https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com Produced at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, GA, The Catbird Seat is an authentic, conversational window into campus life hosted by President Jay Rainey. This podcast series trades formal podium addresses for candid dialogue, warm interviews, and personal insights. Whether tuning in via audio or watching full video episodes, families and friends of Westminster get an unscripted look at the stories, vision, and people shaping the school community.

]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:30:32 -0300 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Education 1440 episodic Westminster ATL Westminster ATL No false https://feed.podbean.com/thecatbirdseat/feed.xml https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22572960/Catbird_Default_Logo.jpg https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com 144 144 The Boissoneault Sisters: The Catbird Seat Ep. 3 https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/the-boissoneault-sisters-the-catbird-seat-ep-3/ https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/the-boissoneault-sisters-the-catbird-seat-ep-3/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:30:32 -0300 thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/48587b28-bc31-30f7-bffe-850124c4bc14 Jay sits down with the Boissoneault sisters to get a first hand account of their time in the Lower School at Love Hall. 

]]> Jay sits down with the Boissoneault sisters to get a first hand account of their time in the Lower School at Love Hall. 

]]> Westminster ATL false No 849 4 full Extra Credit: Eliza Griswold: The Catbird Seat with Jay Rainey Ep. 2 https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/extra-credit-eliza-griswold-the-catbird-seat-with-jay-rainey-ep-2/ https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/extra-credit-eliza-griswold-the-catbird-seat-with-jay-rainey-ep-2/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:53:38 -0300 thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/99d73de8-98ff-3567-92d0-d9e2bc8cd278 Jay and Eliza's complete conversation recorded at Faculty Forum from just before the start of school. 

]]> Jay and Eliza's complete conversation recorded at Faculty Forum from just before the start of school. 

]]> Westminster ATL false No 3700 3 full Eliza Griswold: The Catbird Seat with Jay Rainey Ep. 2 https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/eliza-griswold-the-catbird-seat-with-jay-rainey/ https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/eliza-griswold-the-catbird-seat-with-jay-rainey/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:44:35 -0300 thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/9820a9bd-960b-3f18-ae00-c9a3ae343c7c Jay sits down with  Eliza Griswold, Director of Princeton University’s Program in Journalism. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other national publications, Eliza is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (2019) as well as The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (2010) and Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church (2024). Eliza is also a critically acclaimed poet with two book-length collections to her name, Wideawake Field (2007) and If Men, Then (2020). In 2015, she received a PEN Award for I Am the Beggar of the World, an anthology of Afghan women’s folk poems that Eliza translated from Pashto for an English-language readership.

]]> Jay sits down with  Eliza Griswold, Director of Princeton University’s Program in Journalism. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other national publications, Eliza is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (2019) as well as The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (2010) and Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church (2024). Eliza is also a critically acclaimed poet with two book-length collections to her name, Wideawake Field (2007) and If Men, Then (2020). In 2015, she received a PEN Award for I Am the Beggar of the World, an anthology of Afghan women’s folk poems that Eliza translated from Pashto for an English-language readership.

]]> Westminster ATL false No 1811 2 full The Catbird Seat with Jay Rainey Ep. 1 https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/the-catbird-seat-ep-1/ https://thecatbirdseat.podbean.com/e/the-catbird-seat-ep-1/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:18:47 -0300 marketingandcommunications7.podbean.com/2d6812c8-1293-33ba-a6c7-dd9ca60cee79 Westminster ATL false No 1331 1 full