Sam Trachtenberg

Oct 11, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Mira Mehta |Sam Trachtenberg |Charlie Adams |Matteo Papadopoulos

Caitlin Dickerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and feature writer for The Atlantic magazine. Dickerson has covered immigration from three continents and dozens of American cities. Previously, she spent nearly five years as a reporter at The New York Times, writing front-page stories about the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Oct 9, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Mira Mehta |Sam Trachtenberg |Charlie Adams |Emma Stroupe

Heidi Peltier is an economist who has researched and written extensively on military-related topics including public finance, contracting, and impacts on employment. She has been a part of the Brown Costs of War project staff since its creation in 2010. She has also written about the clean-energy economy and is the author of Creating a Clean-Energy Economy: How Investments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Can Create Jobs in a Sustainable Economy.

Oct 3, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Sam Trachtenberg |Charlie Adams |Emma Stroupe

Christina Paxson is the 19th president of Brown University. President Paxson is an outspoken advocate for increasing access to higher education. She led The Brown Promise initiative, which eliminated loans from the aid packages awarded by the University, decreasing financial barriers to accessing a Brown education. Under Paxson’s leadership, the University has benefited from consecutive record-setting years of philanthropic support.

May 17, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Emma Stroupe |Charlie Adams |Sam Trachtenberg

Jacob Soll is a professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. He has published several books including The Information Master and The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations. His most recent book, Free Market: The History of an Idea, examines the emergence of the idea of free markets from a historical perspective and offers new insight into how mythology surrounding free markets and general equilibrium have emerged.

May 17, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Charlie Adams |Sam Trachtenberg |Emma Stroupe

Ari Peskoe currently serves as the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. His work has primarily engaged with questions pertaining to electricity regulation at the federal and state levels. Peskoe has also litigated before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on landmark issues in electricity regulation such as the Western Energy Crisis.