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Rural Matters

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Rural Matters is a biweekly, 30-minute podcast about rural education, business, and health. The podcast’s mission is to increase awareness, inform discussion, and expand the dialogue on the most important issues facing rural stakeholders every day. Guests on the podcast include rural education decision-makers, rural business owners and entrepreneurs, and rural health care representatives. The National Rural Education Association and the Center for Rural Affairs are marketing partners.

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00:37:02

Rural Economic Assistance during COVID-19 with Thomas...

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2020/05/24

Michelle talks about economic development, access to capital, and assistance to rural businesses during the COVID era, with Thomas Kimsey, president and CEO of Thomas USAF Group. This episode is the first of a four-part series, called Rural Economic and Community Development, which Rural Matters is producing in cooperation with and support from Thomas USAF. With almost three decades of SBA and USDA lending experience, Kinsey has established his nationwide industry footprint and has closed a

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00:39:33

100% Community & A Must-Attend May 27 Event, with...

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2020/05/18

Michelle chats with Matt Probst, PA-C, the medical director of El Centro Family Health serving northern New Mexico, which was featured in the documentary, The Providers, and who is currently serving as the 100% Community San Miguel County community organizer. Matt read 100% Community and took on the mission with his community to help put an end to childhood trauma. What resulted was a playbook for a pandemic. 100% Community San Miguel was already organized and mobilized so Matt and the community

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00:36:20

College Access Issues with Mara Tieken

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2020/05/04

Michelle chats with Mara Tieken, associate professor of education at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, whose research focuses on racial and educational equity in rural schools and communities. Her landmark book, Why Rural Schools Matters, examines how rural schools define and sustain their surrounding communities. Tieken, a former host of Rural Matters, is working on two studies, one supported by the Spencer Foundation, which explores the college experiences of rural, first-generation students, and

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00:34:41

Rural Health during the Pandemic with NRHA’s Alan Morgan

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2020/04/24

Michelle chats with Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, about the impact of COVID-19 on rural health. The pandemic has been cited as the reason that several hospitals have closed recently. The common denominator in hospital closures prior to the pandemic is the fact that they are attempting to treat patients that are uninsured or underinsured, Morgan explains. One-third of the nation’s 2,000 rural hospitals are community hospitals, and count on local support to be able to

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00:29:32

Rural Education Today with Allen Pratt

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2020/04/14

Michelle chats with Dr. Allen Pratt, executive director of the National Rural Education Association, about how rural schools are responding to the pandemic on a variety of fronts, including the establishment of food programs for students in rural areas through delivery and pickup locations where contact is limited.as much as possible. As far as remote learning is concerned, both NREA and school districts have established e-learning programs, utilizing Zoom and other technology, and have coordinated

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00:30:19

Interviews from NRHA’s Policy Summit

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2020/03/23

Michelle interview three key participants at the National Rural Health Association’s Annual Policy Summit in February in Washington, D.C.: Maggie Elehwany, NRHA’s Vice President for Government Affairs and Policy; Michael Topchik, National Leader for the Chartis Center for Rural Health; and Lisa Davis, Director at the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health.

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00:38:45

Rural Suicides with Carrie Henning-Smith

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2020/03/13

Michelle chats with Carrie Henning-Smith, Deputy Director of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Henning-Smith has led multiple research projects at the Rural Health Research Center, on a wide range of topics including the social determinants of health, access to and quality of care, aging and long-term care, and mental health and suicide prevention. She

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00:34:46

Berea College’s Partners for Education with Dreama...

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2020/03/06

Michelle chats with Dreama Gentry, who for the last two decades has led Berea College’s educational outreach into Appalachian Kentucky as the executive director of Partners for Education, which has an annual budget of more than $40 million. Gentry designs and implements projects that build on four core strategies: engaging families; lifting educational aspirations (including an upcoming Rural College Access and Success Summit; building academic skills; and connecting college and career. By

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00:33:22

Rural Transportation & Mobility with Valerie Lefler

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2020/03/05

Michelle chats with Valerie Lefler, the executive director of Feonix, and a recognized interna-tional expert in rural transportation and mobility service. In the last 18 months, Feonix has launched programs in five states, developing relationship with notable partners, including the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center, Easterseals, AARP’s Office of Driver Safety; and the Michigan Department of Transportation. Lefler is very familiar with rural is-sues having grown up on a large dairy

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00:28:52

Tennessee’s Game-Changing CAPS Initiative with Sheila...

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2020/02/29

Michelle chats with Sheila Boyington, President and CEO of Thinking Media and the founder of Learning Blade and Bradley Jackson, President and CEO of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Tennessee Manufacturers Association, about the Career Awareness and Preparation Systems (CAPS) initiative, an innovative program in Tennessee that addresses “brain drain” issues by working with local businesses in educating students about available jobs in the state. Too often Boyington notes, we

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00:30:38

A Healthier We with Phil Polakoff

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2020/02/04

In this episode, Michelle focuses on the work and point-of-view of Phil Polakoff, M.D. He is the Founder and CEO of A Healthier WE and a consulting professor, Stanford University School of Medicine and affiliated scholar, Stanford University Bill Lane Center for the American West. Dr. Polakoff and Michelle talk in-depth on the pitfalls and problems od engaging and inciting action or systematic change in rural America. As part of a solution, Dr. Polakoff and A Healthier We developed an organization

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00:35:27

The Benefits of Rural Broadband with Pam Becker

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2020/01/24

In this first episode of the 2020, Michelle talks about broadband with Foundation for Rural Service (FRS) Executive Director Pam Becker. FRS is a division of NTCA, the Rural Broadband Association. Through grant funding, FRS provides eye-opening and enlightening programs for youth, veterans and policy makers to increase awareness of the importance of having broadband accessibility. These programs help increase jobs, tele-health capabilities and consumer online transactions. Listeners will also hear

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01:04:32

Special Episode #1, Part 2: Women Leading Faith...

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2019/12/03

This special episode (Part 2) continues a panel discussion at the first-ever Rural Women’s Summit, presented by the National Rural Assembly, which was moderated by Michelle. The discussion was focused on Women Leading Interfaith Movements in Rural America. The panelists included Rev. Dr. Robin Dease from the United Methodist Church, in the Hartsville, South Carolina Conference; Rev. Jen Bailey from Faith Matters/People’s Supper; and Okolo Rashid from the International Museum of Muslim

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00:43:41

Future of Rural Communities with Tom Morris, Allen...

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2019/11/25

In this final segment of our four-part, in-depth series. “Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing Opportunities,” produced in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michelle talks to three major thought leaders about pressing challenges and the future of living in rural America: Tom Morris, the Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy in HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), who oversees the work of the Office of Rural Health Policy; Dr. Allen

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00:41:18

Special Episode #1, Part1: Women Leading Faith Movements

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2019/11/12

This special episode (Part 1) involves a panel discussion at the first-ever Rural Women's Summit, presented by the National Rural Assembly, which was moderated by Michelle. The discussion was focused on Women Leading Interfaith Movements in Rural America. The panelists include Rev. Dr. Robin Dease from the United Methodist Church in Hartsville, South Carolina Conference; Rev, Jen Bailey from Faith Matters/People's Supper; and Okolo Rashid from the International Museum of Muslim Cultures. Mental

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00:50:38

Rural Business with Janet Topolsky, Ines Polonius &...

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2019/11/12

In this third of our four-part series. “Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing Opportunities,” produced in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michelle discusses rural economics and business with Janet Topolsky, who directs the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, specializing in connecting low-wealth rural and urban places and populations to regional economic development; Ines Polonius. CEO of Communities Unlimited, Inc., a CDFI and community economic

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00:40:08

Housing & Health Care in Rural America with Nancy...

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2019/10/28

In this second in our four-part series, Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing Opportunities, in partnership with and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michelle chats with Nancy Dickey and David Lipsetz. Dickey spent almost a dozen years as president of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and vice chancellor for health affairs for The Texas A&M University System and currently serves in several academic and administrative roles at the College of Medicine and as executive

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00:47:07

Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing...

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2019/10/04

In this kickoff to Rural Matters’ first in-depth, four-part series, Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing Opportunities, Michelle and three guests take a deep dive on what it’s like — and what it could be like in the future — to live in Rural America, exploring the recent findings of a survey conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard University School of Public Health. The three guests are Dr. Robert J. Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor and Senior Associate Dean

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00:35:01

Rural Loans with Thomas Kimsey

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2019/09/20

Michelle chats with Thomas Kimsey, president & CEO of Thomas USAF Group, LLC. Kimsey manages and oversees more than $100 million in loan origination and underwriting annually. Big bank lenders often do not play in the rural space, Kimsey notes, so this is where the USDA Rural Development Loan Program, and its Community Facility Program, come in, through its direct and guaranteed loans. Last year, this program loaned almost $3 billion to provide and rebuild rural infrastructure. Thomas USAF has

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00:37:04

Lessons from Life in Rural America Symposium with...

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2019/09/09

Michelle chats with Katrina Badger, program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about the work of the foundation to build a culture of health and her particular focus on creating the community conditions that foster improved health. Badger discusses a poll that was released at the recent Life in Rural America symposium, which was a collaboration among the Foundation, NPR, and Harvard, that focused on rural issues. Just organizing the event was a learning experience, Badger notes. One of

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