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FGCU President Mike Martin's North Korea Connection

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,
Mike Kiniry, Rachel Iacovone
Published March 26, 2018 at 1:55 PM EDT
FGCU President Dr. Mike Martin
FGCU President Dr. Mike Martin

When President George W. Bush asked New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to travel North Korea on a diplomatic mission he took a group of experts with him. One person who joined that delegation was Florida Gulf Coast University President Mike Martin, who was the education expert. We’ll sit down with President Martin to learn more about his time in North Korea, and what insights he brought back with him. We’ll also get an update on how the university fared during the 2018 Florida Legislative Session.

Plus, we’re joined by Dr. H. Shelton Weeks, Department Chair of Economics & Finance at FGCU, to discuss efforts to bolster financial literacy among students.

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Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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Mike Kiniry
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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Rachel Iacovone
RachelIacovoneis a reporter and associate producer ofGulf Coast LiveforWGCU News. Rachel came toWGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.
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