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Christina Henderson MPA ’12
Community Profile, Changemakers, Features
September 18, 2020
Christina Henderson MPA ’12
Christina Henderson MPA ’12 is a graduate alumnus of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She was born in New York City and moved around the country with her military family. As an undergraduate student, she attended Furman University where she studied political science. She then came to Princeton develop…
Christina Henderson MPA ’12
young voters
Podcasts
September 17, 2020
Politics & Polls #201: Mobilizing Young Voters Featuring Vote100
Young voters are notoriously criticized for not making it to the ballot boxes. What motivates young people to vote? And how we can ensure that more college-aged students make it to the polls this fall? In this episode, Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang are joined by Emma Parish ’21 and Kesavan Srivilliputhur ’23, two Princeton…
young voters
Riley Owens '22
Community Profile, Policy Profile
September 16, 2020
Riley Owens '22
“I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many of us volunteer two years of our lives to go anywhere in the world, serving communities and sharing our beliefs with people who are interested in hearing them. After my freshman year at @princeton and a White House Internship, I chose to serve and was asked…
Riley Owens '22
Angel Padilla MPA ’13
Community Profile, Changemakers, Features
September 16, 2020
Angel Padilla MPA ’13
Photo credit: Angel Padilla MPA ’13. (Photo courtesy of Indivisible) Angel Padilla MPA ’13 is the policy director for Indivisible, a grassroots movement with a mission to elect progressive leaders and rebuild our democracy. He previously served as health policy analyst at the National Immigration Law Center, and…
Angel Padilla MPA ’13
200th
Podcasts
September 10, 2020
Politics & Polls #200: Ask Us Anything
In honor of the 200th episode of Politics & Polls, Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang reflect back on the show’s history with the show’s producer, B. Rose Huber. Zelizer and Wang answer a series of questions from how they met/started to the show to their most embarrassing moments on air to which historical figure they’d most like…
200th
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News
September 08, 2020
Funding Available for Innovative Education Projects and Programs
A fund offered through Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs will support creative, interdisciplinary research projects and programs addressing important issues in education. In the third year of this award, the Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award up to $360,000 for multiple faculty and…
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Dean Cecilia Rouse
Community Profile
September 04, 2020
Cecilia Rouse
“It’s no surprise that I and my siblings all gravitated toward academia. My parents were both deeply committed to education and lived frugally so we could go to college without acquiring debt. In the early ’80s, I was a @harvard undergraduate at a time when America was in a recession. As unemployment spiked, I saw the damaging…
Dean Cecilia Rouse
Stuart Stevens
Podcasts
September 03, 2020
Politics & Polls #199: Trump: A Cause or Product of the GOP? Featuring Stuart Stevens
Many policies under President Donald Trump seem out of step with traditional Republican platforms. This has caused many conservatives to take a look at the party and ask: Is Trump a cause or product of the GOP? Veteran political consultant Stuart Stevens is among those embedded in such conversations. In this episode with…
Stuart Stevens
Endnotes
Podcasts
September 02, 2020
The Woman Suffrage Movement in America (Corrine McConnaughy)
August marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which legally ended the use of sex as a qualification for the right to vote. In this episode, Corrine McConnaughy takes listeners back in time to what gave the movement legs, explaining how "coalition politics" were the lynchpin in women securing…
Endnotes
Podcasts
August 27, 2020
Democracy Works: The Clumsy Road to Antiracism
This week’s show is special: We’re running an episode of Democracy Works, a podcast produced by Penn State University’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy. (You may remember we swapped episodes with them last summer.) This episode features Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, assistant professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and…