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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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. -
Two Connecticut biologists tell us about the changing environment, what inspired them to study science and the impact of funding cuts on research. -
Photographer Bill Graustein has an exhibit in New Haven and artist Katharine Owens creates life-sized portraits of animals out of plastic packaging. -
On our third annual summer movie panel, we discuss 'Sinners,' the politics of this year's films and how the industry might be impacted by artificial intelligence. -
We discuss the book 'Bad Company' this hour on Disrupted, and the omnipresence of private equity firms—their impact on media, retail, politics, healthcare and housing. -
This hour, we break down a pivotal year in history with Peniel E. Joseph, the author of 'Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution.' -
We look at the tradition of Juneteenth and recognize its importance as a time to learn more about Black history in the U.S. -
While writing The Trouble of Color, historian Martha S. Jones saw how the complexities of her racial identity had been part of her family for generations. -
Freedom Reads, a Connecticut-based nonprofit, delivers bookcases full of new books to prisons across the country. Nearly 50 prisons across the country now have bookcases.
