The Boston College Magazine Podcast
The Boston College Magazine Podcast
Latest Episodes
Shan Rizwan '21 on how asking strangers one question made him a social media star.
Back in the summer of 2018, Shan Rizwan '21 was an incoming sophomore at BC when he began posting vlogs about his life on YouTube. Seven years later, he's become a social media sensation with nearly 3 million followers across his various platfo...
Tom Marchitelli '04 on his path from hedge fund accountant to celebrity suit designer
Tom Marchitelli '04 is the founder of Gentleman's Playbook, his custom menswear company that has created custom suits for 500 professional athletes across the NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA. Marchitelli started Gentleman's Playbook as an Instagram acco...
Talking retirement policy and strategy with the leading expert and (recently retired) BC Professor Alicia Munnell
Retirement planning and policy can be dizzying. Social Security, 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, Traditional IRAs, arcane IRS rules and regulations…it gets a little bewildering. Alicia Munnell, founder of BC’s Center for Retirement Research—and recently re...
BC professor Ana M. Martínez-Alemán reflects on 20 years studying the effects of social media.
Ana M. Martínez-Alemán, associate dean for faculty & academic affairs and professor at BC’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development, is widely recognized as one of the first researchers to study the effects of social media on colleg...