Marti Mikkelson is a reporter with WUWM’s news team. You can hear her report on the lasting impact of last year’s floods on Hmong farm families on WUWM news tomorrow.
Patrick D. Jones is an assistant professor of history in the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. His new book is called The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, and it’s published by Harvard University Press. He spoke to us from the studios of Nebraska Public Radio in Lincoln. His book examines the legacy of the civil rights movement in Milwaukee, and how it relates to the broader national movement.
Jasmine Alinder is the author of Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration. She is also an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She tells Lake Effect’s Stephanie Lecci that her book looks at how photographs were used to depict Japanese Americans and what those photos documented about the experience in the camps. You can see some of the images she talks about in her book here.
Amy Schubert is a dining critic at the website OnMilwaukee.com, and a regular contributor to Lake Effect. She spoke with Dan Harmon about the intersection of food and service in a tough economy.
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