Sirry Alang's guest appearances

Sirry Alang

The Wisdom Coalition Podcast — Well Of Wisdom (WOW)

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

David Campbell

Shannon Watts

Celeste Headlee

Dave Daley

Michael Mann

Tim Ryan

Oprah Winfrey

Louisa Lim

Steven Greenhouse

Clint Smith

Alonzo Bodden

Clarence Thomas

Marion Nestle

Maz Jobrani

Henry Winkler

OwlTail

Midwin Charles

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. I have one sponsor which is an awesome nonprofit GiveWell.org/StandUp for more but Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. 23:00 Midwin Charles is founder of the law firm Midwin Charles &amp; Associates LLC and a Contributor at Essence Magazine. She provides regular commentary on law, pop culture and politics for various television shows and networks, including CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, and TV One and is guest host for the radio program “Express Yourself” on New York’s 107.5 WBLS. Ms. Charles worked for CNN as a Legal Contributor for In Session (formerly Court TV) where she provided legal commentary for live trials daily on truTV. Ms. Charles is the creator of Infinite Possibilities of the Law Degree, an annual forum that features top lawyers with dynamic careers. Active in community affairs, Ms. Charles is a member of the Dean's Diversity Council for American University's Washington College of Law and a member of the board of Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN). She has served as a member of the Civil Rights Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, lectured at Syracuse University and written for The Huffington Post. Ms. Charles earned her bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and her law degree from the American University, Washington College of Law, where she was an Articles Editor for the American University Law Review. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for Sixth Circuit Judge Eric L. Clay and as the A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Research Fellow in Social Justice at Harvard Law School, under the supervision of Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Ms. Charles was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &amp; Jacobson LLP 57:00 Here is the bio from  Dr Sirry Alang website My work focusses on the social production of health and disease, including outcomes such as unmet need, access to care, mental health and mental illnesses, help-seeking, assessment, and outcomes of treatment. You can see some of my academic publications here. I work at Lehigh University where I am a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology and Health, Medicine and Society. I am also a founding co-director of the Institute of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and chair of the Health Justice Collaborative. I am working with my local community to strengthen partnerships necessary to understand and eliminate health inequities using a community-based participatory action research approach. I teach at the graduate and undergraduate levels. My courses include: Introduction to Public Health; Social Epidemiology; Racism and Health Inequities; HIV/AIDS and Society; Globalization and Health; Gender and Health, and Statistics for Sociological Inquiry. Teaching is the most exciting part of my job. I earned my Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2015. I have an M.A. in Sociology from Lehigh University and a B.Sc. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Buea in Cameroon. Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page Please consider a paid subscription to this daily podcast. Everyday I will interview 2 or more expert guests on a wide range of issues. I will continue to be transparent about my life, issues and vulnerabilities in hopes we can relate, connect and grow together. If you want to add something to the show email me StandUpwithPete@gmail.com Join the Stand Up Community Stand Up is also brought to you this month by GiveWell.org GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. GiveWell.org/Standup

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. I have one sponsor which is an awesome nonprofit <a href="http://GiveWell.org/StandUp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GiveWell.org/StandUp</a> for more but <a href="https://www.patreon.com/petedominick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Please subscribe now for as little as 5$</a> and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. 23:00 <a href="https://twitter.com/MidwinCharles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midwin Charles</a> is founder of the law firm Midwin Charles &amp; Associates LLC and a Contributor at Essence Magazine. She provides regular commentary on law, pop culture and politics for various television shows and networks, including CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, and TV One and is guest host for the radio program “Express Yourself” on New York’s 107.5 WBLS. Ms. Charles worked for CNN as a Legal Contributor for In Session (formerly Court TV) where she provided legal commentary for live trials daily on truTV. Ms. Charles is the creator of Infinite Possibilities of the Law Degree, an annual forum that features top lawyers with dynamic careers. Active in community affairs, Ms. Charles is a member of the Dean's Diversity Council for American University's Washington College of Law and a member of the board of Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN). She has served as a member of the Civil Rights Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, lectured at Syracuse University and written for The Huffington Post. Ms. Charles earned her bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and her law degree from the American University, Washington College of Law, where she was an Articles Editor for the American University Law Review. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for Sixth Circuit Judge Eric L. Clay and as the A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Research Fellow in Social Justice at Harvard Law School, under the supervision of Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Ms. Charles was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &amp; Jacobson LLP 57:00 Here is the bio from <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfAlang?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Dr Sirry Alang</a> website My work focusses on the social production of health and disease, including outcomes such as unmet need, access to care, mental health and mental illnesses, help-seeking, assessment, and outcomes of treatment. You can see some of my academic publications <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/18EU7Fe6c7fQo/bibliography/public/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. I work at Lehigh University where I am a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology and Health, Medicine and Society. I am also a founding co-director of the <a href="https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/cres/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Institute of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies</a> and chair of the <a href="https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/cres/health-justice-initiative/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Health Justice Collaborative.</a> I am working with my local community to strengthen partnerships necessary to understand and eliminate health inequities using a community-based participatory action research approach. I teach at the graduate and undergraduate levels. My courses include: Introduction to Public Health; Social Epidemiology; Racism and Health Inequities; HIV/AIDS and Society; Globalization and Health; Gender and Health, and Statistics for Sociological Inquiry. Teaching is the most exciting part of my job. I earned my Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2015. I have an M.A. in Sociology from Lehigh University and a <a href="http://B.Sc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">B.Sc</a>. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Buea in Cameroon. <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteDominick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pete on Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/petedominick/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pete On Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/petedominick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pete Personal FB page</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/standupwithpetedominick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stand Up with Pete FB page</a> Please consider a <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paid subscription</a> to this daily podcast. Everyday I will interview 2 or more expert guests on a wide range of issues. I will continue to be transparent about my life, issues and vulnerabilities in hopes we can relate, connect and grow together. If you want to add something to the show email me StandUpwithPete@gmail.com <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join the Stand Up Community</a> Stand Up is also brought to you this month by <a href="http://GiveWell.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GiveWell.org</a> GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. <a href="https://www.givewell.org/standup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GiveWell.org/Standup</a>

272 Lawyer Midwin Charles and Public Health Expert Dr. Sirry Alang

What in the world is going on with our young people? Studies right now show that major depression is on the rise among all age groups, but is rising fastest among teens and young adults. What can we aim at to stop this awful surge that’s being called an epidemic by mental health experts? Dr. Sirry Alang, who is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Health, Medicine, and Society at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania https://www1.lehigh.edu/home, shares her thoughts on why this is happening, what can be done about it and what we should be on the look-out for in the young people in our lives.

What in the world is going on with our young people? Studies right now show that major depression is on the rise among all age groups, but is rising fastest among teens and young adults. What can we aim at to stop this awful surge that’s being called an epidemic by mental health experts? Dr. Sirry Alang, who is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Health, Medicine, and Society at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania <a href="https://www1.lehigh.edu/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www1.lehigh.edu/home</a>, shares her thoughts on why this is happening, what can be done about it and what we should be on the look-out for in the young people in our lives.

WOW 133 ~ Healing from an epidemic of depression with Dr. Sirry Alang, Lehigh University