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Wait, Wait — What Happened?
Co-hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer look back at the last five months of headlines as they celebrate the twentieth episode of Terms of Engagement.
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Combatting Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny: What is our Local Community Doing?
This public discussion highlighted key challenges of racism, misogyny and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community, the responses of local organizations who have long sought to address such challenges, and what more needs to be done in our own communities. Speakers represented perspectives from the Harvard Kennedy School’s staff, faculty and student groups, as well as leading local non-profits.
Speakers included:
- Anisha Asundi, Research Fellow: Gender Specialist, Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program
- Carolyn Chou, Executive Director, Asian American Resource Workshop
- Dr. Kathy Pham, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Nick Sung, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ’21
- Dr. Kaori Urayama, Senior Program Manager, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center
William Huang, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ’22, gave the welcome.
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Police Violence, Memory, and Mobilization in Brazil
The Ash Center’s event featured members of Mães de Maio (Mothers of May), a collective of mothers whose children were killed by police in May 2006 in one of the largest police massacres in Brazilian history.
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Rocking the vote from the ER to the Peach State
Two Kennedy School student research projects chart path forward on voter engagement.
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How Cities Are Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
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100 Days of Biden Administration: What’s Next for Immigration, Health Policy, and Economic Justice
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Social Movements in the Post-Trump Era: Organizing for Policy Change
In this discussion, Ash Center Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow Johnnie Lotesta talked with leaders from the environmental justice, gun violence prevention, labor, and immigration movements about how they balanced these commitments in the course of their work.
Quinton Mayne on How Ahora Madrid Realized an Agenda of Democratic Disruption
The Ash Center sat down with Quinton Mayne, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy, to discuss how a progressive electoral alliance reimagined the relationship between citizens and city hall
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Megan Minoka Hill on the “Marshall Plan” for Revitalizing Indian Country
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Megan Minoka Hill explains how the American Rescue Plan could bring long-needed aid to Indian Country.
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Book Talk — Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First Century America
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a book talk on Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America with co-authors Elizabeth McKenna and Michelle Oyakawa.