Insights and Impact Research, trends, and action

The House of Plain Truth

Insights and Impact June 2024

Biblio File: The House of Plain Truth

Donna Hemans draws inspiration from her native Jamaica to capture an immigrant’s struggles with belonging

Nadia Murad

Insights and Impact June 2024

To Survive and Thrive

Nadia Murad has found purpose in pain, advocating for an end to sexual abuse as a weapon of war

a zoom screen with three coworkers and a kitten

Insights and Impact June 2024

From Meeting to Meme

IRL, Zoom fails on social media are no LOL matter

Jude Mabone, wearing a sash and tiara, makes a heart with her hands

Insights and Impact June 2024

A Crowning Achievement

After surviving six heart attacks, 2023 Miss DC Jude Maboné made cardiac health her platform

climate activist holding a sign

Insights and Impact June 2024

Shock and Awe

Are severe climatic disasters the only thing that will spur mass environmental activism?

robot hand holding a pencil

Insights and Impact November 2023

Q&A: AI in the Classroom

SOE professor Jennifer Steele on whether ChatGPT is an obstacle or an opportunity for students

A Second Chance for Yesterday

Insights and Impact November 2023

Biblio File: A Second Chance for Yesterday

SOC professor Aram Sinnreich and his sister chat about their new novel, published under the pseudonym R.A. Sinn

hand drawing a line with barbed wire

Insights and Impact November 2023

The Prison Publisher

SPA professor Robert Johnson and his students are helping free the verses of imprisoned poets

Native American headdress

Insights and Impact November 2023

Q&A: Appropriation or Appreciation?

SIS's Omekongo Dibinga on the delicate line between respecting a culture and ripping it off

Bethanne Patrick

Insights and Impact November 2023

The Catalyst: Out of the Darkness

Bethanne Patrick chronicles life with double depression in her new memoir