Sunday Morning Magazine With Rodney Lear

Laura Linn Knight, Parenting Expert and Former Elementary School Teacher. Laura Linn Knight, specializes in helping parents, teachers and children create more calm at home and in the classroom. She is also a Certified Positive Discipline Educator, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and a mother of two.

• Sandra is a 24 year old DACA recipient residing in Cincinnati. She graduated from college with her Bachelors in Science (Fall 2019). She began immigration activism work during high school and continued through IJPC's Youth Educating Society (YES) program at the beginning of her college career. She focused on educating her community about current immigration policies. Sandra continues her work in various capacities bringing knowledge and a face to the issue by sharing her personal story.

• LAN CAO and HARLAN MARGARET VAN CAO, Authors, FAMILY IN SIX TONES: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter

• Samantha Searls is a program manager at the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC). At IJPC, Samantha's education and advocacy work focuses on breaking down the unjust systems of human trafficking and immigration.

Owning Your Immigrant Identity Guest: Anila Sajja, Bravo’s, Married to Medicine. Born and raised in Savannah, GA with a proud Indian-American heritage, Anila is a renaissance woman in every sense of the word. She graduated from Mercer University with a degree in Computer Information Systems, and took the corporate world by storm in the cosmetic and fashion industry with a global executive position. As she advanced in her career, Anila decided to go after her true passion for fashion, and with her creative eye she blossomed it into a successful career as a fashion blogger and social media influencer. She collaborates with fashion and beauty brands, while lending her expertise to develop innovative content. Anila met her husband Dr. Kiran Sajja who is a successful oculofacial plastic surgeon. She and her husband have been married for 8 years and share two energetic and rambunctious children together, five-year-old Aryana and three-year-old Avir. Anila lives a fabulous life working hard and playing harder. Dur

Immigrations (Part One of our Two Part Series). Guest #1--Arturo, First Generation Immigrant. Arturo was born and raised in Venezuela. He immigrated to American with his family nearly 20 years ago for an employment opportunity. Guest #2--• Summi, Second Generation of an Immigrant Family. Summi was born in the United States to immigrant parents. She recurrently resides in Ohio.

Immigrations (Part One of our Two Part Series). Guest # 1--• Mark Curnutte is a visiting instructor of Social Justice Studies and Journalism at Miami University, Oxford, his alma mater. He reported for the Cincinnati Enquirer for 25 years, earning Top Reporter Ohio awards three times and working as part of the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Seven Days of Heroin" project in 2017. Guest #2--• Jeff Suess, History Reporter, Cincinnati Enquirer. Jeff Suess is the author of Lost Cincinnati, Hidden History of Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Then and Now. He is the librarian of the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he keeps the newspaper archive and writes about Cincinnati history.

Laura Rhodes-Levin, Founder of The Missing Peace Center for Anxiety. It’s time to dust off our suitcases as travel starts becoming available again this summer. Statistics show that more than two-thirds of Americans plan to take a vacation this summer. While many people may not have experienced travel anxiety in the past, traveling post-pandemic is making anxiety a bigger issue than ever before.

Coping with the pandemic has not been easy for any of us—most especially for our children. This morning we discuss the social and emotional impact of the pandemic on our youth with our expert panel including: Cymbria Hess, Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist; Eric is from Butler Behavioral Health’s MRSS program; Barbara works at Talbert House Prevention Services

Robin Ha grew up drawing comics and dreamed of a career as an artist. Today, her work has appeared on the pages of Marvel Comics. She speaks with us on-air to talk about her debut Young Adult graphic novel, Almost American Girl.

Coretta Scott King honor-winning author, Varian Johnson discusses his charming graphic novel, Twin. He also spoke about his much anticipated middle school novel, playing the Cards You’re Dealt.

Meg Medina winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal for Merci Suárez Changes Gears. Medina talks about diversity in books and her much anticipated follow-up novel in the Merci series, Merci Suárez Can’t Dance.

Authors Frank Murphy and Barbara Dan, who are both educators, join Sunday Morning Magazine to discuss their new book, A Teacher Like You. Their picture book celebrates teachers, who in the wake of this global pandemic, have faced unbelievable challenges to educate their students.

Gordon C. James is the illustrator of the New York Times Bestselling picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (by Derrick Barnes), which received a Caldecott Honor, Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor as well as the prestigious Kirkus prize. He joins us to discuss his multi-award winning picture I Am Every Good Thing.

While on-air our guest discussed a unique partnership between West Side Brewing and CABVI. West Side Brewing recently created a signature beer with proceeds from the sale of this special craft benefitting CABVI.

The Salvation Army is gearing up for their 2021 Summer of Hope. The Campaign will allow The Salvation Army to keep providing meals, programs and hope for struggling children and families in the wake of COVID-19. Many in our community are just one missed rent, utility, car loan, or medical bill payment away from slipping over the line into homelessness and despair.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Aduhelm—the first new medication for Alzheimer’s disease nearly two decades. Annemarie joined Sunday Morning Magazine to discuss the impact the drug will have on Alzheimer’s patients.

Christina Hillsberg, Author, License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids. As a guest on the show, Christina Hillsberg explained she was a single, successful CIA analyst with a burgeoning career in espionage when she met fellow spy, Ryan, a hotshot field operative who turned her world upside down. They fell in love, married, and soon they were raising three children from his first marriage, and later, two more of their own. It wasn’t long after they married that she realized the secret to Ryan’s parenting success: he was using his CIA training and field experience in his day-to-day child-rearing.

Cincinnati Public Schools will be accepting registration for their Early Childhood Education program June 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021. (513) 363-0240.

Join us for CABVI’s 2021 Virtual Yes You Can 5K Walk/Run! Saturday, June 12th & Sunday, June 13th. Run your own race at your own pace from any location, whether it’s a treadmill or a neighborhood street.