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BPR Interviews: Elijah Cummings
Congressman Elijah Cummings has represented the 7th District of Maryland since 1996. A former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, he...
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May 12, 20162 min read


BPR Interviews: Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards is the President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Before joining...
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May 12, 20164 min read
BPR Interviews: Jennicet Gutiérrez
Jennicet Gutiérrez is a transgender Latina activist and organizer with Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. She gained national...
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Apr 5, 20162 min read


BPR Interviews: Jane Ward
Jane Ward is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses in...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Regan Hofmann
Regan Hofmann is a HIV-positive woman and an internationally recognized authority on HIV/AIDS. She is currently the Policy Officer for...
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Mar 28, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: Bill Keller
Bill Keller is the editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the American criminal justice...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Haben Girma
Haben Girma is an attorney and disability rights advocate. She was the first deafblind student to graduate from Harvard Law School and...
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Mar 21, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: John Sopko
John Sopko is Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. He has worked as a prosecutor in Ohio and served in the Senate...
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Jan 26, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Cyrus Vance
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. is the New York County District Attorney. As District Attorney, Vance has removed of thousands of illegal firearms...
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Dec 21, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Jack Reed
Jack Reed (D-RI) is the senior United States Senator from Rhode Island. A decorated veteran, Reed has served in the Senate since...
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Dec 21, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Gina McCarthy
Gina McCarthy is the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to being nominated for the post by President Obama in...
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Dec 21, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Ann Ravel
Ann Ravel is the chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission. You have previously described the Federal Election Commission...
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Nov 8, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures, a nonprofit organization that advocates economic localization,...
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Nov 8, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Nicholas Kristof
Photo Credit: Ruth Prieto for Show of Force Nicholas Kristof is an op-ed columnist at The New York Times, where he writes...
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Nov 8, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim ‘86 is a documentary filmmaker. He is best known for “An Inconvenient Truth,” “It Might Get Loud,” and “Waiting...
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Nov 8, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Peter Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick is the President and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, which seeks solutions to the world’s water challenges....
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Nov 8, 20152 min read


BPR Interviews: Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho, a comedian and three-time Grammy Award winner, has worked in multiple creative industries, including film,...
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Nov 8, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: John Hudak
John Hudak is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is an expert in campaigns, elections and presidential...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Rachel Lloyd
Rachel Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, an organization that works with survivors of commercial...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Stewart Baker
Stewart Baker was the first Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and the...
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May 5, 20154 min read
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