This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by the Getting Smart newsletter: Smart Update. 

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Robert Simmons III. Robert is a scholar and activist on diversity, equity and inclusion. Robert serves as a Scholar in Residence and a Scholar of Antiracist of Antiracist Praxis in the School of Education at American University and as a member of the Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan.

Let’s listen in as they discuss new social contracts, longtime DEI advocacy, compounding crises, food programs and much more.