Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

Valerie Jarrett is the CEO of The Obama Foundation & was the Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009-2017. Jarrett is Board Chairman of Civic Nation. She serves on the boards of Walgreens Boot Alliance, Inc., Ralph Lauren Corporation, Sweetgreen, Inc., Ariel Investments, The University of Chicago, & the Sesame Street Workshop. Jarrett also serves on the Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Advisory Board, the Bank of America Enterprise Executive Development Council, and the Microsoft Advisory Council.

Producer

Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

Series

Window on Williams

Category

Lectures & Forums

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Duflo and 2 colleagues received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for developing a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. It involves dividing this issue into smaller, more manageable, questions.

Producer

Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

Series

Window on Williams

Category

Lectures & Forums

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship.

Producer

Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

Series

Window on Williams

Category

Lectures & Forums

Jamelle Bouie reflects on the first 100 days of the Trump administration. The discussion explored the legal and constitutional skirmishes surrounding executive power, the responses of the Republican and Democratic parties to Trump’s presidency, and the challenges facing the media in covering politics and society in the Trump era.

Producer

Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

Series

Window on Williams

Category

Lectures & Forums

David Brooks discusses the current political climate in a conversation moderated by Mason Williams, Chair of Leadership Studies and Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Political Science.

Producer

Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services

Series

Window on Williams

Category

Lectures & Forums