It wasn’t the proverbial “light bulb” scenario that sparked the idea for Milano Nonprofit Management student Annie Bickerton and her business partner Jordyn Lexton’s social innovation start-up—it was years of careful study and preparation. Lexton, a graduate of Wesleyan University, and Bickerton are the founder and director of development and operations, respectively, of Drive Change, [...]
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Darrick Hamilton has clocked an impressive number of miles lately. Since April, the economist and associate professor at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy has traveled coast-to-coast attending conferences on racial and income inequality. As a part of an impressive band of scholars at The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic [...]
The New School has always fostered a deep commitment to international learning, from the 1933 foundation of the University in Exile as a haven for academics endangered by the rise of European Fascism to the establishment ten years ago of our graduate program in International Affairs. In that tradition, The New School was recently ranked [...]
Civic engagement flourishes at The New School. Students, faculty, and alumni are involved in community-focused endeavors like Empowerhouse, New Challenge, and PETLab, and now Corbin Hill Road Farm, an innovative farm share in which The New School is playing a central role. Corbin Hill is a network of farms and urban communities in New York [...]
“Globalization is not a crisis; it’s a fact. The politics of globalization is a crisis.” It was the culminating statement of Carlos Tomada’s presentation during the Observatory on Latin America’s (OLA) event on Monday, which focused on employment during the financial crisis and its aftermath. After a stint as minister of labor and social security [...]
In light of persisting economic uncertainty and a labor market in flux, The New School’s Observatory on Latin America (OLA) presents Creating Jobs in a Time of Global Crisis: Lessons from Latin America. Carlos Tomada, the minister of labor and social security for Argentina from 2003-2013 and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University professor of economics [...]
