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In August 2017, Beth Karp (JD/MPP '20) drove from Chicago to Houston with no connections and no plan to try to help out with relief work in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

What could have been a pretty dumb and fruitless experiment turned into something amazing: an opportunity to jump into action with grassroots organizations that sprang up out of nowhere within days to distribute thousands of meals, chauffeur evacuees to medical appointments, muck out flooded homes, and much more. Social media helped make it possible. Apps like Facebook, Zello, Google Voice, and Uber have changed the landscape of disaster relief, facilitating coordination among volunteers and connecting people more quickly to rescue and resources. In this episode, Beth speaks to evacuees, grassroots organizers, and the American Red Cross to discuss the role of new technologies in disaster relief and recovery.

Credits:
Beth Karp for interviewing, engineering, producing, and editing.

Special thanks to interviewees Aaron Flores, Bill Baldwin, Ed Pettitt, Gabrielle Bland, Mark Matsusaki, Sarah Terez Malka, Orville and Darryshia Rumble, Harley Jones, Jim McGowan, Joy Squier; production guru David Raban; the UC3P members who assisted with transcription; Andrea Andrada for vocals on our music; and the countless people who donate their time, money, and energy to disaster relief worldwide.

Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, a national nonprofit working to making interfaith cooperation a social norm. Eboo visited the University of Chicago this winter as an Institute of Politics Pritzker Fellow, where we spoke with him about interfaith dialogue in a university context and how to be a leader in such dialogue.

Credits:
Anita Joshi (MPP '19) and Aamir Hussain (MD '19/MAPP '18) for interviewing
Nick McFadden (MPP '19) for engineering
David Raban (JD/MPP '20) for editing

Special thanks to IOP for having Eboo Patel as a Pritzker Fellow!

On behalf of Prairie State, Emma Lofgren (MPP '19) moderated a panel on municipal and state finance in Illinois. The panelists were Ghida Neukirch, City Manager of Highland Park, and Ben Winick, City Council Office of Financial Analysis director.

The panelists discussed how budgets are made both at the municipal and state levels, how these processes differ in Chicago versus the suburbs, and how budgeting within Illinois is unique from other states.

Credits:
Emma Lofgren for interviewing
Julian Lake for engineering
David Raban for editing

Special thanks to Prairie State for having UC3P record the event!

How significant is your love? Naked Love is back! This time with more stories from the heart, featuring faculty and students of the Harris School of Public Policy. And a third co-host! Tune in to hear how our favorite economists and statisticians make relationships work and for a special “Love in the Pub” segment. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Credits:
Elaine Li, Nick McFadden, and Coco Yim for producing, engineering, and editing

Special thanks to everyone who shared their love stories and thoughts about love!

Salam Al-Marayati is the President and Co-Founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC). MPAC is a non-profit working to promote and strengthen American pluralism by increasing understanding and improving policies that impact American Muslims.

Salam came as the guest of the Committee on Muslims and Public Policy (CMPP) at the Harris School of Public Policy, and UC3P was lucky enough to interview him on the topics of Islamophobia in America.

Credits:
Osama Alkhawaja (JD/MPP '21) for interviewing
David Raban (JD/MPP '20) for engineering and editing

Special thanks to MPAC and CMPP for bringing Salam to the University of Chicago

Emile Bruneau is a research associate and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab. The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago invited Emile to speak in front of Harris Public Policy students about biases of the mind, how biases lead to conflicts around the globe, and what we can do to intervene to reduce conflict.

Credits:
Siddhant Ramakrishna for engineering
Vishwanath Subramaniyam Emani Venkata for set up
Elaine Li for producing
David Raban for editing

Special thanks to the Pearson Institute for inviting Emile Bruneau

McKay Coppins is a staff writer for The Atlantic and author of the book, “The Wilderness,” which discussed the Republican Party’s pre-Trump quest to regain the White House. UC3P got to speak with McKay as he finished up his quick week as a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

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

Special thanks to IOP for hosting McKay Coppins as a visiting fellow.

Gidon Bromberg is the co-founder and co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian environmental peacebuilding organization. He stopped by the University of Chicago Law School last week for an event co-sponsored by multiple organizations, including the Harris Energy and Environmental Association (HEEA).

This episodes includes Gidon's talk as well as a Q&A with students and faculty.

Credits:

David Raban for engineering and editing
Julian Lake for producing
Kjersten Adams and Siddhant Ramakrishna for support

Harris Policy and Debate kicked off its inaugural debate with a timely theme: Is Democracy Doomed? The final in a series of three debates, you debate you are listening to is specifically on "Whether the United States Should Go To War With North Korea."

The debaters are Professors Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Dan Black of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

Note: This episode contains explicit content, including profanities and the issue of mutually-assured destruction.

Credits:

HPAD Organizers:
Dan Snow
Allison Von Borstel
Alena Stern
Patrick Hanley

Engineering: Coco Yim
Editing: David Raban
Additional Support: Jin Jing & Giorgi Tsintsadze

Intro Music: Musicians from across the University of Chicago, as organized by Graduate Council and recorded live by the University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts.

Professor Robert Rosner is the founding co-director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), founding chair of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory's Director's Council, and former Director of Argonne National Laboratory.

At the close of the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear reaction, which took place at the University of Chicago, Vishwanath Subramaniyam Emani Venkata stopped by Professor Rosner's office to discuss the future of nuclear energy in the United States and around the world.

Credits:
Vishwanath Subramaniyam Emani Venkata for interviewing
David Raban for engineering
Anita Joshi for editing