Half Hour of Heterodoxy

Half Hour of Heterodoxy


Episode 46: Deb Mashek & Musa al-Gharbi, HxA’s Past and Future

January 28, 2019

Deb Mashek and Musa al-Gharbi are the executive director and communications director of Heterodox Academy. They reflect on the organization’s activities in 2018 and present several new initiatives scheduled for 2019, including HxA Disciplines, member networking, and nationally representative data collection.

0:00 Rapid fire summary of 2018

8:30 Ideological diversity is connected to ethnic and religious diversity

12:22 Focusing on certain disciplines and public awareness

16:00 Revamping our Guide to Colleges

17:50 Nationally representative data on freedom of expression

21:10 Musa stepping away from communications position

22:35 Three key ideas

Links

More on HxA's history and current initiatives available here.

More on the problem(s) HxA is trying to address here.

Videos of the 2018 HxA Conference available here.

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