On December 14, 2016, the Fall 2016 Public Policy Capstone students presented their semester research projects to an audience of students, faculty, and the general public at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. The research projects proposed solutions to some of today’s most pressing policy challenges, including mass incarceration, residential displacement due to gentrification, and climate change, among many others. A video of the presentations can be found below, as well as a list of student names and project titles.
Charles Bachmann, Restoring Student Privacy
Alyssa DeSouza, Restrictive Voting Laws: The Constitutional Suppression of Minority Voters
Thomas Hutton, Closing the Carbon Leakage Loopholes in the Clean Power Plan
Matthew LoCastro, Economic Development and Clean Energy: Adjusting to the Obama Administration’s Clean Energy Initiatives
Soumya Misra, From Trauma to Treatment: Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement
Rachel Nurse, HIV Epidemic Prevalence in High Poverty Neighborhoods in Brooklyn
Joy Nuga, A Byte-Ing Conundrum: Barriers to Comprehensive Cybersecurity Policy, Internet Governance, and Privacy
Jennifer Ulloa, From Persecution to Punishment: The Role of the United States in the Central American Refugee Crisis
Peter Rostovsky, Institutional Reforms of the United Nations Development System: Adjusting Coordination Mechanisms
Tamar Williams, Bridging the Gap: Improving Access to High Quality Pre-School for Low-Income Minority Children and Closing the Achievement Gap
Jonathan Wong, Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration and Unemployment: Improving Low Term Opportunities for Blacks and Latinos