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Maribel Hernández Rivera MPA ’10
Community Profile, Changemakers, Podcasts
September 07, 2021
Maribel Hernández Rivera MPA ’10
Maribel Hernández Rivera MPA ’10 came to the United States, undocumented from Mexico, when she was 13 years old. Since then, she’s dedicated her life to immigration law and policy. Today, she is district director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She previously served as executive director of legal initiatives for the…
Maribel Hernández Rivera MPA ’10
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September 07, 2021
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. Now in its fourth year, the Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award small grants of up to $10,000 for multiple…
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Community Profile
September 03, 2021
#PolicyProfile: Chuck Crosby, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
What I like most about my job is that it allows me to be of service to others.
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Research Briefs
September 02, 2021
Lack of Protections in the Workplace Leave Frontline Workers of Color at High Risk for COVID-19 Exposure
Black, Latino, and Native American frontline workers are more likely to work in occupations with a higher risk of COVID-19 exposure with less workplace protection against COVID-19 than other workers, according to a study led by researchers at Princeton University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Journalists…
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Community Profile
August 27, 2021
#PolicyProfile: Michele Epstein, Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
From students to fellows and faculty, I am lucky to be able to stay connected to this extended community throughout the world.
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Our Podcasts
August 24, 2021
We Learn
We produce a number of shows in our Princeton Policy Podcast enterprise. Check out Politics & Polls, our weekly political news show; #Changemakers, which features our alumni; or Endnotes, a show highlighting faculty research. Subscribe to Politics & Polls and Princeton Policy Podcasts on iTunes.
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Jonathan Mummolo
News
August 24, 2021
Mummolo Receives Microsoft Funding for Police Body-Worn Camera Project
Microsoft has awarded $250,000 in funding to professor Jonathan Mummolo and a team of fellow social scientists to fund the development of a novel system to computationally analyze police body-worn camera (BWC) footage. Mummolo, assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and…
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Community Profile, Changemakers, Podcasts
August 24, 2021
Yusuf Dahl MPA ’17
Growing up in poverty, Yusuf Dahl survived the streets of Milwaukee under the wing of his brother. By age 14, he was in juvenile detention for a three-year sentence for drug dealing. After serving five years and teaching himself software development, Dahl struggled to find a living wage as a young black male with a criminal…
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Research Briefs
August 19, 2021
Vaccine Stockpiling by Nations Could Lead to Increase in COVID-19 Cases, Novel Variant Emergence
The allocation of COVID-19 vaccine between countries has thus far tended toward vaccine nationalism, wherein countries stockpile vaccines to prioritize access for their citizenry over equitable vaccine sharing. The extent of vaccine nationalism, however, may strongly impact global trajectories of COVID-19 case numbers and…
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Podcasts
August 18, 2021
Politics & Polls #245: The Continued Fight for Voting Rights (Wendy Weiser)
How are Congress and the courts exercising their powers on the issue of voting rights? Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang are joined by Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, for a conversation about voting rights from the Texas State legislature to the U.S. Supreme Court. …