Kevin Chang Barnum
Producer, DisruptedKevin Chang Barnum is a producer for Connecticut Public Radio’s weekly show Disrupted. Kevin grew up in Connecticut and started his radio work at his graduate university’s radio station, KUCI. He has also worked for HRN, a network of food and beverage podcasts.
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We're talking to disruptors breaking barriers. We hear from Hamden's historic Fire Chief, someone fighting for inclusive economic growth in New Haven and CT State Gateway's new Campus President. -
Reading is one of the few ways people in prison can connect to the outside world. But access to books is limited. A Connecticut-based nonprofit called Freedom Reads is trying to change that. The people who deliver the books are just as important as the books themselves. -
This hour, we learn from oral historians about a Black person imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp and the history of Connecticut's Puerto Rican communities. -
We talk with a gun violence expert who argues it's time for a new approach to preventing gun violence— one that looks at the culture of gun ownership in the U.S. -
Journalist Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years reporting on the death penalty. In 2020, she started witnessing the executions she'd write about. This week on 'Disrupted,' we examine the human impact of capital punishment. -
Listening to the news, it feels like there are more natural disasters than ever. This hour, we learn the climate science behind that and look at how the word disaster affects our thinking. -
We learn how craft can be a part of activism, and we hear from a local potter whose indigenous Wangunk ancestry informs the way he understands his work. -
Connecticut entrepreneurs Karin Smith of Kindred Thoughts Bookstore, Vincencia "Vee" Adusei of VASE Construction and Yves Joseph of RJ Development open up about the joys and challenges of running a Black-owned business. -
Shizuko Tomoda's mother survived the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima. Dr. Tomoda talks about the bomb's intergenerational impact and her documentary Memory of Hiroshima through Imagination. -
Jon Hamilton of NPR’s Science Desk describes new medicines available to people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Plus, learn about the benefits of art therapy and the new law mandating coverage of tests for early detection.
