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For decades, Pete Earley, veteran reporter and author of several nonfiction books, told other people's true stories. The tables were turned when his son was diagnosed with a mental illness. He wrote Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist, to detail his family's struggle with the system and to expose the criminalization of mental illness in a Florida jail. On Aug. 19, Earley visited The California Endowment for a public conversation where he shared his experience with mental illness as an author, father and advocate. The Endowment's Communications & Public Affairs staff had a few minutes to interview Earley for this podcast before the Center Scene event.
Director Aaron Woolf recently screened his feature documentary King Corn at the Center for Healthy Communities as part of its food policy series. The film follows two college friends as they travel to Iowa, plant an acre of corn and track it through the industrial food system. Through their equally disturbing and hilarious journey, they talk with farmers, politicians, food company executives and academics, and learn the truth about our country's king crop.
In this special podcast from the Center, Alex Cohen, reporter for NPR's "Day to Day," asks the director five questions about his film -- and corn in general.
Sabrina Motley, curator of The California Endowment's "Worldly Roots and Local Healers" exhibit, and Patrick Polk, professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, continue the conversation about the role of botanicas in mainstream health care and what it really means to be culturally competent. In this private discussion, Ms. Motley and Dr. Polk further explore the themes addressed in the preceeding public conversation, "From Sensitive to Competent: Botanicas, Traditional Medicine and Cultural Competence"
Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis-And the People Who Pay the Price, visited The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities on May 15, 2007, to discuss his book and issues surrounding health reform with Endowment staff. The following is a conversation between Cohn and The Endowment's Director of Public Policy Barbara Masters. Robert K. Ross, M.D., president and CEO of The California Endowment, introduced the event.
California's aging population is increasing, and its most vulnerable members are disproportionately likely to be low-income women of color. A convening to address this issue, Women, Health and Aging: Building a Statewide Movement, was held at The California Endowment's Center for Health Communities on May 7, 2007. The event featured keynote speech by Dolores Huerta, a leader in both the farm worker and feminist movements and founder of The Dolores Huerta Foundation.
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