She currently serves as the sole United States member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), and as vice-chair of Economists for Peace and Security. She also leads field projects for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership program. Since 2005, she has led the Greater Boston Applied Field Lab, an advanced academic program in which teams of student volunteers assist local communities in public finance and operations. She is a full-time Harvard faculty member, teaching budgeting, cost accounting and public finance, and workshops for newly-elected mayors and members of Congress. Her research focuses on budgeting and public administration in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Bilmes is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and a leading expert on budgetary and public financial issues. Brooks is the former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights attorney, and an ordained minister. He is also director of the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at the School’s Center for Public Leadership, and visiting professor of the practice of prophetic religion and public leadership at Harvard Divinity School. Episode Notes:Ĭornell William Brooks is the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice at Harvard Kennedy School. They joined host Ralph Ranalli to discuss their research, which is due out in a paper to be published in the coming weeks. representative to the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, and she has made a career of re-examining assumptions about the costs, values, and priorities of public programs. Linda Bilmes is a senior lecturer in public policy and the U.S. Justice Department, and the former national president of the NAACP. What they didn’t find, however, was a connection between the two.Ĭornell William Brooks is a professor of the practice of nonprofit management, a former civil rights attorney for the U.S. They also studied and cataloged a huge system of American restorative compensation that works every day to make people whole for harms they have suffered. Cataloging the harms suffered by Black Americans through the centuries from slavery itself through segregation, disenfranchisement, economic and educational discrimination, wealth inequality, and more, they found that no group was perhaps more deserving of being made whole. What they found is a situation that is, to put it mildly, perverse. Restorative justice is also known as reparative justice, or, in the context of the experience of Black Americans from the first slave ships in the 1600s through to today, simply reparations.īut unlike those other, everyday reparations, Black reparations are seen by many as a highly charged political third rail, so last year Harvard Kennedy School faculty members Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes launched a research project to see if they could change the conversation. Every day, someone somewhere in America is being compensated under the concept of what is known as restorative justice, a type of justice that instead of meting out punishment to a wrongdoer, seeks to make the victims or their families whole-or at least repair them as much as possible. But it's still a fraction of the many people and groups who receive compensation either from or through the government for the harms they have suffered. People who are impacted by trade agreements. People who lose paychecks or homes from floods, droughts, or other natural disasters. People who’ve had a reaction to any other vaccine. People who’ve had a bad reaction to a COVID vaccine. People who’ve lost bank accounts or pensions. Featuring Linda Bilmes & Cornell William Brooks February 3, 2022įarmers. system of restorative justice is so disconnected from the multi-faceted, intergenerational harms suffered by Black Americans. HKS faculty members Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes explore why the extensive U.S.
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