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.