Cesar Lopez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. His dissertation research combines social network theory and analysis, development economics, agricultural and natural resource economics, remote sensing, and machine learning to study the effectiveness of agricultural development interventions in low- and middle-income countries, primarily focusing on the adoption and diffusion of irrigation in Latin America. Prior to joining Stanford, Lopez was a research fellow at the Inter-America ..read more

Shawn Pope and Patricia Bromley comment on changes to the World Economic Forum in the latest edition of the LSE Business Review. Link to Article The post Who is ‘Davos Man’ today? appeared first on Stanford PACS ..read more

Nanjala Nyabola Nanjala Nyabola is an independent writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya who is currently part of Stanford PACS’s Digital Civil Society Lab and Center for Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Practitioner Fellowship. This interview is edited for length and clarity. Can you give us the context for the Kiswahili Digital Rights Project, for the creation of the flashcard deck – what is the language environment in Kenya and Africa? Kenya is an incredibly multilingual society. There are at least 42 indigenous languages spoken in Kenya, not to mention ‘sheng ..read more

Heather Lord leading a retreat in England on family legacy Senior Fellow at the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at Stanford PACS, Jump/Scale advisor, and Humanity in Action, Terreform ONE, and RNR Foundation board member Heather Newberry Lord’s journey into philanthropy — a world, she says, not unlike the Land of Oz — began in a serendipitous moment in the Reed College library. Lord’s story can both set the stage for better understanding her current work in the field and inspire others in their own work. Heather and I spoke via Zoom, and this conversation has been edi ..read more

Patricia Bromley, personal archive Patricia Bromley is an Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Stanford University. Her work spans a range of fields, including comparative education, organization theory, the sociology of education, and public administration and policy. At the GSE, Bromley teaches courses related to nonprofits and global education in the International and Comparative Education Program. Bromley’s work focuses on the rise and globalization of a culture emphasizing rational, scientific thinking and expansive f ..read more

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Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash I started my social innovation career when I co-founded The Family Van, a mobile health clinic in Boston, in response to unconscionable health disparities experienced by Black mothers and babies in the shadows of one of the world’s best medical systems. In those early days, my co-founder Nancy Oriol and I blended our medical and health system knowledge with the expertise of members of the communities we served. We had the trust of one of our first institutional funders, Echoing Green, to develop an organization that was genuinely reflective and ..read more

This week, organized groups took deliberate and premeditated action to invalidate the legal process for selecting a U.S. President. They were incited and supported by the executive branch to overthrow the legislative branch’s rightful role; the executive branch also appears to have delayed protection for members of Congress. A number of people were killed; and it’s only by the quick thinking of a few that the number is neither higher nor inclusive of people in the line of Constitutional succession. The action follows months of failed efforts by the same executive to intervene via the judicia ..read more

Photo credit: Alisdare Hickson November 17, 2020 Correction: The data cited in this article were preliminary. Notably, data on turnout and support from the Navajo nation, from a November 6 report, have been significantly adjusted downward to account for the dispersion of Navajo citizens in rural and urban areas, the number of Whites living in precincts that include Navajo lands, and for other reasons. More information can be found here. I regret the error. How do we make sense of the election? Part of the answer to that question depends on whose stories (and what data) you focus on. A T ..read more