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Governing Across the Aisle
During her time in office as governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez's legislative chambers were controlled by the other party, except for a two-year period of one chamber. However, every bill she has ever signed into l…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/governing-across-aisleBeyond Borders: Immigration, Trauma, and the American Dream
Reyna Grande, bestselling Mexican author of the critically-acclaimed memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home, will speak about her experiences before, during, and after crossing the US-Mexico border as a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/beyond-borders-immigration-trauma-and-american-dreamFinally, the Poets: Art(ists) as the Pulse of Collective Healing and Justice
What if our health depended on us telling our stories? What if we not only felt better when we expressed our truth artistically, but we actually healed through it. Through dynamic performance and artistic testimony, awa…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/finally-poets-artists-as-pulse-of-collective-healing-and-justiceHow to Live with China: US-China Relations post-40
As the highest-ranking official dealing with East Asia for the first eighteen months of the Trump administration, Susan Thornton, a 28-year veteran of the State Department with expertise on East and Central Asia who is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-to-live-with-china-us-china-relations-post-40How Imagination Creates Space for Social Progress
Michele Moody-Adams, professor of political philosophy and legal theory at Columbia University, shows that imagination is a crucial engine of constructive social change. To effectively address such challenges as persist…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-imagination-creates-space-for-social-progressPolitical Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Pork Barrel Spending and Back Room Deals Can Strengthen Our Democracy
What's causing the dysfunction in our government and the chaos in our politics? Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at Brookings and a contributing writer for the Atlantic, argues that well-intentioned efforts to clean up pol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/political-realism-how-hacks-machines-pork-barrel-spending-and-back-room-deals-canTranslating Evidence into Practice: Research and Community Perspectives on Adapting Treatments for Diverse Children and Families
When a family seeks mental health care for a child in their community, it should not be presumed that the treatment offered has been shown in research to be effective. There is further concern that the research on effec…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/translating-evidence-into-practice-research-and-community-perspectives-on-adaptingThe State of the World: A Global View
Drawing on her most recent book, The Education of an Idealist, Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, war correspondent, and the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice at…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/state-of-world-global-viewSaving Magic Johnson: The Long and Complicated Race for Cures
Paul Beninger ’73 P’09, associate professor of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University, shares his long perspective on the early years of the HIV epidemic when he was a medical officer at the vanguard of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/saving-magic-johnson-long-and-complicated-race-for-curesEducated: A Memoir
Born to Mormon survivalist parents opposed to public education, Tara Westover never attended school. Instead she spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/educated-memoir