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Students from Pueblo and Navajo Nations visit during Summer Policy Academy
Features July 07, 2022
Students from Pueblo and Navajo Nations Visit Princeton During Summer Policy Academy
The Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute’s Summer Policy Academy (SPA) returned to Princeton University as part of a program that exposes high school students and recent graduates of Pueblo and Navajo nations to the power of public policy and law. The agenda included lectures and presentations exploring the last 100 years of federal policies and laws to help students “become familiar with the history and policies and laws that have been conceived to destroy their systems and institutions,” said Regis Pecos, a member of Princeton’s Class 1977 who founded SPA and is co-director. Pecos is a former Princeton trustee, former chief of staff to the…
participants in SAOC conference
Features June 27, 2022
SAOC Addresses Global Issues of Social and Racial Justice at Annual Symposium
Around 70 alumni returned to campus this spring for the annual Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) Association symposium at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. This year’s theme addressed issues of social and racial justice from a global perspective, shining a spotlight on the global nature of oppression, resistance, and freedom. “Thinking Beyond Borders and About Transnational Solidarity” was held on April 2 and 3 at Robertson Hall and was the first SAOC Symposium held in person since 2019. “There's energy within the SAOC committee that put forward this symposium theme,” said Amina Johari MPA ’22, symposium co-chair. “The…
Klaudia Jaźwińska, Kenia Hale, and Christelle Tessono
Features November 16, 2021
Emerging Scholars Join CITP’s Community of Tech and Society Researchers
A computer scientist and artist. A data journalist. A former intern in the Canadian Parliament. Three recent university graduates with these diverse backgrounds joined Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) this fall as the inaugural class of Emerging Scholars, a program aimed at helping people start careers that combine technology and public policy. Kenia Hale, Klaudia Jaźwińska and Christelle Tessono, are part of a community of nine fellows currently conducting research and policy engagement at CITP, which is a joint initiative of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the School of Engineering and…
Felten
Features October 11, 2021
Felten Advocates for Enhanced Data Security Before the U.S. Senate
On Oct. 6, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to discuss consumer privacy and data security. Edward Felten provided three recommendations for the Federal Trade Commission to strengthen consumer protection: greater civil penalties, a strong rule-making framework, and empowerment of the technology workforce. “More and more data about our lives is captured, stored, and analyzed, with little transparency about what is collected, who has it, what they are doing with it, and how well companies are protecting it,” said Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Emeritus, at…
Akaysha Palmer (left) and Winaly Simpson (right), image created by Hannah Williams
Features September 29, 2021
Junior Summer Institute Transformed to Meet the Moment
For the second summer in a row, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) hosted its annual Junior Summer Institute (JSI) virtually, bringing together 17 students from 14 national universities. Despite hours spent on Zoom instead of Princeton's campus, the students were able to create meaningful relationships while successfully completing coursework in statistics and a policy workshop. “JSI challenged me and pushed me outside of my comfort zone; however, the preceptors, program director, tutors, and my cohort motivated me to be the best version of myself. I felt a strong connection to everyone I have met at JSI,” said Akaysha…
Twin Towers
Features September 10, 2021
9/11, A World Forever Changed
Story telling keeps memories alive. Twenty years ago Americans watched in shock and horror as the world was forever changed. Here are some of those stories... “I remember that day so vividly. I was working downtown in Chelsea and would often walk the 20 blocks to my office from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It was a beautiful day, I specifically remember remarking what a lovely day it was, not a cloud in the sky. After stopping at Whole Foods for my breakfast I was on my way to the office when I noticed that people were stopped in their tracks and staring up to the sky. I thought nothing of it at first, this is New York City! Then I stopped and…
New Partnership Pairs HMEI Interns with C-PREE Researchers
Features September 08, 2021
Tackling Climate Change’s Most Complex Phenomena
A new partnership between Princeton University’s Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) is pairing students and researchers to work on solutions to today’s most-pressing environmental issues. This past summer, five student interns from HMEI partnered with faculty at C-PREE, a center based at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, to study endangered species, climate migration, land-use policy and more through the new program. With 127 students participating in 2021, the HMEI environmental internship program provides Princeton University students in any…
Remy Reya
Features June 11, 2021
Graduating Seniors Empowered to “Fight for What You Believe In”
Chosen by his classmates to deliver the first student address at a Class Day ceremony hosted by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), senior Remy Reya spoke about how the world’s current crises impacted him and his classmates, and how they rose to meet the occasion. “Our classes are often limited by space and time; in a normal year, we might have remained more distant from the humanitarian issues that concern us. This year, faced with crisis after crisis, our class embraced the University’s motto in new ways,” Reya said. “We pushed forward in the nation’s service from the ground up; we placed ourselves in the service of…
Headshots of the 12 researchers who run the Dear Pandemic platform
Features March 03, 2021
“Nerdy Girl” Princeton Alumni Battle Covid-19 “Infodemic”
As new variants of the novel coronavirus emerge and people consider whether to get vaccinated, it can be confusing to know where to turn and which information to trust. Who can answer questions such as the need for double-masking, whether the vaccine affects fertility, and how to navigate pandemic fatigue? Enter “Those Nerdy Girls,” an all-female, interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians who help people navigate what the World Health Organization calls the “infodemic” — the overwhelming amount of pandemic information and misinformation. They have expertise in epidemiology, nursing, mental health, demography, health policy, behavioral…
Marta Tienda
Features February 22, 2021
Tienda Named Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Professor Marta Tienda is among the 13 academics who are part of the 2021-2022 Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholars Program. These scholars travel to more than 100 colleges and universities each year, immersing themselves in the academic life of each institution. Tienda is the Maurice P. During ’22 Professor of Demographic Studies and professor of sociology and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research focuses on race and ethnic differences in different metrics of social inequality, ranging from poverty and welfare to education and employment. Photo courtesy of Office of Alumni Affairs As a Phi…
Keith Wailoo
Features February 15, 2021
Wailoo Named 2021 Dan David Prize Winner
Historian and scholar Keith Wailoo joins Dr. Anthony Fauci and others as a recipient of the 2021 Dan David Prize, an award endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University. Wailoo, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs, is being honored for his work in the history of health and medicine. He will share a $1-million prize with Alison Bashford of the University of South Wales and Katharine Park of Harvard University. “I am deeply honored to be a Dan David Prize laureate for my historical scholarship on health and medicine, particularly for developing new insights about the past that enrich…
Sybil Stokes
Features January 29, 2021
Remembering Sybil Stokes
Sybil L. Stokes, 89, died of complications from COVID-19 on December 31, 2020. She lived in the Princeton area for more than half her life. Born in Brooklyn, Sybil was the daughter of Samuel and Sadie Langbaum and the younger sister of Lawton and Stanley. A bright, bookish girl, she graduated as valedictorian of Lafayette High School in 1949. She attended Cornell University on a Regents scholarship, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year, and graduated in the Class of 1953. She then went to Yale University, to pursue graduate study in Political Science. There she met Donald E. Stokes, a fellow graduate student. The two married in 1955. As an…
Covid
Features January 26, 2021
The Double Pandemic: Health Policy Course Pivots to Address Covid-19 and Systemic Racism
As Heather Howard, a lecturer in public affairs, was planning for her fall course “Health Care for Vulnerable Populations in the U.S.,” she considered not one but two pandemics. And she knew she had to retool the course, which she has taught since 2018, to seize the moment. “We had two pandemics converging: Covid-19 and the reckoning with racial injustice,” said Howard, who is also the director of State Health and Value Strategies with Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW). “Students were hungry to bring these issues into the classroom.” With a grant from Princeton’s 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education,…
Fernando Delgado
Community Profile January 21, 2021
Fernando Ribeiro Delgado ’04
Fernando Ribeiro Delgado ’04 is the coordinator of the Strategic Litigation Working Group at the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net). Specializing in the documentation of prison and police abuse, Fernando has helped spur numerous local and national human rights reforms and advocated against mass incarceration in his native Brazil. In this Q&A, he discusses his work to advocate for and advance human rights, and how a focus on policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) strengthened his analysis and engagement with policy work. Q. What is/are the most important policy issue(s)…
Matthew Salganik
Features October 28, 2020
CITP: ‘Interdisciplinary, deeply technical, motivated by real problems’
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), a joint venture of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Public and International Affairs, is marking 15 years of addressing society’s use of digital technologies through interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement with policymakers. This year, Professor of Sociology Matthew Salganik began a term as the center’s director after serving in the role in an interim capacity. Salganik, who joined the Princeton faculty in 2007, has pioneered uses of big data and digital technologies in social research — including co-leading a recent mass collaboration that…