tom and rp spent this Juneteenth in discussion with alyesha wise, who is a spoken word poet, artist, and speaker from camden, new jersey. alyesha currently resides in los angeles where she is the co-founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement—an organization providing poetry education and extensive programming for poets, and is a teaching artist for Street Poets—a non-profit mostly serving juvenile injustice-involved youth.

tom scott is chairman & co-founder of the nantucket project. rp eddy was the architect of the Clinton administration’s pandemic response framework and the United Nations response to the global AIDS epidemic & is CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo.

rp is co-author of the best-selling award-winning book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with Richard A. Clarke, Former National Security Council counterterrorism adviser.