EJB Talks: Rutgers Bloustein School Experts

This week on #EJBTalks Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Jocelyn Crowley , an expert on policy issues related to gender, including child support, gray divorce, and father's rights. They open their discussion with how the Me-Too movement, which sprang up in response to high-profile sexual harassment scandals involving Harvey Weinstein and Roger Ailes, exposed the prevalence of abhorrent behavior in...

This week on EJBTalks Stuart Shapiro talks to two amazing Bloustein alums, Leah Apgar and Joe Palazzolo , who work at New Jersey Community Capital (NJCC) , a community development financial institution. Leah and Joe share the history and typical work of the organization, which was established in 1987 as an affordable housing lender and has grown into a financing institution involved in all types o...

Stuart Shapiro welcomes New Jersey Department of Labor Commissioner -- and Bloustein policy alumnus -- Robert Asaro-Angelo to EJBTalks this week. Commissioner Asaro-Angelo talks about his start with ESPN, and how he was inspired to change his path because he wanted to work helping people. He also discusses his time working with labor unions and his tenure in the Obama administration. They then mov...

It's time again for a political check-in with Stuart Shapiro . Amy Cobb returns as host to talk to Stuart about the current state of the Republican party and what the power struggle in the GOP means for the country. Stuart discusses the ouster of Liz Cheney from House leadership and the purging of all anti-Trump voices. They also discuss whether there will be any accountability for the January 6 s...

On this insightful and timely episode of EJBTalks, Stuart sits down with Professor Ron Quincy , policy and planning educator and advocate for diversity and inclusion. The two discuss how higher education, like all society, is at a crossroads with the issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. Professor Quincy explains how academia philosophically is ahead of its time, but compared to the priv...

On this episode of EJBTalks Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Jylana Sheats , instructor for the course Culture and Health in Bloustein's undergraduate program. They discuss her early interest in connecting behaviors and culture to health issues that led to her career in academia studying the social determinants of health. Professor Sheats talks about the importance of recognizing and training the...

This week on EJBTalks Stuart Shapiro welcomes Karen Alexander , executive director of NJTIP@Rutgers, an initiative of the school's Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center . They talk about how became inspired to work in the field of transit accessibility, and Alexander discusses NJTIPs mission of teaching all people--particularly seniors and the disabled--how they can gain independence and emp...

On this episode of EJBTalks Stuart Shapiro  welcomes Bloustein School colleague, Professor Radha Jagannathan and Professor Michael Camasso from Rutgers' School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) to discuss their shared interest in social welfare program evaluation and their program Nurture through Nature (NtN). They discuss the after-school and summer program NtN provides fo...

In this episode, Stuart Shapiro talks with Professor Robert Kopp , one of the nation’s leading experts on climate change about what shaped his research agenda. They delve into the social cost of carbon and how quantifying the costs affect policy decisions impacting the climate. Dr. Kopp also discusses the evolution of the climate community and its realization that success in combating climate chan...

We're kicking off our 4th season of EJBTalks with a discussion about where we stand just two months into a very busy and focused Biden Administration. Professor Stuart Shapiro and Amy Cobb discuss the quick successes like the vaccine rollout and the passing of the critical and comprehensive American Rescue Plan bill . He talks about the importance of the HR1 Voting Rights Act and how the terminati...

On this episode of EJBTalks, Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Anita Franzione and embarks on a frank discussion about aging, public health and policy. Franzione discusses public health issues facing older citizens from sexually transmitted diseases to COVID. She reflects on how the pandemic has exacerbated discrimination the elderly already face in health care settings. Currently they have to nav...

Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor James DeFilippis on this riveting episode of EJBTalks. DeFilippis discusses his recent work on the role of immigration and organizational politics in local economic development. He discusses in depth, how the Amazon's HQ2 plan for Long Island City and Western Queens epitomized the use of local tax incentives to attract mega corporations, often contrary to the wish...

Stuart Shapiro welcomes policy and planning alumnus Jorge Santos to EJB Talks this week to discuss Jorge's experience at Bloustein and his post-graduation career path in economic development. Jorge talks about his new role at NJEDA, which he began just prior to the COVID shutdown, and how the NJEDA has helped small businesses during the economic crisis. He also discusses the new programs and...

Stuart Shapiro welcomes Assistant Professor Kelcie Ralph from Bloustein's highly ranked Urban Planning Program to this week's EJB Talks to discuss her research on pedestrian and bike safety. Professor Ralph reveals that her personal experience traveling--sans automobile--made her determined to focus on safety in her research. She discusses how the use of certain language, and the shift to victim-b...

On our fourth episode of season 3, Professor Shapiro welcomes back Professor Carl Van Horn to discuss the newest survey from The Heldrich Center on Workforce Development . Surprisingly, survey results showed that the public shares widespread agreement regarding the state of the economy and what the response to joblessness should be.  There is also a persistent concern that for the first time...

This episode of EJBTalks brings a fan favorite and an exceptional Bloustein faculty member back to the studio as Stuart Shapiro and Professor Dawne Mouzon have a second conversation on health and economic disparities.  They discuss the disparate impact COVID-19 continues to have on Black and Brown communities, why a community so greatly affected is the most apprehensive about taking a vaccine...

In this season's second episode of EJB Talks, Stuart Shapiro  welcomes dual Bloustein School alumnus Jacob Persily '16 (Health Administration), MHA '19. Jacob works around the corner from the Bloustein School as an acute care administrator at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He and Stuart discuss the potential and the challenges associated with the critical rollout of the Covid-1...

EJB Talks returns for its third season! Stuart Shapiro will kick off 2021 by looking forward after a year of tumult to the post-pandemic world in health, planning and policy. In this first episode, he talks with Associate Dean and Professor, Clint Andrews , about the future of urban planning and how smart building technologies contribute to safety and improving the environment. They also discuss h...

For the season two finale of EJB Talks, Stuart Shapiro talks to Amy Cobb to give us a glimpse ahead at the political and policy prospects for 2021. From the good news of vaccine development and distribution to the more worrisome economic conditions to the first 100 days of the Biden presidency, Professor Shapiro gives a hopeful but reality-based forecast of what our country and the world has in st...

Professor Shapiro welcomes Judge Paul Armstrong , Senior Policy Fellow and Judge in Residence at Bloustein, this week on EJB Talks.  COVID-19 has raised important ethical issues surrounding patient care and the distribution of vaccines. Stuart talks to Judge Armstrong about being the recipient of the Lighthouse Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism and the Law, which re...

On this episode of EJB Talks, Stuart Shapiro welcomes Bloustein Alumnus and Advisory Board Member, Jason Redd , Esq. BS (Public Health) ‘01, MCRP ’04.  They discuss how public health, urban planning, and policy can interact to improve people’s lives, as well as how all three disciplines have impacted Jason's career.  Jason also shares his experience as a volunteer observing the 2020 gene...

It's the day after the 2020 General Election. After a long night of watching returns, Stuart Shapiro talks with Amy Cobb about the what happened yesterday, the current state of results and where we may be in the coming weeks. 

This season, Stuart Shapiro has invited our newest faculty members to share their research.  In this episode, the last in this series of seven, he welcomes Professor of Public Policy Jermaine Toney , who studies the relationship between race, family wealth, parental income, and the income and prosperity of future generations. Professor Toney discusses the importance of understanding the past...

On this episode of EJBTalks,  Stuart Shapiro  welcomes  Will Payne , the newest faculty member in our Urban Planning Program. With urban planning moving beyond the focus on the physical form, economic functions, and social impacts of the urban environment, they discuss Professor Payne's research on crowdsourcing applications, which provide large amounts of data f...

Autonomous vehicles will bring both powerful solutions and incredible challenges to the future of transportation. On this episode of EJBTalks, Stuart Shapiro talks with Professor Wenwen Zhang about her research on the adoption of autonomous vehicles, how AVs may bring both sustainability and equity to our society and how she uses Big Data Analysis to predict possible outcomes as accurately as...