Conversations to challenge your mind with people who are changing our world. Produced on Clark University's campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Challenge. Change.
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Conversations to challenge your mind with people who are changing our world. Produced on Clark University's campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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May 21, 2026
Sounds of Clark University Commencement 2026
<p>On this episode of <strong>Challenge. Change.</strong>, relive the highlights of Commencement 2026, held on Monday, May 18, at the DCU Center in Worcester.</p><p>Commencement speakers — including renowned astrophysicist and University of Chicago Professor Wendy L. Freedman; Sir Andrew Steer, one of the world’s foremost climate experts; Board of Trustees chair Roy DiNicola '90; William Stafford '26; and Nourhan Beshir Attia, M.S. '26 — noted the challenges that graduates, and the rest of the world, will face in the coming years, climate change chief among them. But they also underscored the importance of determination and confidence.</p><p><strong>Challenge. Change.</strong> is produced by Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Listen and subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4UuYAjq1d3Hq45cjwxoCNL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/challenge-change/id1608025510" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>. Find other episodes wherever you listen to podcasts.</p>
May 8, 2026
Sustainable Beauty and Safe Products with Mia Davis '01, M.A. '03
<p>Mia Davis '01, M.A. '03, remembers riding her bike to CVS as a kid to glance through the shampoos and conditioners available in the beauty aisles. Back then, she wondered why there were so many items and so much packaging — questions that remain relevant today. </p><p>Davis has been working in the beauty industry as a sustainability leader for more than 15 years. She's currently the chief impact officer at Atmosphera, a climate-curated beauty brand that launched in the U.S. last month. Some of the biggest problems within the beauty industry are a lack of regulations around product safety and an overabundance of plastic packaging.</p><p>"We really need to rethink the way that we're making this stuff, which is mostly plastic, and will be here on the planet long after we're gone. When you ask customers if they would like more sustainable packaging, they say yes," says Davis. "It really comes down to where company values are and if they're being made to do it because of policy or because of consumer demand and market regulation."</p><p>On this episode of <strong>Challenge. Change.</strong>, Davis speaks about enacting holistic sustainability practices and what it may take to make the beauty industry safer for people and the planet.</p><p>"My blame here squarely lies with a chemical industry that's been really enjoying not having to test or disclose hazard data, sustainability information, worker rights information," she says. "I don't think that you, as a consumer, should have to have a Ph.D. in chemistry or be chasing down the supply chain to figure out if your shampoo is up to par. But I do think that the more educated we are, and the more questions we ask of companies, retailers, and policy-makers, that is how change happens.</p><p><strong>Challenge. Change.</strong> is produced by Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Listen and subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4UuYAjq1d3Hq45cjwxoCNL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/challenge-change/id1608025510" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>. Find other episodes wherever you listen to podcasts.</p>
April 17, 2026
Detention Centers, Migration, and Isolation with Professors Asha Best and Emma Shaw Crane
<p>On this episode of <strong>Challenge. Change.</strong>, Clark University Professor <a href="https://www.clarku.edu/faculty/profiles/asha-best/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Asha Best</a> and Stanford University Professor <a href="https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/emma-shaw-crane" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emma Shaw Crane </a>discuss detention and migration in the United States and why the government chooses remote locations for detention centers.</p><p>"We can understand migrant detention alongside things like prisons and jails as fundamentally projects that are about breaking relationships and removing people from their families and communities as a form of punishment and as a form of torture," says Crane. "The placement of migrant detention centers in remote places is a part of this project of breaking relationships."</p><p>Best believes that creative thinking about how to repair relationships without imprisoning people is necessary. </p><p>"We have to become more imaginative in our solutions to problems," says Best. "This is about having a greater political imagination for how we think about problems, whether or not you think that's a problem of resource distribution or a problem of harm."</p><p><strong>Challenge. Change.</strong> is produced by Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Find other episodes wherever you listen to podcasts.</p>
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