The Green Room

Welcome to 'Episode Seven' of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room .  On this episode, host Jonathon Platt meets with Booking Producer at Bloomberg TV, Amanda Hayes Roark .  Just a few years into post-grad life, Amanda has already charted an impressive path through some of the top names in journalism. From her early start as a production assistant on "Morning Joe" to media...

Welcome to ‘Episode Six’ of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room.  In this episode, host Jonathon Platt introduces Dr. Felipe Hinojosa, the John and Nancy Endowed Chair in Latin America and Professor of History at Baylor University.  Born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, Felipe brings a unique perspective shaped by his upbringing in the Texas-Mexico borderlands and hi...

Welcome to ‘Episode Five’ of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room.  In this episode, host Jonathon Platt is joined by Dr. Coretta Pittman, Associate Professor of English and Baylor’s Vice Provost for Community Engagement. With warmth, clarity, and depth, Dr. Pittman discusses what it means to foster a university community that reflects the full richness of its members’ backgroun...

Welcome to ‘Episode Four' of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room.  In this heartfelt conversation, host Jonathon Platt sits down with his longtime mentor and personal hero, retired Director of Baylor’s Ministry Guidance Program and Professor of Religion, Dr. Jeter Basden.  His leadership helped shape generations of students preparing for lives of service, guiding them thro...

Welcome to 'Episode Three' of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room .  In this episode, host Jonathon Platt sits down with two Baylor legends and authors of Soon and Very Soon , Robert Darden and Dr. Stephen Newby.  This conversation isn’t just about music – it’s about the history and cultural commentary of gospel music. Bob and Stephen unpack the legacy of the great Andraé...

  Welcome to episode two of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room.  In this episode, host Jonathon Platt sits down with former United States Marine Corps Reservist Alexandra Benda to explore a career that spans continents, combat zones, and the corridors of power. With a degree in Great Texts and over 13 years of military experience, Alexandra now serves as a Deployment Stra...

Welcome to the official 'Episode One' of The Baylor Line's flagship podcast, The Green Room.  In this episode host Jonathon Platt is joined by author and public defender Jeanne Bishop live at The Baylor Line's BookTalk event on May 16 commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. In it, the two unpack behind-the-scenes details of Jeanne's book on the attack, Grace from the...

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast,  The Green Room . We'd originally planned a May launch for this show, but when news happens and you work at a news organization... you gotta adapt. So, consider this Episode 0 with more coming soon. This go around, I'm joined by Dr. Steve Gardner , a respected economist and professor emeritus at Baylor University. I asked Steve for this convers...

Nine years ago, Dolores Lozano claims she was violently assaulted by a Baylor football player and her boyfriend at the time. In 2016 she filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming that – despite having gone to administrators and football program leaders – her alma mater had been negligent in its handling of her reports of domestic violence and, as a result, violated her rights under the Titl...

Joanne Cummings is the director of Baylor’s Middle East Studies program and teaches in the BIC and Political Science department. She has also been instrumental in the development of an interfaith minor here at Baylor. A retired diplomat, her experience is wide-ranging. She was most recently the Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) to CJTF-OIR, based in Baghdad. She has also served extensively in th...

You’ve probably seen Dr. Peter Hotez on the news before, being interviewed, sited, or – sometimes – skewered. He’s made a name for himself in the fight against anti-science and was a constant presence as a primetime source during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hotez is the founding Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at...

Dr. Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History at Baylor, having also served as graduate program director of the history department and associate dean of the Baylor Graduate School. She’s a 1996 graduate of the very same history department in which she now teaches. She earned her masters and doctorate at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on...