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I aspire to make creative use of our collective understanding of progressive taxation and public expenditures to argue for redistributive design in public policy responses to challenges arising from income and wealth inequalities. As my very modest attempt to make a contribution to public discourse in this age of disinformation, I explore the battle of ideas policy advocates wage on the costs and benefits of progressive taxation and public expenditures, the political commitment people are willing to make to level the playing field between the Haves and Have-nots and the policy options citizens can consider to hold the plutocrats, the oligarchs and the rest of the power elite accountable to democratic ideals.
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Daniyal Zuberi is RBC Chair and Professor in Social Policy at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, with a joint appointment at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
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Matthias is Director of Innovation Economics at MaRS Data Catalyst and a teaching faculty member at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Over the past eight years he has conducted in-depth research on the Future of Work in the context of Canada’s labour market. Matthias has over 16 years of experience in empirical economic and statistical analysis working at think tanks, in academia, as well as the private and the public sector. He has lived and worked in Germany, the UK, India and Canada. He has designed and delivered numerous workshops, lectures and presentations on matters of economic policy to a variety of audiences. Matthias holds a PhD in Economics from the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, UK.
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Stephanie Begun joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work as an Assistant Professor in July 2017. Prior to this, Stephanie completed her doctoral training at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work where her externally-funded dissertation focused on homeless youths’ family planning attitudes, experiences, and social network influences. Stephanie also served as Co-PI on a federal-funded (U.S.) grant which sought to develop technology-enabled innovations for reducing teen pregnancy through the use of human-centered design. In addition, she was Project Coordinator for an NIH-funded clinical trial regarding risk detection among youth experiencing homelessness (NIDA-R15-039-0355-01; PI: Bender).
Stephanie’s current research focuses on improving the health and wellness of marginalized youth, with particular attention paid to youths’ reproductive and sexual health access, education, and outcomes. Her practice-based experiences in family planning policy and community organizing inspired her career in social work research and teaching.
Stephanie was recently awarded several competitive, externally-funded grants (e.g., SSHRC, CIHR) to investigate ways by which prevention science, policy, technology, and human-centered design may work in tandem to facilitate marginalized youths’ opportunities to make self-determined, safe, and medically accurate decisions regarding their health and wellness. Her research contributions have also been recognized through awards received at academic conferences, including the North American Forum on Family Planning and the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Stephanie is Cross-Appointed Affiliated Faculty with the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, and is an Instructor with the University of Toronto Centre for Critical Qualitative Health.
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I am a final year PhD Candidate in Political Sociology at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology of the University of Leicester. My research interest areas include, international law, human rights, indigenous rights, Kurdish political movement and the Middle East. I also work as a teaching assistant at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology and the School of History, Politics and International Relations.
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Omeni joined University of Leicester as an Assistant Professor in African Politics. His previous role was at King’s College London where he taught at the Department of War Studies. He previously worked with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and was co-chair of the Africa Research Group at King's College London (affiliated to their world-leading War Studies department).
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leicester . I have specialisation in international security studies.
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at USC's Sol Price School of Public Policy. I received my Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and completed a postdoc in Berkeley's Urban Analytics Lab. Prior to USC, I was an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. My research revolves around city planning, urban form, and data science. Recent projects have focused on 1) the nature and character of urban street networks around the world and 2) how technology platforms and data availability shape our understanding of housing affordability. I developed and maintain the OSMnx street network modeling software and I have served as a consultant for various planning, policymaking, and public health organizations.
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I am a Doctoral Researcher in Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Surrey, carrying out research on the impacts of Brexit on the UK's gender equality policies. I hold an MA degree in Critical Gender Studies with a specialisation in Public Policy from the U.S. accredited Central European University (CEU). My main research interests are the EU’s discursive politics of gender equality, gender equality and social inclusion policies, gender mainstreaming, intersectionality, gender, populism, and democracy, and gender-based violence.
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I am an educationist, activist, a community developer, an artistic, cultural, events, program/project and business management consultant.