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Research & Updates
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April 2013
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“Dylan Matthews, Staff Reporter, Wonkblog at the Washington Post”
Date
April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2014
August 2012
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A Conversation about Vaccination: Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Country Immunization Programs
Date
August 20, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2015
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A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
Date
June 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2015
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A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2014
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A Conversation with Staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
November 14, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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February 2014
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A Conversation with the Gates Foundation about Malaria Funding and Eradication
Date
February 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2015
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A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2013
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Aaron Goldzimer, Student, Yale Law School
Date
October 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2015
August 2013
Title
Adam Gelb, Director, Public Safety Performance Project and Nicole Surber, Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 23, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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August 2014
Title
Adam Marblestone, Director of Scientific Architecting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Neurobiology Group (scientific advisor to GiveWell)
Date
August 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
April 2016
August 2013
Title
Adam Sheingate, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Date
August 02, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2013
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Adele Morris, Policy Director for the Brookings Climate and Energy Economics Project
Date
June 24, 2013
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of Fed Up, and Co-Director of Local Progress, the Center for Popular Democracy
Date
May 14, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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December 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of the Fed Up campaign and Co-Director of Local Progress, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
December 08, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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July 2016
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director, and Shawn Sebastian, Field Director, Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
July 14, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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August 2017
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director, Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
August 10, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2016
Title
Ady Barkan, Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
February 12, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
October 25, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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July 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 05, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
July 2017
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 12, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
August 2015
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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July 2013
Title
Alex Rugamba, Director for Regional Integration and Trade, and Angela Nalikka, Chief Investment Officer
Date
July 30, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2013
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Allan Coukell, Brian Hill, and Nicole Mahoney, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 17, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2013
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Allan Steinhardt, Former Program Manager and Chief Scientist, DARPA
Date
June 13, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2012
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Allison Phillips and Sir Richard Feachem, UCSF
Date
June 01, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2015
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Allison Snow, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University
Date
March 17, 2015
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2013
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Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
May 01, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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November 2017
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Amanda Glassman, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 29, 2017
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2013
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Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, and Kate McQueston, Program Coordinator
Date
April 10, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2013
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Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
December 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
August 27, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2014
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Amy Smithson, Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Date
February 04, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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November 2012
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, and Jamie Wood, Program Associate, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 19, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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November 2013
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 20, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2016
Title
Andy Parker, Dr. Steven Hamburg, Cassandra Ely, and Danielle Putnam, Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and Environmental Defense Fund
Date
September 02, 2016
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2013
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Andy Parker, Research Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University
Date
May 20, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2015
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Angela Geiger, Chief Strategy Officer, Alzheimer’s Association, and Dr. Dean Hartley, Director of Science Initiatives, Alzheimer’s Association
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2013
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Angela Hawken, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
Date
September 16, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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October 2012
Title
Anil Soni, Former CEO of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Date
October 18, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2014
Title
Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2012
Title
Anna Taylor, Senior Nutrition Adviser, Department for International Development
Date
July 30, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2015
Title
Anna Upton, PhD, Director Biology, TB Alliance; Kari Frame, Senior Manager, Resource Mobilization, TB Alliance; Willo Brock, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, TB Alliance; Nader Fotouhi, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, TB Alliance
Date
March 04, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2016
Title
Anne Malleau, Executive Director, Global Animal Partnership
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Armond Cohen, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Date
July 23, 2013
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Other Areas
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January 2016
Title
Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University, and Co-Director, Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy
Date
January 06, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2013
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Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Date
June 25, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2015
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Barak Richman, Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration, Duke University School of Law
Date
May 22, 2015
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Other Areas
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January 2015
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Beau Kilmer, Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center and Professor, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
Date
January 27, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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March 2018
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
March 15, 2018
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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October 2017
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Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
October 05, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
July 06, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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May 2016
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
May 09, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Ben Goldsmith, Executive Director, Farm Forward
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2013
Title
Ben Leo, Senior Fellow, Director of Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Program
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Bentley Allan, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Date
March 26, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Bhaven Sampat, Associate Professor, Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management
Date
May 02, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Bill Gale, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Date
March 28, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2014
Title
Brian Ketternring, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2012
Title
Brian Nosek, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Date
October 09, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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October 2016
Title
Brian Tomasik, Research Lead, Foundational Research Institute
Date
October 06, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
March 2017
Title
Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director, and Clare Bland, Development Director, The Good Food Institute (GFI)
Date
March 27, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Bruce Friedrich, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Farm Sanctuary
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
November 2014
Title
Bruce Lowry, Director of Policy and Communications, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Date
November 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Bruce Miller, A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco
Date
April 28, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Bryant Walker Smith, Fellow, the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS); Fellow, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School; Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Date
April 11, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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July 2015
Title
Building Capacity to Promote Freer Global Mobility, a CGD-Open Philanthropy Project Workshop
Date
July 07, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
March 2013
Title
Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science
Date
March 26, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2014
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Carl Robichaud, Program Officer, International Peace and Security Program, the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
October 14, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2016
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
August 16, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
September 25, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2017
Title
Carolina Macedo, Director of Farm Animal Campaigns, Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Date
April 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2013
Title
Carolyn Bruzdzinski, Chief Mission Delivery Officer, California Division of the American Cancer Society
Date
June 19, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2014
Title
Centers for Disease Control’s Excessive Alcohol Use Prevention Team (Alcohol Program)
Date
September 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
December 2013
Title
Chip Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice
Date
December 12, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
March 2015
August 2014
Title
Chris Phoenix, Co-Founder and Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Date
August 20, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Christine Sizemore, Section Chief, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Other Microbial Diseases Section, National Institutes of Health
Date
January 29, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
December 2013
Title
Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne
Date
December 16, 2013
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Other Areas
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May 2012
Title
Cochrane Collaboration Representatives
Date
May 08, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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May 2012
Title
Colin Buckley, Executive Director of Investments, and Faith Rose, Investments Team, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Date
May 30, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2014
Title
D. James Greiner, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Date
December 12, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2013
March 2014
Title
Daniel Fagnant, Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering, UT Austin; Assistant Professor at University of Utah (Anticipated August 2014)
Date
March 18, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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July 2015
Title
Daniel Greene, Researcher, Project for Education Research That Scales and Lytics Lab, Stanford University
Date
July 28, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
December 2012
Title
Dario Amodei, Paul Christiano, Nick Conley, David Dalrymple, Yoni Donner, Kristen Fortney, Jacob Steinhardt and Jade Q Wang
Date
December 02, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Darren Kew, Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston
Date
September 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2016
Title
David Alpert, Founder and Board President; Sarah Guidi, Managing Director; and David Whitehead, Housing Program Organizer, Greater Greater Washington
Date
November 16, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
June 2016
Title
David Alpert, Founder and Board President; Sarah Guidi, Managing Director; and David Whitehead, Housing Program Organizer, Greater Greater Washington
Date
June 07, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
April 2018
Title
David Alpert, Founder and President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
April 06, 2018
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
September 2017
Title
David Alpert, Founder and President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
September 20, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
October 2015
Title
David Alpert, Founder, Greater Greater Washington
Date
October 05, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
December 2015
March 2017