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Chicagoland
Chicagoland
17 MAY 2021 · In this episode, we will hear from the HCA Fellows team who partnered with MSBARC (Mid-South Business Association and Resource Center). This team completed an asset-based economic landscape analysis in order to aid MSBARC's understanding of neighborhood trends in the Bronzeville area. The ultimate goal of this landscape analysis was to further economic development in this neighborhood.
Website: https://msbarc.org/
Learn more about HCA:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/harris-community-action/
https://harriscommunityaction.uchicago.edu/
11 MAY 2021 · In this episode, we will hear from one of the HCA Fellows teams who partnered with Sunshine Enterprises. This team developed a logic model for SE's Community Business Academy (CBA), which is a twelve-session course in basic business planning and management. The overall objective of this project was to provide SE with an analytic tool to document CBA activities and facilitate identifying activities that were not being efficiently tracked. Their logic model aided SE in their ability to accurately monitor how and which CBA activities impact participants' understanding and business performance.
Website: https://www.sunshineenterprises.com/
Learn more about HCA:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/harris-community-action/
https://harriscommunityaction.uchicago.edu/
9 MAY 2021 · In this episode, we will hear from the HCA Fellows team who partnered with Chicago NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws). This team completed an organizational strategic plan to provide NORML with a roadmap for future operations, and to help the organization enhance their impact."
Website: https://www.chicagonorml.org/
Find out more about HCA:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/harris-community-action/
https://harriscommunityaction.uchicago.edu/
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6 JUL 2020 · Trigger Warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of police and racial violence.
Recent Harris graduate and former president of Black Action in Public Policy Studies Alexis Pearson chats with Dr. Omar Wasow. He is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He has been researching protests in the United States for the last 15 years. For today's episode, Alexis and Dr. Wasow discuss his recent article, "Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting".
A digital copy of his study is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/agenda-seeding-how-1960s-black-protests-moved-elites-public-opinion-and-voting/136610C8C040C3D92F041BB2EFC3034C
Black Action in Public Policy (BAPPS) is the first student group at the Harris School of Public Policy that specifically focuses on the public policy interests of the Black communities, nationally and globally. Our work focuses on expanding the policy dialogue and promoting transformative change through: strategic and intentional programming; service projects and community outreach; the development of partnerships within the greater Chicago community; and the encouragement of professional networking.
For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/BAPPSatHarris.
https://www.instagram.com/bappsatharris/
Credits:
Alexis Pearson (MPP'20) - Host
Yi Ning Wong (MPP'21) - Producer/Editor
26 MAY 2020 · For today's episode, Steve Crano chats with Dr. William Towns, the Executive Director of Benefit Chicago, and an Adjunct Lecturer of Social Impact at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. This episode was recorded in the summer of 2019.
Credits:
Steve Crano (MPP'20) - Producer/host
Amy Lu (UChicago '23) - Co-editor
David Raban (JD/MPP'20) - Co-editor
19 MAY 2020 · In this episode of Chicagoland, Steve Crano and Kyra Sturgill interview Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health. This interview was recorded in the fall of 2019, months before the Coronavirus pandemic had first surfaced in Wuhan or spread to the United States. Dr. Arwady discusses her path to entering the medical profession and the public health landscape in Chicago. In many ways, Dr. Arwady is the consummate public servant, and her commitment to the City of Chicago and its citizens is readily apparent in this interview.
Podcast Credits:
Kyra Sturgill (MPP'20) - Producer/Co-Interviewer
Stephen Crano (MPP'20) - Producer/Co-Interviewer
Yi Ning Wong (MPP'21) - Editor
12 MAY 2020 · Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President, Government Affairs of the Center for Neighborhood Technology ("CNT"), discusses the state of transportation in Chicagoland, including the implications of the city's implementation of a new ridesharing tax, challenges to achieving transportation equity on the South Side and future considerations for investing in public transit.
Credits:
Steven Spinello (MPP '21) - Host/Producer/Co-Editor
Yi Ning Wong (MPP '21) - Co-Editor
23 OCT 2019 · Steve talks with activist, author, and entrepreneur Jahmal Cole about his organization My Block, My Hood, My City, and growing up in Chicago.
Podcast Production Credit:
Kyra Sturgill and Steve Crano produced and edited
Aishwarya Kumar produced
26 MAY 2019 · Produced and Edited by Kyra Sturgill and Steve Crano
University of Chicago Political Science professor, Cathy Cohen, and her doctoral student, David Knight, discuss their recent survey project “Race and Place: Young Adults and the Future of Chicago.”
30 APR 2019 · This week, Steve Crano and Kyra Sturgill sat down for an interview with Vincent Lane, former director of the Chicago Housing Authority.
Lane’s tenure as chairman led up to the demolition of Chicago’s high rise public housing developments and the initiation of a plan to better integrate public housing properties into the city. It was also scarred by the some bad press and legal encounters with both the ACLU and NRA.
Credits:
Steve Crano and Kyra Sturgill for producing, interviewing, and editing
Theme music by Steve Crano and Blake Daniels
Stories from Chicagoans working to improve their communities.
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