Episode 93 – Garrett Boorojian and Jeanne Sheehan Zaino discuss relationship building in a team environment.
Garrett and Dr. Zaino, who’s a Bloomberg News contributor, an Iona University political science and international studies professor, a book author, and a pollster, analyze the current state of our nation during these polarizing times where the federal government under both Trump Administrations have been sowing doubts in our free and fair democratic elections, undermining democratic norms, and dismantling democratic institutions. Dr. Zaino believes, and Garrett concurs, that the constructs of Congress and The White House need to be reimagined (redesigned) to prevent any future unconstitutional and authoritarian-style overreach originating from the Executive Branch.
Garrett and Dr. Zaino also speak about the political fallout of President Trump’s role on January 6th, 2021, the immigration policy during President Biden’s Administration, and the 2010 BP Oil spill during President Obama’s first term.
Garrett believes that the federal government under Trump hasn’t employed as many of the best and brightest compared to America’s academic, financial, and corporate institutions. He further adds that not every leader at the federal level, although previously accomplished in the private sector, are effective, qualified, and competent. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, and Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are cited as examples.
https://jeannesheehanzaino.net
https://ash.harvard.edu/people/jeanne-sheehan-zaino/
https://www.iona.edu/faculty/zaino-jeanne
“JEANNE SHEEHAN ZAINO, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Phone:
(914) 633-2252
Email:
jzaino@iona.edu
Degrees:
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- MA, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- MPA, Survey Research & Data Analysis, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut, Storrs (now Cornell University)
- BA, University Scholar, Political Science & Mass Communications, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Biography
Dr. Jeanne Sheehan Zaino is a professor of Political Science & International Studies at Iona University (NY, USA). A pollster by training, she is also political contributor with Bloomberg News, a Senior Democracy Fellow with the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress [CSPC], an affiliated faculty member with the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS), a member of the International Advisory Board for South Asia Research, and author of several books and articles, including her most recent book Sikander Hyat-Khan: Collected Papers of The Premier of United Punjab, 1928-1942 (Primus 2024) and the forthcoming America Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government, Post-January 6 (Palgrave MacMillian 2025). Along with four colleagues at Iona who form the Data Science working group she was recently awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Division of Undergraduate Education for a project entitled “Data Science for Future Leaders.”
More on Dr. Sheehan Zaino and her work can be found on www.jeannesheehanzaino.net.” her work can be found on www.jeannesheehanzaino.net.”