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NYU Wagner’s 7th Annual Day of Service
During the spring semester, NYU Wagner students across the country came together to participate in the annual WagnerCares Day of Service.
NYU Wagner Capstone Team works with alumna to improve education in Nicaragua coffee fields
NYU Wagner alumna Kristin Van Busum founded Project Alianza, which provides educational opportunities for children at risk of child labor in rural coffee communities, and she enlisted a Capstone team to help figure out how to expand the organization's reach.
WAGTalk: Atul Pokharel, "Communities and Fairness: From Irrigation Canals to Cryptocurrencies"
What do thousand-year-old irrigation canals have in common with digital cryptocurrency? Both are examples of community-governed shared infrastructure. Professor Pokharel will examine some of the possibilities and limits of communities for fairly governing shared infrastructure—both digital and physical—using his work on farmer-managed irrigation canals in Nepal.
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Amita Swadhin Educator, Storyteller and Activist Founder, Mirror Memoirs
Amita Swadhin (MPA 2011) in KTLA
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Affordable Care Act: Sherry Glied
Financial Insecurity: Jonathan Morduch
Immigration: Natasha Iskander
NYC Transportation: Mitchell Moss
Presidency: Tim Naftali; Paul Light
June 10, 2019
NYU Wagner undergraduate students shared their research during this year's Senior Seminar with Living Cities—an organization working to build a new type of urban practice that improves the economic well-being of low-income people. The presentations were focused on the research each student group conducted exploring urban policies that fall into Living Cities' "Equipt to Innovate" framework, an integrated, collaborative approach to building communities.