The Process: Recent Episodes
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For the last 14 years, Chris George has been the Executive Director of IRIS — Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — one of three refugee resettlement agencies in Connecticut. During our conversation, he revealed how he got into this field after starting out with a strong desire to become an archeologist. Thanks to his knowledge […]
From its early success serving coffee, pastries, and a small offering of lunch items, Cafémantic has been around for more than a decade and is surviving the storm that is COVID-19. At its helm is Andrew Gütt, a force to be reckoned with. At age 24, after graduating college, working in restaurants, gigging as a […]
Windham area resident Jean De Smet made her mark through her work as a community activist. She is the originator of Third Thursdays which has taken place up and down Main Street in Willimantic every summer since 2002. During our conversation, we discuss how she came to Connecticut and became active in her community. She […]
Kazimiera Kozlowski spent 30 years shaping the Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury, CT. During our conversation, we discuss her first experience working in a museum as an undergrad, her change of plan from becoming an art educator to undertaking museum studies after graduating, and her fateful acceptance of a position as a museum guide at […]
When Paul started his journey with the United States Peace Corps, in 2000, he had no inkling how much he would enjoy the work involved in being a Peace Corps Volunteer and the lifestyle he would enjoy for over a decade and a half. Twenty years after his first tour in El Salvador, we discuss […]
Officer Elise Bouthillier arrived at WHUS studios with her new partner ‘Kes.’ During our conversation, she told me how she became a State Environmental Conservation Police Officer, what her job entails, how she goes about doing it, and some of the good stuff and bad stuff. Below are some photos she provided to me after […]
As the Volunteer Coordinator of Joshua’s Tract Conservation and Historic Trust since the late 90s, Andy Woodcock has a wealth of information to share about this local organization whose conservation and preservation efforts are visible throughout the northeastern part of Connecticut. My conversation with Andy covered a little bit of the history of the organization, […]
Mike Chambers has worked on many major Hollywood motion pictures in his career: Die Hard, True Lies, Strange Days, Inception, Babe Pig in the City, I am Legend, and the upcoming Tenet and Greyhound to name a few. Chambers is also serving his fifth term as Chair of the Visual Effects Society, an organization for […]
Windham CT area artist Annie Wandell and I discuss her work as a painter, how she learned to paint, the different phases she’s been through, and the various types of work she has produced. We examine the process by which she comes up with ideas as well as techniques to render them on canvas, wood […]
My conversation with Patrice Kaneda focuses on her book about her family and the great family of French Canadians who came to the new world via Canada and then populated towns throughout the northeast of the United States, creating vibrant Little Canadas. Arising from short stories, essays, and tableaux written up by the author for […]
This is a brief history of how The Process came to be. Each episode features a new guest and we talk about their work or their organization’s work and accomplishments and how they got to where they are and do what they do. Broadly speaking, we focus on the process of getting things done. Hosted […]