The Second Half

Lucinda Robb talks about the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and the lessons modern movements can learn from one of the longest - and ultimately successful - civil rights movements in American history.  Lucinda has been interested in the suffrage movement since her time at the Center for Legislative Archives, where she was director for an education project on the hundreds of thousands of petitions...

Dr. Cecily Havert talks about different coping tools to deal with the stress and anxiety many people are experiencing during the pandemic. Dr. Havert is a family doctor with special interests in women’s health and mental health. She’s been practicing for over 15 years. She also teaches medical students at Georgetown University. She’s gotten a number of awards including Washingtonian Magazine’s top doctor award numerous years includ...

Amanda Long talks about her struggles with and recovery from an eating disorder.   After 20 years as a journalist, she became a massage therapist in 2011 and loves communicating through touch.  She checked herself into inpatient treatment for an eating disorder in 2017, and is yearning to care for, love and accept her own body after 25 years of letting an eating disorder control it. She recently wrote about recovery in quarantine i...

Ericka talks about her experience of being a black woman and a mother of a black son in America.  We discuss systemic racism, faith and hope for the next generation.  Ericka has been a Montessori teacher for the past 13 years.  Prior to that, she was a social worker for 10 years in North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia.  Ericka, originally from North Carolina, has lived in the D.C. metropolitan area since 1997.  She and her husband...

Pamela Lessard talks about losing her father to suicide and how that affected her, her family and her identity.  Pamela was born in Tehran, Iran.  Her family moved around the world from there because of her father’s job as a CIA agent, landing back in Washington DC in the early 1970s, then to Kabul, Afghanistan briefly, and back to Tehran for a few more years.  As the Iranian Revolution started, her family was transferred to Islama...

Jim Albright discusses living with cystic fibrosis and his journey with the disease since founding out he had the disease at 15 years old and being told that he had only a few years to live.  He also discusses how his condition has affected his life during the pandemic.  Jim spent twenty years in education, first as a teacher of students with disabilities, and then as a program coordinator for the International Baccalaureate (IB) p...

Diane Cooper-Gould talks about the challenges of distance learning during quarantine especially for children with disabilities and learning differences. Diane is Co-Founder of Fairfax County Special Education PTA, was its inaugural President and now works as its Co-Chair of Advocacy.  Diane is the creator of several courses and workshops on a range of disability topics including: Navigating the Special Education System, Building a ...

Dr. Cecily Havert talks about the developments and changes she's seen in her medical practice and the medical community since the quarantine has begun.  Dr. Havert is a family doctor with special interests in women’s health and mental health.  She’s been practicing for over 15 years.  She also teaches medical students at Georgetown University.   She’s gotten a number of awards including Washingtonian Magazine’s top doctor awar...

Dr. Lawrence Ballon talks about psychiatry and psychology and how these treatments provide important tools to help people with their mental health.  Dr. Ballon is a board certified psychiatrist as well as a psychoanalyst and psychopharmacologist.   He has over 30 year of experience successfully treating thousands of patients, has held a 12 year term as Chief of Psychiatry at Virginia Hospital Center, and served as President and Med...

Dr. Amy Heard talks about the tools we can use to deal with the anxiety and stress many of us are feeling during this pandemic.  Dr. Heard is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with individuals and couples who are facing medical issues, life transitions, relationship problems, and work-life imbalances.  Her treatment integrates research-based strategies, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Accepta...

Dr. Cecily Havert discusses the novel coronavirus and its impact on healthcare providers and the community at large.  Dr. Havert is a family doctor with special interests in women’s health and mental health.  She’s been practicing for over 15 years.  She also teaches medical students at Georgetown University.   She’s gotten a number of awards including Washingtonian Magazine’s top doctor award numerous years including the last thre...