Special Programs

From Chasing The Dream, A New Special Program: Seeing Erin Hagerty

Erin Hagerty died last year at the age of 62. By most counts she lived an extraordinary life – simply by doing things many would consider ordinary. This is an examination not of what she did but how she was seen. By strangers, her family and most importantly how she saw herself. “Seeing Erin Hagerty” is a WLIW-FM special program and a part of Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative The WNET Group, reporting on Poverty, Justice and Opportunity in America. Bob McKinnon, host of the podcast Attribution, talks with Erin’s mother, her four siblings and documentary filmmaker and …

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Two New Special Programs with Chasing The Dream

We’re proud to bring you two more editions of Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America. In Confronting Inequality on Eastern Long Island, Emmy-award winning journalist Frank Sesno speaks with four community leaders who have unique insight into the troubles that confront the East End. Tela Troge of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Sandra Dunn of OLA of Eastern Long Island, and Brenda Simmons of the Southampton African American Museum (SAAM) offer their perspectives from diverse communities bearing the brunt of the consequences of inequality, and Town of Riverhead Community Development Director Dawn Thomas shares her insight on what Riverhead is doing to preserve affordability and …

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In addition to our podcasts, we have also produced several special programs in conjunction with NPR station WLIW-FM and Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America. The latter is a multiplatform public media initiative from The WNET Group in New York that reports on poverty, justice, and economic opportunity, and showcasing promising solutions. Their goal is to better inform using facts that go beyond personal biases, media narratives, and presumptions about the American Dream. Chasing the Dream’s reporting focuses on inequality: economic and structural inequities informed by issues of race, age, and class. They also focus in on what works to bring people out of poverty, and what lessons we can learn for the future.

Major funding for Chasing the Dream is provided by The JPB Foundation with additional funding from The Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund. You can learn more at pbs.org/chasingthedream.

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