Archive: Practitioner Fellows

• Tax Uber and Lift the Veil

  For Game 6 of the Capitals’ conference finals, Uber provided funding for late-night Metro service. It may have been a coincidence that Uber’s gesture came just as the D.C. Council weighs a proposal th

  Categories: Articles, In the News, Practitioner Fellows, Visiting Scholars Tags: Blog, Declan Cullen, Gig Economy, Kafui Attoh, Katie Wells, Ridesharing, Uber

• Katie Wells Joins KI to Research Work Lives of Uber Drivers

  We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Katie Wells, who is beginning a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor the Working Poor. Katie has been conducting groundbreaking researc

  Categories: People, Practitioner Fellows, Visiting Scholars Tags: Gig Economy, Katie Wells, People, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research, Ridesharing, Uber

• More Than Money Podcast: Labor Puts Its Assets to Work

  KI Practitioner Fellow Dawn Carpenter has released a special More Than Money podcast episode on Labor Day. More Than Money discusses the values that drive how we engage work and wealth. In this e

  Category: Practitioner Fellows Tags: AFL-CIO, Dawn Carpenter, Housing, Housing Investment Trust, More Than Money, MTM, Podcast, Ted Chandler

• KI Fellow Launches Podcast on Work and Wealth

  Dawn is the creator and host of the podcast, which she developed as a KI Practitioner Fellow and doctoral candidate in liberal studies at Georgetown University. The show is produced by KI undergraduate research assistant Sonia Adjroud.

  Categories: Events, Our Staff, Practitioner Fellows Tags: Dawn Carpenter, Events, Jess Chilin, Joseph A. McCartin, More Than Money, Photos, Podcast, Sonia Adjroud, Wealth, Work

• KI Fellow Amy Goldstein Discusses “Janesville: an American Story”

  One day after the release of her new book, Janesville: an American Story, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and KI Practitioner Fellow Amy Goldstein returned to campus for an intimate discussion with Dr. Sherry Linkon and members of the Georgetown community.

  Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows Tags: Amy Goldstein, Books, Events, General Motors, Janesville, Literature, New York Times, Practitioner Fellows, Sherry Linkon, White Working Class, Working Class

• Become a Paid Research Assistant with the KI

  KI is looking to hire a research assistant to work with KI Practitioner Fellow Dawn M. Carpenter in the planning, development and implementation of a podcast in the global online audio distribution

  Categories: Practitioner Fellows, Student Leaders

• Finance Expert Dawn Carpenter Joins KI to Advance the Dignity of Work and a Just Economy

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative is excited to welcome Dawn M. Carpenter as its new Practitioner Fellow! Dawn is a doctoral candidate in liberal studies at Georgetown University where she is researching

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, People, Practitioner Fellows Tags: Banking, CDFI, Dawn Carpenter, Department of the Treasury, Dignity of Work, Finance, JP Morgan, Just Economy, Practitioner Fellows, Practitioner Fellowship, Theology

• Kalmanovitz Initiative Fellow Moderates Town Hall with President Obama

  [caption id="attachment_3116" align="aligncenter" width="946"] KI Practitioner Fellow Michelle Miller facilitating a Town Hall discussion with President Obama.[/caption] Yesterday’s Summit on Worker

  Categories: In the News, Practitioner Fellows Tags: Coworker.org, Jess Kutz, Michelle Miler, Practitioner Fellows, Practitioner Fellowship, President Obama, White House, Worker Voice Summit

• KI Practitioner Fellow Netsy Firestein Honored by White House as Champion of Change

  On Thursday, April 16, 2015, President Obama honored "Champions of Change" at the White House who support working families and have helped to bring about change within their companies, communities o

  Category: Practitioner Fellows

• KI Practitioner Fellow Edgar Aranda-Yanoc Reelected as Chair of Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations

  As a Practitioner Fellow at the Kalmanovitz Initiative in 2011, Edgar Aranda-Yanoc focused on alternative methods of enforcing wage theft judgments using grassroots and social media strategies. Four

  Category: Practitioner Fellows