February 2025
Social Policy and Inequality Workshop
Monday, February 17 | 12:30–1:45 p.m.
Graham Hall, 185
Dr. Tracee Saunders, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, will present her paper titled “Inaccessible by Design? The Political Determinants of Medicaid Policy Design and Administrative Burden.”
This paper introduces a new dataset of state administrative burdens and policy design decisions for Medicaid. It also illustrates the dataset’s use to study how the political determinants of policy design differ with those for administrative burdens.
Film Screening: Me Facing Life – Cyntoia’s Story
Monday, February 17 | 7–9 p.m.
Gore Hall, 104
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder. There was no question that a 43-year-old man is dead and that she killed him with a gun. But in this case, we have to ask—is she guilty of a crime?
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story explores Cyntoia’s history and her future. Without attempting to excuse her crime as youthful indiscretion nor to vilify her as an example of a generation gone off the rails, this film follows Cyntoia through six years of her life after the crime.
After the film, hear from Leigh Goodmark, the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland and expert on decriminalizing domestic violence.
The film is the second in this spring’s Women’s History Film Series class, hosted by the Department of Women and Gender Studies. All five films in the series will focus on the theme of guns and America. The films feature talk-backs with key activists and people who have endured to devastating impact of losing loved ones to gun violence. All are open to the public.
Service Saturday: Friendship House
Saturday, February 22 | 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Join Creative Leadership, Innovation and Service for the first Service Saturday of the Spring semester 2025 at the Friendship House clothing bank.
Help Friendship House organize the clothing available to their community. Learn more about Friendship House.
More information to come, but service will likely be in the morning and transportation will be provided.
The Impact of Racism with Bebe Coker (OLLI Speakers Bureau)
Saturday, February 22 | 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Woodlawn Public Library | 2020 W. 9th Street, Wilmington, DE
Through both professional and personal experience lenses, civil rights activist Bebe Coker shares the history and impact of racism in education, health and employment in Delaware.
Bebe Coker has been a lifelong advocate for education and racial justice. She has been described as “the Rosa Parks of education in Wilmington,” an agitator, encourager, rule breaker and waymaker.
Bebe regularly teaches classes on Black History in the University of Delaware’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program in Wilmington.
This free, informal presentation is made possible by the Speakers Bureau, a part of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Delaware (OLLI).
Please register through Delaware Libraries.