Interview Series
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2022-2023 Interview Series
MAJORA CARTER
Dr. Christina Rosan, Past PPL Fellow and Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, interviews author and urban revitalization strategy consultant Majora Carter about her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One.
2021-2022 Interview Series
AMADA ARMENTA
Dr. Laura A. Orrico, PPL Faculty Fellow, interviews Dr. Amada Armenta, Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, about immigration enforcement and local policing.
ALEX KEYYSAR
Dr. Jane Manners, PPL Faculty Fellow, interviews Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, about threats to democracy and voting rights.
2020-2021 Interview Series
jalil mustaffa bishop
Dr. Celeste Winston, PPL Faculty Fellow, interviews Dr. Jalil Mustaffa Bishop, Vice-Provost Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, about the student debt crisis and racial inequality.
Leonore Carpenter
PPL Associate Director Colin J. Hammar interviewed Professor Leonore Carpenter of the Beasley School of Law at Temple University about the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision on Title VII and LGBT employment non-discrimination.
COVID-19 Interview Series
Jamie Ray-Leonetti
PPL Director Judith A. Levine interviews Jamie Ray-Leonetti, Associate Director of Policy for the Institute on Disabilities, about the COVID-19 crisis
Harold Pollack
PPL Director Judith A. Levine interviews Prof. Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago about the COVID-19 crisis
Douglas Webber
PPL Director Judith A. Levine interviews Prof. Douglas Webber of the Temple University Department of Economics about the economic implications of the COVID-19 crisis.