The UW Live show provides a link between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its alumni base, though of course anyone can follow along. In that regard, it also embodies the "Wisconsin idea" that the university should benefit everyone in the state, which is taken more seriously on campus than I expected when I first arrived.
The show was explained to me as a partial substitute for in-person road shows in Chicago and Florida and other places with lots of alumni. The livestream costs less than the road shows and reaches more alums. In this case, we had more than 450 steady viewers of the initial livestream.
Several of my colleagues appear in earlier episodes, including Ananth Seshadri, Kim Ruhl, and Lydia Cox. The host, Mike Knetter, is an economist who used to be the boss of the alumni association and the foundation.
Two of the sources I found most useful in preparing are this AEI piece on the fiscal costs of immigration and this Pew report on the number of undocumented immigrants.
Thanks to those who have pressed me over the years to do more public engagement.
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