The Catbird Seat

Jay sits down with Frank Brown, Westminster’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Director of Community Engagement. A 2004 alumnus, Frank reflects on his journey back to his alma mater and examines the realities of educating children in a digital age shaped by AI and constant media. Together, they discuss the evolution of the school, the critical difference between student "formation" and "performance," and what it takes to foster genuine psychological safety and belonging across 87 zip codes.

Jay sits down with the Boissoneault sisters to get a first hand account of their time in the Lower School at Love Hall. 

Jay and Eliza's complete conversation recorded at Faculty Forum from just before the start of school. 

Jay sits down with  Eliza Griswold, Director of Princeton University’s Program in Journalism. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other national publications, Eliza is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (2019) as well as The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (2010) and Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church (2024). Eliza is also a critically acclaimed poet with two book-length collections to her name, Wideawake Field (2007) and If Men, Then (2020). In 2015, she received a PEN Award for I Am the Beggar of the World, an anthology of Afghan women’s folk poems that Eliza translated from Pashto for an English-language readership.