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Savannah Barrett, co-founder of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange, reflects on 12 years of building relationships across rural and urban places

Ellen talks with Savannah Barrett, co-founder of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX), which brings together people from rural and urban communities to build relati...

Pt. 2: Professors Simona Zollet and Meng "Mo" Qu explain how Japan's Local Revitalization Cooperator Program brings urban residents to rural communities

In the second part of Ellen’s conversation with Hiroshima University professors Simona Zolett and Meng “Mo” Qu, they explore Japan’s Local Revitalization Cooperator Pr...

Pt. 1: Professors Simona Zollet and Meng "Mo" Qu explain the relationship between Japan's rural and urban communities in a super (super) aging society

In the first part of their conversation, Ellen talks with Hiroshima University professors Simona Zollet and Meng "Mo" Qu about community revitalization in rural Japan ...

Drew Arrieta and Michele Anderson describe the "Art of Rural-Urban Solidarity"

Ellen talks with Minneapolis-based documentary photographer Drew Arrieta and Springboard for the Arts rural director Michele Anderson about the Art of Rural-Urban Soli...

Ann Eisenberg, author of "Reviving Rural America," describes the (often) invisible ways rural America helps sustain urban communities and economies

Ellen talks with Ann Eisenberg, a law professor at West Virginia University, about her book Reviving Rural America. Ann examines how urban places depend on often invis...

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