This series introduces the 2015-2016 Rockefeller Leadership Fellows. Each fellow reflects on why he or she wanted to be a part of the program and what aspects of leadership most interests them.
[more]On Thursday, September 17th, the Rockefeller Center hosted a PoliTALK student dinner with Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School as part of Dartmouth's annual Constitution Day celebration. Professor Amar teaches constitutional law both at Yale College and Yale Law School, and has been favorably cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 30 cases.
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The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences has announced that former Speaker of the New Hampshire House Terie Norelli, who now leads the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation, will be the third Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor for the 2015-2016 academic year.
[more]This summer, I had the privilege of working at the Center for Perinatal Advocacy at Providence Hospital under the mentorship of Gabriela Garcia ’01. The Center for Perinatal Advocacy was established in 2010 with the mission of working towards decreasing infant mortality within high-risk communities in the DC metropolitan area. The goal of the Center for Perinatal Advocacy is to educate, advocate, and serve mothers and their infants through strategies focused on breastfeeding, car seats, and safe sleep.
[more]The current flood of refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern counties has captured the attention of the international community. With hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking shelter in the EU from civil war and economic crisis in their home countries, it has become critical for the United States to take steps to address this growing international predicament.
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