WHAT WE’LL CHANGE is a podcast created by teenage editors of Harbingers’ Magazine for their peers. It allows us, the youth, to discuss how we intend to shape the future.

In each episode, the magazine’s writers and editors, leading figures in their respective fields, and young people with a passion for change and activism explore how to challenge the status quo.

Anti-semitism, Dreamers, and Roe vs Wade: Alia Saphier interviews New Jersey’s Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes

Harbingers’ publisher Alia Saphier is turning 18 this year, but sadly, not before November 5. So she won’t be able to vote this Election Day. But if she could, three of her top voting issues are anti-semitism, immigration, and reproductive rights in the US.

To gain more insights on the topics, Alia interviews Mayor Michael Wildes of Englewood, New Jersey, where she goes to school.

Wildes, who has served as Englewood’s mayor during separate terms since 2004, is also a lawyer, professor and author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door. The book is about his time as an immigration attorney and defending his clients’ rights, some of whom are celebrities.

His father, Leon Wildes, was also an immigration attorney who attracted worldwide recognition in 1972 for successfully defending John Lennon and Yoko Ono from a deportation attempt by the US government.