A Floatable Solar Lantern to Reduce Pollution. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Alice Chun. How Alice Chun came to invent Solight Design. Her struggles,and celebrations as a female inventor and entrepreneur. How she worked with her students to build and test prototypes. Current projects: helping refugees from the Russia-Ukraine […]
Pardons and Impunity- the Fujimori Case (Latin American Directions)
Pardons Cannot be Used to Foster Impunity. The host for this show is Nicolás Süssmann Herrán. The guest is Salvador Herencia-Carrasco. By exploring the Fujimori case in Peru. The episode explores the limits of pardons to those convicted for crimes against humanity and the role of International Human Rights Law. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for […]
Peru’s Political and Institutional Crisis (Latin American Directions)
Peru, Governance, Economy, Pandemic. The host for this show is Nicolás Süssmann Herrán. The guest is Salvador Herencia-Carrasco. The show focuses on the current political and institutional crisis in Peru. President Castillo was sworn into office in July 2021 and is already in his fourth cabinet. The show assesses how this uncertainty affects economic recovery, […]
Latin America in Transition (Global Connections)
Is it Changing or is it More of the Same. The hosts for this show are Carlos Juarez and Jay Fidell. Carlos Juarez provides an overview of recent political transitions in Latin America, from the first woman elected president in Honduras, a primary school teacher elected president in Peru, the Ortegas reelected in Nicaragua and […]
Our Kuleana on Behalf of Indigenous peoples Social Justice
Beatriz Cantelmo and Reynaldo Morales will examine how individual collective civic engagement can positively influence government’s responsibility and obligation to ensure social justice for indigenous peoples and nations. In today’s Program we will discuss an example of how Peruvian public health policies and indigenous women’s human rights were revised in the 1990s after documentation of […]