War on drugs. Where does your name come from . I was born in czechoslovakia. Is not czechoslovakian. Wanda with a w is a fairly common polish name. The one that i was named after, is the inventor of orchids. It is interesting because a lot of my work is based on working on endangered species and conservation. I guess i was born to this name. My last name is arabic even though i was born in czechoslovakia. Brian you thank your mother in your books. Vanda essentially, those letters are the female endings. It can mean belonging to the man. For simplicity, and also because i did not want the connotation, i dropped those letters. Brian how long have you been in the United States . Vanda about 30 years. I came in high school. I started high school in the czech republic. I won a scholarship to a private, american high school. It was extraordinary. I loved every moment. I was very grateful. I never went back. I did all of my undergraduate work and graduate work in the u. S. Brian describe the
Where your inner activity helps drive our conversation. To my left, my cohost and digital producer handing all of that social media that. Cos in. In preparing for this show, we are seeing these huge numbers 13. 5 billion to haiti howdies tushing is it that a lot of it cant be accounted for . And you mentioned this funded park, that is supposed to help haiti we mentioned that to the community we gave a human story. She was one who was evicted from her line to make way for this, and in fact, the numbers say about 366 to 400 families faced a similar fate. And responding to that, robert says that out to teem they have for getting in the way of freedom with their freedom a lot of spark. We need all the parks we can get, a couple of peep get displaced aint nothing new. More needs to go into education and job creation. Imagine receiving only five days notice to leave your land before it is bulldozed. That is exactly what happened to the hundreds of families raj was just talking about after th
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