When the Donahue Institute became part of UMass Amherst in 2020, Meghan Flanagan and her colleagues in the institute’s economic and public policy research division became part of PSU.

Until recently, I only knew Brad Turner and Andrew Gorry in one dimension—our fearless leaders, enthusiastically taking charge of fighting for PSU causes. The talking heads who lead meetings. Those people who share their screens to highlight the minutia of the steps needed to get a fairer wage structure, combat privatization, and other things… (probably mentioned in the emails I skimmed).

However, after reaching out to them, I am delighted to report that they are also humans. Full, multifaceted, people just like the rest of us. To prove it, they agreed to answer some of my questions in the hopes of fleshing themselves out a bit more in my mind (and yours too).