Ardith Maney lives in Shorewood. She’s a professor emeritus of public administration and women’s studies at Iowa State University. But her program to create a community college system in the Republic of Georgia is organized through an organization called Community Colleges for International Development. It’s based in Cedar Rapids, but its members include Waukesha Area Technical College.
Political satirist Will Durst is a Milwaukee native and a regular Lake Effect contributor. He lives in San Francisco. His latest book is called “The All-American Sport of Bipartisan bashing.”
Prem Sharma’s new novel is called Escape from Burma. It’s a fictionalized account of the journeys that took Mya and Sandra Swe out of Burma following a 1962 coup, and which led them to Milwaukee. Sharma and Mya Swe spoke with Lake Effect’s Bonnie North.
Julie Lindemann and her husband John Shimon are photographers who live and work in Manitowoc. Their work is at the center of a new exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum called Unmasked and Anonymous: Shimon and Lindeman Consider Portraiture. It runs through November 30th. They spoke with Bonnie North at the museum.
Leslie Osborne is a midfielder for the US National Women’s Soccer Team. She grew up in Brookfield, and played her high school soccer at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha. Osborne tore her left ACL training for the Olympics, and so instead of being in Beijing right now, she’s in California, rehabbing her leg and watching the games the way the rest of us are – on TV. This fall, she'll find out which team she'll play for in the new Women's Professional Soccer league.
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