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According to a recent Harvard Business Review report, women in leadership positions face ageism at every age. Reset chats with UChicago professor Amy Hilliard, Rohini Dey of Vermillion and Let’s Talk Womxn and Karen Layng, national president of the board of directors of Girl Scouts USA to hear how they’ve navigated discrimination in the workplace and how they’re changing things for future generations of working women to come.

Artist Edra Soto immigrated from Puerto Rico to Chicago in 1998. Since beginning her life as a transplant to Chicago, she’s worked on a decade-long project exploring how she is inhabiting space in a new country, culture and home. As well as highlighting Puerto Rican architecture and its roots. through her sculptures. Reset chats with the “GRAFT” artist to learn more.

Dom Flemons is on a mission to uncover, preserve and push forward America’s musical past — particularly Black musical traditions.The world renowned singer-songwriter and folklorist sits down with Jason Marck, host of WBEZ’s Radio Z and senior producer of Curious City, to talk about some of the big ideas that run through his work.

The second season of the hit FX show The Bear makes a point of highlighting the vibrant restaurant and bar scene across Chicago. Reset talks to two foodies about the show’s portrayal of some of city’s most beloved spots.

Record rain floods basements and puts a damper on NASCAR’s downtown street race. Mayor Johnson shakes things up at the Chicago Board of Education. Reset breaks down these stories and much more with Jacoby Cochran, City Cast Chicago Host, Brandon Pope, reporter/anchor at CW 26, and Hannah Meisel, politics reporter, Capitol News Illinois.

Mayor Brandon Johnson shook things up Wednesday when he replaced nearly the entire Chicago Board of Education with new appointees. The seven-seat board that was once largely filled with consultants, bankers and lawyers will now be dominated by educators and education activists. Reset gets the rundown on what this means for Chicago schools.

The pandemic changed how and where we work from, and recent articles suggest remote work could be detrimental to our physical and mental health. Reset digs into those claims and learns what employees need to feel fulfilled wherever their ‘office’ may be.

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network on WSLP-AM features fictitious matches between teams such as the Baraboo Bombers vs. the Big Rapid Timbers and the Old Timers Exhibition! Reset learns more on the eclectic broadcast from its creator and host, Mr. King.

Over a year since the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and many states across the country have instituted abortion bans. For high-risk pregnancies that often means a tough decision between finding out-of-state means for reproductive care or delivering a child with little to no chance of surviving. Reset hears from a high-risk pregnancy patient and healthcare experts on the issue.

The Mellon Foundation granted Chicago $6.8 million to invest in several monument projects. One of those will include the Rekia Boyd Project on the West Side. Reset talks to Scheherazade Tillet, executive director of A Long Walk Home and one of the organizers of the monument.