Broderick Johnson, a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School, leads a discussion on lobbying and mass incarceration. Part of the Public Policy and Institutional Discrimination Discussion Series.
Join us for a discussion with Rebecca Carroll on her new book, Surviving the White Gaze with Beth Chimera, writing instructor at the Ford School Writing Center, moderating the discussion. March, 2021.
This lecture discusses the use of longitudinal administrative tax data from Washington DC (DC) to study how Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions undertaken by the Washington DC affect income and inequality in the city.
Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton; Professor of Law Barry Friedman, New York University; and Jessica Gillooly, PhD candidate of the Ford School, in a panel moderated by David Thacher examine racial bias in emergency calls.
Rachel Woolf, Emilio Gutiérrez Soto (Knight-Wallace Fellow), Laura Sanders, William D. Lopez discuss "Deported: An American Division" moderated by Ann Lin. January, 2019.
Betsey Stevenson, associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Ford School, talks about a new study that examines gender bias in introductory economics textbooks.
Professor Sue Dynarski testifies before House Subcommittee on Education and Labor on January 18th, 2018 on the topic titled “Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency.”
Olivia Golden, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy, to discuss work support strategies and what the future may hold for low-income in America. November, 2017.
Andra Gillespie, Leah Wright Rigueur, Lester Spence, Jerry Austin, and moderator Ann Lin talk about the impact of Reverend Jackson's run for president. November, 2016.
Performances by the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the 50 Years of Civil Rights Leadership: A U-M Symposium in honor of Rev. Jesse Jackson. November, 2016.
Bankole Thompson talks with Reverend Jesse Jackson about his thoughts on his presidential campaign, student activism, current civil right struggles, and the 2016 election. October, 2016.
For half a century, the Reverend Jesse Jackson has courageously advanced civil rights across racial, gender, and economic boundaries in the United States and around the world.
Once, she was a first-generation college student from a working-class suburb of Boston. Now, she is an internationally renowned professor of education policy with the ear of the White House.
Rohit Chopra and Susan Dynarski discuss the repercussions of the $1.3 trillion dollar student loan deficit on higher education and economic inequality. January 2016.
Heidi Grunebaum and Yazier Henry discuss politics, philosophy, and morality of guilt, denial, complicity and responsibility in the context of South Africa since the official ending of apartheid. January, 2016.
Out in Public hosts a panel on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV prevention in the LGBTQ community with Douglas Brooks, Noel Gordon, and K. Rivet Amico moderated by Paula Lantz.
