Listen Up Blog
Why our World Needs a New Kind of Leader
Climate change. The rise of authoritarianism. The devastating spread of pandemics that respect no boundaries. The challenges we face as a world today are both unique and daunting. Yet, in many ways, they are the same forces of evil and injustice we’ve been wrestling...
The Hard Work of Hope
How we move forward during the year ahead With the new year comes a new beginning, an opportunity for reflection and renewal. And yet, a month into this new year and decade, the promise of the New is already overwhelmed by the Old—by climate crisis and geopolitical...
One man’s mission for true justice
I first met Bryan Stevenson, a longtime grantee and trustee of the Ford Foundation, over 30 years ago when he was a young public-interest lawyer just a year or two out of Harvard Law School. I was a month into my first job at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational...
Advice to My Younger Self: Latanya Sweeney
Latanya Sweeney is a computer scientist on the faculty of Harvard University. She studies the unforeseen consequences of technological innovation, and how to deal with them. What issue in the technology sphere keeps you up at night? Latanya Sweeney: The ways in which...