Inclusionism

JFK sits down with Historian Ben Hett on his new book, pout in paperback, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic.

Benjamin Hett was born in Rochester, New York but grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, leaving him with a lifelong if mostly heartbreaking attachment to the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL. He earned a BA in Political Science and English Literature from the University of Alberta (1987) and then a J.D. from the University of Toronto (1990). Four years of legal practice – it felt like eight – convinced him to return to the University of Toronto for an MA in History (1995) before he moved on to Harvard for a Ph.D. (2001). For two years he taught in the History and Literature program at Harvard alongside advising graduate students at the Harvard Law School. In 2003 he joined the faculty of Hunter College and in 2006 that of the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Hett’s work has gradually shifted from a focus on the theory and practice of criminal law in Germany, through the legacy of National Socialism in postwar Germany, to the Second World War on the Eastern front and the work of West German intelligence services in the 1950s. He is the author of three books (Death in the Tiergarten, 2004; Crossing Hitler, 2008; Burning the Reichstag, 2014) and a number of articles. Hett has been a recipient of the Hans Rosenberg Prize for the best article on German history by a North American scholar; the Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library in London; and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

JFK sits down with rapper Mickey Factz & neuroscientist/rapper Micah Brown to talk about mapping the brain and culture as a result.

Mickey Factz, is a world renowned freestyler and American hip hop recording artist from the Bronx borough of New York City. His Discography is

Albums

2016: The Achievement

2018: The New Museum

2018: I Said Yo

Mixtapes

2006: In Search Of N*E*R*D

2007: Flashback Vol.1: Back to the Future

2007: Heaven's Fallout

2008: The Leak Vol.1: The Understanding

2008: The Leak Vol.2: The Inspiration

2010: thedarkphoenix#ALPHA

2010: I'm Better Than You

2011: Heaven's Fallout: 4th Anniversary Re-Release

2011: Love.Lust.Lost

2012: Mickey MauSe

2012: #Y

2012: #Ynot

2014: 740 Park Ave

2014: Love.Lust.Lost.II

2015: Y3

Micah Brown is a native if London is the General Partner at Centiment Capital, an NYC based VC Fund.

Centiment Capital is the only Venture Capital firm in the US to focus on investing in technical founders of color working on Deep Tech and Neuroscience business problems, leveraging its unique IP Syndication Financing Model, Valuation Artifical Intelligence tools and Mezzanine Financing Models to fund pre-seed and seed stage startups.

Micah is also the CEO and Founder of Centiment, a Neurodata AI Company, and Filmfundr, which is AI driven Film Technology, which was acquired by Battery Park Entertainment in 2018.

Micah has worked as a senior level technology consultant and manager within the insurance industry for Aon as well as in commercial, retail and investment banking at Barclays. Micah has also worked within media technology for Viacom and NBC and has a culminate 14 years of technology experience as an Engineer and C Level Executive.

Micah pioneered Neurodata driven Artificial Intelligence, and the field he created, Neurosentiment, in as early as 2014, writing groundbreaking white papers and ultimately being the first person of color to commission a Neuroscience AI study with the Kansas University Medical Center and to gain investment from Sprint in American History. In 2019, Micah made history again by being the first POC in US history to win various awards at MIT for his work.

Micah grew up in Catford, South London, raised by great parents despite many economic hardships. Micah received National Honors from Uxbridge College, and gained the opportunity due to his academic and work achievements to move to the US in 2013.

Micah has done a great deal of charitable work also, working on the CCNY Codes initiative which saw 300 young people of color from CCNY gain roles at Amazon, Facebook and Google, for the first time in the colleges 113 year history.

This week, JFK talking about Law & Happiness with Christopher Buccafusco, Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property & Information Law Program at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

Professor Buccafusco's research employs empirical social science methods to test fundamental assumptions about how the intellectual property system functions. IP law attempts to affect people's creative behavior by offering them incentives to innovate, share, and use new works and inventions, but very little is known about whether these incentives actually work. Using novel creativity experiments, Professor Buccafusco's research has shown that creators often do not behave the way that IP law assumes they will. His studies have explored how different kinds of incentives affect creativity, how creators think about borrowing from others' efforts, and how creators assign value to their innovations. The results of these studies challenge important aspects of IP law, and they suggest opportunities for improving the legal system and creative economies.

Professor Buccafusco has teamed up with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and colleagues at Northwestern University to co-host the fifth annual Workshop on Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property. Professor Buccafusco, David Schwartz, and the PTO's Chief Economists founded the workshop four years ago. The workshop allows researchers from around the world to present early stage empirical projects so they can receive feedback before they begin collecting data. This enables them to refine their ideas and methods and to improve the value of the resulting data.

Prior to coming to Cardozo, Professor Buccafusco taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He won the SBA teaching award in his first year on the faculty, and he later won the university-wide teaching award. At Chicago-Kent, Professor Buccafusco co-founded the Center for Empirical Study of Intellectual Property.

JFK talks with Finn Brunton Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University on his latest book Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Technologists, and Utopians Who Created Cryptocurrency (Princeton, 2019)

Finn Brunton is also the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press, 2013), Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest with Helen Nissenbaum (MIT Press, 2015), Communication with Mercedes Bunz and Paula Bialski (University of Minnesota Press/Meson, 2019), and Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Technologists, and Utopians Who Created Cryptocurrency (Princeton University Press, 2019) along with numerous articles and papers.

JFK talks homelessness with NYC activist Wendy O'Shields about her in homelessness with the City departments of NYC.

I work as a Housing Advocate for the Homeless and Welfare Reform in the City of New York. My advocacy has improved the City of New York’s Department of Homeless Services treatment of shelter residents. My advocacy for Welfare Reform has lessened barriers for no to low-income people’s ability to access vital public benefits at the City of New York’s Human Resource Administration.

My work is very much needed to insure that many New Yorkers rights are protected while Homeless or while in need of public benefits. I am working to increase affordable housing for no to middle-income housing stock in the City of New York! Building or renovating apartments is a beginning to house the growing Homeless population in New York City.

I believe that developing mixed-use rental properties for New Yorkers with no to middle-income and having a portion of apartments for ownership an option to increase affordable housing in NYC. The CityFHEPS voucher, New York State and HUD housing programs, and private funding can be accessed as a means for funding and tenant rent.

Please see our Press Release on the NYC Public Advocate's Department of Homeless Services Shelter Residents Transfers report on the steps at City Hall.

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2436718569724921&id=136561899740611&set=a.2436717033058408

http://www.safetynetactivists.org/new-york-city-shelter-transfers

This week, JFK talked education and policy with Principal Mahaliel Bethea of the famed boys school Eagle Academy @EAFNYC.

Born and raised in the South Bronx, He began his teaching career by way of Teach for America in the very neighborhood he grew up in. Before transitioning into school leadership, Mr. Bethea founded and developed an award winning step team and a international travel abroad program, which provided opportunities for students to travel to Costa Rica, Japan, Peru, Spain and China. In addition to his work with student activities, he served as Grade Team Chair, History Department Head, School Leadership Team Member, Professional Development Team Member, Dean of Students and Dean of Instruction before founding his own school in 2013

Mr. Bethea now serves as the Founding Principal of the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem. Eagle Harlem is a 6-12 public school unconditionally committed to the development of young men committed to the pursuit of academic excellence, strong character and responsible leadership.

Kaliya Young (formerly Hamlin) is an expert in self-sovereign identity and identity on the blockchain. She is the co-author of a Comprehensive guide to Self-Sovereign Identity and is widely known as Identity Woman (its also the name of her blog and her twitter handle). She is committed her life to the development of an open standards based layer of the internet that empowers people.

Community Builder

In 2005, Young co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop with Doc Searls and Phil Windley. Five years later she founded the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium to catalyze a network of companies working to give individuals the tools to collect, manage and gain value from their own personal data generated actively and passively as they interact with all kinds of digital systems. In 2016 she began the Identity Ecosystem Map project and collaborating in leading its development. She consults with and advises companies seeking to develop products in this ecosystem. She is the co-founder with Shireen Mitchel of HumanFirst.Tech a project focused the needs of diverse communities and building an inclusive industry.

Young has been named one of the most influential women in tech by Fast Company Magazine. She has presented keynotes to the MyData, Identiverse and Gartner’s Identity and Access Management Summit in London. She has spoken at, the K(no)w Identity conference, EMMA’s IEES conference, DWeb Summit, European Identity Conference, Gnomedex, Data Week, Privacy Identity and Innovation, NIST’s IDTrust Conference, SXSW and BlogHer.

She has been quoted in a range of media including the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Business Week, and ReadWriteWeb.

Institutional Liaison

Young has worked directly with the US Government (NSTIC & DHS S&T) and the Government of British Columbia, and in 2012 she was honored by the World Economic Forum. She was an active contributor to the WEF Rethinking Personal Data Project for its duration 2010-2014. She in the first cohort to graduate from a Masters of Science in Identity Management and Security from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2017. Her masters report, Domains of Identity, is a comprehensive framework explaining all the domains of identity where individuals personal data ends up in databases.

She was elected in August 2012 to the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Identity Ecosystem Steering Committee, Management Council as the Consumer Advocate delegate. She is currently active on a range of industry groups a list of industry affiliations is here .

Privacy Advocate

Kaliya identifies as a nymwarrior because she was personally affected by Google’s insistence she use her real name as the headline on her profile along with others fighting for the right to have different, unlinked persona’s, different identifiers for different contexts online.

Kaliya’s firm, Unconference.net specializes in designing and facilitating unconferences for a variety of technical communities world wide. In 2007 she founded the well known ‘She’s Geeky‘ women’s only technology Unconfernece (hosting 10 to date). She is a co-leader of Digital Death Day an unconfernece considering the issues surrounding the digital afterlife including what happens to your data after you die (two a year in 2010, 2011 on each side of the Atlantic).

Awards

Best Paper ID360 Conference, 2013 for A Field Guide to Internet Trust Models

World Economic Forum, Young Global Leader 2012. Kaliya Hamlin tackles our online identities in San Jose Mercury News 03/06/2012

Fast Company Magazine, Most Influential Women in Technology 2009

Digital Identity World Award 2006 for “behind the scenes” work on IIW and the Identity Gang.

Gold Medal, Canadian Women’s National Water Polo Team, Pan-American Games 1999

UC Berkeley Women’s Water Polo Team, 2nd in the country 1996, 1997, 1998

Andy Stern, retired in 2010 and is now President Emeritus of the 2.2-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest union of health care, doctors, nurses, janitors, security officers, child care, home care, hospital, and state workers. SEIU grew by more than 1.2 million workers during his tenure, raised the nation’s largest political action fund, led the efforts to pass Obamacare, and turned thousands of traditionally underpaid service work into jobs that can help support a family.

Called a "courageous, visionary leader who charted a bold new course for American unionism," Mr. Stern has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN and on the covers of the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Business Week, as well as being named the Fox Power Player of the Week.

Mr. Stern was a Presidential Appointee on the Simpson-Bowles Commission and is now a Senior Fellow at The Economic Security Project and Chair of the Board of the Broad Center.

His first book A Country That Works was published in 2005, and his second book published in 2015----Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Restore the American Dream highlights the threat to work and workers of rapidly advancing technological change, and explains how a universal basic income is a real solution.

Dan Hogle (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-hogle-15b23364)

of the Black Institute (https://twitter.com/theblackinst)

Dan Hogle was born in Syracuse New York. Parents both worked in mental health field. After attending SUNY OSWEGO where he studied mass communication and political science he began working in local politics. The first campaign was in 2012 as a canvasser going door to door to oust a tea party republican.

A few years later he moved to New York City where for the better part of 4 years he worked as a state senate staffer and occasional political field work. He spent most of 2018 campaigning for candidates up and down the ballot.

For the past 9 months he has worked as a campaign organizer for the Black Institute. (A think tank that takes action, founded by Bertha Lewis).

Most of that time has been focused on the movement to legalize marijuana in New York State and looking at the progress still to be made in the upcoming session.

JFK talked with Steven Schwartz (@TheCyberSteve) a Top Insurance & Cyber Industry influencer speaks on the role of regulation in cyber resilience.

Steven Schwartz is the VP of Strategy and Insurance at Cytegic, quantifying cyber risk across the entire insurance and risk value chain. Mr. Schwartz was most recently a Managing Director at CEO Quest, working with venture capital funds coaching tech-company CEOs towards accelerated company growth within the insurance industry. Recognized as an innovation leader in the fields of risk management and cybersecurity, Mr. Schwartz is a Co-Founder of The Data Union and previously founded GCC, a firm providing strategic advisory support to companies managing their risk profiles. Mr. Schwartz was the SVP of Business Development & Senior Managing Consultant at UIC, Inc., where he personally managed and negotiated the risk management & insurance programs for F2000 entities paying in excess of $50M in Annual Premium across 40 countries. Mr. Schwartz began his career as the 20th employee as a Data QA Engineer at healthcare analytics start-up, TreoSolutions, through the company’s nine-figure exit five years later as a Senior Data Analyst with 180 employees.