Renowned New Mexico Sculptor, Roxanne Swentzell joins Wake Up Call Segment Host/Producer, MK to talk about her history, her art, her technique, and her new cookbook, "The Pueblo Food Experience Cookbook".  Roxanne Swentzell was destined to be a talented artist.   Her family is full of renowned potters and sculptors.   Her talent was recognized early and she was given the opportunity to spend two years at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before graduating from high school.   She then went on to the Portland Museum Art School.

Famed Feminist Author Carol Gilligan joins Wake Up Call Producer/Host, MK to discuss her new book, "Why Does Patriarchy Persist" co-authored with Naomi Snider. The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many—despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about patriarchy that seems to make it so resilient and resistant to change? Undoubtedly it endures in part because some people benefit from the unequal advantages it confers. But is that enough to explain its stubborn persistence?

Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation

  Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation

Author Debra Gwartney speaks with Wake Up Call Segment Host/Producer MK Mendoza about her new book, I Am A Stranger Here Myself. Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians.