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MSSP Welcome: Ice Cream Social

Caster Building Courtyard

Join the Master of Science in Social Policy program faculty, staff, students, and alum for an afternoon of ice cream, games, and fun! Please RSVP.

MSSP Penn Libraries Orientation

Please join us for a virtual research orientation tailored for MSSP students, presented by Sam Kirk, Social Sciences Librarian at Penn Libraries. This session will cover accessing policy briefs, tracking policy-shaping legislation, finding public and proprietary datasets, and searching for background scholarly literature in public policy journals. The workshop will include built-in time for structured […]

NPL/MSSP DIY Home Décor Workshop

Get your creative juices flowing and join us for a DIY workshop experience with your fellow NPL and MSSP colleagues! During this guided workshop led by AR Workshop: Chestnut Hill, students will have the option to create a plank sign or decorative tray. Students must RSVP and reserve their project beforehand. Spots are limited. You […]

MSSP Social Policy Speaker Series ft. Dr. Andrew Zitcer

Caster Building - Room D28 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism Please join us at the MSSP Social Policy Speaker Series featuring Dr. Andrew Zitcer, an associate professor of Urban Strategy at Drexel University, to discuss his recent book publication. He studies cooperative social and economic practices as well as the arts as a vehicle for community transformation. He is […]

The Challenges of Reforming the Criminal Justice System – Taylor Pacheco

Caster Building - Room 311 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

Taylor Pacheco is the Deputy Director of Philadelphia lawyers for Social Equity. She has a wide range of experience assisting clients in the criminal legal system including at Community Legal Services, the Support Center for Child Advocates, and multiple Public Defenders offices. Join MSSP class Law and Policy (MSSP 6310) to learn about the movement […]

The Movement for a Civil Right to Counsel – Len Reiser

Caster Building - Room 311 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

Len Rieser is Program Coordinator for the Sheller Center for Social Justice, and also teaches the Access to Justice Clinic and Education Law at Temple University. He is the former Executive Director of the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania (ELC-PA), where he spent a long career advocating for the legal rights of children in Pennsylvania’s […]

The 3rd Annual Edmund W. Gordon Social Policy/Social Justice Lecture – Schooling Against the Prison: Education Policy in the Age of Incarceration

Houston Hall - Bodek Lounge 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA

The MS in Social Policy program is pleased to invite you to the third annual Edmund W. Gordon Social Policy/Social Justice lecture featuring Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, moderated by Dr. Ezekiel-Dixon-Román. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at […]

MSSP Social Policy Speaker Series ft. Dr. Beatrice Fazi

Caster Building - Room 309/310 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

Causal Reasoning and Computation Please join us at the next MSSP Social Policy Speaker Series event featuring Dr. M. Beatrice Fazi, Reader in Digital Humanities in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the ontologies and epistemologies produced by contemporary technoscience, particularly in relation to issues in […]

Addressing the Legal Problems of Low-Income Homeowners and Tenants – Dina Scholsberg

Caster Building - Room 311 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

Dina Schlosberg is the Deputy Director of Regional Housing Legal Services and a lecturer at Penn Law. Dina has more than 20 years of experience in the area of real estate law, concentrating primarily on community development and economic development initiatives. Join MSSP class Law and Policy (MSSP 631) to learn about the movement towards […]

Education Policy – Paige Joki

Caster Building - Room 311 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA

Paige Joki is a staff attorney at the Education Law Center, where she represents students, conducts trainings, and advocates to address the individual and systemic educational barriers facing students in Pennsylvania. She is responsible for leading the Education Law Center’s Black girls’ education justice initiatives. Join MSSP class Law and Policy (MSSP 6310) to learn […]