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For over 35 years, John Prendergast has worked as a human rights and anti-corruption activist to create and sustain peace in Africa. He served as the Director of African Affairs on the National Security Council under the Clinton Administration, and has founded and worked for a variety of humanitarian organizations.

Prendergast is the founding director of the Enough Project, an organization aimed at countering genocide and crimes against humanity, and co-founder of The Sentry, an investigative initiative chasing the assets of African war criminals and their international collaborators.

John Prendergast was recently at the University of Chicago to speak with Obama Scholars in the Harris School’s Masters of Arts in International Development and Policy (MAIDP).

Lauren Manning (Harris MPP ’20), a Fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict, sat down with John Prendergast to discuss his work as a human rights activist, recent trends in Africa, and advice for future aspiring humanitarian activists.

Credits:
Lauren Manning (MPP '20), interviewer
Haz Yano (MPP '20), producer, engineer, and editor

Special thanks to the Obama Scholars program for bringing Mr. Prendergast to the University of Chicago.

Kat Burnham (MPP '20), speaks with Emily Harmon and Calisto Ololngojine about their short film, American Life, which looks at gang violence in Englewood.

Emily wrote and directed the film and Calisto produced. In this episode, they share their experiences creating and developing the film and discuss how they hope the film will encourage broader conversations around youth violence.

Film’s website: https://www.americanlifeshortfilm.com/
Film’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanLifeFilm/
Behind the Scenes Photos: https://www.americanlifeshortfilm.com/behind-the-scenes

Credits:
Kat Burnham, interviewing
Lauren Li, producing and engineering
David Raban, editing

Rimsha Nazeer (AB'20, Economics and Public Policy Studies) interviews Zarek Drozda (AB'19, Economics) and Vanessa Ma (AB'20, Economics and Neuroscience) about their recent research with the Paul Douglas Institute on a resolution that could make Chicago the largest city to go 100% renewable.

You can find their research using the link below:

https://www.pauldouglasinstitute.org/Publications/A-100%25-Renewable-Chicago

Credits:
Rimsha Nazeer, hosting
Zarek Drozda, interviewing
Vanessa Ma, interviewing
Lauren Li, producing
David Raban, editing

Special thanks to the Paul Douglas Institute for continuing to collaborate with UC3P

In this interview, Lucía Delgado Sanchez (MPP '18) travels to Mexico and interviews Rafael Fonseca about his yearlong work with the United Nations Small Grants Program in the Dominican Republic.

Credits:
Lucía Delgado Sanchez for interviewing
Peter Biava for sound production
David Raban for editing
Shirin Raban for cover design

Prabhat Singh (MPP ’20) talks to Austin Wright, assistant professor at Harris School of Public Policy, about the US-Mexico border wall, voter suppression in US, and troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Prof Wright leverages his global research on these issues to inform his view.

Credits:
Prabhat Singh, for interviewing and producing
Haz Yano, for engineering
Susan Paykin, for editing

Himanshu Dave (MPP '18) travels to India and interviews Jaclyn "Jackie" Williams about her 10-week summer internship with Brookings India, based in New Delhi.

Credits:
Himanshu Dave for interviewing
Peter Biava for sound production
David Raban for editing

In this episode, Beth Karp (JD/MPP '20) interviews Professor Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and Gustavo Gil (MPP '18) interviews Professor Jennifer Kubota, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.

Also, Jack Coghlan (MPP '18) moderates a debate between Bryce Fields (MAPSS '17), who takes the position of pro-safe spaces, and Matthew Foldi (BA '18), who takes the position of anti-safe spaces.

The think piece is written and spoken by David Raban.

Additional credits go to Meghana Chandra for interviewing students and engineering; Max Hamrick for interviewing students,; Beth Karp for interstitial music; Peter Biava for intro music, outro music, and interstitial music; David Raban for hosting, editing, engineering the debate, and interviewing students; and Shirin Raban for cover design.

UC3P sits down with former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to talk about his thoughts on the state of education in the US as well as his current work on gun violence in Chicago.

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

How would YOU describe hookup culture at UChicago? Naked Love is back! This time with even more personal stories featuring students from both Harris and the College and new hosts! Tune in for our Valentine’s Day episode to hear about the intersection of policy and hookup culture. Happy Valentine’s Day, listeners!

Credits:
Olina Yang, Franziska Harling, Emily Kelin, Ivanna Shevel, and Katie James for producing, engineering, and editing

David McMillon (Public Policy PhD Candidate) and Stormy Kim (MPP '19) discuss the various themes of the political satire film, Sorry to Bother You.

Drawing policy implications and theories from the film's protagonist, Cassius Green, they explore the idea of the American dream, unjust labor policies, and conscious consumerism. With Anna-Elise (MPP '20) as host, the episode sheds light on the various facets of social inequality and how we should tackle the issues as policy students, consumers, and citizens.

Credits:
Anna-Elise Smith for scripting and hosting
Lilian Huang for scripting
David McMillon and Stormy Kim for panel discussion
Julian Lake for recording
Emma Van Lieshout and Miranda Zhang for editing
Lucia Geng for outreach