Terri White Is the New CEO at Mental Health Association Oklahoma
Our guest is Terri White, who left her post as the Commissioner of Oklahoma's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services earlier this year. A well-respected expert on, and advocate for,...
View ArticleA Local-Level Discussion of Race and Health Care in America Today
Our guest is Dr. Syeachia Dennis, who joined the OU-Tulsa family medicine residency program in 2013, and who more recently completed a master's program from the John Hopkins School of Public Health. An...
View Article"No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us"
Our guest is Rachel Louise Snyder, an award-winning journalist and professor of creative writing and journalism at American University. She talks about her newest book, which is just out in paperback;...
View Article"Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year...
Our guest is the writer Jeff Hobbs, whose new book closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college. These four teens are seniors at two very different high schools in L.A. --...
View Article"But You're Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood"
Our guest is Kayleen Schaefer, a journalist and author who has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and other publications. Her new book, which she tells us about, is "But...
View Article"No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us"...
(Note: This interview first aired in September of 2020.) Our guest is Rachel Louise Snyder, an award-winning journalist and professor of creative writing and journalism at American University. She...
View Article"A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year before College" (Encore)
(Note: This interview originally aired back in September.) Our guest is the writer Jeff Hobbs, whose latest book closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college. These four...
View Article"Let's Talk Race: A Guide for White People"
Our guest on StudioTulsa is Dr. Fern L. Johnson, a Senior Research Scholar and Professor Emerita at Clark University who focuses on race and culture. She and her partner, Marlene G. Fine, are the white...
View Article"Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain"
Our guest is Shankar Vedantam, the bestselling author and host of the popular "Hidden Brain" podcast and public-radio show. He joins us to discuss his new book, "Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox...
View Article"Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America"
On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we discuss a work that takes a careful and long-overdue look at how caregiving and burnout so often go hand-in-hand in this country. Our guest is Kate Washington,...
View Article"The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization"
Yes, the nation is deeply, counter-productively divided -- and yes, American politics and American culture probably haven't been this divided in decades.... But what can we DO about such polarization?...
View Article"How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood" (Encore)
(Note: This interview first aired back in February.) Our guest is Kayleen Schaefer, a journalist and author who's written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and other publications....
View Article"New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time" (Encore)
(Note: This interview first aired back in March.) In the first two decades of the 21st century, New York City has experienced a terrorist attack, a blackout, a hurricane, an historic recession,...
View Article"Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration"
Our guest is Dr. Christine Montross, who's an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a practicing inpatient psychiatrist. She...
View Article"Let's Talk Race: A Guide for White People" (Encore)
(Note: This conversation first aired back in April.) Our guest on StudioTulsa is Dr. Fern L. Johnson, a Senior Research Scholar and Professor Emerita at Clark University who focuses on race and...
View Article"Nudging" for Good, Behavioral Economist Richard Thaler On the Choices We Make
Everyday during our daily routine, we are "nudged" to make choices and decisions in a particular way. Most are beneficial to us, others, not. They range from our car reminding us to buckle up when we...
View Article"Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain" (Encore)
(Note: This interview first aired earlier this year.) Our guest is Shankar Vedantam, the bestselling author and host of the popular "Hidden Brain" podcast and public-radio show. He joins us to discuss...
View Article"Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy"
Our guest is Adam Tooze, a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of "Crashed," which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Books of the Year. His...
View Article"Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation"
The pandemic, of course, has clearly changed -- and is actually still changing -- how we think about work, play, relationships, entertainment, education, social interaction, and much more. It's also...
View Article"Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America"
We've heard often about "essential workers" since the pandemic got underway -- those indispensable individuals who are, alas, in many cases under-appreciated, under-paid, or both. But such vital...
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