Join Dean Nisha Botchwey to celebrate our progress and chart our course for 2026. Program will also feature alumni insights, ...

A timely conversation with Nazanin Ash, the founding CEO of Welcome.US and a former senior U.S. State Department official, on immigration, refugee policy, and the challenges and possibilities of ...

Representative Leigh Finke (District 66A) is a leading voice for human rights in the Minnesota Legislature and author of the Trans Refuge Law, which prevents Minnesota judges and law enforcement from ...

Thomas L. Friedman is the New York Times foreign affairs Opinion columnist. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, in ...

Professor Emeritus Jim Jernberg at the Humphrey School's Public Leadership Awards in 2023. Photo: Bruce Silcox James Jernberg, professor emeritus at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs who died ...

Public policy shapes lives, and at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, we are committed to tackling the world’s most pressing challenges with evidence, analysis, and leadership. Much like a sky ...

Peter Calow is a professor in the Humphrey School's Science, Technology, and the Environment Area. He has held faculty positions in the United States, Denmark, and Britain. In addition, Professor ...

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe delivered a virtual presentation on the climate crisis as part of the Swain Climate Policy Series on April 12, 2022. Noted environmental scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

Humphrey School researchers Greta Friedemann-Sánchez and Margaret Grieve in Colombia, when they began their research into the country's system of addressing intimate partner violence. Colombia enacted ...

A new report conducted by the Humphrey School highlights wide disparities in poverty rates in Minnesota based on racial/ethnic background, age, and geography. Photo: USDA The Humphrey School of Public ...

A new study from the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy shows the pandemic has exacerbated poor working conditions for low-wage health care workers. As a result, many have decided to leave the ...

Something as simple as an unpaid parking ticket can lead someone to rack up hundreds of dollars in fines and fees, in what Professor Joe Soss calls the 'financialization' of the criminal justice ...