“Off Press” — The Podcast of LMU Magazine

“Off Press” is a series of conversations with members of the Loyola Marymount University community about their impact on the world through their lives, their work and their Jesuit education.

Episode 54: Nathan Sessoms 10/30/2024

Episode 54: Nathan Sessoms Freeways both connect and divide the Los Angeles region. Nathan Sessoms, professor in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, describes the impact of building the 10 freeway through L.A.’s West Adams community. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/33688367

Episode 53: Trent Kersten 09/19/2024

Episode 53: Trent Kersten Trent Kersten, LMU head volleyball coach, talks about the increased popularity of women’s sports, volleyball strategy and recruiting, and the impact of the transfer portal on building a D1 program. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/33125212

Episode 52: Cheryl Grills 04/05/2024

Episode 52: Cheryl Grills Cheryl Grills, professor in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, was appointed to the California state task force tasked with proposing reparations to the state’s Black descendants of enslaved people. She talks about the long-term harms of slavery and possible steps to repair the wrongs. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/30698958

Episode 51: Donegal Fergus 02/19/2024

Episode 51: Donegal Fergus Donegal Fergus, LMU baseball head coach, talks about the impact on NCAA baseball of the transfer portal and NIL issues, as well as how he hopes to develop players for a major league future. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/30017723

Episode 50: Mary Agnes Erlandson ’82 04/24/2023

Episode 50: Mary Agnes Erlandson ’82 Homelessness has many causes, and Mary Agnes Erlandson ’82 directs a social services center in Lennox, near LMU and LAX, that offers programs addressing many of them. Erlandson describes how focusing on people’s needs, especially housing, can change people’s lives for the better. She has seen it happen. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/26641056

Episode 49: Eileen Schoetzow ’98, MBA ’07 03/21/2023

Episode 49: Eileen Schoetzow ’98, MBA ’07 Eileen Schoetzow ’98, MBA ’07, an urban and environmental planner for the City of Los Angeles, is part of a team that constructs homeless shelters for unhoused people in Los Angeles. She talks about helping people get off the streets and into homes and why making a difference matters to her. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/26298738

Episode 48: Kenneth Chancey ’15 03/01/2023

Episode 48: Kenneth Chancey ’15 School was one of the safest places he knew growing up, Kenneth Chancey says. For one thing, he knew he’d get a meal there. Today, he’s left life in a van and a homeless shelter behind, and he’s helping others do the same as a senior manger for special youth initiatives with the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/26098839

Episode 47: Ben Bolch 01/23/2023

Episode 47: Ben Bolch Name, image and likeness (NIL) payments represent a new, large infusion of money into college athletics. Much will stream toward athletes through sponsorships and endorsements. But some scenarios are deeply troubling. Ben Bolch, staff writer on sports at the Los Angeles Times, describes a new era that is changing college athletics. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/25705071

Episode 46: Tara Pixley 11/15/2022

Episode 46: Tara Pixley Oil drills and storage facilities are scattered across the Los Angeles region, many located in the heart of residential communities. Tara Pixley, who teaches photojournalism in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, has produced photo essays of some of those communities. She describes the dangers experienced by people who live and work in proximity to L.A.’s oil industry. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/25024638

Episode 45: Aarika Hughes 11/03/2022

Episode 45: Aarika Hughes Aarika Hughes, in her second season as head coach of LMU women’s basketball, describes the strengths of the West Coast Conference competition and the discipline, defense and fast-paced play she intends to confront her opponents with. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/24899745

Episode 44: Rebecca Delfino 07/18/2022

Episode 44: Rebecca Delfino The opioid crisis, which has killed as many as 700,000 Americans in the past 20 years, has fallen off the nation’s radar. Rebecca Delfino, clinical law professor at the LMU Loyola Law School, describes an epidemic that continues to destroy communities and the overprescription practices and misleading marketing that fuels it. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/23778734

Episode 43: Kara Allen, Ed.D. ’14 03/11/2022

Episode 43: Kara Allen, Ed.D. ’14 Kara Allen Ed.D. ’14, chief impact officer, is the San Antonio Spurs’ face in their community. Putting seats at the table where decisions are made — that’s how Allen describes her job. But it goes both ways, she says: not only putting a Spurs voice at community tables but adding community voices at the Spurs’ table. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/22418591

Episode 42: Eric Strauss 02/03/2022

Episode 42: Eric Strauss The impact of climate change on Southern California — in heat, ocean temperatures and coastal damage — is being felt now and will be significant, says Eric Strauss, executive director of the LMU Center for Urban Resilience. And the worst effects will likely be distributed unequally. The challenge is not to reverse climate change but to adapt and ameliorate its impact. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/22014041

Episode 41: Paul Krumpe 08/18/2021

Episode 41: Paul Krumpe Paul Krumpe, head coach of LMU men’s soccer, heads into the 2021 season with perhaps the strongest team he has fielded in his 24-year tenure. Krumpe talks about a squad that brings back almost everyone from last year’s championship season and his expectations for his team’s performance this year. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/20183243

Episode 40: Ernesto Colín 02/16/2021

Episode 40: Ernesto Colín The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted far more than the day-to-day operations of America’s schools. “What happened here is that the pandemic has revealed the fissures that we have in education settings and amplified all of them,” says Ernesto Colín, Loyola Marymount University professor of education. Colín talks about what we’ve confronted and what we’ve learned. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/17969981

Episode 39: Jason Bentley ’92 11/24/2020

Episode 39: Jason Bentley ’92 Jason Bentley ’92 says his stint as general manager of KXLU, LMU’s independent radio station, occurred during “the golden age of college rock.” Bentley went on to greater fame as a KCRW DJ and music director. Here he talks about his days in the KXLU studios and his new podcast, The Backstory, featuring interviews with artists. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16941284

Episode 38: Karen Bass 11/06/2020

Episode 38: Karen Bass With votes nearly tallied, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, describes changes she expects in a possible Biden presidency and a new Congress. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16703090

Episode 37: Justin Levitt and Michael Genovese 11/04/2020

Episode 37: Justin Levitt and Michael Genovese The voting is over, and now the election is about counting, counting and counting. Justin Levitt, election law expert at LMU Loyola Law School, and Michael Genovese, LMU expert on the presidency, discuss the state of the 2020 election and what’s ahead in the next presidential term. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16686020

Episode 36: Sean Dempsey, S.J. 10/28/2020

Episode 36: Sean Dempsey, S.J. Catholic voters, whose ballots were crucial in 2016, may sway the 2020 presidential election. But, says Prof. Sean Dempsey, S.J., the days when Catholics voted as a bloc are long gone. Today, they span the political spectrum, and, Dempsey says, candidates should find out what they care about. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16589045

Episode 35: Chaya Crowder 10/23/2020

Episode 35: Chaya Crowder “The Republican Party has made little to no attempt to historically appeal to Black voters since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,” says Prof. Chaya Crowder in describing why Black voters, especially Black women, are the backbone of the Democratic Party. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16522688

Episode 34: Stefan Bradley 10/16/2020

Episode 34: Stefan Bradley With the Biden-Trump presidential battle threatening to sweep most national issues from the nation’s radar, Prof. Stefan Bradley discusses what he sees at stake for Black Americans in the 2020 election. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16430966

Episode 33: Carol Costello 10/07/2020

Episode 33: Carol Costello As Election Day approaches, the White House turns into a virus hot zone and political incivility deepens. Carol Costello, former CNN anchor, discusses America’s diseases of body and spirit — and what she’s doing about them. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16314473

Episode 32: Allan Ides and the SCOTUS Nominee 10/01/2020

Episode 32: Allan Ides and the SCOTUS Nominee If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, her impact may be shaped by her relationship with Chief Justice John Roberts, says Allan Ides, LMU Loyola Law School professor. Ides, who clerked for Justice Byron White, shares an inside view of the Barrett nomination. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16235807

Episode 31: Justin Levitt and Election 2020 09/24/2020

Episode 31: Justin Levitt and Election 2020 Justin Levitt, constitutional law professor at the LMU Loyola Law School, may be one of the few election law and voting rights experts who does not expect an electoral apocalypse to overwhelm Election Day on Nov. 3. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/16143239

Episode 30: Michael Genovese 09/02/2020

Episode 30: Michael Genovese Prof. Michael Genovese, a leading expert on the presidency, discusses the upcoming presidential election, which will present voters with a stark choice and promises to be as unpredictable as it will be momentous. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/15854090

Episode 29: Sean Kennedy '86, LLS '89 06/16/2020

Episode 29: Sean Kennedy '86, LLS '89 In May, an LMU Loyola Law School suit was rejected that would have forced the release of more juveniles in detention who are at risk for the coronavirus. Sean Kennedy, director of the LLS Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, explains why the decision is a failure of juvenile justice. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/14852963

Episode 28: Sung Won Sohn 06/11/2020

Episode 28: Sung Won Sohn The rapid, global onset of the coronavirus pandemic slammed economies around the world. Sung Won Sohn, LMU professor of finance and economics, discusses signs of hope in a stark U.S. and California economic forecast. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/14791685

Episode 27: Tom Plate 05/29/2020

Episode 27: Tom Plate U.S. relations with China — from the COVID-19 crisis to democracy protests in Hong Kong — may shape the November 2020 presidential election. Tom Plate, LMU professor and Asia expert, talks about foreign policy disputes and pragmatism in dealing with a superpower. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/14623868

Episode 26: Fernando Guerra and Brianne Gilbert 05/28/2020

Episode 26: Fernando Guerra and Brianne Gilbert When the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles surveyed L.A. residents this spring about Mayor Eric Garcetti's leadership in the COVID-19 crisis, they documented overwhelming support across the board. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/14603996

Episode 25: Shira Shafir '99 05/14/2020

Episode 25: Shira Shafir '99 The coronavirus has caused more than 80,000 deaths in the United States in just four months. Shira Shafir ’99, professor of epidemiology, warns that as in the 1918–19 influenza epidemic a second wave of infections in the COVID-19 crisis could cause more deaths than the first. /episode/index/show/offpress/id/14421509

“Off Press” — The Podcast of LMU Magazine

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