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Housing as a Human Right – Engaging with the Issue: An Interview with Megan Smith
This is the third installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Megan Smith is a...
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May 3, 20235 min read


Housing as a Human Right – Legislating the Issue: An Interview with Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi
This is the first installment of Organizing Around Homelessness, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. K. Joseph...
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Apr 7, 20238 min read


Reimagining the Political Future of Sex Work: An Interview with Bella Robinson
Bella Robinson is the Executive Director of COYOTE-RI (“Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics”), the first sex workers’ rights organization in...
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Mar 18, 20235 min read


BPR Interviews: Lieutenant David Bissonnette
Lieutenant David Bissonnette has been a Rhode Island police officer for 19 years and a Use of Force & Police Arrest and Control...
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Jul 7, 202014 min read


BPR Interviews: Rachel A. Pickens
Rachel A. Pickens is a civil-rights attorney who graduated college from Boston University and received her law degree from Loyola...
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Jul 7, 202012 min read


Warrior for the People: BPR Interviews Thomas Evans
Thomas Evans was born and raised in Central Falls, Rhode Island and is striving to give back to his community by running for City...
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Mar 2, 202012 min read


BPR Interviews: Norman Garrick
Norman Garrick is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut. His research is focused on sustainable...
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Jun 9, 20192 min read


BPR Interviews: Gayle Goldin
Gayle Goldin is a Democratic State Senator in Rhode Island. Goldin has represented District 3 of Rhode Island since she was elected in...
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Jun 9, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Rosemarie Martin
Dr. Rosemarie Martin is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at the Brown University School of Public...
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Apr 11, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Kenneth Wong
Kenneth Wong is is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy, a Professor of International and Public Affairs, and a...
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Apr 11, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Kevin Reich
Council Member Kevin Reich has represented Ward 1 of Minneapolis, Minnesota since he was first elected in 2009. In December 2018, the...
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Apr 11, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Cathy Doyle
Cathy Doyle is the Executive Director of Year Up, Rhode Island, a non-profit aimed at closing the opportunity divide by providing...
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Apr 2, 20192 min read


BPR Interviews: Carla Destefano
Carla DeStefano is the Executive Director of Stop Wasting Abandoned Property (SWAP), a nonprofit organization which seeks to provide...
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Mar 19, 20192 min read


BPR Interviews: Peter Asen
Peter Asen has been the Director of Strategy and Development for Providence’s Housing Authority since January of 2018. Mr. Asen received...
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Feb 26, 20192 min read
BPR Interviews: Richard Culatta
Richard Culatta is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Rhode Island. A Rhode Island native, he was previously Director of the Office...
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Apr 24, 20176 min read


BPR Interview: Lincoln Chafee Discusses 2016 Presidential Race
Lincoln Chafee ’75 served as a US Senator (1999-2007) and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island Brown Political Review: Starting with your...
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Oct 13, 20158 min read


BPR Interviews: Thomas Tisch
Thomas Tisch ’76 is the Chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University and a partner at Four Partners, a private investment firm in...
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May 5, 20158 min read


BPR Interview: Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo was elected to be Rhode Island’s next governor in the 2014 elections. She is the first Democrat to be elected to the...
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Nov 17, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Allan Fung
Allan Fung was the Republican candidate for Rhode Island Governor. Fung has been Mayor of Cranston since 2009 and was the first Asian...
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Nov 17, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Dan Harrop
Dr. Dan Harrop ’76 MD ‘79 is the Republican candidate for Mayor of Providence. He serves as the Founding Chairman of the Rhode Island GOP...
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Oct 15, 20146 min read
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