Guests on this week’s episode:
- Sara Porter, Public Information Officer with the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
- Ian Donnis, The Public’s Radio political reporter
- Dr. Ashish Jha, former White House COVID advisor and current dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health
- Victoria Fulfer, URI doctoral student and one of the researchers behind a new URI study on microplastics found in Narragansett Bay
- Mohitosh Talukder Taposh, Rhode Island-based Bengali musician
Links and more information:
- Massachusetts residents can find up-to-date information on Hurricane Lee and other resources at: mass.gov/MEMA.
- Rhode Island residents can find up-to-date information on Hurricane Lee at riema.ri.gov.
- Dr. Ashish Jha on the new COVID-19 vaccines: What New Englanders need to know
- Microplastics study: “Extensive estuarine sedimentary storage of plastics from city to sea: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA”
- Facebook page for musician Mohitosh Talukder Taposh
- African Film & Art Festival
- Topdog/Underdog at The Gamm Theatre
- The Good John Proctor at Trinity Rep
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