Gardner Fellow Salil Dudani's (Stanford '16) powerful and personal TEDx talk: debtors' prisons are alive and well across the country, as local governments jail people who are too poor to pay their fines and court fees. Meanwhile, half a million Americans are in jail cells only because they cannot afford to post bail. Salil tells … Continue reading TEDx: Why do we jail people for being poor?
Tag: Our Impact
In August, shortly before I started my fellowship, a friend sent me a New Yorker profile of Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The profile closes with a fascinating quote from Ms. Figueres: “You know, I think that this whole climate thing is a very interesting … Continue reading Reflections on COP21
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