Cris Beam appears in the following:
The Brian Lehrer Show: NYT's Michelle Goldberg, Former NJ Gov Jim Florio, Slate's Aymann Ismail and Writer Cris Beam
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Watch a live broadcast featuring New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, former New Jersey governor Jim Florio, Slate video producer Aymann Ismail and teacher/writer Cris Beam.
The Need For and Limits of Empathy
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Compassion in marketing, criminal justice, classrooms, and personal life.
Books That Changed Minds About Family
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
In our ongoing series on "books that changed your mind", authors Andrew Solomon and Cris Beam talk about the approaches to parenting and kinship in their popular books.
The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Cris Beam talks about her experience as a foster mother, and describes what it’s like for children growing up in the foster care system—the back-and-forth with agencies, the shuffling between private homes and group homes, the emotionally charged tug of prospective adoptive parents, the pull of biological parents, and aging out of the system. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care draws on Beam’s experience and traces the firsthand stories of kids and parents.