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Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician whose focus on healing and empathy stands out in an era when technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. His books include the celebrated novel, “Cutting for Stone” and two works of nonfiction, “My Own Country” and “The Tennis Partner.” Verghese writes about the body and medicine in a way that is all his own, and in his newest novel, “The Covenant of Water,” he tells much of the story of twentieth-century India through a single family.see more
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Investing in Youth of Color

Joshua Johnson
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California must reduce the barriers to success for youth of color, according to a new report assessing the bleak prospects facing Latino and African-American boys and young men in the state. These groups make up a disproportionate share of prisoners, school dropouts and the unemployed. We'll discuss the report, which offers policy ideas for improving the lives of young people of color.

Guests:

Sandre Swanson, California state assemblymember and head of the Select Subcommittee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color, which released the draft report

Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, director of education law and policy at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the UC Berkeley School of Law and co-author of the report

Marc Philpart, senior associate at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity

Rigo "Bubba" Fuentes, contributed testimony to California Assembly's Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color

Michael Muscadine, contributed testimony to California Assembly's Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color

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