Former EPA administrator talks US environmental policy
Read Heights article “Obama EPA Head Talks Trump Environmental Policy”
Presented with Earth and Environmental Sciences, the Environmental Studies Program, the International Studies Program, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Jesuit Institute, the Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action, and the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series.
A Conversation about migration with Tena Štivičić
Moderated by Westy Egmont, associate professor, School of Social Work, and director, Immigrant Integration Lab
Read Heights article “Behind ‘Invisible’: The Many Sides of Migration”
Presented with the Theatre Department.
Bill Plunkert ’68: My life as a spy during the Cold War and beyond
Read Heights article “Plunkert, BC ’68, Shares Cold War Spy Stories”
Presented with the History Department.
Nicaragua Panel
The Center also partnered with the student group Organization for Latin American Affairs (OLAA) to bring together experts (professors from Brown and Harvard) and observers (current and former BC students from Nicaragua) to talk about the economic and political unrest in Nicaragua. And with the Asian American Studies Program sisters Chanterelle (BC Law ’00) and Vera (BC Law ’00) Sung, daughters of Abacus Federal Bank’s founder, who led a discussion after a screening of the film Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, the story about the only US bank prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis.