Take 5: September 2020
This month’s roundup of NAFSA members’ suggestions of what to watch, listen to, follow, and read includes two podcasts, a radio series, a cartoon, and an article that is a helpful tool in the intercultural communication toolbox for international educators.
Have a recommendation for your international educator colleagues? Email us with your ideas—we might include them in an upcoming issue of International Educator.
1. NPR’s How I Built This with Guy Raz podcast
“NPR's How I Built This podcast is an inspirational listen as Guy Raz deftly interviews entrepreneurs about the challenges and opportunities of making their dream business a reality. As international educators, we often talk to our students about career outcomes and application of international experience, and this podcast reminds me of the soft skills that engaging across cultures imparts, and how our students can apply resilience, grit, and emotional intelligence to make our world a better place.”
—Chelsea Kindred, API
2. Radiolab’s The Other Latif series
“Radiolab’s The Other Latif series was really good. One of their team members has an unusual name, Latif Nasser, but he runs across another man by the same name…who is an inmate at Guantanamo Bay. Latif (of Radiolab) reaches out to the lawyer, family, and other contacts of this ‘other Latif’ to find out more about his life, the path that took him to Guantanamo, and why the paths these two Latifs (who started out not that different) diverged so drastically. Great looks into culture here in the United States
