A Correction Podcast

Madhavi Venkatesan is an academic economist and environmental activist. She earned doctorate, master’s and bachelors degrees in economics from Vanderbilt University, a master’s in sustainability and environmental management from Harvard University, and a master’s in environmental law and policy from Vermont Law School.  She is presently an economics professor at Northeastern University.

In 2016, Madhavi established Sustainable Practices, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission “to facilitate a culture of sustainability as defined by reducing the human-made impact to the planet and its ecosystems” within Barnstable County, Massachusetts and is the organization’s executive director. In 2019, Sustainable Practices initiated the Municipal Plastic Bottle Ban campaign. By November 18, 2019, 11 towns of the 15 that comprise Barnstable County, Cape Cod, adopted the Municipal Plastic Bottle Ban. As of spring 2020, Sustainable Practices filed the Municipal Plastic Bottle Ban in the remaining 4 towns and initiated the Commercial Single-use Plastic Water Bottle Ban campaign in the 11 towns that successfully adopted the Municipal Plastic Bottle Ban.

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Alina Bartscher is a PhD candidate at the University of Bonn. Her research fields are applied macroeconomics, inequality and household finance. She completed her master’s degree at the University of Mannheim.

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The Ethical Schools Team interviews Lev about teaching economics.

Richard Miller and Jon Moscow on the 2020 election. Richard Miller taught high school and middle school history for 28 years in NYC. Jon Moscow is a co-host on A Correction Podcast.

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DR. GEORGE A. TILESCH is a senior global innovation and AI expert who is a conduit and trusted advisor between the US and EU ecosystems, specializing in AI Strategy, Ethics, Impact, Policy, and Governance. Most recently, he was Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer for Global Affairs at Ipsos, a global Top 3 research firm, where he led the Digital Impact & Governance research and advisory practice and coordinated AI thought leadership. His global senior executive and strategy consulting leadership track record span decades with government leaders worldwide; Microsoft and Fortune 50 Tech corporations; international organizations and global think tanks; startups/scaleups; and global social innovation leaders. A senior consultant and frequent keynote speaker at major innovation conferences and a guest lecturer at US and EU universities, George is leading an AI Policy Working Group for Club De Madrid-World Leadership Alliance on AI, Trust & Democracy and is involved in multiple World Economic Forum Experts Groups, designing AI government strategy, and AI regulatory frameworks.

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Marina Mendes Tavares is an economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before joining the Fund, Marina worked as an assistant professor at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an MA from the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). Her research interests include macroeconomics, public finance, gender, and inequality. Her research is available at: https://sites.google.com/site/mmtecon/

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Michael Bankole is a PhD candidate at King's College London, studying race, racism, and political representation. He is the cohost of the podcast Politics JaM.

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Dr. Jonathan DeVore is Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. DeVore received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and has held postdoctoral research and teaching positions at Yale University, Miami University, the University of Cologne, and the University of Bonn. He has been conducting ethnographic and ethnohistorical research in northeastern Brazil since 2002, for nearly two decades. His research focuses on topics ranging from racialization, social hierarchies, land grabs, and social movements to multispecies ethnography, conservation politics, resilience, and climate change. Dr. DeVore’s current book project, under contract with the University of Washington Press, is entitled Emancipation Work: Reconstruction and Renewal in the Aftermath of Brazilian Slavery. The first book in a trilogy, Emancipation Work traces the multigenerational struggles by which freed slaves, their descendants, and other members of the rural poor have sought to realize the promise of freedom in Brazil’s post-emancipation period. Dr. DeVore has published articles in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals, such as Anthropological Quarterly (forthcoming), The Journal of Peasant Studies, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Dialectical Anthropology, Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés, Ethnobiology Letters, and the Journal of Political Ecology, as well as in venues for public scholarship, such as NACLA Report on the Americas.

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We ask Marii Paskov and Patrick Präg if downward social mobility makes people more hostile towards immigrants. Marii Paskov is a sociologist and an academic researcher working on socio-economic inequalities. Currently she is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, affiliated to the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Nuffield College, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Patrick Präg works as an assistant professor at CREST/ENSAE and is an associate member of Oxford University’s Nuffield College. He does research on social stratification, social demography, health and wellbeing, and work and family reconciliation.

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We speak with Dr. Logan D. A. Williams about global health innovation. Logan D. A. Williams teaches the capstone course for the Science, Technology and Society Scholars Program and a course on engineering ethics for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. Previously, at Michigan State University, she taught “Introduction to History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science” in Lyman Briggs College (also a living–learning community) and a graduate course, “Qualitative Field Methods,” in the Department of Sociology. In the classroom, Williams uses evidence-based techniques that enhance students’ ability to communicate professionally, conduct research and analyze findings.

Topically, Williams studies health and information technology; however, her broad research interests are: responsible research, inclusive design, gendered innovation, innovation from below, technology transfer, technology users/non-users, and technology governance. She organizes the knowledge from the margins scholarly network and, in 2015, organized a conference by the same name, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her doctorate in science and technology studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute involved multi-sited research in North America, Africa and Asia funded by NSF, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Rensselaer, and Council of Women World Leaders.

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