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Rebecca Cohen
Senior Communications & Outreach Strategist
rebcohen@umich.edu

Daniel Rivkin
Senior Media & Outreach Strategist
rivkind@umich.edu
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The presidential transition and the first hundred days of the Biden administration

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Ford School experts address Biden priorities, including COVID-19 vaccine distribution around the world and health care delivery in the U.S., expanding the Child Tax Credit, and restoring American foreign policy credibility

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Events

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Creative art for the carceral state conference, featuring a surveillance camera and stylized broken shapes in front of an old prison cellblock
May 14 2021

Recasting the technologies of the carceral empire: India, South Africa, and the political paradoxes of post-colonial citizenship

12:00 pm
John Ciorciari
May 20 2021

Preventing Cambodia’s genocidal past from becoming Afghanistan’s future

7:00-8:00 pm
Creative art for the carceral state conference, featuring a surveillance camera and stylized broken shapes in front of an old prison cellblock
May 21 2021

Criminal knowledge: Evidence, expertise, and the carceral state

12:00 pm

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Kalena Thomhave
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Kalena Thomhave (MPP ‘21) awarded the Eckstein Prize

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Megan Tompkins-Stange
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Gates divorce sends shockwaves through global philanthropic community

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Yusuf Neggers
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Neggers looks at effects of COVID lockdowns on Indian migrant workers

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