Nanci A. Smith

Kathryn interviews Author Nanci A. Smith.Do you want an amicable divorce? Do you think your spouse would want an amicable divorce? Are you willing to ask for a different type of divorce process and stand up to pressure from friends and family about how you should handle divorce in an adversarial way? If so, consider collaborative divorce, a relatively new process that is fully legal, radically supportive, and downright practical. You may not know anyone who has done this before, but the times are changing, and you can exert more control over your divorce process than you may realize. Family practice lawyer Nanci Smith, Esq. is experienced in the ins and outs of divorce from all sides and shares with us The Collaborative Divorce Process in 5 stages. She is the chair of the Collaborative Divorce section of the Vermont Bar Association.Kathryn also interviews Author, Professor Nolan Higdon PhD.A new poll found that a majority of Americans say misinformation spurs extremism and hate. Nolan Higdon, a national Project Censored judge, professor, media scholar, and author offers a unique take on this important topic. He reports that misinformation or fake news has been around forever. We need to figure out how to teach people to spot it and that necessitates media literacy education. He also explains how citizens should not empower others to determine the veracity of information for us, we need media literacy education to empower citizens to do it for themselves. That is the core belief of democracy. Higdon is a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon’s areas of concentration include digital culture, news media history, and critical media literacy. He has been featured in The NY Times, CNBC and the San Francisco Chronicle.