07: Dr. Céline Gounder
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
Release Date: 03/22/2021
13: Coach Kim Wyant
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
, head coach of the NYU men's soccer team, is a groundbreaking athlete and coach. When she was appointed to this role in 2015, she was the only woman coaching an NCAA men's soccer team. In fall 2022, she gained wide publicity for a against Julianne Sitch—the new coach for the UChicago men's team. The two teams played to a draw, and Chicago went on to win the NCAA Div III national championship. In addition to her years of success as a coach for numerous teams, Wyant was also a highly accomplished player. She was a starter for the University of Central Florida in the first-ever...
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12: Molly Shannon
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
(NYU Tisch '87) is an actress and comedian who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2001. Her recent television roles include Enlightened (2013), Divorce (2016-19), The White Lotus (2021), and I Love That For You (2022). Her voice can be heard in the animated films Igor (2008) and the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022). In 2017, she won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Other People. Her best-selling memoir, Hello, Molly!, was published in...
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11: Professor David Holland
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
David Holland is a renowned climate scientist who recently returned from the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. He works in close partnership with his wife, Denise Holland, who is his manager of field and logistics. Fascinated by the Arctic since his childhood in Newfoundland and Labrador, he discusses what we know—and don’t yet know—about the warming of the oceans and its threat to humankind; his shuttling between teaching and research in urban centers and intensive fieldwork in some of the most beautiful and dangerous regions of the world; and the politicization of climate science as vast...
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10: Professor Deb Willis
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
Deb Willis is an artist, photographer, author, and educator, and she is one of the nation's leading historians and curators of African American photography. At NYU, she is a University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Willis is widely published; her most recent book is The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Press, 2021). In addition to making art, writing, and teaching, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, and educational centers. She has also appeared and consulted...
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09: Rosanne Cash
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
has spent her career as a musician and author telling stories—from the Mississippi Delta, from her family’s roots in the 19th century, and from her own American experience. Now she brings that spirit to NYU students to "explore and spread the word about the roots music that informs so much of what I do and who I am.” A four-time Grammy winner and immensely successful crossover artist in country, pop, and Americana, she moved from Nashville to New York City in 1991 and considers it home. She continues to compose, record, and perform extensively, as well as to write memoir, fiction, and...
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08: Professor Deborah Archer
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
is the Jacob K. Javits Professor at NYU and Professor of Clinical Law at the NYU School of Law. She also directs the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and the Civil Rights Clinic at the NYU School of Law. Archer is a nationally recognized expert in civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice. In January 2021, she was national board president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the first Black person to hold the position in the ACLU’s 101-year history. Before the board presidency of the ACLU, Archer was a member of the ACLU’s...
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07: Dr. Céline Gounder
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and a practicing HIV/infectious diseases specialist. Dr. Gounder, who has written for numerous publications, is a CNN medical analyst and frequent expert guest on CNN, the BBC, and other networks. She is also the host and producer of, a podcast on health and social justice, and, a podcast about the COVID-19 pandemic. In early 2015, she spent two months volunteering as an Ebola aid worker in Guinea, and interviews she conducted there became the basis of Dying to Talk, a feature-length documentary she made about the...
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06:Bob Bauer
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
NYU Law School professor served as White House counsel under Barack Obama and as senior advisor to Joe Biden on his 2020 campaign. He has written extensively on a range of topics including the rule of law, election safeguards, national security, and the power of the presidency. In the early days of President Biden's new administration, President Hamilton talks to Bauer about how the US can and should move forward after a period of fracture perhaps unlike any seen since the Civil War.
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05 - SeaStraws
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
Founder and CEO Antonio Di Meglio (Stern ’20) and Co-founder and Creative Director Echo Chen (Gallatin ’20) are current NYU undergrads who established in 2018 with Sophie Kennedy (CAS ’19) and several other NYU students. SeaStraws provides nationwide distributors and individual restaurants with disposable single-use that minimize environmental impact. The company’s mission is to transform hospitality through sustainable alternatives. In September 2018, the University announced several sustainability initiatives, including its commitment to eliminate plastic...
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04 - Timothy Naftali
Conversations: Hosted by NYU President Andy Hamilton
is NYU's clinical associate professor of history and clinical associate professor of public service, and director of NYU's undergraduate public policy major. He was the founding director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, where he oversaw the release of 1.3 million pages of presidential documents and nearly 700 hours of Nixon tapes. Naftali is a regular CNN contributor, offering expertise in national security and intelligence policy, international history, and presidential history. As a TV commentator, he has appeared on...
info_outlineDr. Céline Gounder, is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and a practicing HIV/infectious diseases specialist.
Dr. Gounder, who has written for numerous publications, is a CNN medical analyst and frequent expert guest on CNN, the BBC, and other networks. She is also the host and producer of American Diagnosis, a podcast on health and social justice, and Epidemic, a podcast about the COVID-19 pandemic.
In early 2015, she spent two months volunteering as an Ebola aid worker in Guinea, and interviews she conducted there became the basis of Dying to Talk, a feature-length documentary she made about the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in that country.
Dr. Gounder served on President Biden's and Vice President Harris's Transition Covid-19 Advisory Board from November 9, 2020 through January 20, 2021, and it is our honor to welcome her to today’s show.