Webcast Archives

When inmates are released after serving time, their ordeals are not over. Finding stability and purpose on the outside can be daunting, leading many to end up back in jail or prison. But, as Nicholas Alexander (MPP '15), director of the Reentry Success Center in Richmond, California, explains, it doesn't have to be that way. 

Blending climate science with economic modeling, Emilie Mazzacurati (MPP '07) offers clients strategic advice on how to protect local communities by integrating climate risk into business decisions. Mazzacurati talks with fellow alumnus Jonathan Stein (MPP/JD '13) about how she founded her company, Four Twenty Seven Climate Solutions, to build climate resilience through social innovation. 

Garance Burke (MPP '05), an investigative reporter with the Associated Press, recounts her most impactful work of 2016, including coverage of Donald Trump's crude behavior on the set of "The Apprentice" and the abuse of Central American migrant children in California. She also describes the value of using big data in journalism and AP's new partnership with Facebook aimed at debunking fake news.

Messaging expert Anat Shenker-Osorio (MPP '05), author of Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense About the Economy, describes how to best influence public opinion with civil rights attorney Jonathan Stein (MPP/JD '13).

After a surprise appointment to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2007, Carmen Chu found that she could accomplish a great deal in local government. She ran successfully for two more terms and then moved on to become San Francisco City and County's Assessor-Recorder, an office to which she was re-elected in 2014 with 98 percent of the vote. Chu talks here with Jonathan Stein about the influences that prepared her for public life, including pursuing her master's degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy.

David Gray, appointed chief of staff to the mayor of Richmond, Calif, when he was 27, talks about the creative approaches he and his colleagues are taking to address the challenges facing this diverse, middle-income East Bay city. Gray, an alumnus of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, tells Jonathan Stein that he was especially proud of Richmond's police chief for holding a sign supporting Black Lives Matter in a peaceful protest against police shootings.

Civil rights attorney Jonathan Stein launches a new interview series exploring how his fellow UC Berkeley alumni are engaging in public life since leaving the Goldman School of Public Policy. His first guest is Megan E. Garcia, a national and cyber security analyst who is now a Senior Fellow and Director at New America California.