On Thursday, March 2nd, the UCR School of Public Policy will be hosting a virtual seminar on “COVID-19’s Impact on Detention Centers” by Lizbeth Abeln, Deportation Defense Programs Manager for the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (IC4IJ) . According to her profile , Abeln “ utilizes her experience working personally with immigrant communities and gives...
A new podcast episode of Policy Chats features a discussion with theoretical and evolutionary biologist and professor Carl Bergstrom about the era of "fake news" and how to combat disinformation. Author of “Calling Bullshit” , Bergstrom teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and studies a wide range of problems in population biology...
On Tuesday, March 9th, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) will host a talk by second-year public policy major Vivek Kakar on “ Planting Seeds and Lifting Voices: Establishing the Roosevelt Network at UCR. ” This event is part of the SPP Student Spotlight Series. Kakar, who is the Founding Executive Director, will present...
On Thursday, March 4th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be holding a virtual seminar on “Gender Equity & Policy,” by Marisol Franco, the Director of Programs at the Women’s Foundation of California . According to her profile , Franco is “ responsible for leading curriculum and program development for the Women’s Policy Institute...
On Thursday, March 4, t he University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Public Policy will host a talk by Kat Devlin , a Research Associate of the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, about the Center’s recent work using computational social science and social media to evaluate what lawmakers around the world think about...
In a new podcast episode of Policy Chats , Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California Amanda Goad talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about transgender policies and protections. According to her profile , Goad “fights for the rights and...
On Thursday, February 25th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be hosting a virtual seminar on “ Research, Policy, and Advocacy: A Conversation about Education Equity in California ,” by Mayra Lara, associate director of educator engagement at The Education Trust - West . According to her profile , Lara “works closely with County...
A new podcast episode of Policy Chats features a discussion with University of California, Riverside (UCR) professor of political science Ben Bishin about what to expect from a divided Congress entering President Biden’s first term in office. According to his profile , Bishin’s interests reside i n questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public...
On Wednesday, February 24th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be hosting a virtual seminar on “The Role of Public Policy in Challenging Times: An Introduction to APPAM,” by Tara Sheehan, executive director of the Association of Public Policy Analysis & Management. According to her profile, “Sheehan has served as the Executive Director of...
On Thursday, February 18th, the Presley Center of Crime & Justice Studies , t he Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty , and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside , will be hosting an exclusive conversation with Sandra Smith about how pretrial detention informs future criminal justice involvement. Smith is...