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Global Visions

by Brown Journal of World Affairs

Education Government Politics

Season 2

Marianne Gonzalez: NASA Engineer

Marianne Gonzalez is an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and is currently working on the Europa clipper, which will be looking for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon. Some of her previous projects include work on the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment and the Spacecraft Atmospheric Monitor.

Dr. Jill Tarter: Astronomer

Dr. Jill Tarter is an astronomer and the Chair Emeritus for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute. While at the SETI Institute, Dr. Tarter primarily works on securing support and funding for exploratory science, particularly for the search for extraterrestrial life. The institute uses several advanced processing technology to scan exoplanets for potential life forms and broadcast signals from distant populations.

Dr. Jennifer Tsai: Emergency Medicine Physician

Dr. Jennifer Tsai is an emergency medicine physician resident at Yale University and is a huge advocate for health and climate equity. She has focused her work on race-based medicine and the intersectionality of race, health, and society. Lastly, Dr. Tsai encourages conversations on critical race theory and the impacts of racism on community and individual health.

Vanessa Suarez: Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180

Vanessa Suarez is a senior policy advisor for the climate focused non-profit organization, Carbon 180. Her main focus is on federal policy on carbon removal with an emphasis on environmental justice.

Dr. Jacob George: Director of the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab

Dr. Jacob George is the director of the Utah NeuroRobotics lab and a professor of neuroengineering at the University of Utah, where he conducts research on bionic prosthetics. Dr. George’s lab is currently looking at expanding and commercializing prosthetics that connect the machine with the patient’s nervous system, giving them greater sensory capacities.

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Megan Ranney: Emergency Physician & Public Health Researcher

Dr. Megan Ranney has maintained a distinguished career of academic roles, with a focus on the impacts of gun violence on health and healthcare systems in the US. In addition to serving as the Academic Dean for the School of Public Health at Brown University, she is also a practicing emergency physician and Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. Dr. Ranney’s research mainly focuses on violence prevention, with a particular emphasis on firearm injury, as well as the use of technology to facilitate behavioral health.

Justin Ahn: Student Spotlight

Justin Ahn is a high school sophomore at Deerfield Academy who is passionate about political science and international relations. He previously hosted Election Day, a monologue podcast discussing the 2020 election and its aftermath, and he currently hosts Between the Headlines, an interview podcast that deconstructs important dynamics in American democracy and society. His research adopts a breadth-first approach, taking theories from various disciplines and applying them to cross-national sets of empirical data.

Lina AbiRafeh: Global Women's Rights Expert

Dr, Lina AbiRafeh has worked for over 20 years in gender based violence response in the humanitarian aid and development fields. She has previously served as the director of the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University, as well as working in GBV prevention and response and women’s rights advocacy in the field in countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, and many more countries. In 2018 and 2019 she was listed among the Gender Equality Top 100 most influential people in Global Policy for her research and dedication to GBV prevention and response in conflict and emergency settings.

Joshua Tucker & Grigore Pop-Eleches: Authors of Communism's Shadow

Drs. Tucker and Pop-Eleches recently co-authored a book, Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes, which looks at the political, economic, and social views of post-Communist citizens. Dr. Tucker is currently a professor of politics as well as an affiliated professor of Russian and Slavic studies and data science at New York University. Most of Professor Tucker’s work and research has looked at comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on Eastern Europe and what was formerly the Soviet Union. In addition to Communism’s Shadow, he has also written the book Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic, 1990-1999. Professor Pop-Eleches is currently a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he is also the co-director of the Workshop on Post-Communist Politics. He also has worked on comparative and international economies in Eastern Europe and Latin America and done research on electoral behavior and political parties. Lastly, in addition to Communism’s Shadow, Dr. Pop-Eleches has also published his book From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Ronald Aubert: Brown University Interim Dean of the School of Public Health

Professor Aubert has maintained a distinguished career of academic and government roles, with a focus on the impacts of rising pharmaceutical drug prices on health and healthcare systems in the US. Among many other roles, he has been a Commander for the US Public Health Service and the Chief of the Epidemiology Section, Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At Brown, Dr. Aubert is the associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for the School of Public Health and a visiting professor of the practice of race and ethnicity and health services, policy, and practice.

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