Going Deep with Katie Porter on Fairness

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Our 5-part "Shook By A Book" series continues today with US Congresswoman Katie Porter. (You might have seen her on TV; she's famous for pulling out whiteboards in hearings to make things simple and visual for the public.) She grew up a 4H kid in Iowa who ended up at boarding school in Massachusetts. In her first month on campus, she was assigned F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby which has helped frame her thinking ever since. Katie's take on class, insecurity and fairness is well worth a listen.

Special thanks to The Teagle Foundation for their generous support of this series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:05.8	I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about reading as a tool to help us
0:10.2	understand lives very unlike our own. My guest today is US Congresswoman
0:15.8	Katie Porter. You may have seen her in action during congressional hearings. She
0:19.8	has this famous Whiteboard of Justice, and she is totally
0:23.7	unafraid to grill CEOs and government officials
0:26.7	over issues like price gouging, pay disparity, and COVID-19
0:31.2	relief. She's here today to talk about a transformational text
0:35.0	she was assigned in high school,
0:37.0	and you probably were too,
0:39.0	the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
0:41.0	It's such an interesting mash-up of class and privilege and it
0:45.9	struck her a 4-age kid from Iowa in surprising ways. So join me for Kelly
0:51.9	Corrigan Wonders and my conversation with Congresswoman Katie Porter. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. Today's
1:09.9	episode is the third in our Shook by a book series where I'm talking with
1:14.9	great American thinkers about a transformational text, something they were
1:19.2	assigned to read which had a life-changing impact. My conversation partner today is
1:24.9	Congresswoman and law professor Katie Porter, who represents Orange County,
1:29.7	California, and is known for her tough questioning, speaking truth to power, and her ever-present
1:35.4	whiteboard, which she uses to debunk propaganda and push Congress toward real concrete solutions.
1:42.6	She's here today, though, to talk with me
1:44.8	about a very special book which shook her to her core,
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