News@Northeastern sat down with Shalanda Baker, Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs for an interview on her new position as Deputy Director for Energy Justice in the Biden administration. She was also interviewed by MIT's Sloane School of Management on her work to promote energy justice.

Megha Prasad, Political Science '23, was sworn in as the youngest Asian American Commissioner in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as an appointee of Attorney General Maura Healey.

Former Massachusetts Speaker Robert DeLeo's appointment at Northeastern University as a University Fellow for Public Life is explored in an article from News@Northeastern. In his new role, he will be teaching and mentoring undergraduate and master’s students in public policy and legislative matters.

Rod K. Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Political Science,and Director of Graduate Mentoring and Diversity Initiatives; Brooke Foucault Welles, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Richard L.

O'Bryant, Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute and Research Associate of Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Costas Panagopoulos, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science; and Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, spoke on “White Supremacy, Insurrection, and U.S. Democracy," in NU's educational series on civic sustainability, “Conflict. Civility. Respect. Peace. Northeastern Reflects."

Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of Northeastern's Humanities Center, appears in The Christian Science Monitor's article on the ways the pandemic changed how young people interact with the world around them.

James Alan Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy, was interviewed by Sun Port Charlotte on rising rates of restraining orders.

David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, spoke to Zee News about Twitter's recent decision to allow academic researchers free access to the full history of public Twitter conversations.

K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, was featured in two articles on the Criterion Collection’s website for his work directing the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA). One article highlights how DTA has centralized access to trans histories from archives around the world, allowing researchers and amateurs to discover trans stories that have been “discarded, forgotten erased, or in some ways actively suppressed” in cinema and other visual media. The second is an interview with Professor Rawson on the process of developing the DTA, surprises discovered, and future goals for the project.

Valentine M. Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, has been named the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South in The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress for Fall 2021 for work on her project “Varieties of Feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa."

Laurel Leff, Associate Professor of Journalism and Affiliate in Jewish Studies, has been named a 2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Finalist for her book "Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe."