From a shocking insurrection at the Capitol, to the rise of cryptocurrency, and the continuing fight for voting rights, 2021 brought more disruptions – and our show has attempted to make sense of this complicated world.This week on Disrupted, we’re wrapping up the year listening back to a few of our favorite conversations of 2021.

GUESTS: Nancy Yao Maasbach – President of the Museum of Chinese in America Andrew Kahrl - Professor of African-American Studies and History at The Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia and author of Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline Martine Dherte - Refugee Services Program Manager at the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants. Salma Mousa - Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Melissa Harris-Perry – Host and managing editor of WNYC's The Takeaway. She's the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake University and founder of the Anna Julia Cooper Center Alex, Emani, Xochiquetzaly “ZoChee”, and Airiqa- Students at the High School in the Community in New Haven, Connecticut

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