Public Engagement

Podcasts & Radio

WYPR’s On The Record with Sheilah Kast
https://www.wypr.org/show/on-the-record/2020-06-17/can-protest-yield-police-reform
Black Lives Matter, Police, and America’s Democracy
Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom
How Overpoliced Communities Become Politically Engaged

“The All Criminal Justice Edition” Emily Bazelon, James Forman Jr., & Vesla Weaver

St. Louis Public Radio
Discussing inequality and the criminal justice system

Public Speaking & Keynote Addresses

“Harvard’s Five Big Ideas in Inequality” series
“Police Violence in Comparative Perspective”
at Columbia University
“Race & the Criminal Justice System: Where do we go from here?”
“Democracy 20/20- Already Authorian? Violence, Policing, and Democracy”
“Racial Justice, Policing, and Protest”
Annual Reviews Shot of Science
Politics and Prose Live! Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson |
Let Them Eat Tweets
Prison Rebellion and Prison Reform panel, UVA Law
Keynote Discussing Portals
at Brown University
Take Note: The Ethics Of Policing In the United States at Penn State
The Incarceration Crisis that Threatens Democracy (2018 Dinkins Forum, Columbia University)
CSPAN Book TV 2015 Harlem Book Fair, Panel Discussion on Wealth Inequality

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/how_prisons_make_bad_citizens.html(opens in a new tab)

Media Appearances

The New York Times:
Be Ready for a Lengthy, Vicious Struggle
The New York Times:
The Interpreter: Police the Public, or Protect It? For a U.S. in Crisis, Hard Lessons From Other Countries
The New Republic:
What Black People Really Think About the Police
The Urban Institute
Policing Shapes Residents’ Perceptions of Government in City Neighborhoods
Center for Policing America
Beyond Policing: Investing in Offices of Neighborhood Safety

Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/how_prisons_make_bad_citizens.html Amy Lerman & Vesla Weaver

The Chicago Tribune
Column: How police and prisons blocked Black progress
The Chronicle of
Higher Education
Some Scholars Have Long Talked About Abolishing the Police. Now People Are Listening. What Comes Next?
The Gothamist
Do A ‘Majority’ Of New Yorkers Actually Think More Policing Will Keep Them Safe?
Next City
“The Political Cost of a Heavy Police Presence”
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow &
Vesla Weaver
Next City
Who Is Most Likely to Dial 311? Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow &
Vesla Weaver

MinnPost How a heavy police presence in high-crime neighborhoods hurts democracy

Op-Eds & Essays

Vox
The Kavanaugh hearings show who we afford a second chance and who we don’t: How race affects our willingness to forgive bad teen behavior.
Vox
How a 50-year-old report predicted America’s current racial reckoning“
The Washington Post
We listened to people in highly policed U.S. communities
Vox
Why white people keep calling the cops on black Americans
Charlotte Talks
Having The Cops Called for #LivingWhileBlack
The New York Times
Did Blacks Really Endorse the 1994 Crime Bill? Elizabeth Hinton, Julilly Kohler-Hausmannand, & Vesla M. Weaver
The Conversation
Baltimore riots: the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between
The Conversation
Charging media for using police-shooting video may be the price of equal justice
The Marshall Project
The Missed Opportunity of Robert Woodson: One conservative black activist’s campaign for community crime control.
Vesla M. Weaver & Charles Decker
Slate
Protest Is Democracy at Work: We should be grateful for people who take to the streets.
Amy E. Lerman & Vesla M. Weaver
The Boston Review
“The Only Government I Know” Vesla M. Weaver
May/June 2014 issu
The New York Times
“Is The United States
A Racial Democracy?”
Jason Stanley & Vesla M. Weaver

The Missing Lesson of Ferguson: Conduct ≠ Contact

MATOS & WEAVER: Recognize, revalue and rid
Yale Alumni Magazine
The Next Four Years

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On Ferguson in Theory & Event:  Black Citizenship and Summary Punishment: A Brief History to the Present

 

Other

Conversations with Authors: The Politics of the Mundane