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Remembering Dr. Roslyn Pope
On February 10, the New York Times wrote a forceful obituary following the passing of Dr. Roslyn Pope. Humanity in Action Founder and Executive Director Judith Goldstein shared her own tribute following the obituary's publication, offering her own thoughts about Dr. Pope's extraordinary life.
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Making America sick again: How anti-immigrant measures will worsen the coronavirus pandemic
In an opinion piece for the New York Daily News, Senior Fellow Goleen Samari dissects how the Trump Administration's anti-immigrant policy measures are likely to worsen the COVID-19 public health crisis in the United States.
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Webinar: An Indigenous Person’s History of the United States
The first webinar in the Rights and Resistance: the Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty series. On Wednesday, March 25 at 12pm, Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren will give an overview of the United States' relationship with indigenous peoples told from the perspective of a Catawba person.
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Hawaii Help is on the Way
In response to the growing upheaval surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, Senior Fellow Katherine Clifton returned home to Honolulu, HI to be with family. Noticing a critical need for vulnerable people in the state, she became a founding member of Hawaii Help is on the Way, a nonprofit mobilizing volunteers to delivery essential goods to kupunas (elders) in Hawai'i.
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Finovate Podcast: Octopus Ventures
Finovate Podcast hosts Senior Fellow Tosin Agbabiaka of Octopus Ventures to talk financial inclusion from a venture capitalist perspective, advice for startup, and the (hypothetical) self-serving bank agenda.
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Senior Fellows Shawn Reilly and Roo George-Warren host "the first digital COVID Cabaret Celebration"
Inviting its guests to not "let COVID dampen your spirits and suppress our creative energy", Senior Fellows Shawn Reilly and Roo George-Warren have decided to host the first digital COVID Cabaret Celebration.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Effect on Low Income Countries and Global Development
In the latest episode of Global Dispatches, Senior Fellow Mark Goldberg is joined by Amanda Glassman, senior fellow and executive vice president of the Center for Global Development, to discuss the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to low income countries, and what organizations like the World Bank can do to help mitigate this crisis.
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Senior Fellow Kennedy Odede's Shining Hope for Communities in The New York Times
Senior Fellow Kennedy Odede's organization, Shining Hope for Communities, gets recognition by The New York Times for its leadership during the coronavirus outbreak in Kibera, Kenya.
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Launching Season 2 of How to Fix Democracy
We are returning for a second season with dozens of interviews with top experts on democracy, economics, technology, and more. For our second season, we are changing our focus.