On Wednesday, September 18th, BPI Restart Fellow and coordinator, Ornell Caesar '16 joins fellow BPI alum Antoine Patton '12 and Jenn Schiffer for Changing the Face of Tech: a Tech & Reentry Gathering. This first gathering has been organized in partnership between Restart and… Read More
BPI In Action
Category: Alumni Advocacy
Education Against the Odds
BPI alumnus Alex Hall ('17) authored an essay describing the societal and personal value of a rigorous liberal arts education in the series Education Against All Odds. The full essay, reproduced below, can also be found on David Bryne's Reasons to be Cheerful website here.… Read More
What a Soccer Star Teaches Us About Criminal Justice
BPI alumnus Alelur Duran ('18) authored an essay urging criminal justice movements to push beyond reforms aimed only at non-violent drug offenses arguing "It will be a shame if our country’s criminal justice system continued to treat people with nothing but prison sentences by… Read More
A Consequential Myth
BPI alumnus Jule Hall ('11) authored an essay on the realities of race in America. The full article reproduced below first appeared in Philanthropy New York. Hall is a program officer in the Unit for Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice at the Ford Foundation. A… Read More