In this episode of What Do You Understand? We revisit historical landmarks of activism with author and historian, Nico Slate, while deciphering modern-day activism and its effectiveness in delivering change.

Nico Slate is a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India, which he wrote while completing his PhD at Harvard University. Nico is the founder of the Bajaj Lab for Rural Development, which helps document and support the Bajaj Foundation’s efforts to create a model of rural development for India and the world, as well as SocialChange101.org, a free online educational resource and youth workshop series for students of social change.

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