Howard Fuller is founder of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University and a supporter of school choice. He’s a former superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. He talks with Jane Hampden about vouchers, choice, and ideas for reform of Milwaukee Public Schools as part of WUWM’s series, Project Milwaukee: Creating a Vibrant Regional Economy.
Tom Olson is acquisitions librarian for the Milwaukee Public Library. He talks with Jane Hampden about popular books in the true crime genre. We invite the recommendations of local librarians and independent booksellers on the second Thursday of the month on Lake Effect.
Peggy Hong is Milwaukee’s poet laureate and a Lake Effect contributor. She reads her poem, Advice. Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in Hawaii and New York, and now lives in Milwaukee. She teaches at Alverno College.
Nick Inzeo is an acting student and Chester Loeffler-Bell is a technical instructor at Marquette University. Patrick Sutton is director of the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and coordinator of Marquette’s Dublin Project. They speak with Lake Effect’s Bonnie North about their collaboration on the play Poor Tom, opening at tonight at the Helfaer Theatre on campus.