Season 7
Alex and Amber: Seeing Ourselves
Alex Segura joins us today to kick off the seventh season of Formative! Alex has written numerous comics and novels, including Secret Identity , which won the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize f...
Eric and Kaymani: Making Your Own Luck
Eric Winterling is a costume maker whose life’s work is creating clothes that tell a story. You’ve seen his work on television shows like Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Gilded Age, as well as Broadway ...
Niesha and Carrera: What It Really Means to be Successful
Niesha Foster is Vice President of Product Access, Global Health & Social Impact at Pfizer. Her work is focused on addressing patient affordability challenges and driving community engagement. Tod...
Congresswoman Meng and Jasmine: Thinking Aloud
Grace Meng is the U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district. Today, Congresswoman Meng is joined by Jasmine, an eighth grader whose favorite subject in school is U.S. History and G...
Sonni and Andrew: Making Tough Calls
From playing basketball professionally to becoming CEO of the Charles Hayden Foundation, Sonni Holland joins our co-host, Andrew, to talk about the choices he’s made in his career that have led to an ...
Courtney and Keyani: We’re Committed to Our Craft
Courtney Helm has always been able to make her own way using the skills she’s developed as a toy designer. Today, she’s joined by 8th grader and co-host, Keyani, to talk about her business, Drip Acces...
Councilwoman Marmorato and Lamiya: Why Not Us?
Kristy Marmorato joins us on Formative today to discuss her journey from being a radiologic technologist to now serving as the Councilwoman for the 13th District of the New York City Council. In conve...
Rio and Lauren: We Don’t Want to Know What the Future Holds
Rio Vander Stahl’s childhood dream was to become a cellist in the ranks of the great Yo-Yo Ma. But his career didn’t turn out that way, which makes his story much more fun. On this episode of Formativ...
Dina and Atef: We All Want to Be Included
Dina Clark has always seen diversity and inclusion as a personal responsibility. 6th grader and co-host, Atef, joins Dina in conversation today to discuss Dina’s childhood pull toward inclusion and th...
Ashley and Nevaeh: Reaching a Healthy Balance
To wrap up this season of Formative, we are joined by Ashley Parke, a content creator in the fashion space. Ashley tells us about how learning to find balance has always been a constant theme in her c...
