By Danielle Puretz Good afternoon friends, family, faculty, and graduates. For many of us the Global Poverty courses we have taken together have been our
By Tamara Straus In 2013 Isha Ray, a UC Berkeley professor and international water expert, received a request from UN Women—to determine whether progress on
Of the nearly 200 pre-proposal applications that were received in November from students across every campus of the UC system, sixteen projects were selected from a diverse portfolio of innovations spanning a variety of social impact tracks, including global health, food and agriculture, financial inclusion, energy and resources, education and literacy, cities and communities, data and AI, and art and social change. UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC San Diego, and UC San Francisco all have projects in the finals. Half of the team leads for the finalist projects identify as female. A quarter of the projects are led by undergrads.
An occasional series with Blum Center affiliated faculty By Tamara Straus On January 3, 2014, Edward Miguel, the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
By Nicholas Bobadilla Kristian Kim decided to pursue a minor in Global Poverty & Practice because she felt a moral impetus to mitigate poverty. Instead,
