Eagle Eye

This week, host Isabella speaks with Kristie Dickinson-Latta, an adjunct professor of design thinking in the Boston College Carroll School of Management and an entrepreneur in residence for the Boston College Shea Center for Entrepreneurship. After graduating from BC in 2014 with a degree in management and marketing, she went on to work at Apple, serving as a partnership manager for kids and educa...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Zinnie Wright, an exchange student from the University of Bristol currently attending Boston College. She recently wrote a magazine article for The Heights called “Building a Home Away From Home: An Exchange Student’s Guide to Living with a Roommate,” in which she highlighted her experience moving from England to Boston, Mass., where she had to ad...

This week, host Elizabeth speaks with Brian Taff, co-anchor of Action News at 4 p.m. and anchor of Action News at 6 p.m. in Philadelphia. After earning a degree in communication from Boston College, Taff began his journalism career at WVII-TV in Maine and later became a reporter and anchor at Capital News 9 in Albany. He later became editor and anchor of the news show Capital Tonight, where he won...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Clinton Kelly, style expert, author, and television personality. Kelly is best known for his role as the co-host of What Not to Wear, TLC’s longest-running prime time reality show. He appeared in more than 300 episodes of What Not to Wear between 2003 and 2013, with over one million people tuning in to the popular makeover program every week for 1...

This week, Eagle Eye hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Olivia Franceschini, CSOM ’24 and former opinions editor for The Heights. She is majoring in management and leadership and minoring in international studies and has been a columnist since her freshman year at BC. She recently wrote a piece titled “A Letter to My Freshman Year Self: Senior Year, Post-COVID Edition,” highlighting the uniqu...

This week, Eagle Eye host Elizabeth speaks with two guests, UGBC President Jonah Kotzen and UGBC Vice President Meghan Heckelman. Running on the slogan “Eagles for Others,” the pair focused their campaign around improving the lives of BC students in relation to acceptance, academics, activity, and adjustment. Kotzen, MCAS ’24, studies biology and classical studies on the pre-med track and previous...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with two guests, James Reinhart, co-founder and CEO of thredUP and BC ’01, and Mike Rocco, director of product engineering at thredUP and BC ’16. Founded in 2009, thredUP is an online clothing resale site for women and kids, carrying brands such as Nike, J.Crew, Gucci, and more. The company focuses on sustainability and has previously collaborated with...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth were joined by Christie Louis, this year’s recipient of BC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship. Christie is currently the vice president of Haitian Association, a Black Women Matter retreat co-leader from the Women’s Center, and the AHANA+ Legacy Programmer for ALC. She has been inspired by MLK since childhood and is committed to living out his legacy after...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Elizabeth Kensinger, professor and chair of the Psychology and Neuroscience Department whose research focuses on emotion, memory, and the way positive and negative associations with specific events influence recollection over the course of adulthood. This year, she released her new book, Why We Forget and How to Remember Better , which examines th...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Nicole Eaton, an associate professor in the History Department with an interest in Soviet history, World War II, and the inner workings and cultures of the European cities whose urban spaces were redesigned during wartime. On March 14th, she released her new book, German Blood, Slavic Soil , which examines how Königsberg, a 700-year-old German por...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Deena Mohamed, Chair of the AHANA+ Leadership Council and MCAS ’23 in preparation for ALC Showdown. Deena served on this year’s organizing committee for Showdown, a sold-out show in which BC’s 17 dance teams will compete to win a sum of money to donate to a charity of their choosing.  Tune in to hear about the event’s extensive planning process, j...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Father Walter J. Smith, who has been a Jesuit priest for over 60 years after attending both BC High School and Boston College. A true Renaissance man, Father Smith is also a psychologist, clinician, consultant, CEO, and a lifelong cook. His recently released memoir, Faith, Food, & Friendship: Reflections and Recipes from a Jesuit’s Abundant Li...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Annika Sharma, a Boston College senior who was recently crowned Miss Massachusetts USA 2023 and is studying finance and marketing with a minor in philosophy. After graduation, she plans to work as a wealth management analyst at Bank of America, eventually create her own fashion brand, and continue her work in female empowerment, which began when s...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Andrea Cohen, a Boston College School of Social Work alumna and the founder of HouseWorks, an independent home care company dedicated to elevating care for seniors. Last November, she received the inaugural CVS Health 2022 Female Leader of the Year award from Robert Kraft in conjunction with the New England Patriots. Tune in to hear about the most...

This week, hosts Isabella and Elizabeth speak with Seamus Ruiz-Earle, founder of the Carabiner Group and BC ’20, and Kyleigh Leddy, author of The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister and BC ’19. Forbes recently named Ruiz-Earle to its 30 Under 30 enterprise technology list and Leddy to its 30 Under 30 media list. Listen to learn more about what this honor means to Ruiz-Earle and Leddy, the experie...

Meet your new hosts, sophomore Isabella Pieretti and freshman Elizabeth Dodman! In this short preview, learn more about Eagle Eye and the hosts’ vision for the podcast. Look no further for informative conversations, insight into life on the Heights, and an eagle eye view on the stories of current and former Eagles, making change across a variety of fields. Check back in next week for new episodes!

This week, hosts Seeun and Eamon spoke to Professor Jeffrey Bellows, the Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Public Affairs at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Blue Cross Blue Shield insures one in three Americans and often leads by example through its corporate social responsibility efforts. Professor Bellows also teaches in the Business Law and Society department at Boston Colleg...

This week, host Eamon spoke to Onur Toper, the social media director of The Heights, who shared his thoughts on the 2022 midterm elections results. In this episode, Onur discusses the consecutive high turnout in the polls after a similarly hot 2018 election, the newly elected House of Representatives and Senate candidates who are projected to make a significant impact, and how factors like inflati...

This week, host Eamon spoke to Lisa Smith, a veteran from the United States Air Force and Councilmember At-Large for Arvada, Colorado, with a focus on housing and multi-modal transportation, who graduated from the Boston College School of Social Work in 2018. Lisa recently spent two weeks helping Ukrainian refugees evacuate into Poland to escape the ongoing war with Russia.  In this episode,...

This week, host Eamon interviewed Dean Mary Holper, the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, Director of the Immigration Clinic, and an associate clinical professor at Boston College Law School. Professor Holper has written and co-authored articles for numerous law reviews and reference guides concerning immigration issues, and recently spoke in an interview with GBH’s “Morning Edition” where...

This week, host Eamon interviewed Dr. Bob Keane, an assistant vice president at Walden Behavioral Care serving as a part-time faculty member of the Boston College School of Social Work, and Kameron Mendes, the clinical director of inpatient units at Walden Behavioral Care and licensed mental health counselor. Dr. Keane and Mr. Mendes recently co-authored an article outlining the importance of adol...

This week, host Eamon interviewed Dr. Emrah Altindis, an assistant professor of biology at Boston College. Professor Altindis specializes in research about microbe replication of human proteins, including human hormones, and how such replications affect a variety of human diseases. Dr. Altindis' recent publication concluded that a gut microbe may contribute to developing type 1 diabetes. In this e...

This week, host Eamon interviewed Dr. Theodore Papageorgiou, the Felter Family Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College. Dr. Papageorgiou specializes his research in labor economics, macroeconomics, and economics of transportation, and his article published in March, 2020, titled “Geography, Transportation, and Endogenous Trade Costs” was awarded the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Socie...

This week, hosts Eamon and Seeun interviewed Professor Gregg Sparkman. Dr. Sparkman specializes in research on the psychology of social change, including research on interventions to address social problems related to the environment, health, and social inequity. He recently co-published an article in which he found that Americans’ support of climate change is widely underestimated across the coun...

Welcome back to a new school year at Boston College! In this episode, student leaders from BC's summer orientation team (Kelly Ward, David Kim, Chris Smails, Colleen McBride, and Griffin Coates) offer transitioning advice for incoming students and share personal memoirs that have shaped their time in college thus far.  Whether you're a freshman, incoming transfer student, or returning student...