Northwestern People Podcast
Hello everyone! My name is Hank Yang, and I am a student at Northwestern University studying Journalism and Religious Studies. This podcast is a method to have meaningful conversations with the most interesting people with exceptional stories and lives from Northwestern, including students, faculty, and professors.
Episodes
Michelle Hong is a junior at Medill studying Journalism and Psychology. She is my girlfriend of over one year, and in this podcast, we discuss how we've learned to resolve conflicts despite having polar opposite personalities, how I'm applying to the Officer Candidate School for the U.S. Marine Corps, and how we deal with anxieties about the future.
If you know someone who may be a good fit for the Northwestern People Podcast or hav...
Julia Narvaez Munguia is a Northwestern sophomore studying Journalism at Medill School of Journalism. She never considered college as an option due to her machismo-influenced upbringing, yet was accepted into Northwestern on a test-optional basis. In this episode, she describes how she supported herself through the journey, growing up in North Carolina, feeling imposter syndrome at a top-tier academic university, how Greek life can...
***this is a podcast episode created for a class project in conjunction with Lawrence Price***
Yik Yak is an anonymous social media platform that targets college students on campus with its five mile radius rule. The anonymous nature of the app opens up opportunity for harassment and bullying, and this is exactly what happened to Jess Hu and Anya Kornfeld and their friend group. During their sorority process, they were faced with do...
Janet Dees is an art curator at the Block Museum of Art, the contemporary art museum on Northwestern University's campus that is free and open to all. Her exhibition, A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence, is on view until July 10, 2022. We talked about curating an exhibition, how Janet got to this point in her career, and about art in general.
https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2022/a-site-...
Gloria Rhee is a Northwestern sophomore studying Political Science and Philosophy. She has an extremely pessimistic view on life that we discuss, while I provide my opinion on a more optimistic lifestyle as well. We both speak about our religious upbringing and our subsequent disillusionment.
If you know someone who may be a good fit for the Northwestern People Podcast, please email hankyang2024@u.northwestern.edu with information....
This episode was recorded on December 8, 2021.
Professor Gary Saul Morson is a renowned Russian Literature professor who has been teaching at Northwestern University for 35 years. He teaches what is arguably the most famous class at NU: Introduction to Russian Literature 210-2.
In this podcast, we discuss why Russian Literature, namely Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov are the greatest works of literature ev...
This episode was recorded on November 11, 2021.
This summer, Tom Churchill, a sophomore at Northwestern University studying Middle Eastern/North African studies, hitchhiked across America, starting from New York all the way to California and Oregon. He found many insights along the journey.
In this podcast, I talk to Tom about his travels, the people he met, and the lessons he learned, along with his personal goals and values.
Tom was...
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