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...
Peter Neronha is the Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, a role he has held since 2019. He has previously served as the US Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 2009–2017 and as Assistant US Attorney from 2002–2009. Neronha is...
Peter Neronha is the Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, a role he has held since 2019. He has previously served as the US Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 2009–2017 and as Assistant US Attorney from 2002–2009. Neronha is...
Caitlin Dickerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and feature writer for The Atlantic magazine. Dickerson has covered immigration from three continents and dozens of American cities. Previously, she spent nearly five years as a rep...
Caitlin Dickerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and feature writer for The Atlantic magazine. Dickerson has covered immigration from three continents and dozens of American cities. Previously, she spent nearly five years as a rep...
Heidi Peltier is an economist who has researched and written extensively on military-related topics including public finance, contracting, and impacts on employment. She has been a part of the Brown Costs of War project staff since its creation in 20...
Heidi Peltier is an economist who has researched and written extensively on military-related topics including public finance, contracting, and impacts on employment. She has been a part of the Brown Costs of War project staff since its creation in 20...
Christina Paxson is the 19th president of Brown University. President Paxson is an outspoken advocate for increasing access to higher education. She led The Brown Promise initiative, which eliminated loans from the aid packages awarded by the Univers...
Christina Paxson is the 19th president of Brown University. President Paxson is an outspoken advocate for increasing access to higher education. She led The Brown Promise initiative, which eliminated loans from the aid packages awarded by the Univers...
Ari Peskoe currently serves as the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. His work has primarily engaged with questions pertaining to electricity regulation at the federal and state ...
Ari Peskoe currently serves as the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. His work has primarily engaged with questions pertaining to electricity regulation at the federal and state ...
Jacob Soll is a professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. He has published several books including The Information Master and The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. His most recen...
Jacob Soll is a professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. He has published several books including The Information Master and The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. His most recen...
Clifton “Skye” Williamson is a co-founder of Transforming Lives. Williamson has expressed his skill and passion for the arts by developing and directing educational, theater, and trauma-related rehabilitation programs for incarcerated individuals...
Clifton “Skye” Williamson is a co-founder of Transforming Lives. Williamson has expressed his skill and passion for the arts by developing and directing educational, theater, and trauma-related rehabilitation programs for incarcerated individuals...
Clifton “Skye” Williamson is a co-founder of Transforming Lives. Williamson has expressed his skill and passion for the arts by developing and directing educational, theater, and trauma-related rehabilitation programs for incarcerated individuals...
Clifton “Skye” Williamson is a co-founder of Transforming Lives. Williamson has expressed his skill and passion for the arts by developing and directing educational, theater, and trauma-related rehabilitation programs for incarcerated individuals...
Mark Skidmore is a Professor of Economics and Agricultural, Food, And Resource Economics at Michigan State University. He holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy and is the co-editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs. He...
Mark Skidmore is a Professor of Economics and Agricultural, Food, And Resource Economics at Michigan State University. He holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy and is the co-editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs. He...
This is the second installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Eric Hirsch is a distinguished urban sociology professor at Providence College. He spends much of his time outside of the classr...
This is the second installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Eric Hirsch is a distinguished urban sociology professor at Providence College. He spends much of his time outside of the classr...
Gray Davis was born in 1942 to Doris Meyer and Joseph Graham Davis Sr., in the Bronx borough of New York City. After his family moved to the West Coast in the 1950s, Davis established himself in the state over the course of the succeeding decades: Af...
Gray Davis was born in 1942 to Doris Meyer and Joseph Graham Davis Sr., in the Bronx borough of New York City. After his family moved to the West Coast in the 1950s, Davis established himself in the state over the course of the succeeding decades: Af...
Reid Pauly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pauly received his BA in History and Gover...
Reid Pauly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pauly received his BA in History and Gover...