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Panelists adress the growing problem of student debt through their unique perspectives as a U.S. Congressman, a U.C. Berkeley administrator, an academic and a student financial aid recipient.

What are long-term policy solutions for a sustainable water future? Panelists discuss California's drought and how to find bipartisan solutions.

What are long-term policy solutions for a sustainable water future? Panelists discuss California's drought and how to find bipartisan solutions.

Entrenched poverty, of the sort described in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, defies simple developmental solutions. Yet, this does not necessarily mean that the billions of dollars aid agencies and other actors have directed toward “development” initiatives are all for naught. In this panel, we bring together Boo and academics with active research agendas in India, Kenya, Brazil, and elsewhere to discuss current efforts to reduce poverty; what has, and hasn’t, worked in the past; and their ideas for what we as students, teachers, and practitioners should be doing in the future.