In February 2025, the House of Hope opened the doors of ECHO Village, the first pallet shelter pilot community in Rhode Island. House of Hope is a non-profit corporation that originated in Rhode Island in 1989. They began in Warwick, with founders wh...
In this interview, Yifan Guo, a second-year graduate student studying and teaching mathematics at Brown University, shares her thoughts on California’s push to make their math curriculum more “equitable.” Recently, California ended a years-long...
Dr. Craig Spencer MD, MPH is an emergency medicine physician, epidemiologist and an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Spencer has over a decade of international field exp...
Lisa Son is a professor of cognitive psychology at Barnard College in New York City. Her research centers on metacognition, optimal learning, and memory. Born and raised in the United States, Son has maintained active ties to her ancestral South Kore...
Lisa Son is a professor of cognitive psychology at Barnard College in New York City. Her research centers on metacognition, optimal learning, and memory. Born and raised in the United States, Son has maintained active ties to her ancestral South Kore...
Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster, and opinion columnist who focuses on issues of race, public policy, and applied ethics. In June 2019, Hughes testified before the U.S. Congress on the subject of reparations. He received a B.A. in philosophy fro...
Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster, and opinion columnist who focuses on issues of race, public policy, and applied ethics. In June 2019, Hughes testified before the U.S. Congress on the subject of reparations. He received a B.A. in philosophy fro...
*This interview is the first installment of BPR’s series, The Last Line of Defense: How Expansive Should the US Social Safety Net Be? In it, we are spotlighting differing viewpoints on the efficacy of widening our social safety net, particularly in...
*This interview is the first installment of BPR’s series, The Last Line of Defense: How Expansive Should the US Social Safety Net Be? In it, we are spotlighting differing viewpoints on the efficacy of widening our social safety net, particularly in...
Dorothy A. Brown is professor of law at Emory University School of Law. She is a nationally recognized scholar in tax policy, race, and class and has published extensively on the racial implications of federal tax policy. She is highly sought for her...
Dorothy A. Brown is professor of law at Emory University School of Law. She is a nationally recognized scholar in tax policy, race, and class and has published extensively on the racial implications of federal tax policy. She is highly sought for her...
*This interview is the fourth installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Art Acevedo was sworn in as the Miami Chief of Police on April 5, 2021. He is also the President of the Major C...
*This interview is the fourth installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Art Acevedo was sworn in as the Miami Chief of Police on April 5, 2021. He is also the President of the Major C...
*This interview is the third installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Danielle Outlaw is the first Black female serving as the Police Commissioner for the Philadelphia Police Departm...
*This interview is the third installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Danielle Outlaw is the first Black female serving as the Police Commissioner for the Philadelphia Police Departm...
*This interview is the second installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Murphy Paul is the Police Chief in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With nearly three decades in law enforcement, he has...
*This interview is the second installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Murphy Paul is the Police Chief in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With nearly three decades in law enforcement, he has...
In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Vincent Southerland, a board member at the Bail Project since its inception in 2017. The Bail Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to combating racial and socioeconomic disp...
In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Vincent Southerland, a board member at the Bail Project since its inception in 2017. The Bail Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to combating racial and socioeconomic disp...
Simon Blackburn is one of the world’s leading academic philosophers. Over the course of his extensive career, Mr. Blackburn has taught at Oxford University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has pu...
Simon Blackburn is one of the world’s leading academic philosophers. Over the course of his extensive career, Mr. Blackburn has taught at Oxford University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has pu...
In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Sharon Dolovich, Professor of law and Director of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program. Professor Dolovich started the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, which has aggregat...
In this installment of our criminal justice reform series, we meet Sharon Dolovich, Professor of law and Director of the UCLA Prison Law and Policy Program. Professor Dolovich started the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, which has aggregat...
*This interview is the first installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. LeRonne Armstrong is the Oakland Chief of Police. Chief Armstrong joined the Oakland Police Department in 1999, ...
*This interview is the first installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. LeRonne Armstrong is the Oakland Chief of Police. Chief Armstrong joined the Oakland Police Department in 1999, ...
Jayanti Owens is the Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research focuses on the intersections of social stratification, education, race/ethnicity, organi...
Jayanti Owens is the Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research focuses on the intersections of social stratification, education, race/ethnicity, organi...