The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and other persons of color sparked a movement that spanned the globe. Millions marched in protest and
Bucknell’s 171st Commencement Sends Class of 2021 Off With Empathy, Courage and Lessons Learned
May 23, 2021
by Brooke Thames
Each Commencement ceremony honored graduates from Bucknell s three colleges and featured speeches from President John Bravman, Commencement speaker Audra Wilson 94 and student speaker Ruby Lee 21. Photo by April Bartholomew
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Go forward with empathy. Go forward with courage. Go forward with the lessons learned from adversity, conflict and missteps, and use that knowledge to make the world a better place. These were the final messages that proud administrators, an esteemed alumna and a passionate fellow graduate imparted to the Class of 2021 on Sunday, May 23, at the bookend of the class journey at Bucknell University.
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May 6, 2021 PHOENIX, Ariz. - Human Services Campus Executive Director Amy Schwabenlender and Program Director Richard Crews have been selected to join 45 others as new Fellows with The Shriver Center on Poverty Law.
Subscribe The 47 Fellows will participate in the 2021 Racial Justice Institute (RJI), a leadership program that equips and coordinates anti-poverty advocates to affirmatively advance racial equity.
The past year has laid bare the systemic inequities and structural racism that many communities experience daily. In response to a national call to support Black lives, organizations have been challenged to examine their practices and dismantle barriers to opportunity. Legal aid and public interest advocates are key to achieving important systemic changes in their client communities; however, sustainable change must be grounded in an understanding of key race equity concepts and specialized tools.
The White House April 23 said that President Joe Biden has announced the nominations of six individuals for key administration posts, including Indian American Rajesh Nayak.
Nayak was named as the nominee for assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Labor, the White House said in a news release.
Nayak is currently serving as a senior adviser at the United States Department of Labor. He previously spent seven years at the labor department in the Obama-Biden administration, serving in a range of senior roles including senior counsel and deputy assistant secretary for policy.
Later, as deputy chief of staff, Nayak advised the secretary of labor on the departmentâs workforce development, worker protection and counter-trafficking programs, and led the departmentâs employee engagement efforts, his bio said.
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The President’s choice of a former Obama administration official to serve as the top policy director at the Department of Labor signals the advent of a progressive regulatory agenda.
Currently serving as a Senior Advisor, Rajesh Nayak was nominated by Biden on April 23 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor, where, if confirmed, he would help develop and advance policymaking priorities of the Biden administration’s DOL, including regulatory rulemaking efforts.
One apparent area of interest to Nayak is modernizing the regulatory rulemaking process and pushing for more progressive regulation. In an April 2020 report, “OIRA 2.0: How Regulatory Review Can Help Respond to Existential Threats” for the Great Democracy Initiative that Nayak coauthored with Todd Tucker of the Roosevelt Institute, and in a follow-up piece in