Listen In Quarantine with Steve Bodow

Marina Gorbis Thinks Ahead. Like, That’s Literally Her Job.

Season 2 Episode 5

August 26, 2020

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Steve Bodow

Reboot Board Chair

Steve Bodow is a 14-time Emmy-winning writer and producer, having served as EP and showrunner of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, following 13 years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as an EP, head writer and staff writer. Bodow also co-edited and co-wrote the Daily Show’s three best-selling books, America: The Book; Earth: The Book; and The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. The Trump Twitter Library also became a live installation event, touring the US and winning a Cannes Lions Grand Prix. 

In 2021, Bodow created and coordinated “Climate Night,” a one-night event where seven major American late-night shows devoted their airtime to climate issues, reaching more than 20 million viewers.

Bodow is a founding member and a past artistic director of Elevator Repair Service,[1] the New York theater group best known for Gatz, its full-text adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which played sold-out runs at NYC’s Public Theater, London’s Old Vic, and in more than 25 other cities globally.

In addition to Reboot, he sits on the boards of ERS and The Onion‘s parent company, Global Tetrahedron.



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Marina Gorbis

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future

Marina Gorbis is Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a 50-year old non-profit research and consulting organization based in Silicon Valley. She has brought a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, philanthropy, and civic society. Marina’s current research focuses on transformations in the world of work and new forms of value creation. She launched the Workable Futures Initiative at IFTF with the aim of developing a deeper understanding of new work patterns and to prototype a generation of Positive Platforms for work. She has introduced the concept of Universal Basic Assets (UBA) as a framework for thinking about different types of assets and the role they play in economic security. The UBA framework also highlights at a variety of approaches and tools we can use to achieve wider asset distribution and greater equity.