Stang Stories Teddy Ellis

In this episode of Stang Stories, Cooper Love ’24 and Henry Ladd ’25 interview Neha Wadekar ’07 about her time at Milton and USC; her experience starting out as an independent journalist in Kenya; her process of pitching, researching, and writing stories; and her experience covering the intersections of climate, gender, health, human rights, emerging democracies, and politics.

In this episode of Stang Stories, Teddy Ellis ’22 interviews Dr. Sam Myers ’83 about his time at Milton, Harvard, Yale, and UCSF; his experience helping create the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve in Tibet; his perspective on environmental issues and climate change; and his experience helping to establish the field of planetary health.

In this episode of Stang Stories, Katia Mikhailova ’22 and Elodie Root ’22 interview former journalist Will Connors ’00 about his time at Milton and the University of Chicago; his experience as a foreign correspondent in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Canada, Brazil, and the US; and his perspective on the importance of travel.

In this episode of Stang Stories, Diane Asiedu ’24 and Aoidín Salmon ’22 interview Farah Pandith ’86 about her time at Milton, Smith College, and the Fletcher School at Tufts University; experience serving in the George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama administrations; work as the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities; and perspective on the state of extremism and counterterrorism today.

In this episode of Stang Stories, Liam Kralik ’24 and Bryan Sukidi ’24 interview journalist Amy Kaufman ’04 about her time at Milton (0:46) and the University of Southern California (5:23), her introduction to professional journalism (9:08), her work covering entertainment and culture for the Los Angeles Times (14:23), and experience writing her New York Times Best Seller, Bachelor Nation (18:24), and shining a light on sexual harassment in Hollywood (21:36). (Image source: The Los Angeles Times)

In this episode of Stang Stories, professor Edward Cunningham ’94 discusses his time at Milton (0:50), Georgetown and Peking University(8:10), Harvard (14:42), and MIT and Tsinghua University (17:17); his work in energy and environmental markets, Chinese political economy, and trade (20:53); while offering perspective on China’s potential hegemonic intentions (21:41), his study of Chinese public opinion (24:38), and China’s energy policy (28:06). (Image source: Harvard's Ash Center)