The Purple Zone
de Alexis Morgan
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Not red. Not blue. Just curious.
For people who are tired of politics but still care about their community. Pull up a chair. This is where policy meets people, with a whole lot of Idaho heart.
Through stories and real conversations, The Purple Zone explores how decisions about education, healthcare, (other policy topics) and our communities shape everyday life, and what it means to show up for each other. It's less about hot takes and more about understanding. Rooted in Idaho, with conversations that reach far beyond it.
Hosted by Alexis Morgan, a PhD candidate in public policy, longtime advocate, mom, and civic storyteller.
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- Before the Crisis: Why Social Media Isn't the Biggest Problem for Teens · 1 h 17 min · Épisode 75Send us Fan Mail What if helping the young people in your life had nothing to do with being an expert? Dr. Megan Smith, a professor at Boise State University and executive…
- Soft Skills Are the Hard Skills We Need Right Now in Leaders & Idahoans · 38 min · Épisode 74Send us Fan Mail Alexis Morgan tells the story of The Civility Project. In 2019, after an opinion piece hurt the Nez Perce Tribe, three leaders of the Lewiston Tribune set out to…
- AI, Data Centers, Nuclear & Water: Turning Issues into Legislation with Senator Kevin Cook · 1 h 6 min · Épisode 73Send us Fan Mail What does it take to turn an issue into legislation? Time? Relationships? Listening? The AI in Education workgroup is highlighted in turning an issue into public…
- The Dignity Index: A Deep Dive on The Ranch Podcast (Dual Release) · 1 h 15 min · Épisode 72Send us Fan Mail Have you noticed that division in the United States feels higher than ever? What if conflict isn't the cause of our division, but rather the normalization of…
- Leading with Curiosity Over Contempt: Transparency vs. Targeting in the Ballot Measure process · 28 min · Épisode 71Send us Fan Mail Have you thought about the difference between transparency and targeting in our election process? Do you know what it means to choose curiosity instead of…
- An Idaho Lawmaker Walks Into a Book Club: A Conversation on Learning with Britt Raybould · 1 h 9 min · Épisode 70Send us Fan Mail This episode marks an exciting first for The Purple Zone: a brand-new experiment in bringing people together around ideas, not just single books. Alexis is…
- The Naming of The Purple Zone: What It Really Means · 27 min · Épisode 69Send us Fan Mail It's a solo episode this week and Alexis is pulling back the curtain. Most people hear "The Purple Zone" and think politics: red meets blue, somewhere in the…
- Idaho’s AI in Education Journey: Guardrails, Implementation, and the “Now What?” · 1 h 12 min · Épisode 68Send us Fan Mail Alexis Morgan welcomes Will Goodman, Director of People and Organizational Services for Boise School District, to unpack the Idaho journey of AI in Education…
- My Date with Dignity · 24 min · Épisode 67Send us Fan Mail In this opening episode of the season, I’m stepping in solo to share a quick recap of my summer with my kids as they head into a new chapter: college town life…
- Community Schools, Shared Power: Mountain Home's “One Town, One Team” · 44 min · Épisode 66Send us Fan Mail In this season opener, Alexis Morgan sits down with guest Stehvn Tesar, principal at Bennett High School, to explore how the community school strategy at Bennett…
- Rethinking Tech in the Classroom with Joey Palmer · 45 min · Épisode 65Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alexis sits down with Joey Palmer, a school administrator in the Treasure Valley (larger Boise area in Idaho), who’s taking a different approach…
- 1 in 5 Rural Idaho Students Rely on IDLA: And It Just Lost Half Its Funding · 50 min · Épisode 64Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alexis sat down with Idaho Digital Learning Alliance (IDLA) Superintendent Dr. Jeff Simmons to unpack what really happened with HB 940 and…
- Anti-Teacher Union Bill Breakdown (HB 516) & The System Impact · 39 min · Épisode 63Send us Fan Mail This episode breaks down a new Idaho law impacting teachers unions, but more importantly, what it reveals about how policy actually works in practice. This isn’t…
- The Stories that Shaped Us and Built our Communities · 23 min · Épisode 63Send us Fan Mail Lately I’ve been asking myself a question. Have we forgotten the stories that built the communities we live in today… or were many of us never really taught them…
- Idaho Lawmaking 101: The Budget, Medicaid, and a Rare Senate Rejection · 20 min · Épisode 62Send us Fan Mail Budgets aren’t flashy and they’re usually not the most fun thing to talk about. But when the Idaho Senate rejected the state’s largest budget bill the $5.7…
- All about Charter Schools and the Missing Innovation Pipeline with Duncan Robb · 60 min · Épisode 61Send us Fan Mail Idaho has had charter schools for nearly three decades. They were created to innovate, and the question today is: are they doing that? In this episode, I’m…
- Idaho’s Doctor Shortage, WWAMI, & the $1 Billion Rural Health Grant with Rep. Dustin Manwaring · 50 min · Épisode 60Send us Fan Mail Idaho ranks 50th in physicians per capita and 44th in primary care access. So what’s the real plan to fix it? In this episode, I sit down with Representative…
- Federalism, Elections, and the Constitution: Who Actually Has the Power? · 26 min · Épisode 59Send us Fan Mail Who actually has the power over elections in the United States — the federal government, the states, or the president? Alexis takes you go back to the…
- The Real Cost of Underfunded Special Education · 38 min · Épisode 58Send us Fan Mail When special education isn’t fully funded, the cost doesn’t disappear...it gets absorbed by families, classrooms, and educators. In this solo episode of The…
- Efficiency Meets Reality: Hard Math, Hard Choices 2026 Legislative Session · 21 min · Épisode 57Send us Fan Mail The math ain’t mathing...and that’s not about blame, it’s about reality. Yes this podcast has the words BUDGET, LEGISLATURE, DOGE, and GOVERNANCE...but I promise…
