Author: Alain Guillot
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Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day
in OpinionNot too long ago, I did my 23andMe genetic testing and I discovered that I am 28% Indigenous American. I am also 56.6% of European descent. But when I read the history book, and I read about how the colonizers and the Catholic church tried to destroy the indigenous people and/or their culture, I don’t…
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356 Noe Alvarez: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land
in podcastAbout Noe Alvarez NOÉ ÁLVAREZ was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. Noe Alvarez holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing from Whitman College and Emerson College, respectively. He studied conflict analysis, peacemaking, and conflict resolution at American University and in Northern Ireland, received a fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow…
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Turning A Failing Business Around
in podcastThere are few businesses which simply go on the up and up throughout their entire lifespan. Most companies actually have a significant amount of up and down, and there will be many times when it seems as though things are just not going to get any better. If you find yourself going through one of…
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Understanding Being a Trustee to a Conservatorship
The word “trustee” is a powerful one. It’s the person who holds all of the assets and property for another person, called a beneficiary until they reach adulthood or become incapacitated. As trustee to a conservatorship, you are responsible for managing these assets and protecting them from being wasted or misused by someone else. You…
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355 John Woodrow Cox: Thousands of children killed by guns
in podcastAbout John Woodrow Cox JOHN WOODROW COX is a staff writer at The Washington Post. He was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and has won Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling, the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, and Columbia Journalism School’s Meyer “Mike” Berger Award…
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354 Alan Taylor: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
in podcastAbout Alan Taylor Born in Portland, Maine on June 17, 1955, Alan Taylor attended Colby College, graduating in 1977. After serving as a researcher for historic preservation in the United States Virgin Islands (1977-79), he pursued graduate study at Brandeis University, receiving his Ph.D. in American History in 1986.