Event Recap

4/28 Inaugural Spring Symposium and Healthcare Workshop: COVID-19 and Healthcare Resilience: Past, Present and Future visit event page with panel recordings As we move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic the spotlight has shifted away from crisis response. Having...

3/31 Breaking Intergenerational Barriers While Dismantling Systemic Racism in NJ click to play Dismantling NJ’s pervasive systemic racism is a fight that requires activists of all ages, skill sets, passions, vigor, and ideas. Yet even within the work of social...

2/23 Affordable Housing: National, State, and Local Perspectives click to play Eight decades ago, the landmark 1949 Housing Act declared a national goal of a “decent home and suitable living environment” for all Americans. Half a century ago, the landmark New Jersey...

11/12 Intelligent Informatics @ Bloustein — Public Informatics for a Better Future: Textual Analytics with R and Social Media Data click to play In this virtual workshop, Dr. Jim Samuel, Executive Director of the Bloustein School’s Master of Public Informatics,...

4/13 “We shall seek social justice”: Moving from aspiration to implementation in Portland’s urban planning click to play If you ask most urban planners, they’ll tell you that Portland, Oregon is about regionalism, transit-oriented development, sustainability, and...

4/7 Slavery Reparations and Racial Justice click to play Thomas Craemer, associate professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut, traced slavery reparations proposals from the founding of the United States to the present. He also addressed historical...

3/22 Racial Memory, Woodrow Wilson, and the Making of the Nation (recording not available) Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway presented a discussion of the role that race played in shaping the leadership and political world view of Woodrow Wilson. As the...

2/25 Second Annual CROWN Conference click to play Following on the success of last year’s event, the 2nd Annual Crown Conference is a panel discussion on hair, hair discrimination, policies (particularly in light of the new changes of our administration), and how hair...

2/25 Integrating Food Justice in Urban Planning for Communities to Become Self-Sufficient click to play Food justice in spatial and urban planning should be at the center of discourse. Though food seems trivial compared to other issues such as housing, transportation,...

2/11 Art Practice and Urban Planning as a Tool for Social Transformation click to play Arts and culture are not luxuries, but central to the central task of urban development: improving people’s lives. Many times artistic expressions are seem separated from the work...