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Steve Crano (MPP ’20) spoke with Greg Gershuny, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program. They talked about Aspen Institute’s role on policy education, the upcoming Inter-Policy School Summit, and Greg’s work in the Obama administration.

Steve and Greg Gershuny worked together to put on this year’s Inter-Policy School Summit. The 2020 IPSS will be hosted at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, just as it was last year. Check out the webpage below for more information:

https://www.harrispublicpolicy-summit.com

You can also find out information about the 2020 Future Leader’s Climate Summit at the webpage below:

https://www.flcs2020.org

Podcast Production Credits:

Steve Crano, for interviewing
Suo Wu, for producing, engineering, and editing

Today, we introduce our newest mini-series: Bite-Size Policy.

Bite-Size Policy is a collaboration with the Paul Douglas Institute, where researchers from this student-run think tank at the University of Chicago present their research in a way that enables our viewers to know the issues and what they can do about it.

In this episode, Jacob Leppek (MSCAPP '21) spoke with researchers Rory Gates (BA '22) and Jack Votava (BA '21) to discuss their recent paper on referenda. This paper examines referendum data from Illinois since 1980 on topics like criminal justice, government structure, and tax policy. They find that Presidential elections and higher voter turnout both significantly negatively impact pro-referendum vote share, and that the passage rate of each referenda varies significantly with policy topic area. During low turnout elections, referenda are much less likely to pass.

Podcast Production Credits:

Jacob Leppek, interviewing
Miranda Zhang, editing
Joana Lepuri, engineering and producing
Sowmya Karun, production assistance

Links:

PDI home page: https://www.pauldouglasinstitute.org
Referenda paper page: https://www.pauldouglasinstitute.org/Publications/Assessing-the-Illinois-Referendum-as-a-Tool-for-Democracy

For this episode we talk with Lauren Sampson, a civil rights attorney who focuses on impact litigation. She works for a nonprofit, Lawyers for Civil Rights. They’ve done work on immigrants’ rights, economic justice, and police accountability. We spoke with her about her recent work in education equity, climate justice, and other civil rights issues.

Podcast Production Credit:

Irene SanPietro, for co-producing and interviewing
Arjun Motta, for co-producing and engineering
David Raban, for editing

Today’s episode is an interview with Jane Coaston, a reporter who reports on conservatism for Vox and co-host of the podcast, The Weeds.

We spoke with her about the different types of conservatism, including fiscal conservatism and movement conservatism. We also asked her if she ever feels that she needs to act “balanced” in her journalism and what she thinks it would take for Republican Senators to vote for removal of President Trump.

Podcast Production Credit:

Sowmya Karun, for producing and co-interviewing
Fanmei Xia, for engineering
David Raban, for co-interviewing and editing

Special thanks to the University of Chicago Institute of Politics for inviting Jane Coaston to be an IOP fellow.

Julian Lake (MPP '19) talks with Professor Eric Oliver about nationalism and populism. He teaches political science at the University of Chicago, and his research focuses include contemporary American politics, political psychology, and public support for conspiracy theories. This interview was originally recorded in early 2018 and edited for November 2019.

Podcast Production Credit:

Julian Lake, for producing, interviewing, and engineering
David Raban, for producing and editing

David Raban is our Production Manager

Music is “Knockout 2” by Da Tooby
“Yes Yes Ya’ll” by Matt Large

Cover art by Shirin Raban

Evan Smith is a public interest attorney and the Director of Advocacy for AppalReD, a nonprofit that gives free legal services in rural Appalachia. We spoke about what it’s like to work in rural America, the legal issues people face in that part of the country, and what we can do to help.

In full disclosure, the interviewer, David Raban, worked for AppalReD for ten weeks this past summer and was paid for that work through the University of Chicago Law School and the Rural Summer Legal Corps, a collaboration between Equal Justice Works and the Legal Services Corporation.

Podcast Production Credits

David Raban, for producing, engineering, interviewing, and editing

Music is “Knockout 2” by Da Tooby
“Yes Yes Ya’ll” by Matt Large

Cover art by Shirin Raban

Special thanks to everyone at AppalReD

Today, we’re back with our most popular mini-series: Naked Love. This episode is all about finding the perfect match. We talk about dating algorithms, matchmaking services, and social matches.

The Naked Love Team consists of Emily Kelin, Olina Yang, Franziska Harling, Ivanna Shevel, and Katie James.

Special thanks to Susan Paykin and Lauren Li for producing.

David Raban is our Production Manager

Music:
“Knockout 2” by Da Tooby
“De Nada” by Timothy Infinite
“Grey Hermatite” by Sarah, The Instrumentalist
“Earl Grey” by Dylan Sitts
“Gravy” by Jobii
“Swank Attack” by Gustaav
“Loops and Hoops” by Amber Spill

Cover art by Shirin Raban

We speak with award-winning author and activist Marianne Williamson, who is running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. She spoke with UC3P about a number of topics, including foreign policy and her Department of Peace, healthcare for undocumented immigrants, reparations, values in making public policy, and truth.

Podcast Production Credit:

Aishwarya Kumar, for interviewing
Alec MacMillen, for interviewing
Iszy Licht, for engineering
David Raban, for producing and editing

David Raban is our Production Manager

Special thanks to Marianne Williamson and her team for coming to the University of Chicago and speaking with our podcasters! Also, special thanks for the Harris School of Public Policy’s Communications Team, Marketing Team, Events Team, and Facilities Team for helping us in preparation with this interview.

Today, we speak with Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison. We spoke with him about impeachment, the health of Senator Bernie Sanders, the vaping crisis, and the No Ban Act. His new podcast is "Affording Your Life with Keith Ellison."

Credits:
David Raban, for producing, interviewing, and editing
Haz Yano, for engineering

David Raban is our Production Manager

Special thanks to Attorney General Ellison, and to his team, who put in a lot of work to help make this episode happen. Also, special thanks to the Harris School of Public Policy for helping us create our new studio. That includes Billy Morgan, Andrew Dawson, Jodi Daily, Eric Thomas, Jeff Zoline, Fay Booker, and so many others.

Welcome to Season Four of UC3P! This eponymously named podcast is on politics, policy, and current affairs, and it's made entirely by students at the University of Chicago.

This season, we're excited to bring a number of changes to the show. First, all episodes will be 15-30 minutes long. Second, we're now recording in our brand-new podcast studio. Finally, we have bloopers at the end of each episode, so stick around for those.

Stay tuned. We'll be back on Friday with Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison.