Nikhil Goyal: Live to See the Day: Poverty, Mass Incarceration & 2024 (ASL)

Sat, Mar 16 2024
8:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Central Library

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Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor

Nikhil Goyal makes the case that we must transform a society that sanctions premature death for the many and a decent life for the few.  

Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget. He developed education, childcare, and child tax credit federal legislation as well as a tuition-free college program for incarcerated people and correctional workers in Vermont. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Nation, and other publications. Goyal earned his B.A. at Goddard College and M.Phil and Ph.D at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Vermont. https://nikhilgoyal.me

Photo credit Tim O'Connell

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Add to My Calendar 03/16/2024 08:00 pm 03/16/2024 08:30 pm America/New_York Nikhil Goyal: Live to See the Day: Poverty, Mass Incarceration & 2024 (ASL)

Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor

Nikhil Goyal makes the case that we must transform a society that sanctions premature death for the many and a decent life for the few.  

Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget. He developed education, childcare, and child tax credit federal legislation as well as a tuition-free college program for incarcerated people and correctional workers in Vermont. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Nation, and other publications. Goyal earned his B.A. at Goddard College and M.Phil and Ph.D at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Vermont. https://nikhilgoyal.me

Photo credit Tim O'Connell

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