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Kristina Linnea García

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Post-pandemic tipping
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Post-pandemic tipping

Wharton’s Catherine Lamberton talks about tipping’s new normal, advocating for “appreciation and generosity.”

Kristina Linnea García

Translating the immigrant experience into intercultural expertise
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Kia Lor, a first-generation Hmong American, navigates interculturalism as the new associate director of Greenfield Intercultural Center. 

Translating the immigrant experience into intercultural expertise

Kia Lor of the Greenfield Intercultural Center supports students at Penn while navigating multiple cultures.

Kristina Linnea García

Supreme Court decision rules Arizona’s laws constitutional
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“What you should be doing with voting is trying to make it as easy as possible for people to vote with the fewest restrictions,” says Mary Frances Berry. 

Supreme Court decision rules Arizona’s laws constitutional

In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Supreme Court ruled that Arizona’s election laws—pertaining to out of precinct ballots and whether or not third parties can pick up and deliver absentee ballots—do not violate the Voting Rights Act.

Kristina Linnea García

The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’
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As a global pandemic, COVID-19 spread across the world. But it didn’t hit everyone equally. “Being healthy is essential to human flourishing,” says Jennifer Prah Ruger, who advocates for shared norms in health governance to address global inequalities. (Image: Martin Sanchez, also featured on homepage)

The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’

Experts across the University weigh in on which lessons the pandemic drove home and what immediate measures are needed to prevent future loss.

Michele W. Berger , Kristina Linnea García , Louisa Shepard

Americans face looming rent crisis
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Ahousing complex in Albany County, New York on May 5, 2021. Image: Tyler A. McNeil.

Americans face looming rent crisis

When the CDC’s eviction moratorium is lifted, 11 million Americans will face housing instability.

Kristina Linnea García

Anti-trans legislation: ‘Game pieces in the culture wars’
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Philadelphians celebrate the outcome of 2020’s presidential election, waving the Progress Pride Flag while marching through Center City. The U.S. saw the rollback of trans civil rights protections in health care, education, housing, employment, and other areas under the Trump administration. (Image: Rashaad Jorden, also featured on homepage)

Anti-trans legislation: ‘Game pieces in the culture wars’

With 117 bills proposed across 33 U.S. states, 2021 is a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation.

Kristina Linnea García , Julian Shendelman

Sex, taboo, and family conversation
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Simran Chand’s double award-winning senior honors thesis explores familial sexual education among second-generation South Asian American students. (Image: @rhsupplies via Unsplash)

Sex, taboo, and family conversation

Simran Chand's thesis, “Familial Sexual Education for South Asian American Undergraduates and its Implications on Sexual Wellbeing,” used qualitative and quantitative analysis to determine the experiences of parental sexual communications among second-generation South Asian American Penn students.

Kristina Linnea García

How child tax credits will affect American families
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Approximately 39 million households across the country will receive the child tax credits, which are projected to cut child poverty in half, says Amy Castro Baker.

How child tax credits will affect American families

Social scientists Amy Castro Baker and Pilar Gonalons-Pons weigh in on how expanded child tax credits beginning July 15 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 will impact poverty, gender relations, and future policy

Kristina Linnea García

‘Global Health Justice and Governance’
An image of an earth surrounded by word bubbles describing public health issues like "a lack of global strategy" and "facade of altruism"

There are multiple issues leading to fragmenting and global health inequality, according to Jennifer Prah Ruger. Global health is an issue of justice, not charity, she says. 

‘Global Health Justice and Governance’

In a special issue of the journal Global Health Governance, seven experts reflect upon Jennifer Prah Ruger’s call for a new model of global public health that prioritizes equity and cooperation between nations and agencies.

Kristina Linnea García

‘Cities in water’
Panoramic view of the village of Gangotri at the shore of a river.

‘Cities in water’

Architect and landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and anthropologist Nikhil Anand are collaborating on questions of design and human practices to create new ways of thinking about low-lying coastal cities in India and around the world.

Kristina Linnea García

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