Elizabeth Alexander on Moving Forward in the Face of Adversity

Poet, educator, and scholar Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, talks about using language to promote change, how monuments and memorials shape collective memory, and the profundity of grounding oneself in the present.

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Candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm