Eleanor Holmes Norton has been the Congresswoman from DC since 1991, and along with working on a variety of congressional committees, she has always considered DC statehood of utmost importance. The Congresswoman continues to fight for democracy and ...
Robinson Meyer is an award-winning journalist who currently works as the Executive Editor of Heatmap, a media company focused on climate change. Prior to founding Heatmap, Robinson covered climate change, energy, and technology for The Atlantic and T...
Maru Mora-Villalpando is an immigration activist with the group La Resistencia, working to improve the conditions at immigration detention centers and stop deportations. After years of leading high-profile protests to defend immigrants in the Northwe...
Tom Nichols is one of America’s leading intellectuals, political and cultural commentators, and experts on international security, Russia, threats to democracy, and nuclear policy. Nichols is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of the bo...
Tom Nichols is one of America’s leading intellectuals, political and cultural commentators, and experts on international security, Russia, threats to democracy, and nuclear policy. Nichols is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of the bo...
Sammus, aka Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, is a Black feminist rapper, producer, and activist. She is the David S. Josephson Assistant Professor of Music at Brown, and the co-founder of Brown’s Black Music Lab. Her research interests include hip hop praxi...
Sammus, aka Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, is a Black feminist rapper, producer, and activist. She is the David S. Josephson Assistant Professor of Music at Brown, and the co-founder of Brown’s Black Music Lab. Her research interests include hip hop praxi...
Shirley Arriaga currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 8th Hampden district and is a Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Future Caucus. She was first elected in November 2022 and assumed office on January 4, 2023...
Shirley Arriaga currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 8th Hampden district and is a Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Future Caucus. She was first elected in November 2022 and assumed office on January 4, 2023...
Kmele Foster is a media entrepreneur and political commentator. He co-founded TelcolQ and Freethink and currently co-hosts the Fifth Column Podcast. He also co-hosted a 2013-2015 Fox News Business Network Program, The Independents, which offered busi...
Kmele Foster is a media entrepreneur and political commentator. He co-founded TelcolQ and Freethink and currently co-hosts the Fifth Column Podcast. He also co-hosted a 2013-2015 Fox News Business Network Program, The Independents, which offered busi...
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...
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...
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...
This is the third installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Megan Smith is a social worker who has worked with the homeless community in Rhode Island for seventeen years. She works with Hou...
This is the third installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Megan Smith is a social worker who has worked with the homeless community in Rhode Island for seventeen years. She works with Hou...
Bradford Gibbs is the Urry and Comfort Family Lecturer in Economics at Brown University. His focus is applied finance, and he teaches courses including Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions. Before his time at Brown, Gibbs co-founded a Sub-Sah...
Bradford Gibbs is the Urry and Comfort Family Lecturer in Economics at Brown University. His focus is applied finance, and he teaches courses including Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions. Before his time at Brown, Gibbs co-founded a Sub-Sah...
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker was three years old in 1942 when the American government sent her and her family to Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp in southern Colorado. After leaving the incarceration camp in 1945, Tinker and her family move...
Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker was three years old in 1942 when the American government sent her and her family to Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp in southern Colorado. After leaving the incarceration camp in 1945, Tinker and her family move...
Dr. Megan Ranney is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and advocate for innovative approaches to health. She currently serves as Deputy Dean of the Brown School of Public Health and founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digita...
Dr. Megan Ranney is a practicing emergency physician, researcher, and advocate for innovative approaches to health. She currently serves as Deputy Dean of the Brown School of Public Health and founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digita...