Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg joined The Atlantic in 2011 to launch its video channel and, in 2013, create its in-house video production department. She leads the development and production of original documentaries, interviews, and other video content for The Atlantic. Previously, she worked as a producer at Al Gore’s Current TV and as a content strategist and documentary producer in San Francisco. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University.
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Samantha Power on Diplomacy, Motherhood, and the 24-7 Job 'of a Lifetime'
"I think women should never lose the instinct to actually listen, but we need to become as unflappable as we can become."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Challenges of Writing Marvel's Black Panther
The author discusses his vision for T’Challa and the importance of black superheroes.
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The Big-Data Quest to Treat Every Disease
Inside Obama's new initiative to personalize health care
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Women in Combat, in Their Own Words
Long before the Pentagon's announcement, women were already embedded in the front lines of Afghanistan.
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What's the Best Tool We Have to Stop Environmental Disaster?
"We live on a very dynamic planet, and Mother Nature will do what she wants."
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What Is the Biggest Misconception About Racism?
"Until we have a conversation about what privilege means, we'll never understand what racism means."
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How Will Education Be Different in 100 Years?
Professors, engineers, and journalists look ahead to the next century.
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Can Single People Be Happy?
We asked experts.
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How Does Creativity Help Solve Problems?
"If we aren't making leaps of the imagination, then all of our new ideas are just old ideas repackaged."
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What Is the Biggest Environmental Problem People Don't Know About?
From acidification of the ocean to dwindling fresh water, experts weigh in on what the public should know.
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Has the U.S. Reached a Tipping Point on Police Violence?
"Police must stop thinking about crime reduction as self-justifying. It's not."
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What Can People Do to Get Better at Learning?
"Build the discipline of curiosity."
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A Family Weathers a Life Sentence
Odell Newton was 16 when he killed a cab driver. Four decades later, his family is still hoping for his release.
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Mass Incarceration, Visualized
In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men.
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Is Our Definition of Happiness Changing?
"There's been a rise in materialistic sorts of values."
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Angola for Life
Rehabilitation and reform in America's largest maximum security prison
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Does the Internet Threaten Creativity or Nurture It?
"The Internet is the most important storytelling invention since the concept of language."
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What Will Our Planet Look Like in 100 Years?
Scientist, activists, and filmmakers envision the future of life on Earth.
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What Can We Do to Be Happier?
"Try to assume the best about other people."
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The Importance of Being Naked
Why aren't more people doing basic skin-cancer screening?
