Ellie talks about the likelihood of civil war in the US.

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Ellie 2.0 Radio October 16 2021

Ellie 2.0 – October 9th 2021

We begin with our featured idealist, Pauli Murray, who broke barriers as a trans/nonbinary human, feminist, civil rights activist, and someone way before her time. The Big Interview is with Art Cullen, editor of The Storm Lake Times in Storm Lake, Iowa, who talks about a documentary, Storm Lake, that details a small town that’s…

Ellie 2.0 Radio -October 2, 2021

Our featured idealist is Dr. James Whitfield, a Colleyville TX high school principal (the first black high school principal) who in June 2020 wrote an impassioned letter to his school colleagues about the need to fight white supremacy; 14 months later, after only getting tremendous supportive responses to his letter, he was fired. Someone claimed…

Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 25, 2021

Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 18, 2021

Ellie’s emotional recollections of September 11 and how it led her to begin to live her authentic life; Ellie’s Big Interview is with Michael Rexford; Ellie’s news and updates.

Ellie 2.0 Radio – September 11, 2021

We begin this week’s show by featuring George McLaurin, who in 1948 at age 61 decided he would be the one to desegregate Oklahoma University, proving that idealism is ageless. The Big Interview is with Kevin Lindsey, Chief Executive Officer of the Minnesota Humanities Center, who talks about how—with wonderful imagination—the MHC is working to…

Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 28, 2021

Ellie 2.0 – August 21st 2021

Ranae Lenor Hanson is the author of the new book Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress and she speaks with Ellie about the rural and urban cultural and political divides in Minnesota.  

Ellie 2.0 Radio – The Big Interview With Ranae Lenor Hanson

Ann Hopkins is Ellie’s Featured Idealist profile this week; Ellie talks about the rural/urban divide in Minnesota with Northern Minnesota-based author Ranae Lenor Hanson in the Big Interview.

Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 14, 2021

Ellie’s featured idealist is seminarian and activist Jonathan Daniels; Ellie’s Big Interview is an encore presentation of her August 2020 conversation with author Michael Fosberg; Ellie has a lot of updates for us in her C-block this week.

Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 7, 2021

Ida B. Wells is Ellie’s featured idealist, the Big Interview is with Jennifer Halpus, parent of a transgender student who filed suit against the Anoka-Hennepin school district for discrimination; Ellie speaks about her recent advocacy.

Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 24, 2021

With this being Pride Weekend in the Twin Cities, our theme is “Pride and Puppies.” We begin by highlighting the recent executive order of Governor Walz that directs health insurers in MN to attest that they don’t provide coverage for conversion therapy—the practice of trying to counsel LGBTQ youth to suppress their sexual or gender…

Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 17, 2021

It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head Show! We start with our featured idealist, Lauren Underwood, a second-term congresswoman who represents Illinois’s 14th District who at 32 was the youngest black woman ever elected to Congress. Her political trajectory was unusual—she started as an RN focusing on health care policy but became politically motivated when the ACA…

Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 10, 2021

The late US Court of Appeals Judge Robert Katzmann is our featured idealist; the Big Interview with Fr. Harry Hartigan and his work with society’s lowest denizens; Ellie has a hodgepodge of topics for her C-block.