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Ep. 10: Chris Del Conte

Chris Del Conte is a highly regarded national leader in college athletics. He has more than 30 years of experience in building highly successful athletic departments, including at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently vice president and athletics director. Under his leadership, Texas has won numerous NCAA national championships in multiple Learfield Directors Cups, signifying the excellence of UT Athletics.

Ep. 8: Gautam Yadama

Dr. Gautam Yadama is the dean of the Boston College School of Social Work.  His research is focused on understanding poverty and environment dynamics and he is a leading researcher on interventions to improve social economic environment and health outcomes. He's a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, a member of the Implementation Science Network on Clean Cooking at the Fogerty Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Ep 7: Philip Osteen

Philip Osteen is the dean of the College of Social Work at the Unviersity of Utah.  Dean Osteen has served in a variety of roles in mental and behavioral health for over three decades, including case management, community-based residential treatment and clinical research. His work has shifted more recently to evaluating interventions for men, and he is actively engaged in an initiative to expand access to higher education.

Ep. 6: Justin Dyer

Justin Dyer serves as the dean of the UT Austin School of Civic Leadership. He's also a government professor who writes and teaches in the fields of American political thought, jurisprudence and constitutionalism, with an emphasis on the philosophical tradition of natural law. Previously, he was a professor of political science at the University of Missouri, where he also served as the founding director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

Ep. 5: Philip Hong

Philip Hong is dean of the University of Georgia School of Social Work, where he has been since 2022.  He's an academic leader nationally and internationally, and a scholar whose research focuses on poverty alleviation and workforce development, among other social work topics. Prior to this work, Dean Hong was Associate Dean for Research at the Loyola University in Chicago Knoll School of Social Work, where he also directed the Center for Research on Self Sufficiency, or CROS. His research also includes social work interventions, a model that he developed, called TIP, or Transforming the Impossible into Possible, which is a national model for social policies that promote self sufficiency and family strengthening. TIP is being applied and tested as a model to support communities in the areas of employment and workforce development, health promotion, youth development and empowerment, returning citizen reentry, and substance use recovery, among other needs.