After a brief summer break, I am thrilled to return to the podcast and all of you listening in. We look forward to a new academic year and new episodes on our students, faculty, staff and social justice legacy.

Today, John Fountain joins the podcast to talk about the Unforgotten 51 project and his next endeavor – a year overseas in Ghana as a Fulbright Scholar.

WGN-TV was one of the first to pick up the story, then People magazine, Oxygen and Block Club Chicago. But the reporting started with Professor John Fountain and a passionate group of Roosevelt University students.

John’s journalism class accepted the weighty project of covering 51 women murdered in Chicago since 2001. For John and his students, the women were more than statistics. They were complex human beings whose stories deserved to be told.

Please enjoy our conversation.