# S2E16: Roberta Katz, Gen Z Explained and more Shrek Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339/s2e16-roberta-katz-gen-z-explained-and-more-shrek Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339/s2e16-roberta-katz-gen-z-explained-and-more-shrek.md Podcast: [Lizness School](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339) Published: 2026-07-09T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://mgln.ai/e/211/rss.art19.com/episodes/5a0e6377-515d-43c0-acb6-54a121c2f48f.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://mgln.ai/e/211/rss.art19.com/episodes/5a0e6377-515d-43c0-acb6-54a121c2f48f.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lizness-school-7066339/episodes/s2e16-roberta-katz-gen-z-explained-and-more-shrek Duration seconds: 2122 ## Resource Today's guest is Roberta Katz, Liz's faculty advisor at Stanford last year. Roberta is so fun to talk to. She's a senior research scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and a PhD Anthropologist. She is the author of the book Gen Z, Explained , a project she describes to Liz as a "second glass of wine idea." Roberta also holds as a law degree, and was previously the General Counsel of McCaw Cellular Corporation (now AT&T Wireless) and then of Netscape Corporation. From 2004 to 2017, she served under Stanford University Presidents John Hennessy and Marc Tessier-Lavigne as the Associate Vice president for Strategic Planning at Stanford. Sponsor: Welcome to our new sponsor  Stanford Federal Credit Union .  To use their $625 New Member offer, go to  sfcu.org/lizness HOMEWORK:  For more on Roberta Katz and her research on Gen Z, here are links to her book and a couple of podcast interviews: Book: GenZ Explained - The Art of Living in a Digital Age by Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw and Linda Woodhead Podcast Interview: 4 Quarter Lives  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8r7TNxyxw4 The Minor Consult from Stanford Medicine Intergenerational anthropological field work recommended by Leah!  Talk to a Gen Z or Millennial in your life, ask them what’s going on and how they feel about it. Tell them about the upheavals that you remember from growing up and how you felt and how you processed. Find an activity that occurs on a semi-regular basis that you can join, like a book club or art class or whatever, that puts you around folks of all ages.  If you are new to Lizness School , we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz's year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chin… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lizness-school-7066339/episodes/s2e16-roberta-katz-gen-z-explained-and-more-shrek/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/lizness-school-7066339/s2e16-roberta-katz-gen-z-explained-and-more-shrek.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.