Emerald City Echoes Podcast
1) The Pioneer of Behavioral Medicine
Joined by Dr. Mandelkorn from the Mercer Island Historical Society, this episode of Emerald City Echoes takes us through his career specialized in adolescent behavioral medicine. A veteran of Mercer I...Show More
2) Community Health Conversations w/ University of Washington's Dean of Public Health
Joined by the University of Washington's Dean of Public Health, Hilary Godwin walks the walk in the public health field. In this podcast, she discusses the many challenges facing healthcare today, inc...Show More
3) Addressing Asian Health Disparities with Michael Byun of Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS)
Michael Byun, executive director of ACRS, joins Emerald City Echoes to discuss the implications of cultural mores and biases in healthcare practice, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth and e...Show More
4) Mercer Island School District's New "MI Phone-Free Schools"
Engaged intellectually. Connected socially. Distracted minimally. Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, Mercer Island School District's high school and middle school will implement a new policy on c...Show More
5) The City of Mercer Island's Healthy Youth Initiative
Michelle Ritter, Prevention Programs Coordinator of the City of Mercer Island's Youth and Family Services, joins Emerald City Echoes to discuss the recent events, programs, and campaigns promoting hea...Show More
6) I-90 and Mercer Island's Roads
Einer Handleland worked as a design civil engineer at Tudor Engineering Company, a firm that was involved in many majortransportation projects in the Seattle area. Specializing in project and traffic ...Show More
7) Bill Radke of KUOW's "Week in Review"
Divided. With many divisions prevalent in society today--war, politics, healthcare, and more--Bill Radke from KUOW joins Emerald City Echoes' Chloe Yang to discuss the direction society is quickly hea...Show More
8) World's Toughest Row: A Race Across the Pacific
4 women rowing the Pacific Ocean, completely unassisted, will be taking on the World’s Toughest Row, navigating 2800 miles from Monterey, California to Kauai, Hawaii. Hannah Byrd, one of the rowers, a...Show More
9) Gardening with Ciscoe Morris
Oh, la la! Ciscoe Morris, host of King5's segment Gardening with Ciscoe, is a well known Master Gardener in the Pacific Northwest. He gives gardening tips on how to best maintain outdoor plants, and t...Show More
10) Up in the Trees with Pete Nelson of Treehouse Masters
Treehouse enthusiast Pete Nelson was host of the Animal Planet hit show Treehouse Masters for 11 seasons. Pete's love for treehouses came about as a child building backyard tree forts with his father ...Show More