CBC Radio Interview: What's the story behind your name?
I spoke about names and identity on the January 26 episode of BC Today with Michelle Eliot - give it a listen! The segment on names...
"Code Switch" Podcast - 'Where We Come From': By Any Other Name
This Nigerian immigrant chose a new name not because she was ashamed of her given name but because she was "trying to protect it from...
Radio Interviews: Moment of Truth on ELMNT FM with David Moses and Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke
Following our piece for The Conversation on "How to get someone’s name right if it’s unfamiliar to you," we were invited to several radio...
What Scots Call Their Snowplows
We spend a lot of time talking about how important it is to take people's names seriously. Here's a fun look at creative names for...
How We Pronounce Student Names, and Why it Matters
What do you do when you have to pronounce an unfamiliar name? Jennifer Gonzalez and Gerardo Ochoa tell us why it's better to be a...
Changing Your Name
It's not only immigrants who change their names and they don't always do it to assimilate. Find out more in my interview with Jennifer...
Given Names
What leads musicians and authors to disguise their real names? Check out a four-part podcast from Australia on first names, last names,...
Why you'll find people named Lenin, Stalin and Krushchev on the roads of Kerala, India
Many people seek fame. But what happens when you share the name of a famous person with a bad reputation? https://www.pri.org/stories/201...
At 11, I left Korea with one name. I arrived in Canada with another
What is lost and what is gained when immigrants take on additional names? And how do they decide which new names to use?...
They Call Me George
“They Call Me George”. This short radio program discusses the lives and work of black men who worked as Pullman porters providing luxury...