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In “Florida’s educational gag order: More extensive and damaging than you realize,” an essay that appeared in The Hill, President David Wippman and his coauthor, Cornell Professor of American Studies Glenn Altschuler, argued that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Stop Woke Act “whitewashes or erases American history.”
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A new report, released by the Levitt Center in cooperation with Judge Ralph Eannace of Utica City Court and other public officials, offers proof of the broad community benefits to developing, introducing, and sustaining alternative methods of handling individuals with mental illness in the criminal justice system.
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Cyrus Boga ?90 recently returned to Hamilton College to speak to students as part of his Levitt Center Workshop series, “Novamaya- Designing a Social Innovation Project.”
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James P. Du Vernay ’03 recently became the new United States Consul for Western France at the U.S. Consulate in Rennes.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently appointed Sherry Tross ’92 as the federation’s Higher Commissioner to Canada. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of St. Kitts and Nevis announced her promotion in a press release.
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Jim Eisenberg '98 has joined Preti Strategies as policy advisor of their Public Affairs Firm. The former chief of staff and chief policy advisor to the Massachusetts Speaker, Eisenberg has served in public affairs since 1999.
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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, was interviewed by BBC News on what a Trump administration might look like.
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The issue of human sex trafficking has long been on the radar of international lawmakers and humanitarian organizations, but the recently emerged problem of human labor trafficking is just now beginning to come under national and international scrutiny. Jasmina Hodzic ’13 is interning at the United Nations in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with the support of a Levitt Center Public Service Grant.
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Amy Soenksen ’13 spent the spring semester interning and studying in the Capitol as a participant in Hamilton’s Washington D.C. Program. When the academic year came to an end, she wasn’t quite ready to head back home to the West Coast. After hearing positive feedback about U.S. Department of Justice internships from three fellow Hamilton students, Soenksen decided to apply in the hopes of getting a taste of legal work on the federal level.
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“What Would Michael Harrington Say?,” an article by Maurice Isserman, Harrington’s biographer and the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, appeared in The Nation on April 25. In the article, Isserman described Harrington as “the pre-eminent figure of American socialism” and noted that he was often referred to as the “man who discovered poverty.”
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