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Guests: Alayna Ruiz and Sierra Hood
Episode Description: In the final installment of the poll workers series, the Just Ask crew sought insights about Weber County poll workers' takeaways, successes, and actions for emphasizing the youth vote.

Guests: Alayna Ruiz and Sierra Hood
Episode Description: In this second part to Just Ask's poll worker series, Weber County poll workers Alayna Ruiz and Sierra Hood discuss the measures in place to protect election integrity, including combatting electioneering, securing identity verification, and motivating first-time voters.

Guest: Robert Conner
Episode Description: In this episode, leading LGBTQ+ activist and media relations expert Robert Conner shares his insights on the challenges queer youth face while seeking community and how individuals may be supported in the wake of increasingly restrictive collegiate policies.

Guests: Alayna Ruiz and Sierra Hood
Episode Description: In this pilot to the Just Ask Podcast’s second season, host Lilly Nunley interviews poll workers Alayna Ruiz and Sierra Hood to discuss how to serve the democratic process. 

Guest: Brad Mortensen
Episode Description: In today's episode, we discuss how the new Utah DEI bills will impact state higher education. President Mortensen is the president of 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, and he shed light on some of the impacts that this year's legislative actions will have on Weber's campus's efforts and what the future may have in store.

Guest: Dr. Deborah Sigman
Episode Description: In this episode, we sit with Women's Work Utah board member Dr. Deborah Sigman. Deborah's experience and expertise illuminate the often confusing and rarely understood Utah caucus system. We discuss how to get involved, and perhaps more importantly, we must be involved. 

Guests: Dr. A. Jackson Harris
Episode Description: On today's show, we meet with Dr. A Jackson Harris and try to uncover the sometimes lost skill of listening and overcoming differences. As a researcher and the director of the Civic Learning Lab at the Univerity of Alabama's Cross Roads Civic Engagement Center, Dr. Harris has a robust understanding of the need and means to build connections in a time of polarization where it may seem impossible.

Guests: Dr. Leah Murray
Episode Description: We discuss the Electoral College in this episode, and Dr. Leah Murray provides a sound defense. Dr. Murray is the director of the Walker Institute of Politics and Public Service and a Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor. This episode builds off Dr. Murray's work published in the Constitutional Conversations: The Electoral College is Still an Important Constitutional Component of this Republic.

Guests: Moms of the Pod
Episode Description: In this special edition, Akir and Lilly discuss the crisis of intimate partner violence and possible interventions. Akir's mom, Leslie Forbush, is a psychiatric certified nurse practitioner who has researched and worked in IPV prevention throughout her career. Lilly's mom, Jamie Nunnley, has nearly a decade of on-the-ground work with victims of IPV and implementing programs to help victims.

Guests: Greg Skordas
Episode Description: For the third episode of the Just Ask Podcast, hosts Akir Rowe and Lillyanna Nunley discuss public perceptions of criminal defense, rebuilding confidence in law, the difficulties of regulating pornography, and more with Greg Skordas, a criminal defense lawyer and former candidate for Utah Attorney General.

Guests: Hanna Olsen
Episode Description: For the second episode, we set out to understand the Gen Z electorate and the challenges they face. Our guest, Hannah Olsen, is a catalyst engaging the new generation through her work with IGNITE National.

Guests: Dr. Jennifer Gnagey
Episode Description: In the inaugural episode of the Just Ask podcast, Akir Rowe and Lilly Nunley discuss labor unions, strikes, solidarities, monopolies, monopsonies and more with economics professor Dr. Jennifer Gnagey.