A New Angle

This week is a special, on-location conversation with Pete Hinmon, co-director of Tippet Rise. Tippet Rise is an amazing fusion of art, music, architecture and nature, all mixing together on a working ranch near Fishtail, Montana .After attending a performance at the space by a brass ensemble, Justin sits down with Pete to chat about Tippet Rise’s origin story, the founders and their philosophy, h...

This week’s guest is Elizabeth MacBride. Elizabeth’s work has been published in prominent outlets such as the MIT Technology Review , The Atlantic , Newsweek and many others. She recently co-authored Capital Evolution: The New American Economy with Seth Levine. Elizabeth will be delivering the keynote address at the upcoming CoBuild Montana summit .In this conversation, Elizabeth explains the shif...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.anewanglepodcast.com This week is our September edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. This conversation is a back-to-school college edition centered on AI. Bryce talks about a MIT paper, which reported...

This week is the next edition of The Ripple Effect, a quarterly series in which Justin speaks with grantees of the Headwaters Foundation . Today’s guest is David Quattrocchi, community organizer at Partnership Health Center. David’s work illuminates that healthcare is much more than an individual issue. In this conversation, David starts by explaining what a community organizer is and why a health...

This week’s guest is Jon Bennion. In 2004, Jon published Big Sky Politics , a comprehensive history of Montana campaigns and elections. He is out this year with an updated edition . Jon is also the executive director of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation .In this conversation, Jon talks about Montana’s political and electoral history, and highlights a few key turning points. He talks abo...

This week is the August edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. Last month , they began a conversation about gratitude and civic virtue. And today, is part two of that conversation. In this episode, Justin and Bryce talk about civic virtue and how being in physical com...

This week’s guests are Danny Spoon, Bill Wright, Matt Fete and Stephanie Goble, who are all involved with a new initiative to improve rural healthcare in Montana. The RESOLVE collaboration is a partnership between Providence and the University of Montana College of Health. The group starts out explaining the rural health care crisis in Montana and how those factors led to the development of RESOLV...

This week ANA brings you part two of Justin’s conversation with Crissie McMullan and Jason Wiener, who together launched AI Realists , a nonprofit focused on helping communities shape AI policies. Picking up where they left off last week , the trio talk about citizen assemblies, public opinion surveys, data centers and a central mission of AI Realists: combating our big tech fatalism. This is a pu...

This week’s guests are Crissie McMullan and Jason Wiener. Together these two launched AI Realists , a nonprofit organization aimed at helping communities shape AI policies. AI Realists is producing events and conducting outreach across Montana. In this conversation, Crissie and Jason share their paths to AI and how they have been both inspired and worried by the technology. They talk about how peo...

This week’s guest is Tana Burke, founder and CEO of Sky Cycle, a Montana-made startup seeking to insert wellness and exercise into the airport experience. Tana launched Sky Cycle in 2022 and the product is now ready for takeoff. In this conversation, Tana talks about taking Sky Cycle from concept to reality and the various partnerships she forged to make it happen. She breaks down the airport busi...

Today is the July edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. Today’s topic is gratitude, inspired by an experience Bryce had during a speaking engagement a few weeks ago. In this conversation, Bryce outlines economic progress, particularly in Montana, despite how bad the...

This week’s guests are Ria Overholt and Steve Gaskill who talk with Justin about Missoula Villages , a neighbor-powered network that brings older citizens together through events, activities and a help exchange. Networks like Missoula Villages are springing up across the country and fill an important unmet need for support and community. In this conversation, Ria explains the concept behind Missou...

This week’s guest is Bridger Pierce, president of Warm Springs Productions . Warm Springs is a full service production house focused on television series. Warm Springs commenced operations in 2008 and has produced content for the History Channel, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel and many other prominent outlets. Bridger talks about growing up in Manhattan, Montana and working for a stint...

This week’s guest is Vu Le, a prominent and irreverent voice in nonprofit leadership. Vu recently published his first book, Reimagining Nonprofit and Philanthropy , and has been posting weekly at his blog, Nonprofit AF , for many years. Vu recently visited Montana to speak about nonprofits and philanthropy. In this episode, Vu describes nonprofits as air - something people don’t appreciate until t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.anewanglepodcast.com This week is the June edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. And this month, the theme is population decline. People around the world are having fewer babies and it’s being framed a...

This week’s guests are David Spear and Julie Cajune of A VOICE : Art, Vision and Outreach in Community Education. This nonprofit organization’s mission is to foster individual, group, community and cultural expression through art, outreach and education. A VOICE has served the Flathead Nation for 20 years. In this conversation, David talks about how he made it from New York to Polson, and how he b...

This week’s guest is Eleanor Kiloh , British Consul General and senior representative of the British government in Northern California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Alaska. Eleanor recently toured Montana and we were fortunate to get some time on her schedule. In this conversation Eleanor explains what diplomacy actually is and gives advice for those considering the career path...

This week's guest is Marc Moss, creator of Tell Us Something , a live storytelling program producing events across Montana. Tell Us Something is now in its 15th year and expanding into new forms of storytelling. In this conversation, Marc explains to Justin how Tell Us Something came to be, talks about the submission and selection process and dives into the only two times the event has encountered...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.anewanglepodcast.com This week is our May edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. And affordability is the name of the conversation this time around. It's a word and a concept we've heard a lot about in...

As part of Climate Solutions Week here at Montana Public Radio, Justin speaks with Devin Morales, founder of Cool Earth Creamery , a plant-based creamery committed to sustainability and local agriculture. Devin established Cool Earth in 2019 after a 25-year career in natural resources and engineering. In this conversation, Devin talks about how responding to various disasters led to the understand...

This week's guest is Joy French, executive artistic director of Bare Bait Dance . Bare Bait began in 2011 as an effort to create more opportunities for aspiring professional dancers in Montana. Bare Bait operates out of Missoula's Westside Theater , which has quickly become a lively community hub for the performing arts. In this conversation, Joy tells Justin she didn't set out looking for a dance...

This week is the next edition of The Ripple Effect, a quarterly series in which Justin speaks with grantees of the Headwaters Foundation . Today’s guest is Casey Fuson, kids program director at the TFS Community Hall in Trego, Montana. What’s happening in Trego offers a wonderful example of how communities can come together to fill gaps in services and support each other. In this conversation, Cas...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.anewanglepodcast.com This week is our April edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. A lot of these I&Is can get a little heavy. And often Justin and Bryce talk about problems with unclear solutions, or s...

This week's guest is Casey Zablocki, a ceramic artist based here in Missoula, Montana. His art occupies the space between sculpture, monument and function. Casey's work is shown at galleries around the world and is held in several prominent collections. His work is currently being shown in New York at the Guild Gallery .In this conversation, Casey talks about his path to ceramics and his process t...

This week's guests are the folks who created a beautiful new book , A History of Montana in 101 Places , Christine Brown, Kirby Lambert and Martha Kohl. This book is a production of the Montana Historical Society and is dedicated to the late Ellen Baumler, a beloved member of the author team. In this conversation, the guests discuss the beginnings of the book, which included gleaning a lot of info...