A Discussion of Diversity and Screenwriting by Award-winning Screenwriters

 

Chuck Hayward, Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, Paula Yoo, Vivian Lee, and Zak Shaikh, new honorees of the Feature Access Program at the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), and Kim Myers, Director of Diversity at the WGAW, talk about this award and the screenwriting world in general, recorded from multiple locations, including Delaware, on December 20, 2012.

 

The Stanford Genomics Center

 

Kyle Gschwend, News/Features Writer at the Stanford Daily Newspaper, talks about the creation and operations of the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics, recorded from Palo Alto, California, on December 13, 2012.

 

Michael Cutler on Commonwealth v. Pacheco

Michael Cutler, a member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Legal Committee, talks about the reasoning behind the amicus brief he (along with Stephen Epstein) filed in the case of Commonwealth v. Pacheco, a case testing whether sharing a joint of cannabis constitutes illegal “distribution” of the drug.  He also argues more generally against cannabis prohibition and expresses confidence in the future evolution of cannabis legalization, recorded from Northampton, Massachusetts, on December 11, 2012.