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BPR Interviews: Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors is an artist-activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She was named one of Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders,...
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Feb 19, 20209 min read


Five Letters, One Man: BPR Interviews YONAS
Yonas Mellesse, better known to fans around the world under mononym YONAS, is a leading independent hip-hop artist. Growing up in the...
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Jan 31, 202011 min read


BPR Interviews: Bobby Henline
Bobby Henline is a standup comedian and retired military Staff Sergeant who served four tours in Iraq. More than ten years after...
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Jan 28, 202019 min read


BPR Interviews: Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is a constitutional and criminal attorney. He taught at Harvard Law School, entering as the youngest professor in its...
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Jan 20, 202010 min read


BPR Interviews: Alan Eustace
Alan Eustace is a trained computer scientist and served as the Senior Vice President of Knowledge at Google. In 2014, he made the...
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Jun 9, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Godfrey Reggio
Godfrey Reggio is a contemporary documentary filmmaker who has pioneered a distinct film style interlaying visual images with soaring...
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Jun 9, 201911 min read


BPR Interviews: Jonathan Zimmerman
Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of the history of education at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He...
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Jun 9, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang ’96 is an American entrepreneur and the Founder of Venture for America. For two decades, he has worked with startups and...
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Mar 17, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Peter Moscowitz
Peter Moscowitz is an author and journalist from New York City. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, VICE, Slate, and...
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Mar 17, 20194 min read


BPR Interviews: Douglas Massey
Professor Douglas Massey is a professor at Princeton University and has been a faculty member at both University of Chicago and...
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Feb 26, 20192 min read


BPR Interviews: Dr. Eric Knost
Dr. Eric Knost, superintendent of the Rockwood School District in St. Louis County, MO, has spent more than 30 years in public education....
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Feb 26, 20193 min read


BPR Interviews: Debbie Veney
Debbie Veney works as Director of Communications for NewSchools, a nonprofit venture philanthropy that invests in innovative education...
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May 25, 20183 min read


BPR Interviews: Andres Idarraga
BPR: What was your journey to Brown like, and what was your education like before becoming incarcerated? AI: I was always a really good...
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May 25, 20186 min read


BPR Interviews: Andre Perry
Andre Perry is an activist, founding dean, professor, and award winning journalist in the field of education. He is currently a fellow at...
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May 25, 20185 min read


BPR Interviews: Jessie Handbury
Jessie Handbury is Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, NBER Research Fellow, and Penn...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read


BPR Interviews: Hank Herrera
Hank Herrera is President & CEO of the Center for Popular Research, Education & Policy (C-PREP), a non-profit community-based...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read


BPR Interviews: Monica Ramírez
Monica Ramírez is a civil rights attorney, public speaker, and life-long activist who has spent the majority of her professional career...
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Apr 2, 20182 min read


BPR Interviews: Alissa Rubin
Alissa Rubin currently works as the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize, “for thoroughly...
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Apr 2, 20182 min read


BPR Interviews: Ernie Stevens III
Ernie Stevens III is a council member on the Business Committee of Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. Councilman Stevens was named one of the...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read
BPR Interviews: Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg View, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise...
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Apr 24, 20174 min read
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