Public Voices
The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship is a national initiative to dramatically increase the public impact of our nation’s top underrepresented thinkers, and to ensure our ideas help shape the important conversations of our age.
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court of The United States’ In re Gault case declared that youth…
Roughly eight years ago, I received a strange call from a national lab where I…
Access to science education and safe living environments for all are my goals. Ted Cruz came for me.
It was just before 10 p.m. as I fumbled for my car key in the…
Twenty-five years ago, 911 became the national number for emergencies. Today, it covers 96% of the geographic United…
It’s almost Halloween and, this year, I have already been given a real fright. Former…
As a young girl living in the New Jersey suburbs in the 1990s, I ran…
A meaningful display of intersectionality took place during the women’s NCAA basketball finals and WNBA…
With the country at the precipice of potentially electing the country’s first Black and South…
With the end of his presidency fast approaching, there is no better time for President…
In November 2023, I was introduced to AI through my son, Brandon, the millennial who…
At the start of this school year, a white male student at Gettysburg College used a…
Another school shooting. Another atrocity. Another community traumatized by the deaths of children and those…
The “beautiful moment of sisterhood” at the 2024 Olympics last month expressed in the globally renowned…
Whether we are teachers, performers, or CEOs, we all function less well when our audience…
“The smirk of a male who’s (sic) knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment…
