hour 2 | Guests: Daniel Feldman, writer; Lee Kravetz, writer. | Show Summary: Angie interviews writer-researchers Daniel Feldman and Lee Kravetz on their powerful new book exploring the hidden factors in personal achievement and success.

Show #91, Hour 1 | Guests: Aspen Baker, writer, organizer, counselor. | Show Summary: Angie talks with Aspen Baker on finding communications beyond pro-life and pro-choice. Aspen Baker is a founder and head of Exhale, a non profit group that provides phone counseling to women who have had abortions. Exhale defines itself as apolitical and claims to not take sides on the controversial issue. To illustrate this, they choose the label “pro-voice.”

Show #90, Hour 2 | Guests: Debi Durst, comedienne and organizer; Ron Chapman, comic and podcaster. | Show Summary: Jerry Seinfeld bemoans the damage to comedy wrought by “political correctness”. Bill Maher backs him up. Salon.com polls 10 top stand-up performers (one black man, one white woman, eight white men) who all agree. Is real comedy truly endangered by hyper-judgmental guardians of the sacred and ubiquitous recording devices? What’s still fair game? San Francisco’s beloved Debi Durst taps her long experience in both stand-up and improv to tackle the thorny subject. She’s currently in rehearsal for Marin Shakespeare Company’s “Cymbeline”, in the role of Cornelius. She and her husband, political satirist Will Durst, take their “Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show” on the road every December. Stand-up comic and podcaster Ron Chapman was featured earlier this year at SF Sketchfest. He’s performed at the Set-Up, at Stage Werx with Endgame Improv and Panelmonium, and at other Bay Area venues.

Show #89, Hour 2 | Guest: Robert L. Okin, MD | Show Summary: We avert our eyes when we meet them on the street: homeless mentally ill people with their hand-scrawled signs, shopping carts, and cardboard boxes. Because of our fear and revulsion, we fail to see any human connection with them. How do they end up on the street? How do they survive? What combination of biological vulnerabilities, childhood traumas, drugs, mental disorders, and financial devastation brought them down? And how do some manage, against all odds, to climb out of this desperate situation? Former commissioner of mental health Robert Okin spent two years on the street meeting and photographing homeless individuals with mental illness to find answers to these questions. He masterfully brings these people to life through stories and images that are intimate and gritty. Robert L. Okin, MD, was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago, and after a psychiatric residency at the Albert Eins