Deepa Fernandes

Oct 15, 2024 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Grace Griffin |Kalyani Saxena

When French singer Yseult’s voice — singing “My Way” by Frank Sinatra — rang out over the Stade de France at this summer’s Olympics closing ceremony, it captured the hearts of millions worldwide. Now, she has a new album out called “Mental.” Released Sept. 20, the album includes her first songs in English, along with some of the haunting melodies and raw emotion that permeated her Olympics performance.

Aug 7, 2024 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Ashley Locke

Mindi Cherry is still processing the fire that destroyed her family’s home and the school she taught at for 14 years. “It all feels like a dream or a nightmare that you're going to wake up from,” she says. “We've had a lot of fires on Maui recently and just the smell. It triggers all of the visions of that night…like we escaped with embers and ash flying all around us. So I feel like it's never going to be normal again. But we're powering through everything.

Jul 23, 2024 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Ashley Locke

The pandemic unleashed a wave of discontent in the workplace. Employee engagement in the U.S. has sunk to an 11-year low, with a growing number of people feeling uninspired, stressed, and in some cases stuck, according to a recent Gallup survey. Author and New York University psychologist Tessa West is challenging workers to question what about their jobs is making them unhappy.

Jun 7, 2024 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Gabrielle Healy

When I walked into artist Samia Halaby’s Manhattan studio, I was immediately greeted by art. Maybe that seems obvious, but I hadn’t been to a studio like hers — or met an artist like her — before. Halaby, 87, is an abstract painter, sculptor and activist. Her paintings are full of life, though not always easy to decipher on the first view. And as a Palestinian, she’s an outspoken activist and critic of Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.

May 14, 2024 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Ashley Locke

Like many working parents, Hawaii Democratic State House Rep. Jeanné Kapela is struggling to afford child care as a new mom to a baby girl. “If I was to put her in infant care, it would cost me $3,000 a month. That’s more than my paycheck,” Kapela says. “So it's really just not possible. And my only option is just to bring her to my committee meetings, to my committee hearings.”Pennsylvania State Sen. Amanda Cappalletti with her daughter.