In this episode, Kate Ebner interviews medical expert and author Dr. Leana Wen. Their conversation touches on the fundamental importance of good public health, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the disparities in public health that have been laid bare by the virus. Dr. Wen offers wisdom about what we can do to help shape the future of public health. 

Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, visiting professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and CNN medical analyst. Previously, she served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department in the U.S. to fight the opioid epidemic, treat violence and racism as public health issues, and improve maternal and child health. Dr. Wen is the author of the recently released, Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health.

Join Host Kate Ebner and her guest Charlotte Kaiser, Managing Director at NatureVest, for an enlightening conversation about how climate change is affecting our global systems and what this means for the leaders of the future. Charlotte shares tips about what to do when feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis and suggests actions we can take as participants in the system. Offering perspective from her excellent vantage point, Charlotte describes a future in which all sectors are affected by climate change and guides us in learning how to step bravely into new choices for the future.

Charlotte Kaiser leads NatureVest, The Nature Conservancy’s innovative conservation investing division. Charlotte started her career at The Nature Conservancy developing the Conservation Notes, which have raised more than $50M of debt capital for TNC from impact investors. A former community development banker, Charlotte holds a BA from Harvard University in Environmental Science & Public Policy, a Masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Description: Host Kate Ebner is joined by Lee Rainie, the Director of Internet and Technology Research at Pew Research Center, for an insightful and timely conversation about the future of technology. Earlier this summer, Lee appeared as a panelist at the virtual learning event, Unprecedented! The Impact of Technology on Society as part of the Citizen Leadership in the 21st Century series hosted by The Nebo Company and Loyola University Maryland. In this episode of Leading the Emergence, Kate and Lee discuss the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the increasing presence of technology in our everyday lives, and the future of the virtual workplace. 

Lee Rainie is a co-author of Networked: The new social operating system and five books about the future of the internet that are drawn from the Center’s research. He gives several dozen speeches a year to government officials, media leaders, scholars and students, technology executives, librarians, and nonprofit groups about the changing media ecosystem.