Scholars Strategy Network
In 2011, social scientists at Harvard launched an ambitious initiative based on a simple, somewhat old-fashioned premise: that evidence and reason should play a greater role in shaping public policy. Since then, the Scholars Strategy Network has added chapters in 38 states and connected hundreds of scholars with local experts, legislators, and eachother. Executive Director Paola Maynard-Moll joins University of Hawaii professor Robert Perkinson to discuss the organization’s efforts to bring facts to power. How can academic research translate into public policy with measurable benefits? And how can the SSN initiative persist in an era of misinformation and devalued truth?
Paola Maynard-Moll is the executive director of the Scholar’s Strategy Network.
Episode Length: 34 min, 35 sec.
