Episodes

  • Inside UVA with UVA Alum Chris Long
    Jun 24 2024
    UVA Alum Chris Long was a star player on the UVA football team, earning all American honors and serving as captain. He went on to the NFL, where he played for 11 years on three teams, and won back to back Super Bowl championships for two different teams. Chris was recognized in 2018 as a Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and his jersey number 91 has retired from the Virginia Cavaliers football program. Since his retirement from the NFL, Chris has led a busy life as a father, husband, media analyst, philanthropist and podcast host. Through the Chris Long Foundation, he has advanced initiatives to provide clean drinking water, and promote education, equity and access for hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Chris is also the host of the Green Light podcast, where he shares insightful NFL analysis and engages in entertaining and informative conversations with a wide range of guests.
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    52 mins
  • Inside UVA with the Student Member of UVA's Board of Visitors, Lillian Rojas
    May 30 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Lillian Rojas, the now-graduated Student Member of UVA's Board of Visitors. Lillian recently received her BA in Public Policy at the Batten School, served for 3 years on the Student Council, and mentored students in the Latino Peer Mentor Program. In this episode, they discuss her path to UVA, balancing leadership and schoolwork, and the responsibility that come with representing students on the BOV.

    This episode of Inside UVA was originally recorded on the week of April 29th, 2024.

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    26 mins
  • Inside UVA with Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer, Kenyon Bonner
    May 2 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Kenyon Bonner, UVA's Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer. Bonner joined UVA this January after nearly two decades in Student Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, including most recently as the Vice Provost for Student Affairs. They discuss his path to Student Affairs, the lessons he's learned in working closely with students over the decades, and his mission to help students of all backgrounds find a sense of belonging at the University. Plus, his love for music production and whether he'll bring "Riding in Cars with Kenyon" over to UVA.

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    32 mins
  • Inside UVA with Law School Dean Risa Goluboff
    Apr 4 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Dean Risa Goluboff, the twelfth and first female Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. Dean Goluboff is a renowned legal historian whose scholarship focuses on the historical development of American constitutional and civil rights law; she's been teaching at UVA for more than twenty years, with additional faculty appointments at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, the Department of History and the Miller Center for Public Affairs. She's a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Law Institute, and chair of the advisory board for UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy. In this episode, they discuss Dean Goluboff's journey to UVA and the remarkable changes to the Law School under her tenure. They also discuss her favorite parts of being Dean and what lies ahead after she steps down at the end of the semester.

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    27 mins
  • Inside UVA with the CEO of UVA's Medical Center, Dr. Wendy Horton
    Mar 28 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Dr. Wendy Horton, the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Virginia Medical Center. Dr. Horton stewarded UVA's response to the coronavirus pandemic, helped craft the Health System's 10-year Strategic Plan, and has been named to Modern Healthcare's list of top 25 women leaders in health care. In this episode, they discuss the difficult work of coordinating the University's response to a worldwide pandemic, the day-to-day of running an entire medical center, and the challenges that lie ahead for health care broadly.

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    22 mins
  • Inside UVA with Competitive Swimmer Alexandra Walsh
    Mar 19 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Alexandra Walsh, a UVA swimmer who has broken NCAA, American, and US Open records; she also won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 200m individual medley. They discuss Alex's upbringing, her daily routine on the UVA swimming team, and what's next in her career: from the NCAA Swimming Championship to professional athletics and beyond.

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    27 mins
  • Inside UVA with the UVA HR's Director of Talent Management, Carolyn Cullen
    Mar 8 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Carolyn Cullen, UVA HR's Director of Talent Management. She oversees workforce and succession planning, professional development, and career navigation--and she also leads the UVA Cornerstone Program, a leadership development program that brings together employees from UVA's many departments to build relationships, develop careers, and solve complex problems across the University system.

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    22 mins
  • Inside UVA with Photographer and Commonwealth Professor of Art, William Wylie
    Jan 25 2024

    This week, President Ryan sits down with Professor William Wylie, an internationally-renowned photographer whose work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and more. They discuss his early passion for rock climbing, his path through academia, and the unique nature of photography as an art form--especially Professor Wylie's philosophy of on "making" a photograph rather than taking it.

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    31 mins