Chris joined Rebuilding Together in January 2018 after five years as President/CEO of the National Housing Conference in Washington, DC. Chris oversaw NHC’s research work on the intersection of housing with transportation, education and health in particular.

Dr. Joshua Ginsberg is President of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. He cites as positive developments the economics of alternative energy, one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, and the energy storage systems which now make it possible for some places to be off the grid entirely.

Tom Nichols, author of The Death of Expertise, is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, at the Harvard Extension School, a Sovietologist, and a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion.

If you think today's students think of nothing but social media and video games, wait until you see the mini-documentaries they are producing this year as part of the Civic Life Project and international Youth Film Challenge.

The battle over America’s racial and ethnic future: The two elections of Barack Obama may have convinced you the path to majority-minority America was going to go one way. President Trump, nativism, and Charlottesville may signal that it’s going to be a much more complicated transition.

Pamela Tatge, Director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, an international dance festival, professional school, and archives located in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. She is responsible for setting the artistic vision and strategic goals for all aspects of the organization, including Festival programming, education, preservation, audience engagement, residency programming and artist support, long-term planning, collaborative programming, fundraising, marketing, and more.

A Plastic Ocean documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain where they attract toxins like a magnet