CHICAGO — As Chicago voters head to the polls in lower than a month to determine the following mayor of the third largest metropolis within the U.S.—along with aldermanic elections in all 50 metropolis wards—DePaul College college consultants can be found to offer perception and commentary. Their experience consists of the numerous subjects being mentioned in debates and within the information, similar to crime, money bail, town price range, the Chicago Restoration Plan, gentrification, drug regulation, immigration, migration, the Latinx vote, and extra. Consultants embody:
Geneva Brown
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences |
A public defender in Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wisconsin, for almost a decade, Geneva Brown is now a school member in DePaul’s Division of Criminology. Brown can converse to the impact of drug legal guidelines on poor communities and communities of coloration, hashish regulation, and common legal justice subjects in Chicago. She lately appeared on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” to debate the Chicago Police Division’s gang database.
Nick Kachiroubas
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences |
A longtime affiliate instructing professor in DePaul’s Faculty of Public Service, Nick Kachiroubas serves as metropolis clerk for the Metropolis of Crystal Lake, Illinois, is a member of the Illinois Group Faculty Board, and beforehand served as a member of the Crystal Lake Police Pension Board. He can converse to Chicago mayoral coverage and politics, and the mayor’s race with main metropolis points within the public highlight, similar to crime, race relations and mayoral and metropolis management. He’s additionally out there to debate the subject of pension reform because it pertains to municipalities and the election and candidate objection course of.
Amanda Kass
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences |
An assistant professor within the Faculty of Public Service, Amanda Kass was beforehand the affiliate director of the Authorities Finance Analysis Heart within the Faculty of City Planning and Public Affairs on the College of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Kass is obtainable to debate public finance, public pensions and concrete governance, significantly on the native scale. She’s additionally free to speak concerning the Chicago Restoration Plan, the Chicago public pension programs, and a few features of the general price range. In January 2023, Kass was a part of a gaggle of researchers who revealed a white paper that checked out how the American Rescue Plan pandemic restoration funding is being spent in Illinois.
Xavier Perez
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences |
A school member in DePaul’s Division of Criminology, Perez can talk about money bail, the causes of crime, violence prevention, violence in communities, Latinx populations and crime, the criminalization of immigrants, immigration as a political wedge situation, interactions between police and minority communities, jail schooling, and mass incarceration. He lately joined the “Can We Please Talk?” podcast to debate points within the Latino group.
Shailja Sharma
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Because the co-director of the DePaul Migration Collaborative, and the founding director of the Refugee and Pressured Migration Research program at DePaul, Shailja Sharma can converse to why asylum seekers are coming to the U.S.; what Chicago can do as a sanctuary metropolis; if Chicago has the assets to settle forcibly displaced migrants; and what town is presently doing to assist migrants who’ve been despatched right here from the Southwest. A latest op-ed within the Chicago Tribune goes into extra particulars about potential options to the present U.S.-Mexico border points.
Carolina Sternberg
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences |
The chair of DePaul’s Latin American and Latino Research Division, Carolina Sternberg researches gentrification and race in Latinx neighborhoods in Chicago from Nineties to the current. She will be able to talk about why candidates ought to care about gentrification, and the way it has led to the lack of inexpensive housing in Chicago, displaced working class households and contributed to a lack of variety. Her latest op-ed within the Chicago Tribune critiques her personal gentrification analysis from Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.
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