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PolicyCastCrypto is merging with mainstream finance. Regulators aren’t readyTimothy Massad is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School and a consultant on financial regulatory and fintech issues. Massad served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017. Under his leadership, the agency implemented the Dodd Frank reforms of the over-the-counter swaps market and harmonized many aspects of cross-border regulation, including reaching a landmark agreement with the European Union on clearinghouse oversight. The agency also declared virtual currencies to be commodities, introduced...
2025-04-1755 min
PolicyCastIf the U.S. courts can’t defend the rule of law, who can?With a Republican Congress apparently unwilling to check Trump’s power, many Americans fear a looming constitutional crisis and are looking to the federal courts to ride to the rescue. But political scientist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Maya Sen, who studies the federal judiciary, says the cavalry probably isn’t coming. The Trump administration has seemingly defied judicial orders on deportations, withholding congressionally appropriated funds for federal programs, eliminating birthright citizenship, and other issues. Meanwhile, surrogates like Vice President J.D. Vance and billionaire Elon Musk have stated in social media posts that Trump is simply not bound by j...
2025-03-1946 min
PolicyCastAI can make governing better instead of worse. Yes, you heard that right.Danielle Allen and Mark Fagan say that when tested, thoughtfully deployed, and regulated AI actually can help governments serve citizens better. Sure, there is no shortage of horror stories these days about the intersection of AI and government—from a municipal chatbot that told restaurant owners it was OK to serve food that had been gnawed by rodents to artificial intelligence police tools that misidentify suspects through faulty facial recognition. And now the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE say they are fast-tracking the use of AI to root out government waste and...
2025-03-1241 min
Unban CooliesQueer Nation: Inside Harvard’s Groundbreaking CourseTimothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998. At HGSE, he is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration. At HKS, where he was the first openly gay faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is Faculty Chair of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership.
McCarthy is the Academic Director emeritus and Stanley Paterson Prof...
2024-09-1742 min
Justice MattersRacial Justice Without BordersOn this week's episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse talks with Desirée Cormier Smith, the Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice for the U.S. State Department. In this position, she is the face of the United States for all matters regarding racial equity in the world outside of the United States. Together they talk about her role as the inaugural Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, what led to the creation of this position at the U.S. State Department, her own journey graduating from HKS to her current position, and the recent convening o...
2024-07-1531 min
PolicyCastPublic policy, values, and politics: Why so much depends on getting them rightPublic policy has great power, both to improve people’s lives if it is planned and executed well and to cause significant suffering if it is not, says Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf, who will step back from his post this summer to rejoin the faculty. He joins PolicyCast host Ralph Ranalli in this episode to discuss the crucial role policy plays in everyday life, the often-imperfect ways it gets made, and the factors that shape it, including politics, values, education, and communication. He also addresses the issue of public distrust in policy advice and the vital role that...
2024-04-2541 min
Architectette025: Yiselle Santos Rivera: Beyond her Role as Director of JEDIOur first Season 2 guest is Yiselle Santos Rivera. Yiselle is Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at HKS and is also a former AIA|DC Chapter President, co-founder of LA IDEA, and WIELD event founder. She is a natural community builder and has been heavily involved with JEDI initiatives both on a local and national scale for which she has been recognized with numerous awards.We talk about: - Crafting her career path in terms of employers and project types to better align with her interest to design spaces that heal- How Yiselle created communities around her i...
2024-01-1557 minJustice MattersThe Birth of US Human Rights PolicyOn this episode of Justice Matters, co-host Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, speaks with two veterans of the human rights movement, John Salzberg and Joe Eldridge.
John Salzberg was the key staff member working with Representative Don Fraser to hold the first set of hearings about the US and human rights in 1973, and later went on to work at the Human Rights Bureau at the US State Department. Prior to 1973, human rights were not explicitly incorporated into US foreign policy.
Also in 1973, Joe Eldridge founded the Washington Office of Latin...
2023-11-1529 min
DiverseekClarity and Alignment: Harnessing the Power of the Intercultural Development Inventory for Transformation : Yiselle Santos Rivera (Architect and Global Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion @ HKS Inc.)Engage in a Dialogue with Yiselle Santos Rivera to uncover the power of Intercultural Development Inventory as a catalyst for change.Yiselle is an Architect, Principal and Global Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at HKS Inc. She is the founder of Women Inspiring Emerging Leaders in Design, or WIELD, and serves on the AIA National Board. She is passionate about creating platforms for other people to find their own voice, have curiosity without fear of failure, and test out how they want to show up with confidence. Yiselle is an activist architect and works to d...
2023-08-211h 13
Nearly One-FourthYiselle Santos Rivera Pt.2, Failure Community, Self Assessment + Growth, the Caricature of the ArchitectWelcome to Nearly One-Fourth, the podcast dedicated to being a space for women in architecture sharing their experiences in the profession. On today's episode I am happy to welcome Yiselle Santos Rivera to the Nearly One-Fourth Community.
Yiselle Santos Rivera, AIA, NOMA, LSSYB, WELL AP, LEED AP BD+C, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a Principal and the Global Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at HKS. Yiselle is an activist architect that works to dismantle barriers and bring visibility to underrepresented designers by creating inclusive workplaces. As medical planner, Yiselle amplifies...
2023-07-3143 min
Nearly One-FourthYiselle Santos Rivera Pt.1, Architecture Leadership, JEDI ImplementationWelcome to Nearly One-Fourth, the podcast dedicated to being a space for women in architecture sharing their experiences in the profession. On today's episode I am happy to welcome Yiselle Santos Rivera to the Nearly One-Fourth Community.
Yiselle Santos Rivera, AIA, NOMA, LSSYB, WELL AP, LEED AP BD+C, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a Principal and the Global Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at HKS. Yiselle is an activist architect that works to dismantle barriers and bring visibility to underrepresented designers by creating inclusive workplaces. As medical planner, Yiselle amplifies...
2023-07-2447 min
Practice Disrupted by Practice of ArchitectureBonus Replay: Architecture, And EDI+JReplay: Architecture, And: EDI+JWhat is the role of a firm leader focused on equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice?As we continue to expand our exploration of diversity in practice, we’ve invited Yiselle Santos Rivera back to the podcast so she can share what she’s learned after two years of serving HKS as their Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Justice.What does it mean to position someone in a firmwide leadership role dedicated to increasing diversity within an architecture studio? What lessons can firms learn from the adoption of a lead...
2023-06-2944 min
Policy Works#008: The GroundBreak Coalition to build wealth & equity for BIPOC communities ft. Tonya Allen & Alex West SteinmanOn this episode, we talk to two trailblazers from GroundBreak Coalition (GBC), a group of over 40 corporate, civic and philanthropy leaders who are trying to make a case that within our resources, a racially equitable and climate-ready future is possible. GBC is building a platform to mobilize and aggregate capital, and provide pathways for corporations, financial institutions, government, philanthropy, and even individuals to equitably and efficiently invest in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. What's interesting about this coalition is not just what they're trying to do, but also how they're doing it.Tonya Allen is President of the McKnight...
2023-06-281h 01Practice Disrupted by Practice of ArchitectureTowards an Equitable and Inclusive Future: LGBTQIA+ ArchitectsEpisode 117: Towards an Equitable and Inclusive Future: LGBTQIA+ ArchitectsWhat would an equitable future for LGBTQIA+ people look like? What’s the role of architecture in designing an equitable future?Expanding our equity, diversity, and inclusion series, episode 117 explores the perspectives of LGBTQIA+ architects and designers working to create a more equitable future for all. One of the earliest episodes in this series, “Voices from the Future of the Profession,” episode 016, was recorded in 2020. Since that recording date, a number of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills and legislation have been passed across the United States - risking protections agains...
2023-06-011h 26
The Chicken Yogi ShowEpisode 17: Rekindling Yoga's Power of LiberationLiberation has been forgotten in the modern yoga movement, especially modern postural yoga, from which today’s yoga studios, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga organizations have arisen. And yet, if we put the liberation back into yoga, we can use it as a tool for liberation. While my focus is specifically neurodivergence liberation, disability liberation, and mad liberation, I also believe it will be a tool for queer and racial liberation as well. I’ve provided some resources below for you to begin an exploration and if you’re wanting to talk about these issues — let me know! I’m seeking...
2023-05-2322 min
PolicyCastIf you don’t have multiracial democracy, you have no democracy at allThe history of American democracy has always been fraught when it comes to race. Yet no matter how elusive it may be, Harvard Kennedy School professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Archon Fung say true multiracial democracy not only remains a worthy goal, but achieving it is critically important to our collective future. From the earliest, formative days of the American political experiment, the creation of laws and political structures was often less about achieving some Platonic ideal of the perfect democratic system than it was about finding tenuous compromises between people and groups who had very different beliefs and...
2023-05-1645 min
AshCastReducing Racial Inequality in Crime and JusticeThe United States continues to grapple with creating an accurate, national picture of racial inequality in crime and justice. Criminal justice reform requires policies that interrogate and solve for the historical legacy of racial exclusion and structural inequalities.On Tuesday, February 28, the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) at the Ash Center hosted a discussion with Bruce Western, Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and Director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University; and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Institutional Antiracism...
2023-03-021h 29Practice Disrupted by Practice of ArchitectureReplay: Voices from the Future of the ProfessionReplay: Voices from the Future of the ProfessionFuture leaders of the profession share diverse perspectives on architecture and the LGBTIQ+ community.Guests:Ryan Gann, Designer at Ross Barney ArchitectsA.L. Hu, Design Initiatives Manager at Ascendant Neighborhood DevelopmentLora Teagarden, Architect at RATIOYiselle Santos Rivera, Firmwide Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at HKSAmy Rosen, Sociospatial Designer at PLASTARCRyan Gann, Assoc. AIARyan Gann has blazed a trail founded on service, leadership, and design. From his...
2023-01-051h 29
The #BruteCastDr. Dara Kay Cohen, "Wartime Sexual Violence Yesterday, Ukraine, and Tomorrow: A Context"NOTE: this episode contains graphic and explicit content based on its thematic focus on wartime sexual violence.
In this episode, the #BruteCast continues its focus on the war in #Ukraine with Dr. Dara Kay Cohen, who discusses issues of wartime sexual violence and what is currently known about sexual violence from #Russia's ongoing invasion of #Ukraine.
The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset that Dr. Cohen references in this presentation can be accessed here: http://www.sexualviolencedata.org/
In a 2021 article in the Annual Review of Political Science, Dr. Cohen reassessed the...
2022-06-291h 01
Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWomen Coming Home from Prison with Stacey BordenStacey Borden is the Founder and Executive Director of New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc., which provides services to women coming home from prison. She talks about the unique experiences of women in prison and the challenges they face coming home.
2022-04-1845 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementViolence & Restorative Justice with Danielle SeredDanielle Sered is the author of Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair. The book is based on her work as the founder and Director of Common Justice, an alternative-to-incarceration and victim-service program that focuses on violent felonies. We discuss violence, restorative justice, and the abject failure of the criminal legal system to do justice or create safety.
2022-04-0149 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementLaw of Human Trafficking with Julie DahlstromHuman trafficking happens here in the United States. More needs to be done to prevent and address it. At the same time, the law of human trafficking, although young, is actually quite robust. And it’s being applied in novel, complex, and (some would say) questionable ways. Julie Dahlstrom, Director of BU Law’s Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking Program, discusses these trends.
2022-03-0245 min
PolicyCastThe U.S. pays reparations every day—just not to Black AmericaHKS faculty members Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes explore the vexing disconnect between the vast US system of restorative justice and the deep-rooted, intergenerational harms suffered by Black Americans. Every day, someone somewhere in America is being compensated under what is known as restorative justice, a type of justice that instead of meting out punishment to a wrongdoer, seeks to make the victims or their families whole—or at least repair them as much as possible. Restorative justice is also known as reparative justice, or, in the context of the experience of Black Americans from the fir...
2022-02-0345 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementA Wrong Turn: How the Law of Cars Expanded Police Power with Sarah SeoSarah Seo is the author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. She explains how traffic enforcement fundamentally changed Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in the 20th century. Namely, it vastly expanded police discretion, creating the law enforcement regime that has presided over numerous high profile killings of unarmed black drivers by police in recent years. We rethink that regime. Then, we take a turn to ask what the 20th century’s major technological disruption (cars) can teach us about how we in the 21st century can respond to new disruptive technologies like big data.
2022-01-2442 min
The Great Trials PodcastMoshik Temkin (Part II) | Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti | The Sacco-Vanzetti TrialThis week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey continue their interview with Moshik Temkin, Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public Policy and author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/moshik-temkin).
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Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public Policy Moshik Temkin, author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on T...
2022-01-0456 min
The Great Trials PodcastMoshik Temkin | Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti | The Sacco-Vanzetti TrialThis week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Moshik Temkin, Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public Policy and author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/moshik-temkin).
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Harvard University Associate Professor of History and Public Policy Moshik Temkin, author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial, discusses the larger imp...
2021-12-281h 07Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Birth Lottery of History with Robert SampsonPeople with similar demographics, individual characteristics, and family and economic backgrounds have substantially different chances of getting arrested depending on the years during which they were 17 to 23 years old. Professor Robert Sampson outlines a groundbreaking new study showing the way that historical context predicts arrest rates.
2021-12-0923 min
Architecture & Engineering Business StrategiesHKS Architects: JEDI in Practice (w/ Yiselle Santos)With the surging demand for diversity in the workplace, many companies are scrambling to figure out how to increase—and manage—gender and ethnic diversity within their own firms. To help your people to work well together, you have to learn how to handle a diverse team of employees, which means focusing on four values: justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). In this Section Cut interview, Yiselle Santos, VP and Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at HSK, Inc., explains what a JEDI mindset looks like in the workplace and how to direct your company toward a more equi...
2021-11-1644 min
Environmental Insights: Conversations on policy and practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics ProgramThoughts on Water Management and Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Sheila OlmsteadSheila Olmstead, professor of public affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, shared her thoughts on US water policy and environmental justice in the newest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program,” a podcast produced by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Read the interview transcript here: https://heep.hks.harvard.edu/files/heep/files/sheila_olmstead_interview_transcript_01.pdf.
2021-10-0828 minPractice Disrupted by Practice of ArchitectureArchitecture, And: EDI+JEpisode 054: Architecture, And: EDI+JWhat is the role of a firm leader focused on equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice?As we continue to expand our exploration of diversity in practice, we’ve invited Yiselle Santos Rivera back to the podcast so she can share what she’s learned after two years of serving HKS as their Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Justice.What does it mean to position someone in a firmwide leadership role dedicated to increasing diversity within an architecture studio? What lessons can firms learn from the adoption of a lead...
2021-10-0753 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementAttorney-Client Relationship as Locus of Inequality w/ Matthew ClairMatthew Clair is the author of Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. In the book, he uncovers how privilege and inequality play out in criminal court interactions, especially in the attorney-client relationship. In this conversation, we explore the attorney-client relationship in greater detail and the ways that it exacerbates inequality and legitimates injustice in the courts.
2021-09-2738 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Criminal Injustice System with Alec KarakatsanisAlec Karakatsanis is the author of Usual Cruelty: the Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System and the founder of Civil Rights Corps. We discuss why he calls it the criminal injustice system and the dangers of criminal justice "reform."
2021-08-1251 min
Tracing ArchitectureOn Justice and EquityVarious facets of the architectural profession in the United States are not flattering, and some of the most difficult to address is the lack of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in the industry and policies that reinforce equity in the workplace. For this episode, we are building on the discussions from the joint NOMA Arizona and AIA Phoenix Metro panels held throughout the spring by inviting guests Shannon Rodriquez (of New York-based FX Collaborative) and Yiselle Santos Rivera (of HKS Architects in Washington DC) to share the progress they’ve made and the pitfalls they’ve experienced in their ongoing deve...
2021-08-101h 06Architecture & Engineering Business StrategiesHKS: How to Design a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion (w/ Yiselle Santos Rivera)Do you want to be a JEDI? At HKS Architects, the acronym stands for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. From defining shared vocabulary to setting benchmarks for success, it can be a long process to get such programs off the ground. JEDI Director Yiselle Santos explained why it’s well worth it, and how you can start.Interview TakeawaysGet buy-in at every levelDefine the JEDI frameworkAnchor your program with a mission and visionFocus on business outcomesSolidify common languageEmpower high-performing diverse teamsSet metrics for social justiceDelve into the dataBridge the gap between technical and experientialLook at th...
2021-07-0952 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Corporate Enforcement Gap with Jenny Montoya TanseyA national study commissioned by Public Rights Project revealed a massive enforcement gap in corporate abuse--with 54% of those surveyed saying they have experienced wage theft, predatory lending and debt collection, corporate pollution, and/or unsafe rental conditions at least once in the past 10 years. The criminal legal system could intervene. Hear how from Jenny Montoya Tansey, PRP's Policy Director.
2021-06-2827 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe CAHOOTS ModelMost agree that the police are asked to do far too much, including tasks that they are not trained to do and so are ill-equipped to do well. The CAHOOTS model is an exciting one. It relieves the police from undertaking tasks for which they are ill-equipped, especially those related to mental health crises, it does so effectively and without force/violence, and it does so far more cheaply. We invited Tim Black to learn more about CAHOOTS, how it got started, what they do and how they do it, and why this might be a critical option for other...
2021-06-0227 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementProgressive Probation with Wendy StillWendy Still has achieved remarkable reductions in the probation population while serving as Chief Probation Officer of San Francisco and Alameda Counties, California. She discusses what progressive probation looks like, including in the context of the defund movement, as well as her experiences during her long career.
2021-04-2630 min
Technology & ProseSushma Raman on The Coming Good SocietySushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses her new book, The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights (co-authored with Bill Schulz).
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Sushma Raman joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the meaning and role of human rights in the Good Society (1:45), the tension between strengthening existing rights and recognising new rights (4:30), Big Data, surveillance and the right to privacy (5:54), intercultural perspectives on the right to privacy and human rights (11:35), human gene editing, DNA sequencing, th...
2021-04-0839 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Anti Police-Terror Project with Cat BrooksWe're back...with some updates and some new voices. Professor Sandra Susan Smith interviews Cat Brooks, founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, about policing and reimagining community safety.
2021-03-2936 min
Unbossed, Unbothered, and Unfiltered"HBCUs Prepare You to Not Just Face the World, But Change It"Kicking off Black History Month, this episode honors the Black excellence among us: HBCU graduates. HBCU graduates are everywhere across all industries, all the way to the White House. Even just this week, Stacey Abrams, a Spelman alumna, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the world. HBCUs have a rich history and have some of the most prestigious alumni in our history, and we will be delving into what that means for higher education as a whole.Jainaba Seckan is devoted to excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion. A...
2021-02-0446 min
Modern Steel Construction Podcast Series: Field NotesJEDI MasterIn addition to being a vice president and senior medical planner with HKS' Washington, Washington, D.C., office, Yiselle Santos Rivera is also the company's global director of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). Hear about how she became an architect, her philosophy on design, and her life as a JEDI.
2020-11-0124 minModern Steel Construction Podcast Series: Field NotesEquality ExpertIn addition to being a vice president and senior medical planner with HKS' Washington, Washington, D.C., office, Yiselle Santos Rivera is also the company's global director of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (J.E.D.I.). Hear about how she became an architect, her philosophy on design, and more.
2020-11-0124 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPopular Demand: Big Data Policing with Andrew FergusonWhile we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the criminal legal system.The use of big data in the criminal legal system raises some thorny legal, cultural, and ethical questions. What level of surveillance are we willing to tolerate? Is data actually objective? What will happen to legal standards like reasonable suspicion as our information changes? These are questions we need to ask and answer soon, because big data is already infiltrating law enforcement and the criminal legal system more broadly.
2020-07-0940 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPopular Demand: Public Defenders with Jonathan RappingWhile we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the criminal legal system.Jonathan Rapping is the founder of Gideon's Promise, an organization dedicated to changing the culture of public defense. He'll describe why the work of public defenders is important, what good public defense looks like, and what public defenders can do to change the criminal legal system.
2020-07-0938 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPopular Demand: Restorative Justice with Fania DavisWhile we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the criminal legal system.Restorative justice is a paradigm-shifting approach to criminal justice. Fania Davis is a long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice scholar and professor, and a civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge. She is also the Founder of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. We'll discuss the restorative justice framework and what it actually looks like on the ground.
2020-07-0945 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPopular Demand: The Psychological Traumas of Leaving Prison with Wesley CainesWhile we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the criminal legal system.Within three years of release, about two-thirds of people released from prison are rearrested. Wesley Caines, the Reentry and Community Outreach Coordinator at the Bronx Defenders, tells us about the traumas of going to prison and the ways in which we set people released from prison up for failure.
2020-07-0934 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementMental Illness & the Criminal System with Alisa RothWe discuss mental illness and the criminal system with Alisa Roth, author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.
2019-10-2448 min
Harvard Center for International DevelopmentBleeding OutUrban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as CID Senior Research Fellow Thomas Abt writes in his new book Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experiences in policymaking, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself—not drugs, gangs, or guns. Because violence is clustering among small groups of people and places, it can be predicted and prevented using a series of evidence-informed, data-driven strategies, both in the United States and in Latin America, where 41 of...
2019-10-1817 min
Francesca Maximé: WiseGirl#ReRooted: Dr. Timothy Patrick McCarthy: What History Can Teach UsMy latest #ReRooted podcast with Tim McCarthy on Be Here Now Network The full truth of America’s history Ep. 8 – Timothy Patrick Tim McCarthy
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THIS WEEK ON THE REROOTED PODCAST, FRANCESCA SPEAKS WITH TIMOTHY PATRICK MCCARTHY ABOUT BRINGING AWARENESS TO THE FULL TRUTH OF AMERICA’S HISTORY AND HOW UNDERSTANDING THE PAST CAN MAKE WISE ACTION IN THE PRESENT POSSIBLE.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, teacher, public servant, and social justice activist who holds a joint faculty appointment in Harvard’s undergraduate honors program in History and Literature, the Graduate School of Education, and the...
2019-07-0655 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPunishment Without Crime with Alexandra NatapoffAlexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal. This book is absolutely essential for understanding the criminal system in America. We discuss the misdemeanor system’s role as a system of social control, revenue generation, racial oppression, etc.–but certainly not as a system of justice.
2019-06-2848 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWe Are All Criminals with Emily BaxterEmily Baxter is the founder of We Are All Criminals. In this episode, we examine the ways in which privilege serves to define criminality. You can see more about the project at https://www.weareallcriminals.org/
2019-05-1433 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Biggest Book Ban in America with James Tager and Robert PollockPrison officials regularly block access to huge amounts of reading material for incarcerated people—and they do it in troublingly arbitrary ways. We discuss the written word’s ability to highlight and amplify the humanity of people in prison and the power of information. James Tager is the Deputy Director of Free Expression Research at PEN America and Robert Pollock is the Prison Writing Program Coordinator at PEN America.
2019-04-1541 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementCivil Litigation & Criminal Justice Reform with Anand SwaminathanThis week we talk to Anand Swaminathan, an attorney at Loevy and Loevy—a national firm that does civil rights work adjacent to the criminal legal system. We discuss the role of civil litigators in changing the criminal legal system.
2019-03-1942 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementIs Holistic Defense More Effective with Maya BuenaventuraHolistic defenders in the Bronx saved their clients 1.1 million days of incarceration and saved taxpayers $165 million on housing costs alone, relative to the traditional public defenders practicing in the same court house. This week, we talk to Maya Buenaventura of the Rand Corporation about the Rand Corporation’s study of the holistic defense model and its implications for public defense as a whole. Maya Buenaventura is an attorney and public policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
2019-02-2623 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPeople in Prison Are Getting Older with Darnell and Darryl EppsBy 2030, 1 in 3 people in prison will be 55 or older. We’ll discuss reform to address this trend and what the response to this trend tells us about the role of rehabilitation in the system.Darryl & Darnell Epps are brothers. Darnell is a student at Cornell who works for the Center on the Death Penalty. He recently published an op-ed in the NY Times entitled “The Prison ‘Old-Timers’ Who Gave Me Life: Aging inmates, some serving life sentences, helped me turn my life around. They could do even more good on the outside.” His brother, Darryl, is a Columbia Justice in Education...
2019-02-1029 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWho Counts as a Victim with Alysia SantoStates provide money to people who have been victims of crime to reimburse them for the costs of their victimization—things like therapy, funerals, etc. But Alysia Santo, an investigative reporter for the Marshall Project, finds that only some people count as victims.
2019-01-2221 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Injustice of Sex Offense Registries with Emily HorowitzWe discuss the need to abolish sex offense registries with Emily Horowitz, a professor of sociology & criminal justice and the author of Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us Opens a New Window.
2019-01-0936 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPolice Violence against Women of Color with Andrea RitchieAndrea Ritchie is an attorney, organizer, and author of Invisible No More, a recent book about how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement .
2018-12-1336 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWhat a Difference a DA Makes with Rahsaan HallRahsaan Hall is the Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’s What A Difference a DA Makes Campaign. We discuss progressive prosecution and the ACLU’s campaign to hold prosecutors accountable through public awareness.
2018-11-2146 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Trial Penalty with Norman Reimer & Elisa KleinTrials are supposed to be a fundamental constitutional right. But in today’s criminal legal system, only 3% of federal cases are resolved at trial. I discuss why the endangerment of the American trial is so problematic with Norman Reimer, Executive Director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Elisa Klein, Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
2018-11-0848 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementTransforming Juvenile Probation with Steve Bishop383,000 young people were placed on formal or informal probation supervision in 2014. Stephen Bishop, of the Annie E Casey Foundation, thinks that supervision needs to look different. He argues something basic, but powerful: less probation. Putting fewer young people on probation will free up probation resources to turn away from surveillance-based supervision to more constructive and therapeutic probation. We talk about that vision.
2018-10-2434 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementLegalizing Cannabis with Shaleen TitleThe criminalization of cannabis was a foundational pillar of the New Jim Crow. Now, the decriminalization of cannabis might just make a small number of white and privileged folks really rich. Shaleen Title is working to make sure that the burgeoning cannabis market in Massachusetts is one that accounts for and corrects that inequity.
2018-10-1032 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementHolistic Defense @ Arch City Defenders with Blake StrodeArch City Defenders advocates for poor people and people of color who are exploited by the municipal court system in St. Louis. Its Director, Blake Strode, will discuss their aggressively holistic approach and the ways they use direct services and impact litigation to serve their community.
2018-09-2639 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPaying to Avoid a Shoplifting Charge with John RappaportPeople caught shoplifting can pay $400-$500 to a private company in return for a promise not to call the police and a "restorative justice" class. What?? We discuss the pros and cons of such private adjudication schemes with John Rappaport, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.
2018-09-1248 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementA Progressive DA Campaign w/ Boston Candidate Shannon McAuliffeBoston's Sept. 4 District Attorney elections for have the potential to change the criminal legal system in Boston and be a model for progressive change across the country. Shannon McAuliffe is running for District Attorney of Suffolk County, aka Boston. She is a former public defender and director at Roca, a program that disrupts the cycle of poverty and incarceration by helping high-risk young people transform their lives and avoid the criminal legal system. We talk about what a progressive campaign looks like and what a progressive DA.Learn more at https://www.mcauliffeforda.com/
2018-08-3036 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementStudent Scholarship: Solitary Confinement w/ Mental Illness + Cause Lawyer Civil DisobedienceThis is the second episode in which we feature student scholarship coming out of HLS. We interview Andrew Hanna about a recent Third Circuit case that could change the landscape of putting people with mental illness in solitary confinement. Then, we talk to Louis Fisher about cause lawyers who might engage in civil disobedience against legal ethics codes.
2018-08-2132 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementStudent Scholarship--Bail & the Cost/Benefit of IncarcerationWe reached out to all the criminal law professors at HLS and asked what student scholarship had really wowed them in the past year. In these special episodes, we bring you conversations with the Harvard Law students and recent alums whose work is helping to push criminal law scholarship forward.First, Anneke Dunbar Gronke talks about her recent piece in the Harvard Law Review on Commonwealth v. Brangan, a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case advancing bail reform. Then, Ben Gifford discusses how and why prison crime has been excluded from economic cost-benefit analyses of incarceration.
2018-07-1641 minJustice MattersOpen Source Investigations: Special Episode with New York Times Malachy Browne and Declarations PodcastJoin us for this special episode of Justice Matters, produced in collaboration with Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast. In this episode, we interview Malachy Browne, Senior Story Producer at the New York Times. Malachy focuses on visual and open source investigations.
About Malachy Browne: Malachy Browne is a senior story producer with The New York Times. He specializes in social journalism with a focus on international reporting and breaking news. https://www.nytimes.com/by/malachy-browne
About Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights: https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/sushma-raman
2018-06-0826 min
Harvard Center for International DevelopmentPreventing Violence in Caracas: A Community-Based, Evidence-Informed ApproachThis week, CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Roberto Patiño, Founder & CEO of Caracas Mi Convive, and Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow at CID, they discuss the role of community-based organizations in preventing violence in Latin America, and on how scientific evidence can help to guide the process.
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Interview recorded on April 27th, 2018.
About Roberto Patiño: Roberto Patiño is 29 years old, he is from Caracas, Production Engineer from Simón Bolívar University, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University and a member of Primero Justicia. During his college studies, he actively parti...
2018-05-1724 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementRestorative Justice with Fania DavisRestorative justice is a paradigm-shifting approach to criminal justice. Fania Davis is a long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice scholar and professor, and a civil rights attorney with a Ph.D. in indigenous knowledge. She is also the Founder of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. We'll discuss the restorative justice framework and what it actually looks like on the ground.
2018-05-1745 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Decline of the Death Penalty with Brandon GarrettBrandon Garrett discusses the precipitous decline in death penalty sentences and executions and his new book, End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice.
2018-05-0136 min
Harvard UniversityThe Movement for Black Lives: Justice for Michael Brown 4 Years Later | AshCastOn Monday, April 23rd the Institute of Politics, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, HKS Black Student Union, HKS Arts & Culture Caucus, Institute of Politics Politics of Race and Ethnicity (PRE) hosted a screening of Stranger Fruit, a documentary about the killing of Michael Brown, followed by a forum discussion titled, "The Movement for Black Lives: Justice for Michael Brown 4 Years Later."
The discussion featured Benjamin Crump, Attorney for families of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Stephon Clark; Lezley McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown; Jason Pollock, Documentary Filmmaker, Stranger Fruit; and Jasmine Rand Attorney for families of Michael Brown...
2018-04-241h 25AshCastThe Movement for Black Lives: Justice for Michael Brown 4 Years Later | AshCastOn Monday, April 23rd the Institute of Politics, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, HKS Black Student Union, HKS Arts & Culture Caucus, Institute of Politics Politics of Race and Ethnicity (PRE) hosted a screening of Stranger Fruit, a documentary about the killing of Michael Brown, followed by a forum discussion titled, "The Movement for Black Lives: Justice for Michael Brown 4 Years Later."
The discussion featured Benjamin Crump, Attorney for families of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Stephon Clark; Lezley McSpadden, Mother of Michael Brown; Jason Pollock, Documentary Filmmaker, Stranger Fruit; and Jasmine Rand Attorney for families of Michael Brown...
2018-04-241h 25Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementBonus: Human Trafficking with Donna HubbardPastor Donna Hubbard works with women who have been trafficked at her organization, the Women at the Well Transition Center, and helps train airline attendants to spot trafficking with Airline Ambassadors International.
2018-04-1714 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementLife Sentence on the Outside with Donna Hubbard and Carl RouteCarl Route describes life after prison as “the life sentence on the outside.” We explore the difficulties of life after prison with activists and reformers Donna Hubbard and Carl Route and discuss their work helping folks return from prison in Atlanta, Georgia.
2018-04-1746 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementJuvenile Justice with Nila Bala and Jesse KelleyNila Bala & Jesse Kelley of the R Street Institute help us understand the juvenile justice system and talk about their work to reform the system.
2018-04-0332 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementBonus: The Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform w/ Nila Bala & Jesse KelleyNila Balan & Jesse Kelley of the free market think tank, the R Street Institute, talk about a conservative perspective on criminal justice reform.
2018-04-0311 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementClosing Rikers with Elizabeth GlazerMayor Bill de Blasio has committed to close Rikers Island, NYC's primary jail. But how exactly do you do that? Elizabeth Glazer, Director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, talks to us about the gargantuan project that touches just about every corner of the criminal legal system.
2018-03-2036 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementGender, Punishment, and Social Control with Allison McKimWomen are the fastest growing population in US prisons and jails. At the same time, drug courts are proliferating and new emphasis is being placed on the potential rehabilitative functions of the criminal justice system. Our guest this week, Allison McKim examines two rehab facilities for women--one for women referred by the criminal justice system and one for private payers--and finds fascinating and problematic differences between the two. Her work and our conversation explores the intersection of punishment, gender, and social control in the criminal legal system.
2018-03-0635 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementCommunity Bail Funds with Pilar WeissCommunity bail funds pool community resources to pay the bail of people who can't afford to post bail while awaiting trial. They make an important impact in the individual lives of people accused of crimes, but they're also helping to take down the money bail system as we know it in this country. This week, I talk to Pilar Weiss, the Project Director of the National Bail Fund Network, about her work and this movement.
2018-02-1937 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementCrimmigration with Phil TorreyIn this episode, we look again at the collateral consequences of involvement with the criminal legal system. "Crimmigration" is the complex field of law that deals with the intersection of the immigration and criminal legal systems. Phil Torrey, Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, a Lecturer on Law, and the Supervising Attorney for the Harvard Immigration Project, will be our guide.
2018-02-0633 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPublic Defenders with Jonathan RappingJonathan Rapping is the founder of Gideon's Promise, an organization dedicated to changing the culture of public defense. He'll describe why the work of public defenders is important, what good public defense looks like, and what public defenders can do to change the criminal legal system.
2018-01-2438 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Rise of Big Data Policing with Andrew FergusonThe use of big data in the criminal legal system raises some thorny legal, cultural, and ethical questions. What level of surveillance are we willing to tolerate? Is data actually objective? What will happen to legal standards like reasonable suspicion as our information changes? These are questions we need to ask and answer soon, because big data is already infiltrating law enforcement and the criminal legal system more broadly.
2017-12-1340 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementProgressive Prosecution with Beth McCannBeth McCann, the newly elected District Attorney of Denver talks to us about her work, what it means to be a progressive prosecutor, and the role of prosecutors as reformers.
2017-11-2833 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementBonus Episode: The Sing Sing Gun Buyback with Bianca TylekA small group of men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility fundraised nearly $8,000 from other men in the facility for a gun buyback. Bianca Tylek, founder of the Corrections Accountability Project, tells us about her involvement with the project and discusses rehabilitation and the Second Amendment for communities of color.
2017-11-2013 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementMaking Money off of Caging People with Bianca TylekHave you ever thought about what it means to make money off of caging other people? You should. Vanguard owns 19% of Core Civic, a company with $1.7 billion in revenue that owns, manages, and operates private prisons and detention centers. So millions of Americans are unknowingly invested in Core Civic through Vanguard’s extremely popular retirement accounts and mutual fund products.But private prison companies are only the tip of a much larger iceberg. Prisons and prison services are being commercialized at alarming rates.Bianca Tylek, our guest this week & the Founder of the Corrections Accountability Project, invites us not only to...
2017-11-1429 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWhat Happens to Your Kids When You're Arrested? with Emma KetteringhamEmma Ketteringham, Managing Director of the Family Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders, tells us how her clients fear the knock of of a child protective services case worker far more than stop and frisk by the police.
2017-10-3141 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementPunished for Being Poor with Sara ZampierinDebtors prisons were banned in the US in the 1830's. But almost two centuries later, the criminal legal system is still punishing people for being poor. This week, we talk to Sara Zampierin, a Staff Attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She will lay out for us an array of constitutionally and morally questionable practices that trap poor people in the criminal legal system, including excessive cash bail, onerous fines and fees, and self-interested private probation services.
2017-10-2542 min
Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementSexual Violence in Prison with Dave RiniSexual assault is widespread in prison. And sometimes it may feel like nobody cares. But our guest, Dave Rini, runs a collaboration between the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. He tells us what is happening to people behind bars and what we can do to improve our response to trauma in prison.
2017-10-0541 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWe Put Innocent People Behind Bars with Lisa KavanaughIt’s an ugly truth: our criminal legal system sends innocent people to prison. We talk to Lisa Kavanaugh, Director of the Committee for Public Counsel’s Innocence Program, about wrongful convictions, bad forensic science (spoiler alert: there’s a lot), and the ways in which the plight of innocent defendants can highlight the injustices that all defendants face.
2017-10-0533 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementThe Psychological Traumas of Leaving Prison with Wesley CainesWithin three years of release, about two-thirds of people released from prison are rearrested. Wesley Caines, the Reentry and Community Outreach Coordinator at the Bronx Defenders, tells us about the traumas of going to prison and the ways in which we set people released from prison up for failure.
2017-10-0534 minVoir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementWelcome to Voir DireWhat is Voir Dire? And what can you expect from this podcast?
2017-10-0401 min
AshCastOPENING FORUM: Race and Justice in the Age of Obama | AshCastOn October 12, 2016, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a discussion in the JFK Jr Forum titled Race and Justice in the Age of Obama. Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf provided an introduction. Panelists included Paul Monteiro, Acting Director, Community Relations Service at U.S. Department of Justice; Brittany Packnett, Vice President of National Communities Alliances at Teach for America and co-founder of Campaign Zero; and Avik Roy, President, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and Editor at Forbes Opinion. Moderating the talk was Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and...
2016-10-311h 25
PolicyCastIs Punishment the Only Response to Violence and Poverty?HKS Professor Bruce Western, Chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, explains how the prison population in the United States has quintupled since the 1970s and advocates for changes to the penal code to better deal with deep-rooted social problems.
2016-02-1031 min
PolicyCast | Harvard Kennedy SchoolIs Punishment the Only Response to Violence and Poverty? | PolicyCastHKS Professor Bruce Western, Chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, explains how the prison population in the United States has quintupled since the 1970s and advocates for changes to the penal code to better deal with deep-rooted social problems.
2016-02-0925 min
PolicyCastThe Criminal Injustice SystemHKS Alumnus Bryan Stevenson spent his career working to address issues of racial and wealth inequality in the United States’ justice system. He believes this inequality stems from a failure of the nation to reconcile its dark history with regard to slavery and Jim Crow. His work as Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative focuses on defending those without the means to properly defend themselves.
This episode was originally published on November 19, 2014.
2015-12-2915 min
Institute of PoliticsThe Conservative Case for Gay Marriage | Institute of PoliticsPanelists Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1999-2010), Andrew Sullivan, writer, editor, and blogger, and Matthew Vines, author of "God and the Gay Christian" and founder of The Reformation Project, joined moderator Dana Born, HKS lecturer and retired Air Force Brigadier General, for a nuanced discussion on marriage equality from a conservative perspective. The conversation touched on engagement with conservative Christians, the biblical connection with marriage and sexuality, and the future of the LGBTQ civil rights movement.
2015-11-231h 14
Shorenstein CenterCriminal Justice In The Age Of Big Data | Shorenstein CenterTech and Government Panel with Cynthia Rudin, Associate Professor of Statistics, MIT CSAIL and Sloan School of Management; Berkman Center faculty affiliate; Clarence Wardell, Presidential Innovation Fellow, working on the Police Data Initiative; Berkman Center affiliate; Nicole Wong. Former positions include: U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer; Legal Director of Products, Twitter; VP & Deputy General Counsel, Google; Nick Sinai, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS; former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer (moderator)
2015-11-201h 32
PolicyCastThe Criminal Injustice SystemHKS Alumnus Bryan Stevenson has spent his career working to address issues of racial and wealth inequality in the United States’ justice system. He believes this inequality stems from a failure of the nation to reconcile its dark history with regard to slavery and Jim Crow. His work as Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative focuses on defending those without the means to properly defend themselves.
2014-11-1915 min
PolicyCast | Harvard Kennedy SchoolThe Criminal Injustice System | PolicyCastHKS Alumnus Bryan Stevenson has spent his career working to address issues of racial and wealth inequality in the United States’ justice system. He believes this inequality stems from a failure of the nation to reconcile its dark history with regard to slavery and Jim Crow. His work as Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative focuses on defending those without the means to properly defend themselves.
2014-11-1815 min