{"id":2292,"date":"2014-03-28T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=videos&#038;p=2292"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:31:09","slug":"exploring-the-public-good-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/video\/exploring-the-public-good-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Public Good in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panelists include John Blasco, Nico Fonseca, Ede Fox, and Robert Hawkins. Moderated by Gail Cooper. Introduced by Lee Bell.<\/p>\n<p>This panel was part of the <a title=\"link to For the Public Good Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/event\/for-the-public-good-conference\/\">For the Public Good Conference<\/a>, held on March 28, 2014 at Barnard College, co-sponsored by For the Public Good.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Bill de Blasio\u2019s successful mayoral campaign was built on the idea that New Yorkers are tired of growing inequality and seek a city that supports and nourishes all its inhabitants. In 2014, community leaders and scholars of social issues gather to discuss what the agenda of such a city might look like. With over 21% of New Yorkers living below the federal poverty line, and many more grappling with a lack of affordable housing, police brutality, systemic racial profiling and homophobia, limited educational opportunities, and a robust school to prison pipeline, how can New York\u2019s diverse population come together to develop an infrastructure based once and for all on the public good?<\/p>\n<h3>More from this event:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>VIDEO: <a title=\"link to video Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/videos\/gender-justice-and-activisms-in-new-york-city\/\">Gender, Justice, and Activisms in New York City<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VIDEO: <a title=\"link to video http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/videos\/exploring-the-public-good-in-nyc\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/videos\/exploring-the-public-good-in-nyc\/\">Exploring the Public Good in NYC<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VIDEO: <a title=\"link to video Ta-Nehisi Coates\" href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/videos\/ta-nehisi-coates-black-boy-interrupted-american-plunder-and-the-incomplete-life-of-jordan-davis\/\">Ta-Nehisi Coates \u2013 Black Boy Interrupted: American Plunder and the Incomplete Life of Jordan Davis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VIDEO: <a title=\"link to video NYC in the World\" href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/videos\/new-york-city-in-the-world\/\">New York City in the World<\/a><\/li>\n<li>EVENT: <a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/event\/for-the-public-good-conference\/\">For the Public Good Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel at the For the Public Good Conference. Panelists include John Blasco, Nico Fonseca, Ede Fox, and Robert Hawkins. Moderated by Gail Cooper. Introduced by Lee Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2286,"template":"","tags":[26,17,44,101,54,110,59,47,42,199,35,11],"released":[1455],"class_list":["post-2292","videos","type-videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-activism","tag-class","tag-economic-justice","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-human-rights","tag-labor","tag-policy","tag-prisons","tag-queer","tag-race","released-1455"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10651,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/2292\/revisions\/10651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"released","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/released?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}