Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen and LaFrae Sci

We're celebrating Willie Mae Thornton's birthday with a live podcast recording at the Willie Mae Rock Camp Studio! On December 11th, our Executive Director LaFrae Sci will be in conversation with Emmy Award winner Randy Cohen for a taping of the Person Place Thing podcast. In the spirit of Willie Mae Rock Camp, this event will also feature live music from LaFrae and more to be announced! Space is limited, so register now!

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.

In Conversation:

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

LaFrae Sci is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, educator, and composer with a career spanning 30 years and 38 countries. A founding member of Willie Mae Rock Camp and former lead teaching artist, she was appointed as executive director in 2020, and has spearheaded the organization’s expansion to a full suite of year-round, STEM-informed programming.

Sci has extensive experience developing music education programs in the United States and internationally. As a composer, she writes for film, theater, and jazz and classical orchestras, with a range spanning immersive and ambisonic music, blues, ethnomusicological traditions, rock, pop, hip-hop, and deconstructed techno soul. Her practice is grounded in the origins and extended influence of the blues, from spirituals to afro-futuristic soundscapes.

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