Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Public Policy, Brazil 2021-2022
Research Associate, Afro Latin American Research Institute, Harvard, 2020-2021
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor, Institut Barcelona de Estudis Internacionals (IBEI, 2013)
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Scholar & Speaker
Voting could be the problem with democracy
Around the globe, citizens of many democracies are worried that their government are not doing what the people want...read more
If Germany atoned for the Holocaust, the US can pay reparations for slavery
The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead...read more
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The idea that we, as citizens, can lay back and elect others to do “politics” for us is dead. It has lead to massive abuse, media manipulation, and elitism. We all expect more from democracy and we all deserve an equal chance to win in competitive markets.