McCormack Speaks @WUMB Radio

McCormack Speaks @ WUMB Radio

The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies and WUMB Radio at UMass Boston are pleased to announce a new public affairs radio program called McCormack Speaks @ WUMB Radio. The program presents a series of conversations on a range of topics, including town management, public health and COVID, US-Africa relations, the controversy surrounding Critical Race Theory, democracy, and freedom in Ukraine and Russia, and public service and policy careers.  Read more about the founding of this radio program. 

McCormack Speaks @ WUMB is co-sponsored by the Dean's Office Student Success (DOSS) Program and also features the McCormack Institutes of International and Public Service (MIIPS) Brown Bag Series. 

Tune in LIVE on Sundays at 7:30 AM on WUMB Radio 91.9 FM in Boston, Worcester, and Falmouth, or stream live from WUMB.org. For listening frequencies outside of greater Boston and across New Hampshire, check here.

 

More Ways to Listen Live or Catch up on Past Episodes 

     

Meet The Team 

     

Rita Kiki Edozie, Interim Dean, John W. McCormack Graduate School ( Program Host) 

  

Patty Domeniconi, General Manager, WUMB Radio   

 
     

Christopher Graham, Manager, Student Success  & Undergraduate Advisor, John W. MCormack Graduate School  

(Program Manager, Multimedia Productions and Media Relations)

  

Jay Moberg, Music and Programming Director, WUMB Radio                                                                                                                                                                
     

Gifty Debodes-Jackson, Dean's Office Program Assistant 

 

 

          

Mike Gosica, Production Director, WUMB Radio

 

 

 

 

 

SEASON 1   (June - July 2022) 

Episode 1: Pathways to Careers in Public Service. 

Guest: Massachusetts State Representative Jon Santiago, MD. 

First Aired: June 12 | Listen Here                                                                                                                

Episode 2: African Affairs and US-African Relations in 21st Century. 

Guest: Her Excellency Hilda Suka-Mafudze, the African Union's Permanent Representative to the United States of America.

First Aired: June 19 | Listen Here

Episode 3: The Controvercy surrounding Critical Race Theory Part I.  Guest: Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor, Harvard Law School. 

First Aired: June 26 | Listen Here

Episode 4: The Controvercy surrounding Critical Race Theory Part II.  

Guest: Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor, Harvard Law School. 

First Aired: July 3 | Listen Here

Episode 5:  Conflict Resolution, Apartheid, and Political Transition in South Africa Part 1. 

Guests:  Padrig O'Malley, MDistinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston &  Dr. Marcie Williams, Former Chancellor, UMass Amherst. 

First Aired: July 10 | Listen Here                                                                                      

Episode 6: Conflict Resolution, Apartheid, and Political Transition in South Africa Part II. Guests:  Padrig O'Malley, Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston &  Dr. Marcie Williams, Former Chancellor, UMass Amherst.

First Aired: July 17 | Listen Here     

 

 

SEASON 2   (November - January 2022) 

  

Guest:  Joseph Kennedy III

Topic: American Democracy and Policy Change: From the Ground Up

Episode 1, Part 1 | First Aired: November 13 | Listen Here &  Episode 1, Part 2| First Aired: November 20 | Listen Here     

Guest: Winston Langley 

Topic: While the US Sleeps: Squandered Opportunities and Looming Threats to Societies

Episode 2, Part 1  | First Aired: November 27 | Listen Here   &  Episode 2, Part 2 | First Aired: December 4 | Listen Here     

Guest: Edmund Beard 

Topic: Founding The McCormack School 

Episode 3, Part 1: First Aired, December 11 | Listen Here  &  Episode 3: Part 2, First Aired: December 18 |Listen Here   

Guests: Steve Crosby (left) and Ira Jackson (right)

Topic: McCormack's Former Deans Speak on Public Service Leadership 

Episode 4: Part 1 |  First Aired: January 1 | Listen Here   & Episode 4: Part 2 |  First Aired: January 8 | Listen Here