This episode kicks off with Victoria Pelletier, City Counselor from Portland, ME. Victoria talks about working at the local government level, the challenges of taking office during the pandemic, and using social media to be more accessible and collaborative with her constituents.
Jackson Arbogast is a Chicago-based composer, producer, guitarist, entrepreneur, and promoter. We ask him about getting started in music, running his own record label, and producing music for himself as well as friends and clients.
Columbia College Chicago alumni and professor Karl El Sokhn stops in to discuss working in and teaching film. Karl talks about the accidental way he found teaching through his graduate student instructor position. And later, Karl gets philosophical about the relationship between teaching and learning.