Joining for the conversation in this episode is Obed Arango, a lecturer of social work in the School of Social Policy and Practice and founder and executive director of the Centro De Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación (CCATE), as well as Shelley Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicography and a Wolf Humanities Center Graduate Fellow. In tandem with Wolf Humanities’ Forum on Migration, they discuss themes of assimilation in the United States, the experience of carrying multiple identities, and how the arts function as a means of expressing existence.

In this episode about climate stories and "climate grief," Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences and founding director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, explore ways in which the human narratives of climate change can be brought to the forefront.

In this episode of Penn Today’s “Understand This …” podcast series, Herman Beavers of the School of Arts & Sciences and Glenn Bryan of the Office of Government and Community Affairs discuss the Year of Civic Engagement, outreach to the West Philadelphia community, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” as this year’s Reading Project selection, and the merits of jazz as a way to build bridges.