Past Events

This policy lunch will cover the ongoing and unfolding situation in Israel, featuring Washington University experts: David Carter, Professor of Political Science; Krister Knapp, Teaching Professor and Minor Adviser in History, and Coordinator of Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective; and Carly Wayne, Assistant Professor of Political Science.

This forum will focus on education policy, and address topics including suburban inequality and why it matters. Featured experts: Jerome Ellis Morris, E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (in conjunction with St. Louis Public Schools) and Nadirah Farah Foley, Assistant Professor of Education, at Washington University in St. Louis This event is co-sponsored by the School of Law Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series.

Dr. Adriana D. Kugler took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on September 13, 2023. She is currently on leave from Georgetown University where she is a professor of Public Policy and Economics and was vice provost for faculty. Prior to her appointment at the Board, Dr. Kugler served as U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank Group. Previously, she served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2011-2013. Dr. Kugler was also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University.

As a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, Hilke Schellmann writes about holding artificial intelligence (AI) accountable. In her book, "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back" (Hachette), she investigates the rise of AI in the world of work. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents and real world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good. In the talk she will also share what jobseekers can do to "beat the machines." Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award winning investigative reporter, assistant professor of journalism at New York University and a Pulitzer Center Grantee / 2022 AI Accountability Fellow.

Dr. Mark S. Wrighton is the James & Mary Wertsch Distinguished University Professor and Chancellor Emeritus.

Professor Steven Fazzari, Bert A. and Jeanette L. Lynch Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Sociology, will sit down with Weidenbaum Center Director Andrew Reeves for a conversation about his research and career at Washington University.