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Tommie Shelby with K. Anthony Appiah and Leif Wenar

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Tech Ethics and Policy Rising Scholar Juan N. Pava reflects on the 2023-24 Tanner Lectures with Tommie Shelby, the Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. This year’s lecture series examined the political ethics that should guide those subjected to enduring and degrading racial stereotypes.
Rows of columns and arches at Stanford University
Sponsored by the Ethics, Society, and Technology Initiatives at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, the Tech Ethics and Policy Fellows Program aims to provide tech policy opportunities for Stanford undergraduate and graduate students.

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Vaughn Rasberry in conversation with Donovan X. Ramsey, author of National Book Award nominee When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era.

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Leif Wenar begins his faculty director role at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Wenar offers a ‘world-first’ philosophical approach to engaging with today’s most urgent problems.
Guaranteed Income in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision for Racial and Economic Justice lecture on April 18, 2023, at Stanford University. The event featured Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui—two municipal leaders testing a guaranteed income program in their communities—and was moderated by Juliana Bidadnure.

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Juliana Bidadanure, a political philosopher and a philosopher of inequalities, became interested in universal basic income for many reasons. Her vision for the Basic Income Lab was an academic and institutional home that would address the history, philosophy, and movements around social welfare, egalitarian justice, and the redistribution of resources that led to the emergence of universal basic income.