UC3P: The Main Page

NYU Law Professor Samuel Isacharoff discusses the United States Supreme Court and the impact it has had on democracy and election.

Olu Ogidan (MPP ’21), for co-producing and co-interviewing
Sowmya Karun (MAIDP ’20), for co-producing and co-interviewing
Bryce Fields (MAPSS ’17), for co-producing and co-interviewing
David Raban (JD/MPP ’20), for engineering and editing.

Big ups as well to 2019-20’s other APMs: Arjun Motta, Sidhant Wadhera, and Suo Wu.

Congratulations to Sidhant Wadhera, who will now be the new Main Page Production Manager.

Finally, thank you to everyone who made this happen during the last four years, including: Bryce Fields, Meghana Chandra, Max Hamrick, Beth Karp, Peter Biava, Jack Coghlan, Matthew Foldi, Gil Gustavo, Lucía Delgado Sanchez, Himanshu Dave, Elaine Li, Coco Yim, Julian Lake, Anita Joshi, Jason Zukus, Sid Ramakrishna, Vishwanath Venkata, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Kjersten Adams, Nick McFadden, Gregory Wong, Jessica Breznick, Thomas Krasnican, Nick Paraiso, Haz Yano, Aishwarya Kumar, Kat Burnham, Stormy Kim, Susan Paykin, Lauren Li, Lilian Huang, Alec MacMillen, Iszy Licht, Edoardo Otiz, Prabhat Singh, Sushmita Singha, Josh Laven, Jon Wenger, Sawyer Middeleer, Andrew Weis, Yue Wang, Annie Ma, Jinglin Fu, Anna-Elise Smith, Miranda Zhang, Mew Jiang, Yuanjin Xia, Cecilia Xiao, Shiyu Wen, Olina Yang, Franziska Harling, Katie James, Emily Kelin, Ivanna Shevel, Steve Crano, Krya Sturgill, Rimsha Nazeer, Rei Bertoldi, Kurt Nugent, James Johnson, Olive Gardner, Sowmya Karun, Suo Wu, Arjun Motta, Olu Ogidan, Sidhant Wadhera, Mwangi Thuita, Sonnet Frisbie, Manuel Bustamante, Marina Milazewska, Aishwarya Raje, Donovan Harvey, Jordyn Mahome, Amy Lu, Caroline Kubzansky, James Hu, Yash Kirkire, Irene Sanpietro, Joana Lepuri, Jacob Leppek, Tala Ali-Hasan, Advait Ganapathy, Mew Tachibana, Fanmei Xia, Yi Ning Wong, and dozens of other students, administrators, and friends who have podcasted with us, supported us, and helped make this happen.

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Content Warning: This episode contains explicit language.

Welcome to our newest mini-series: Policy Jam. In this series of quarterly episodes, we’ll first explore a topic through an interview with a policy expert, and then we’ll write a song about it.

Today’s topic is immigration. Carmelo de Grazia and Olu Ogidan spoke with Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute. Her research expertise includes U.S. legal immigration processes, the employment-based immigration system, and unaccompanied child migrants. Later in the episode, Olu Ogidan and David Raban rap about immigration policy

Carmelo de Grazia (BA ’23), for interviewing
Olu Ogidan (MPP ’21), for producing, interviewing, scripting, rapping, and editing
David Raban (JD/MPP ’20), for scripting, rapping, and editing

In Naked Love 6, we explore what folks’ relationships have been like during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We hosted a group conversation to hear how both new and long-term relationships have adjusted during these strange times. Brianne Johnson, a graduate student at VCU’s Brandcenter, takes us through reconciling commitment with her own changing ambitions as she thinks through graduation, while Jenish Patel and Reema Rao-Patel talk about how the dynamics in their marriage have shifted since quarantining together.

Because of the pandemic, the Naked Love team could not produce the episode as it normally does, so this episode features Arjun Motta leading the group interview. Thanks to Brianne Johnson, Reema Rao-Patel, and Dr. Jenish Patel for their participation. Special thanks to Ivanna Shevel (College ’21) & Emily Kelin (MPP ’20) for their input throughout the process.

In this episode, the Main Page team got to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Butts, Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Director of the John Jay Research and Evaluation Center. Dr. Butts walked us through gun violence as a public health issue – what sorts of interventions have been researched, the degrees of success, and how we should be approaching this issue to solve it at its root.

Podcast Production Credits:

Arjun Motta (MBA/MPP ’22), for producing and engineering
Sidhant Wadhera (MPP ’21), for interviewing and editing

In this episode, the Main Page team got to speak with Mary Stonor Saunders, Executive Director of Strides for Peace. Strides for Peace is an organization that aims to empower, amplify, and collaborate with community groups working to end gun violence in Chicago.

Podcast Production Credits:
Arjun Motta (MBA/MPP ’22), for producing and engineering
Sidhant Wadhera (MPP ’21), for co-interviewing
Caroline Kubzansky (BA ’21), for co-interviewing and editing

For the next three episodes, UC3P: The Main Page presents a three episode mini-series: Gun Violence: The Other Epidemic.

In this episode, we focus on policy advocacy. We spoke with Kris Brown, the President of Brady. Brady is a nonprofit organization working to help end America’s gun violence epidemic. In our conversation, Ms. Brown spoke about Brady's policies and initiatives, what’s missing at the federal level, and gun violence’s impact as a voting issue.

You can see the video of Ms. Brown's talk at the University of Chicago Law School's symposium on gun violence here:

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/recordings/symposium-gun-violence-politics-and-policy-issues

Podcast Production Credits:

Arjun Motta (MBA/MPP ’22), for producing and engineering
Caroline Kubzansky (BA ’21), for co-interviewing
Sidhant Wadhera (MPP ’21), for co-interviewing and editing

Dr. Raghuram Rajan discusses the economic impact of COVID-19 and the associated policy responses in both the United States and developing countries. Dr. Rajan is a former head of the Reserve Bank of India –– which is India’s equivalent of the Federal Reserve –– and is now the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Sidhant Wadhera (MPP ’21), for producing, co-interviewing, and editing
Arjun Motta (MBA/MPP ’22), for co-interviewing

Anna Carroll of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzes the US policy responses to COVID-19 and gives insight into the best and worst-case scenarios for how the virus could play out.

Here are Ms. Carroll's most recent articles:

On Privacy: https://www.csis.org/analysis/find-my-friends-pandemic-future-contact-tracing-america

On Scenarios: https://www.csis.org/analysis/which-covid-19-future-will-we-choose

On Prevention: https://www.csis.org/analysis/ounce-prevention-worth-pound-cure

Podcast Production Credits:

Caroline Kubzansky (BA'21), for co-producing, co-interviewing, and editing
David Raban (JD/MPP'20) for co-interviewing
Sidhant Wadhera (MPP'21) for co-producing

Last week, we shared some reflections from the Harris community to tell us how they’ve been coping at this moment. Today, we asked students how they've been sheltering at home.

Podcast Production Credits:

Yi Ning Wong (MPP '21), for producing and interviewing
Rachel Li (MPP'20), for editing
David Raban (JD/MPP '20), for supervising

Special thanks to Arjun Motta, TJ Chatto, Aliya Bean, Yahan Cheng, and Nelson Puc Cruz for sharing their stories.