Best Thomas McCaffrey Podcasts (2024)

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Urban Education Students Learn Podcasting from David Bloomfield 9:22

6M ago9:22

9:22

How well do New York City schools equip teachers to practice restorative justice? How do Latinx immigrant-origin teachers incorporate their cultures in their lessons and interactions with students? These are some of the questions that Graduate Center Urban Education Ph.D. students Michael Alston and Veronica Paredes are exploring in their research.…

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Greenwashing 3 - Emma Schuster 13:31

1y ago13:31

13:31

Greenwashing is the practice by companies of making misleading or unsubstantiated claims about products or activities in order to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are. Greenwashing is reputationally dangerous and is unethical. It also presents multiple long-term risks to businesses and society. It weakens the efforts of those b…

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Greenwashing 6 - Round Table Discussion 9:26

1y ago9:26

9:26

Greenwashing is the practice by companies of making misleading or unsubstantiated claims about products or activities in order to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are. Greenwashing is reputationally dangerous and is unethical. It also presents multiple long-term risks to businesses and society. It weakens the efforts of those b…

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Greenwashing 5 - Elena Margineanu 7:46

1y ago7:46

7:46

Greenwashing is the practice by companies of making misleading or unsubstantiated claims about products or activities in order to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are. Greenwashing is reputationally dangerous and is unethical. It also presents multiple long-term risks to businesses and society. It weakens the efforts of those b…

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Greenwashing 4 - Aisling McCaffrey 11:06

1y ago11:06

11:06

Greenwashing is the practice by companies of making misleading or unsubstantiated claims about products or activities in order to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are. Greenwashing is reputationally dangerous and is unethical. It also presents multiple long-term risks to businesses and society. It weakens the efforts of those b…

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Greenwashing 2 - Tsuyoshi Domoto 8:20

1y ago8:20

8:20

Greenwashing is the practice by companies of making misleading or unsubstantiated claims about products or activities in order to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are. Greenwashing is reputationally dangerous and is unethical. It also presents multiple long-term risks to businesses and society. It weakens the efforts of those b…

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Greenwashing 1 - Introduction by Daniel Thomas feat Michael Izza & Kate Robertson 12:22

1y ago12:22

12:22

Greenwashing is the practice by companies of making misleading or unsubstantiated claims about products or activities in order to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are. Greenwashing is reputationally dangerous and is unethical. It also presents multiple long-term risks to businesses and society. It weakens the efforts of those b…

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Professor Thomas G. Weiss on the U.N. and a Career Studying It 37:01

1y ago37:01

37:01

Born the same year as the United Nations was founded — 1946 — Presidential Professor Thomas G. Weiss has both worked for and spent decades studying the organization and its impact on international peace and security. He is retiring this year after a quarter century at the Graduate Center, but he is not stepping away entirely from scholarship. He jo…

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Brenna McCaffrey on the Politics of Abortion Pills 41:12

1y ago41:12

41:12

In the run-up to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, several Republican-led state legislatures passed bills that effectively banned abortions at pre-viability gestational ages, undermining the right to abortion once protected by Roe v. Wade. At the time, many abortion advocates, including CUNY Graduate Center alumna B…

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An Anthropologist Studies Overlooked Mayan Women 33:39

1y ago33:39

33:39

Lilianna Quiroa-Crowell, an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, recently received a Fulbright to conduct research in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, on the marginalized Indigenous Q’eqchi’ women in the Caribbean port city. A shipping capital for the banana industry since the early 20th century, Puerto Barrios was once a thriving me…

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A Political Science Student Fights for Colombians’ Citizenship Rights 35:59

1y ago35:59

35:59

Andrés Besserer Rayas, a Political Science Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center, was conducting field work in Colombia last year for his dissertation on immigration policies when he learned about a human rights issue that appalled him. More than 40,000 Colombian citizens had been stripped of their citizenship without warning. Besserer realized…

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Architect Marta Gutman on How to Build a Better City 46:27

1+ y ago46:27

46:27

Architect and historian Marta Gutman became dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York last May. She is also a professor of Art History and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. In her research, she examines ordinary buildings and neighborhoods; the history of cities; and issues of gender, cla…

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Charles Tien on Congress and the Contested Speaker Election 23:30

1+ y ago23:30

23:30

The U.S. politics expert joins The Thought Project to discuss the 118th Congress and the bruising election of Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Earlier this month, Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the House of Representatives without receiving the customary 218 votes. Rather, he won by using a rule that allowed only present votes to count, lowering the t…

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Professor David Bloomfield on Education as a Political Football 33:39

1+ y ago33:39

33:39

Professor David Bloomfield, a member of the Urban Education faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center and a professor of education leadership, law, and policy at Brooklyn College, joins this episode of The Thought Project to discuss what’s ahead for K-12 education in a time of deep political division. Schools have long been places for students to learn a…

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Two Alumni Lead the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies 48:33

1+ y ago48:33

48:33

Since 2001, the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the CUNY Graduate Center has worked to promote the study and understanding of Latin American and Caribbean cultures and Latino and Caribbean communities in the United States.Founding Director Laird Bergad, a distinguished professor of History at Lehman College and …

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Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf on Mayor Adams’ First Six Months 39:08

1+ y ago39:08

39:08

Eric Adams, the second elected Black mayor of New York City, inherited a city embattled by the the Covid-19 pandemic, a slow recovering economy, and a sustained spike in crime that continues to rise. Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf (Political Science and Sociology), a consummate analyst of New York City politics, says there’s a widespread f…

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Recover Refocus Rebuild - Prakash Koirala 5:52

2y ago5:52

5:52

This podcast is taken from the FinBiz2030 Recover Refocus Rebuild webinar hosted by Badai Yuda Pratama. The guest speaker is Prakash Koirala, Founder, FINLIT Nepal, One Young World Ambassador In 2017 Koirala set up Finlit Nepal to teach basic personal finance to low-income and vulnerable communities, helping to reduce poverty. Finlit Nepal works wi…

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Recover Refocus Rebuild - Bimo Agung Listyanu 8:21

2y ago8:21

8:21

This podcast is taken from the FinBiz2030 Recover Refocus Rebuild webinar hosted by Badai Yuda Pratama. The guest speaker is Bimo Agung Listyanu. Bimo is a corporate activist, splitting his time between his corporate job at Danone and building a social enterprise called CarbonEthics. Passionate in his beliefs around carbon ethics, Bimo has a backgr…

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Recover Refocus Rebuild - Mutiara Hapsari 6:56

2y ago6:56

6:56

This podcast is taken from the FinBiz2030 Recover Refocus Rebuild webinar hosted by Badai Yuda Pratama. The guest speaker is Mutiara Hapsari, Coca Cola Europacific Partners, Head of Business Planning & Acct. Receivable Modern Trade, One Young World Ambassador A finance professional with over 7 years of experience working in FMCG. Throughout the yea…

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Recover Refocus Rebuild - Q & A Hosted by Bimo Agung Listyanu 19:58

2y ago19:58

19:58

This podcast is taken from the FinBiz2030 Recover Refocus Rebuild webinar hosted by Badai Yuda Pratama. For nearly 2 years, lives all over the world have been ruled by the pandemic. It has challenged and changed the way we operate in business, restricted how we travel on a daily basis and ultimately impacted every inch of our personal lives. Where …

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Rebuilding Trust - Ronan Dunne and Michael Izza 19:51

2y ago19:51

19:51

By Chartered Accountants Worldwide

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Rebuilding Trust - Freeman Nomvalo and Carolyn Colley 19:06

2y ago19:06

19:06

As the world emerges from the pandemic, who will be trusted to support business recovery and to build the sustainable, resilient economies we need? Chartered Accountants Worldwide partnered with Edelman research to understand the views of over 1,000 international business leaders and the role that they expect the finance and business profession to …

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Rebuilding Trust - Intro from Dan Thomas and Edelman Report from Penelope Mantzaris 19:44

2y ago19:44

19:44

As the world emerges from the pandemic, who will be trusted to support business recovery and to build the sustainable, resilient economies we need? Chartered Accountants Worldwide partnered with Edelman research to understand the views of over 1,000 international business leaders and the role that they expect the finance and business profession to …

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Making Cop26 Count - Roundtable pt 1 9:04

2y ago9:04

9:04

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is consid…

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Making Cop 26 Count - Roundtable pt 2 11:08

2y ago11:08

11:08

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is consid…

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Making Cop26 Count - Mavis Mainu - Wen-Yu Weng 15:40

2y ago15:40

15:40

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is consid…

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Making Cop26 Count - David Nussbaum - Claire Martin - Sarah Becker 11:21

2y ago11:21

11:21

More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is consid…

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How to Make the U.S. Safe for Transgender People 35:05

2y ago35:05

35:05

Imagine being identified as a male on your driver’s license but a female on your birth certificate. That’s the Kafkaesque experience of many transgender individuals including scholar and author Paisley Currah, whose important new book, Sex Is as Sex Does, examines how sex functions as a tool of government. Currah, a professor of Political Science a…

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How LBGTQ Individuals Experience Criminal Justice 29:47

2y ago29:47

29:47

In this Pride Month episode of The Thought Project podcast, we talk to Max Osborn, a recent graduate of the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program at the CUNY Graduate Center who has carved out a niche as a queer criminologist, studying how LGBTQ individuals are affected by the criminal justice system. For his doctoral dissertation, Osborn, who is transgen…

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Post Roe, How to Advance Women’s Rights, LGBTQ Rights 46:42

2y ago46:42

46:42

Anne Valk, a specialist in women’s history and public history, joins The Thought Project for a Pride Month conversation that touches on the curtailing of LGBTQ rights and of women’s rights by the Supreme Court and state legislators. Valk is a professor of History and director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at t…

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Freeing Black People From Oppressive Mental Health Care 32:18

2y ago32:18

32:18

In this Juneteenth Thought Project episode, we talk to Britton Williams about the Black MAP Project and reinventing mental health care for the Black community. Just over 100 years ago, a white mob lynched and mutilated Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, for criticizing the lynching of her husband. How did Turner’s family and …

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Promoting Pride at CUNY 42:10

2y ago42:10

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In this Pride Month podcast, we hear from the director and associate director of the CUNY LGBTQI+ Consortium, which advocates for and celebrates the CUNY LGBTQ community. Director Jacqueline Brashears (she/hers), a.k.a. Dr. Unicorn, is a biology professor at LaGuardia Community College. She is an LGTQ advocate and trans woman who has blogged about …

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The Russia-Ukraine War Sets Dangerous New Precedents 44:01

2y ago44:01

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The Russia-Ukraine war, now in its 11th week, continues to prove analysts wrong. This week on The Thought Project podcast, Julie George, a professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College and a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, explains why the conflict confounds her and other regional expe…

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Israel’s Fractious Politics in a Fractured World 45:02

2y ago45:02

45:02

Abe Silberstein is a master's student in Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, and History at the CUNY Graduate Center and the associate director of the North America office of the Abraham Initiatives, an Israeli organization founded in 1989 that “strives to fulfill the promise of full and equal citizenship and complete equality of social and polit…

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The Pandemic Proved That the Library Is Essential 30:43

2y ago30:43

30:43

Last June, after more than a year of COVID-induced remote work, Emily Drabinski, interim chief librarian and critical pedagogy librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center, and her staff reopened the Graduate Center library to students and scholars on a limited basis. “Every student we saw, made my heart swell 18 sizes,” she says. The pandemic proved to h…

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How the Abortion Pill Is Tipping the Scales of Abortion Rights 42:57

2+ y ago42:57

42:57

How did activists in Ireland convince an overwhelming majority of the country to vote in 2018 to reverse the country’s abortion ban that had been more or less in place for over a century? According to Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate Brenna McCaffrey (Anthropology), the change in public opinion was influenced by a relentless campaign led by women wh…

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Why Christmas Is Observed as a Day of Liberation by Black People 36:58

2+ y ago36:58

36:58

CUNY Graduate Center Professor Ramona Hernandez and alumna Allison Guess (Ph.D. ’21, Earth and Environmental Sciences) join this episode of The Thought Project for a timely discussion of the Hispaniola Slave Rebellion of 1521. Hernandez is the director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute and a professor of Sociology at City College and the CUNY…

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What It Takes to Free the Innocent and Create a Just Criminal Justice System 34:45

2+ y ago34:45

34:45

Edwin Grimsley is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in biology. His dissertation, The Collateral and Cumulative Effects of Marijuana Criminalization, examines the racialized development of marijuana laws in the United States, and how the criminalization of marijuana possession …

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Stepping Forward as an LGBTQ Role Model in Tech 25:33

2+ y ago25:33

25:33

Joining The Thought Project today is Elaine Montilla, assistant vice president of information technology and the chief information officer at the CUNY Graduate Center. She was just named to the 2021 Outstanding 100 Role Model LGBT+ Executives list sponsored by Yahoo Finance. The list showcases leaders who are breaking down barriers and creating mor…

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NEH Funds to Boost Students’ Digital Skills Have Widespread Benefits at CUNY and Beyond 27:31

2+ y ago27:31

27:31

When CUNY Graduate Center Professor Matthew K. Gold tweeted last month that he and his colleague Lisa Rhody received a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help their students learn digital skills and create digital projects, he drew an outpouring of support. Close to 20 colleagues from across The City University …

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A Pandemic and Political Polarization Slam U.S. Schools 29:25

2+ y ago29:25

29:25

David Bloomfield is a professor of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center and of Education Leadership, Law, and Policy at Brooklyn College. A former general counsel of the New York City Board of Education, he is regularly consulted by the media for his expertise on education policy. He is the author of American Public Education Law, Third Edit…

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Introducing "Difference Makers" - David Nussbaum, a prisoner of hope 23:47

2+ y ago23:47

23:47

We'd like to introduce a new podcast from Chartered Accountants Worldwide. It's called "Difference Makers Podcast" and it's a series that celebrates the lives and work of people who have transformed communities, businesses, and the wider world, making a real difference in the lives of others. We call them “Difference Makers”. Oh, and by the way… th…

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The Long Shadow of 9/11 Hangs Over Guantánamo Bay 38:00

2+ y ago38:00

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Philip Luke Johnson is a Political Science Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a lecturer in the undergraduate writing program at Princeton University. His dissertation research is supported by fellowships from the Graduate Center, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University o…

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Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe - Resilience, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship 13:47

2+ y ago13:47

13:47

In this episode, Professor Ndubuisi Ekekwe, a globally successful inventor, engineer, author, entrepreneur and Harvard Business Review contributor, speaks passionately about ‘Resilience, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship’. Professor Ekekwe outlined the elements required to build capabilities and overcome challenges in our society as Knowledge, En…

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Girish Ananthanarayanan - Why Building Trust is essential for leaders 9:57

2+ y ago9:57

9:57

In this episode, Girish Ananthanarayanan, COO of the education non-profit Peepul, talks about the importance of building trust for delivering good and effective leadership. “Trust that your team has entrusted themselves with you, and trust that they are trying their best. Have high expectations of them, but also support them in their journey, which…

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Why Andrea Alù Challenges the Limits of Nature 15:37

2+ y ago15:37

15:37

Today’s guest is physicist and engineer Professor Andrea Alù, who joined the Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY as the founding director of the Photonics Initiative. He is also the Einstein Professor of Physics at the Graduate Center and a professor of Engineering at The City College of New York. Broadly recognized as a l…

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Innandya Irawan - Kindness and humility - key traits for real leaders 11:55

2+ y ago11:55

11:55

In this episode, Innandya Irawan, co-founder of CarbonEthics, talks about how important it is for leaders to “choose to be kind instead of to be right”. This calls for a level of self-awareness, so that leaders can have open discussions with their team. “Try not to scold if they make mistakes but be honest with them and let them have ownership, not…

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Hauwa Ojeifo - Mental health needs to be a priority for everyone 9:53

2+ y ago9:53

9:53

In this episde Hauwa Ojeifo. Mental Health Coach & founder of Nigeria’s first mental health helpline, speaks about how resilience is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Hauwa recalls her time working in the finance industry. At the time, the culture in the industry was that stress was something that you should wear as a badge of h…

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How to Fight and Win a War on Guns 37:51

2+ y ago37:51

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Today’s guest, Professor Candace McCoy, is a faculty member in the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Trained in law, she applies legal concepts to social science research on a variety of criminal justice operations and organizations. She has published widely and has held several fellowships for research and teaching. From …

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Monica Moisin - Integrity and values matter 6:08

2+ y ago6:08

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In this episode Monica Moisin, a lawyer and founder of the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative, talks about the importance of integrity and values. Leadership isn’t just about accomplishments but about setting a path for others to follow. She says that: “Leadership is not only about getting things done, but it’s also about creating a v…

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