Rebuilding America Podcast
1) Bonus Live Episode: HOOAH Award Panel w/ Mike Washington and Becky Margiotta
The regular series of Rebuilding America is over, but last month Ken was honored with the HOOAH Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. To celebrate this award, NCoC recorded a live Veteran...Show More
Bonus Live Episode: HOOAH Award Panel w/ Mike Washington and Becky Margiotta
40:20 | Dec 1st, 2020
2) Episode 10: The Future of Service
What could national service be at its best? If we invest and shift our culture to value service more highly, what could we accomplish and how could we grow as a country? On the last regular episode of...Show More
3) Episode 9: A Breakthrough on Capitol Hill?
Could national service be the issue to break through partisan gridlock in Congress? Ken talks with Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth and Republican Congressman Don Bacon to get some insight. The alum...Show More
4) Episode 8: Service Abroad is Service to the Nation
Ken talks to Carrie Hessler-Radelet, the 19th Director of the Peace Corps, about service abroad and whether it is also service to the United States. The Peace Corps is different from most of the othe...Show More
5) Episode 7: Repairing Broken Trust
Our country is deeply divided and we often do not trust one another these days. Ken talks first with Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and author of the 2018 book Identity: The Demand for Dignity ...Show More
6) Episode 6: The Fourth Estate
The American people have a complicated and often fraught relationship with the media. Can national service help repair that broken trust? Ken talks to Steve Waldman about Report for America, an organi...Show More
7) Episode 5: The Military as a Model for Building Trust
The military is one of the most widely trusted institutions in the United States. Can that deep well of trust be replicated in other forms of national service? What else can the military teach us abou...Show More
8) Episode 4: Think Global, Act Local
Ken explores national service at the local level by talking to Fagan Harris, co-founder and CEO of Baltimore Corps and board president of Lead for America, and Cheri Selby Pearson, Executive Director ...Show More
9) Episode 3: Closing the Learning Gap
Today, Ken explores national service in education by interviewing Elisa Villanueva Beard, CEO of Teach for America, and Rey Saldaña, CEO of Communities in Schools. The alumni testimonial features Cri...Show More
10) Episode 2: Healing America
Today, Ken explores national service in healthcare by talking to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, physician, public health expert, and host of the Crooked Media podcast America Dissected, and Dr. Anne Steptoe, fou...Show More