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What would it look like to recognize social media as integral to our reality? SP2’s Dr. Desmond Patton discusses this and other aspects of social media, including its use by young people as a storytelling mechanism and tool for navigating safety, with host and fellow Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Kevin B. Johnson.
The current movement for guaranteed income has roots in the anti-poverty activism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Marketplace’s “Make Me Smart” podcast, Dr. Stacia West, co-founding director of #PennSP2’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research, discusses the history and potential of guaranteed income with hosts Kimberly Adams and Kai Ryssdal.
Can AI help increase civic engagement? SP2 MSSP alum Daniel S. Schiff, assistant professor of political science at Purdue University, collaborated on a study at Purdue’s Governance and Responsible AI Lab about whether generative AI could help citizens identify their elected officials and draft correspondence to them.
In a story about D.C. mothers who received guaranteed income through the one-year Strong Families, Strong Futures pilot, Dr. Stacia West of SP2’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research says that while data from such pilots show benefits to participants, there has been slow movement towards creation of guaranteed income policies.
Dr. Elizabeth DeYoung, a research scientist at SP2’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research, is the author of the new book “Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’: Girdwood Barracks and the Story of the Peace Process,” which critiques a major investment in a former conflict zone and an internationally significant peacebuilding project.
Fascinated by Belfast as a student, Dr. Elizabeth DeYoung began to knock on doors to discuss issues of housing and land use with community groups. Now, having spent the better part of a decade in the city, she has published a book that traces a missed opportunity to address housing needs in North Belfast.
How can city leaders work across sectoral boundaries to improve outcomes for residents? SP2’s Dr. Chao Guo, professor of nonprofit management and faculty director of the Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership Program, presents scholarly research on cross-sector collaborations in a conversation with Tulsa, Oklahoma Mayor G.T. Bynum and host Stephen Goldsmith of the Harvard Kennedy School.
Ken Miles, executive director of SP2’s Penn Center for Inclusive Innovation & Technology, discussed the unsung importance of lived experience, care, and showing up for the community during a lecture at Columbia University School of Professional Studies.
SP2’s Katherina “Kat” Rosqueta was named #85 as one of 25 individuals on the “Philanthropy 100” list by Unboxed Philanthropy Advisors. As founding executive director of SP2’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP), Rosqueta leads a multidisciplinary team to help philanthropy do more good.
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the legality of fining or arresting people who are experiencing homelessness, SP2’s Dennis Culhane points to the underlying cause of U.S. homelessness as a lack of the affordable and accessible housing that was available throughout much of the twentieth century.