Podcasts about Scholars Strategy Network

For this special guest episode of No Jargon, we're diving into how the Scholars Strategy Network helps scholars turn research into impactful policy. SSN executive director Pao Maynard-Moll spoke with Robert Perkinson, an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii Manoa and co-leader of the Hawaii SSN chapter, for his Better Tomorrow Speaker Series podcast at the university. They explore how SSN connects academics with policymakers and communities, using real examples from Alabama and Maine to show the power of research in driving change.  For more on this topic: Listen to the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series podcast episodes. Read SSN's Annual Report for the 2023-24 academic year.

In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In The Hollow Parties, Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld present a comprehensive history of the rise of American mass party politics through the Jacksonian era up through the years of Barack Obama to the presidency of Donald Trump. They posit that today's Democrat and Republican parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the founding, and they offer a vision for how these groups might fulfill their promise. An associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Schlozman studies political parties, American political development, social movements, and political history. He is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, and a trustee of the Maryland Center for Economic Policy. Sam Rosenfeld is an associate professor of political science at Colgate University, where he researches party politics and American political development. He is the author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era, and his writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vox, among many other places. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 5/21/2024)

This week Historians At The Movies dives into one of the sharpest historical films of the 1980s- Dirty Dancing. No, we're not kidding either. Guests Leah Lagrone, Lauren MacIvor Thompson, and Lauren Lassabe Shepherd tackle the memory of the 60s from the 80s, young love, issues of labor and class, dancing, AIDS, the Reagan era, abortion, whether or not Baby and Johnny are still together, and of course, that soundtrack. Prepare for the time of your lives.About our guests:Dr. Leah LaGrone is an assistant professor of history and public history director. She graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, with a PhD in history focused on borderlands, labor, and gender studies in early 20th century. Her research examines state legislation and the discourse on minimum wages for women, specifically the connections of sex work with low wages. Her current book project, “A Woman's Worth: How Race and Respectability Politics Influenced Minimum Wage Policies,” demonstrates that the politics around race and the minimum wage for women drove conversations among labor, politicians, and progressive reformers about the future of white supremacy in Texas. She has contributed an essay to the anthology "Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson" as well as articles to The Washington Post and NursingClio. She has worked on several public history projects, including "The Civil War Documentary," "Civil Rights in Black and Brown," and the Texas State Historical Association's "Handbook of Texas Women." Dr. LaGrone will teach the public history classes and supervise the public history internships.Lauren MacIvor Thompson (Ph.D. '16) is a historian of early-twentieth-century women's rights and public health. She serves as the faculty research fellow at the Georgia State University College of Law's Center for Law, Health & Society. She is also part of the faculty at Kennesaw State University as a jointly-appointed Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies. Thompson's current research focuses on the intersections of medical authority and expertise, women's health, and public health policy in the birth control and reproductive health movements. She is working on a book manuscript, Battle for Birth Control: Mary Dennett, Margaret Sanger, and the Rivalry That Shaped a Movement, forthcoming with Rutgers University Press. She has published numerous articles and op-eds including work in Law and History Review, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Society for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, among others. Thompson is also a frequent public speaker including presentations at the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American Society for Legal History, and the American Association for the History of Medicine, as well as national and international symposiums on suffrage and legal rights, reproduction, health, and medicine. She is a member of the national Scholars Strategy Network.Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd's expertise is in the history of United States higher education from the 20th century to present, especially on the topic of conservatism in the academy. She is an instructor in the Department of Education and Human Development at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-Society for US Intellectual History Community Scholar.Shepherd's first book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars, is out now from the University of North Carolina Press. Her second book manuscript is a historical survey of colleges and universities in the United States since the 1960s.

It's the most wonderful time of the school year! First day/week back to school! So of course we do an episode focused on going to bed on time and its importance! I'm hanging out with Jazmine Benjamin as we discuss grad student life this past summer as it comes to an end and dive into the Kid Cudi classic " Day 'N' Nite" as we learn about circadian misalignment. Maybe we won't "toss and turn" after this. For more information about Jazmine Benjamin, read below.Jazmine I. Benjamin is a Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham, Alabama. Her research is focused on the relationship between circadian misalignment and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Her ultimate career goal is a position that allows her to utilize her technical knowledge and penchant for advocacy in order to benefit under-served communities. Jazmine recently finished her second term as the President of the graduate student body at UAB. She was also a committee member on a variety of task forces dedicated to keeping the population at UAB safe and operational during the COVID-19 outbreak. In 2019, Jazmine co-founded the Science Policy and Advocacy Initiative, the first comprehensive science policy group in the state of Alabama. In addition to her work on campus, Jazmine is also a graduate fellow for the Alabama chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network and a member of the National Science Policy Network.  Outside of the lab, Jazmine loves to cook, read, run, listen to music and podcasts, and play video games. She also has an adopted sprollie (spaniel/border collie mix) named Cersei who keeps her laughing and active. Jazmine is a staunch advocate for representation in STEM and often uses her platform to share her experiences and mentor younger students and graduate student colleagues. Follow Jazmine BenjaminTwitter @J_I_BenjaminInstagram @jibenjamin----Follow Scientifically SoundTwitter @4theSci_SoundInstagram @scientificallysoundTiktok @scientificallysoundemail: 4thescientificallysoundand visit our website scientificallysound.net

Millennials are often seen as a progressive-minded generation – as 80's and 90's kids, they grew up in a digital landscape that exposed them to a diversity of perspectives. But while expectations were high that this generation would be on the frontlines in the fight for racial equality, recent research by Democracy Works host Candis Watts Smith paints a different picture. During this conversation with Lisa Hernandez and Lizzy Ghedi-Ehrlich, host of the Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon podcast, Candis discussed how white millennials' really think about race and the ways in which their views and beliefs have largely halted progress for Black Americans and other racial minorities in the United States. Additional InformationRacial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives MatterRelated EpisodesThe clumsy journal to antiracism

Carrie's conversation was not what I had expected. I had read her work and seen her photography, but I was not prepared for the very personal perspective Carrie shared in how she has traveled her path. Listen. You will hear about the Yale of the late 1980s, about sexism and misogyny, and about a resilient classmate who has taken on the ideas and people who have stood in her way. I was inspired. Carrie has her own website that highlights here work: https://www.carriebakerphd.com/. If you visit, don't skip the photography -- her images are very moving. Here's a bit about Carrie: Carrie N. Baker lives, works and writes from Western Massachusetts. Dr. Baker is the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Chair of American Studies and a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College and is a contributing editor at Ms. magazine. She is an expert on women's rights law and policy, specializing in sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and reproductive rights and justice. Dr. Baker has a BA ('87) in philosophy from Yale University, a JD ('94) from Emory University School of Law, and an MA ('94) and a Ph.D. ('01) from Emory University's Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. At Smith College, Dr. Baker has been chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender and was a co-founder and former co-director of the Five College Certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice. Baker is affiliated with the American Studies Program, the archives concentration, and the public policy minor. She has published three books: The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and co-authored Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice (Carolina Academic Press). Her first book was the winner of the National Women's Studies Association 2008 Sara A. Whaley book prize. In addition, she writes regularly for Ms. magazine and has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA). Baker is part of the Scholars Strategy Network, Women's Media Center SheSource, and is the co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars, which trains scholars to write for the popular media.

Our guest this month is Professor Theda Skocpol, who is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and the founder and director of the Scholars Strategy Network. Professor Skocpol has extensively researched the social and political dynamics that can bring about major changes in social policy in the US. Her most recent book, co-authored with Caroline Tervo, is ”Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance”.   We discuss her 2013 report “ ‘Naming the Problem: What It Will Take to Counter Extremism and Engage Americans in the Fight against Global Warming”, which came out in the aftermath of a failed attempt at climate legislation in the US that took place in 2010. The report also supports Cap and Dividend, or Cap and Share, a climate policy that's advocated by members of Feasta's climate group. Mike Sandler, who is a member of Feasta's climate group and the current Chair of the Feasta Board of Trustees, and who also manages the Commons-Share and Dividends for America websites, joined Caroline Whyte for the interview.

This week the podcast continues with the series Demystifying Policy-Relevant Research in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. Ashley and Casey speak with Dr. Jay Chen, Associate Professor at Cleveland State University. The three talk about causes behind current supply chain disruptions and the ways in which his work can impact public policy. Links: Scholars Strategy Network - NE Ohio bit/ly/3xXZrL0 CSU: http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=J_CHEN27

This week the podcast continues with the series Demystifying Policy-Relevant Research in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. Ashley and Casey speak with returning guest Dr. Meghan Novisky, Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University. The conversation centers around the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated individuals, the failure of policy responses to protect these individuals, and how research can center the voices of those it studies. Links: Scholars Strategy Network - NE Ohio bit/ly/3xXZrL0 CSU: http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=m_novisky

This week the podcast continues with the new series - demystifying policy-relevant research-in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. Ashley and Casey speak with Michael Palmieri, Research Associate at Kent State University's Ohio Employee Ownership Center. The conversation centers around on the ways employee-ownership can be used as an economic development strategy to create individual and community wealth while creating space for greater political and civic engagement. Links: Scholars Strategy Network - NE Ohio bit/ly/3xXZrL0 OEOC: https://www.oeockent.org

THis week the podcast continues with the new series - demystifying policy-relevant research-in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. Ashley and Casey speak with Dr. Wendy Regoeczi, professor and chair of the Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology at Cleveland State University. The conversation centers around new reforms in the Cuyahoga County criminal justice system addressing domestic violence. Links: Scholars Strategy Network - NE Ohio https://bit/ly/3xXZrL0 http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=W_REGOECZI

This week the podcast launches a new series – demystifying policy-relevant research – in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. Ashley and Casey speak with Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve's School of Law. The conversation centers around the use of Artificial Intelligence in medical decisions, specifically thinking through how the use of AI can lead to discriminatory outcomes. Links: Scholars Strategy Network – NE Ohio https://bit.ly/3xXZrL0 https://case.edu/law/our-school/faculty-directory/sharona-hoffman

Broadcast on July 23, 2020 Hosted by Chris Garlock This week's show: A tribute to John Lewis, the American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death on July 17, 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Kayla Blado, president of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), on union-busting at the pro-democracy Scholars Strategy Network. News headlines: 18 ways to be a hero (by supporting the HEROES ACT) Plus: Episode 2 of Tales of the Resistance, an original radio serial from the San Francisco Mime Troupe. This week: Novice Nurse: Susie Terse and "The Price of Infection." Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella

Avi Green of Scholars Strategy Network talks about how in order to create political change, we need to create situations in which about 60% of people agree on the changes we need and then win power and use it. There are powerful historical examples of this: the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Motor Voter Act of 1993. Change CAN happen when we figure out which changes are necessary and then make sure enough people agree to implement those reforms. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

Avi Green of Scholars Strategy Network talks about how bipartisanship was a larger force in the U.S. when there was a heavy external threat. After the Cold War, we went back to the “normal” way of two parties fighting each other like crazy. We need to find a way out of that negative spiral --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the scope of traditional party politics, and outside the realm of traditional social science research. To better understand what's going on Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Strategy at Harvard and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, convened a group of researchers to study the people and organizations and at the heart of these grassroots movements. Skocpol joins us this week to discuss their findings and the new book (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work in particular focuses on the Tea Party and includes interviews with Tea Party members across the country. We also discuss the Resistance and whether these oppositional forces to the party in power are likely to continue after November's election. Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State, host of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by Penn State's McCourtney Institute for Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the scope of traditional party politics, and outside the realm of traditional social science research. To better understand what’s going on Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Strategy at Harvard and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, convened a group of researchers to study the people and organizations and at the heart of these grassroots movements. Skocpol joins us this week to discuss their findings and the new book (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work in particular focuses on the Tea Party and includes interviews with Tea Party members across the country. We also discuss the Resistance and whether these oppositional forces to the party in power are likely to continue after November’s election. Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State, host of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by Penn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the scope of traditional party politics, and outside the realm of traditional social science research. To better understand what’s going on Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Strategy at Harvard and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, convened a group of researchers to study the people and organizations and at the heart of these grassroots movements. Skocpol joins us this week to discuss their findings and the new book (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work in particular focuses on the Tea Party and includes interviews with Tea Party members across the country. We also discuss the Resistance and whether these oppositional forces to the party in power are likely to continue after November’s election. Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State, host of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by Penn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the scope of traditional party politics, and outside the realm of traditional social science research. To better understand what’s going on Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Strategy at Harvard and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, convened a group of researchers to study the people and organizations and at the heart of these grassroots movements. Skocpol joins us this week to discuss their findings and the new book (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work in particular focuses on the Tea Party and includes interviews with Tea Party members across the country. We also discuss the Resistance and whether these oppositional forces to the party in power are likely to continue after November’s election. Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State, host of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by Penn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the scope of traditional party politics, and outside the realm of traditional social science research. To better understand what’s going on Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Strategy at Harvard and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, convened a group of researchers to study the people and organizations and at the heart of these grassroots movements. Skocpol joins us this week to discuss their findings and the new book (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work in particular focuses on the Tea Party and includes interviews with Tea Party members across the country. We also discuss the Resistance and whether these oppositional forces to the party in power are likely to continue after November’s election. Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State, host of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by Penn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties. The changes fall outside the scope of traditional party politics, and outside the realm of traditional social science research. To better understand what's going on Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Strategy at Harvard and Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, convened a group of researchers to study the people and organizations and at the heart of these grassroots movements. Skocpol joins us this week to discuss their findings and the new book (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work in particular focuses on the Tea Party and includes interviews with Tea Party members across the country. We also discuss the Resistance and whether these oppositional forces to the party in power are likely to continue after November's election. Jenna Spinelle is a journalism instructor at Penn State, host of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by Penn State's McCourtney Institute for Democracy.

Deadly bush-fires continue to rage in Australia. The environment wasn't always a hot-button political topic – how can we take the politics out of climate change? And rising sea levels threaten Boston's disadvantaged neighborhoods. That's a sample of the environmental stories that are increasingly important to Greater Bostonians and millions of Americans. Those stories and more on Under the Radar's inaugural Environmental News Roundtable. Guests: Beth Daley - Editor and General Manager at The Conversation, U.S. Dr. Aaron Bernstein - Interim Director of The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , a pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Cabell Eames - Legislative Manager at the Better Future Project, a Massachusetts-based grassroots climate-action organization. Later in the show… In 2018 Georgia became the center of the national dialogue on voting rights after Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams narrowly lost to Republican Brian Kemp. Abram's loss sparked criticisms of the state's election practices, especially around voter suppression. Now with a major national election upon us, anxiety about the integrity of the United States' electoral system is front and center. A new report from the Scholars Strategy Network outlines the threats undermining voting in the U.S., and offers concrete potential reforms. Guest: Erin O'Brien - Associate professor of Political Science at UMass Boston, a member of the Mass Politics Profs blog and a contributing scholar to the Scholars Strategy Network. —————————————————- Show Credits: That's it for this week's show. You can find UTR on the web at https://www.wgbh.org/news/under-the-radar-with-callie-crossley Subscribe to our show wherever you get your podcasts. “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley” is produced by Franziska Monahan and engineered by Dave Goodman and John Parker. Melissa Rosales is our intern Our theme music is FISH AND CHIPS by #weare2saxys', Grace Kelly and Leo P. Under the Radar is a production of WGBH.

A new Latino Rebels Radio episode will be out later this week, but in the meantime our friends at the Latino Media Collective guest host with this LMC show from mid-July. A lot has gone on in Puerto Rico recently, especially in the area of public education. The LMC speaks with Fernando Tormos about long-time efforts by various administrations to privatize the colony's school system. TelegramGate might have taken down a sitting governor, yet with school starting again in Puerto Rico, the privatization of public schools continues. Tormos is a post-doctoral fellow for the Scholars Strategy Network at the University of Missouri in St Louis.

Puerto Rican Uprising Demands Fundamental Change Beyond the Resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló Fernando Tormos-Aponte, PhD, Scholars Strategy Network postdoctoral fellow at the University of Missouri–St Louis Producer: Scott Harris * Trump’s New Asylum Ban Temporarily Block by Federal Court Angelo Guisado, Staff Attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights Producer: Scott Harris * Poor People’s Campaign Demands Government Action to Address Issues of Poverty Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Producer: Melinda Tuhus

We're taking a summer break during July, but we'll be back in August with new episodes telling the stories of leading research with some of the world's greatest minds. During the break, we'll be bringing you updated versions of prior episodes. This week, we have a guest episode of the No Jargon podcast. The show is produced by the Scholars Strategy Network and features interviews with America's top researchers on the nation's toughest policy problems. This episode highlights the struggles of working mothers in the US.

We are excited to bring you an episode from No Jargon, a podcast from the Scholars Strategy Network. Much like Democracy Works, No Jargon aims to break down some of the biggest issues in politics and society in a way that’s not partisan and not punditry. New episodes are released every Thursday, and we hope […]

Dr. James Lockhart studies the history of American foreign relations, global security and intelligence, and Latin American affairs, particularly southern South America, during the Cold War. A member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Scholars Strategy Network, he has published on the history of the CIA, contributed to War on the Rocks, an online platform for analysis, commentary, debate, and multimedia content on national security and foreign policy, and been interviewed by American and Emirati journalists. His first book, Chile, the CIA, and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. Before joining the faculty in International and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai, he lectured at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence and at the University of Arizona, where he earned his PhD.

Show Me The Money-P1-Topic Introduction-ISPS Special Event How Transparency in Political Donations Could Change American Elections Visit ISPS: https://isps.yale.edu/ The Scholars Strategy Network; https://scholars.org/ Yale University: https://youtu.be/9PHL4kMH1no Under current judicial interpretation, the government has very little wiggle room to curb the spending of money for electioneering. Spending money to influence elections is interpreted as integral to first amendment rights. However, the Supreme Court has signaled that governments are able to compel disclosure of political contributions. Disclosure -- publicizing who donors are, who they are giving to, and how much -- is seen as the primary way that governments can mitigate concerns about the role of money in politics. There are a number of disclosure policy proposals out there, and the goal of this panel is to sort through the various ideas for reform. The lawyers on the panel (Gerken and Potter) will talk about the legal foundations and policy proposals. The political scientists (La Raja and Primo) will talk about the empirical evidence of the effects of disclosure laws. Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions #America #History #Podcast #Education #Not4Profit Footage downloaded and edited by PublicAccessPod Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJb

Ep. 140: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is an associate professor, teaching courses in Election Law, Corporate Governance, Business Entities, and Constitutional Law. Prior to joining Stetson's faculty, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was counsel in the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law where she provided guidance on the issues of money in politics and the judiciary to state and federal lawmakers. She was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP and a staffer for Senator Richard Durbin. Professor Torres-Spelliscy has testified before Congress, and state and local legislative bodies as an expert on campaign finance reform. She has also helped draft legislation and Supreme Court briefs.  She is the editor of the 2010 edition of the Brennan Center's campaign finance treatise, "Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State and Local Campaign Finance Laws." She researches and speaks publicly on campaign finance law as well as judicial selection. She has spoken at symposia at 26 universities around the nation. She presented at the 2013 and the 2015 Annual Conventions of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and at the 2014 Annual Convention of the American Constitution Society, and the 2011, the 2014, and the 2016 Annual Conventions of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL). In 2016 she spoke at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) at a forum on dark money and foreign money in U.S. elections. She is the author of the book Corporate Citizen? An Argument for the Separation of Corporation and State (Carolina Academic Press, 2016).  As well as publishing in law reviews, such as the NYU Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, and the Montana Law Review,  Professor Torres-Spelliscy has been published in the New York Times, New York Law Journal, Slate, L.A. Times, U.S. News and World Report, Boston Review, Roll Call, Business Week, Forbes, The Atlantic, USA Today, Business Ethics Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, Huffington Post, The Root.com, Judicature, The Nation, Salon.com, Tampa Bay Times, The Progressive, CNN.com, Medium, and the ABA Judges Journal. She has also been quoted by the media in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Time, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Newsweek on Air, SCOTUS Blog, Politico, Slate, The National Journal, USA Today, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NBC.com, WMNF, Sirius Radio, National Public Radio, Fox, Voice America, CSPAN, DNA TV, and NY1. In 2014, Stetson University College of Law awarded Professor Torres-Spelliscy the Dickerson-Brown award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship. In 2013, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was named as a member of the Lawyers of Color's "50 Under 50" list of minority law professors making an impact in legal education. In 2012, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was named as a Top Wonk by the website TopWonks.org. She was awarded tenure in 2016. In 2017, she was elected to be Chair of the AALS Section on Election Law for a term that starts in 2018. Professor Torres-Spelliscy is a Brennan Center Fellow, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, a member of the Board of Directors of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, which was awarded the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Listen as Professor Torres-Spelliscy tells Alex about her life's journey, her Multiracial experience, and her journey. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here: MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Come to the first-ever LIVE taping of the Scholars Strategy Network’s podcast, No Jargon. To celebrate No Jargon’s 100th episode, Avi will be joined by researchers from across the country to talk about America’s divided politics, how we got here, and what comes next. Buy tickets at scholars.org/liveshow. In three acts, Avi and his guests will explore our nation’s politics today, and then zoom in on battleground North Carolina and bright blue Massachusetts. Audience members will have the chance to ask the researchers their own questions. Guests for the show include: Sandy Darity, René Flores, Erin O’Brien, Gunther Peck, Theda Skocpol, and Peter Ubertaccio.