Meet Our Hosts
SuChin Pak
is the co-host of Planet Green’s G-Word and was a correspondent with MTV News. She has co-hosted MTV’s pre-Grammy show and has covered the MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and the Sundance Film Festival. Pak was an integral part of MTV’s 2004 Choose or Lose Campaign, which sought to get 20 million young people to vote. She covered the September 11th aftermath for MTV News, contributing segments on young people volunteering and Muslim-American women. In 2005, Pak traveled to Thailand to cover the aftermath of the tsunami. Following Hurricane Katrina, she also visited Baton Rouge, Louisiana to report on college students at Louisiana State University who aided rescue and recovery efforts. Born in Korea, Pak and her family moved to the Bay Area when she was 5 years old. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in political science.
Dr. J. Michael Hogan
is the co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation of Pennsylvania State University. Hogan’s specific research interests include political campaigns and social movements, foreign policy debates, presidential rhetoric, and public opinion and polling. He is the author of three books, The Panama Canal in American Politics, The Nuclear Freeze Campaign, and Woodrow Wilson’s Western Tour. Hogan has served on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and he currently serves on the editorial board of Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
Scholarly Advisors
Should the U.S. reduce immigration?
Katherine Vaughns, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. Professor Vaughns is presently a member of the ABA Section on Litigation, the Baltimore City Bar Association, and the Maryland State Bar Association (in which she serves as a member of the Legal Education and Admission to the Bar Committee). Professor Vaughns previously was a member of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the LSAC Bar Passage Study Work Group, the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance, the ABA/AALS/LSAC Joint Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
Should the government make sure that every American has affordable healthcare?
Michael S. Lawlor, PhD., Director of the Undergraduate Program in Health Policy and Administration at Wake Forest University. Dr. Lawlor is a Professor of Economics and a Research Associate with the Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine
at Wake Forest University
Should same-sex couples have the right to marry?
Nancy J. Knauer, the Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Professor Knauer has written and lectured widely on issues involving same-sex relationships, including domestic violence, estate planning, and survivor benefits. In 2002 Professor Knauer was named a University "Great Teacher" and was a co-recipient of the first annual CPR Dispute Resolution Award for teaching problem solving in the law school. Professor Knauer is also a three-time recipient of the George P. Williams Award for excellence in teaching.