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Dec 29, 2025

 

Welcome to Season 5, Episode 52! This is it, the final episode of Season 5! As we close out 2025, we take a moment to reflect on the guests we’ve had on the show as well as the different topics we’ve talked about. We’d link them all here, but it would take a LOT of space to honor everyone. So let’s just say...


Dec 22, 2025

Andrea Wang

Welcome to Season 5, Episode 51! Our guest today is the award-winning children’s book author, Andrea Wang. She’s written several books and been recognized with many awards including The Newbery Honor and Caldecott Medal. 

Andrea’s latest picture book is Worthy: The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce, a...


Dec 15, 2025

Ann Ishimaru

Welcome to Season 5, Episode 50! Our guest today is doing important work in researching educational change. Dr. Ann M. Ishimaru is an award-winning scholar, writer, educator and the Killinger Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy at the University of Washington College of...


Dec 8, 2025

Alex Albon

Welcome to Season 5, Episode 49! Vroooommmm!!! We’re exploring the story of Asian Pacific Islanders in Formula 1… and this is something we actually know a bit about. This is a sport long dominated by Europeans and a handful of South Americans, but there has been a small group of drivers of Asian Pacific descent who...


Dec 1, 2025

Karin K Jensen

Welcome to Season 5, Episode 48! Our guest is Karin K. Jensen. She’s a local news writer for the Alameda Post and the author of the moving memoir The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir. It’s an award-winning memoir that was recently re-released on November 7th by Sibylline Press.

The memoir...