Electronic waste, or e-waste, is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States. But there is a way to curb the spread — allowing consumers to repair and repurpose used devices. This solution is the driver behind the Right to Repair — a movement of technologists and climate activists calling for a new tech circular…
The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) invites members of the Princeton University community to a lecture and High Tea featuring David M. Beasley, former Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) and former Governor of the state of South Carolina on May 10, 2023 at 4:00 pm. Mr. Beasley will be in…
Join us for a fireside chat with Desirée Cormier Smith, the US State Department Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice. The first person to hold the position, Ms. Cormier leads the State Department’s efforts to protect and advance the human rights of people belonging to marginalized racial and ethnic communities…
Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson of India’s NITI Aayog – the National Institute for Transforming India, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. NITI Aayog is the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India (GOI), tasked with catalyzing economic development through knowledge, innovation and cooperative…
KTC Student Affiliates have the opportunity to present their work. Sociology doctoral student Megan Kang presents her ongoing work on what it means to exit a violent social network, over lunch, Friday, March 24, 12:15pm.
In his new book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. He is joined in conversation by fellow scholar about housing and poverty in America, author, and activist Keeanga Yamahtta…
As the world grapples with how to address climate change, at the heart of the issue is justice. Globally, the nations that are projected to suffer the worst impacts of climate change are those that are least responsible for causing it and that have fewer resources to adapt. The same is true in the United States, where…
Danae is an Assistant Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Sustainability in Arizona State University. Danae's research studies the distributional consequences of environmental policy and environmental justice. Her work uses applied causal inference methods with remote sensing…
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society; Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.
Author of Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, and Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.
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