Kathy Powers's guest appearances

Kathy Powers

Arkansas Teacher of the Year

COMPLEXITY

Heart of the City

Deborah Gordon

Chris Senegal

Melanie Mitchell

David Krakauer

Matthew Jackson

Katherine Collins

Max Maxwell

Olivia Judson

Ray Monk

Diane Coyle

Andrea Wulf

Carl Bergstrom

Brian Arthur

Sarah Maurer

Devin White

OwlTail

Melanie Moses

COVID has exposed and possibly amplified the polarization of society. What can we learn from taking a multiscale approach to crisis response? There are latencies in economies of scale, inequality of access and supply chain problems. The virus evolves faster than peer review. Science is politicized. But thinking across scales offers answers, insights, better questions…Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we conclude our conversation (recorded on December 9th last year) with SFI External Professors Kathy Powers, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, and Melanie Moses, Director of the Moses Biological Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico.If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/give. Please also be aware of our new SFI Press book, The Complex Alternative, which gathers over 60 complex systems research points of view on COVID-19 (including those from this show). Learn more at SFIPress.org. Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInRelated Reading &amp; Listening:“Spatially distributed infection increases viral load in a computational model of SARS-CoV-2 lung infection”by Melanie E. Moses et al. incl. Stephanie Forrest“Sunsetting As An Adaptive Strategy”by Roberta Romano and Simon A. Levin“The Virus That Infected The World”by David Krakauer &amp; Dan RockmoreA Model For A Just COVID-19 Vaccination ProgramLegacies of Harm, Social Mistrust &amp; Political Blame Impede A Robust Societal Response to The Evolving COVID-19 PandemicHow To Fix The Vaccine RolloutModels That Protect The VulnerableComplexities in Repair for Harm (Kathy’s SFI Seminar)"The inevitable shift towards science as crisis response is a call to arms for complexity science. How well we will be able to meet these challenges will determine the future path of humanity."- Miguel FuentesAlso Mentioned:Jessica Flack, James C. Scott, Sam Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Joseph Henrich, Luis Bettencourt, Matthew Jackson, David Kinney

COVID has exposed and possibly amplified the polarization of society. What can we learn from taking a multiscale approach to crisis response? There are latencies in economies of scale, inequality of access and supply chain problems. The virus evolves faster than peer review. Science is politicized. But thinking across scales offers answers, insights, better questions…Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Garfield</a>, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we conclude our conversation (recorded on December 9th last year) with SFI External Professors <a href="https://polisci.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/kathy-l.-powers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kathy Powers</a>, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, and <a href="https://moseslab.cs.unm.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Melanie Moses</a>, Director of the Moses Biological Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico.If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, and/or consider making a donation at <a href="http://santafe.edu/give" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">santafe.edu/give</a>. Please also be aware of our new SFI Press book, <a href="https://www.sfipress.org/books/the-complex-alternative" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Complex Alternative</a>, which gathers over 60 complex systems research points of view on COVID-19 (including those from this show). Learn more at <a href="http://SFIPress.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SFIPress.org</a>. Thank you for listening!<a href="https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our Facebook discussion group</a> to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by <a href="https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch Mignano</a>.Follow us on social media: <a href="http://twitter.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> • <a href="http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> • <a href="http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> • <a href="http://instagram.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> • <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/20131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>Related Reading &amp; Listening:“<a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.19.444569v3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spatially distributed infection increases viral load in a computational model of SARS-CoV-2 lung infection</a>” by Melanie E. Moses et al. incl. Stephanie Forrest“<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/26/e2015258118" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunsetting As An Adaptive Strategy</a>” by Roberta Romano and Simon A. Levin“<a href="https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/transmission-t-030-david-krakauer-and-dan-rockmore-out-evolving-covid-19#Reflection" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Virus That Infected The World</a>” by David Krakauer &amp; Dan Rockmore<a href="https://nautil.us/issue/93/forerunners/a-model-for-a-just-covid_19-vaccination-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Model For A Just COVID-19 Vaccination Program</a> <a href="https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/transmission-t-031-melanie-moses-and-kathy-powers-models-protect-vulnerable#Reflection" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legacies of Harm, Social Mistrust &amp; Political Blame Impede A Robust Societal Response to The Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic</a> <a href="https://nautil.us/issue/95/escape/how-to-fix-the-vaccine-rollout" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How To Fix The Vaccine Rollout</a> <a href="https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/transmission-t-031-melanie-moses-and-kathy-powers-models-protect-vulnerable" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Models That Protect The Vulnerable</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG3koOW4l6s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexities in Repair for Harm (Kathy’s SFI Seminar)</a>"The inevitable shift towards science as crisis response is a call to arms for complexity science. How well we will be able to meet these challenges will determine the future path of humanity." - <a href="https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/transmission-t-012-manfred-laubichler-how-every-crisis-opportunity#Reflection" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Miguel Fuentes</a>Also Mentioned:Jessica Flack, James C. Scott, Sam Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Joseph Henrich, Luis Bettencourt, Matthew Jackson, David Kinney

Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2

Some people say we’re all in the same boat; others say no, but we’re all in the same storm. Wherever you choose to focus the granularity of your inquiry, one thing is certain: we are all embedded in, acting on, and being acted upon by the same nested networks. Our fates are intertwined, but our destinies diverge like weather forecasts, hingeing on small variations in contingency: the circumstances of our birth, the changing contexts of our lives. Seen through a complex systems science lens, the problem of unfairness — in economic opportunity, in health care access, in susceptibility to a pandemic — stays wicked. But the insights therein could steer society toward a much better future, or at least help mitigate the worst of what we’re left to deal with now. This is where the rubber meets the road — where quantitative models of the lung could inform economic policy, and research into how we make decisions influences who survives the complex crises of this decade.Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, in a conversation recorded on December 9th 2021, we speak with SFI External Professors Kathy Powers, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, and Melanie Moses, Director of the Moses Biological Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico. In the first part of a conversation that — like COVID itself — will not be contained, and spends much of its time visiting the poor and under-represented, we discuss everything from how the network topology of cities shapes the outcome of an outbreak to how vaccine hesitancy is a path-dependent trust fail anchored in the history of oppression. Melanie and Kathy offer insights into how to fix the vaccine rollout, how better scientific models can protect the vulnerable, and how — with the help of complex systems thinking — we may finally be able to repair the structural inequities that threaten all of us, one boat or many.  Subscribe for Part Two in two weeks!If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/give. Please also be aware of our new SFI Press book, The Complex Alternative, which gathers over 60 complex systems research points of view on COVID-19 (including those from this show) — and that PhD students are now welcome to apply for our tuitionless (!) Summer 2022 SFI GAINS residential program in Vienna. Learn more at SFIPress.org and SantaFe.edu/Gains, respectively. Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInRelated Reading &amp; Listening:A Model For A Just COVID-19 Vaccination ProgramLegacies of Harm, Social Mistrust &amp; Political Blame Impede A Robust Societal Response to The Evolving COVID-19 PandemicHow To Fix The Vaccine RolloutModels That Protect The VulnerableComplexities in Repair for Harm (Kathy’s SFI Seminar)How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama @ Reddit🎧 Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological &amp; Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)🎧 Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice &amp; The Physics of Inference🎧 Mirta Galesic on Social Learning &amp; Decision-making🎧 Matthew Jackson on Social &amp; Economic Networks🎧 Luis Bettencourt on The Science of CitiesMentions Include:Johan Chu, James Evans, Sam Scarpino, Simon DeDeo, Tony Eagan, Matthew Jackson, Mirta Galesic, Stuart Firestein, David Kinney, Jessica Flack, Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Cris Moore, Miguel Fuentes, Stephanie Forrest, David Krakauer, Luis BettencourtMany additional resources in the show notes for the next episode!  Stay tuned…

Some people say we’re all in the same boat; others say no, but we’re all in the same storm. Wherever you choose to focus the granularity of your inquiry, one thing is certain: we are all embedded in, acting on, and being acted upon by the same nested networks. Our fates are intertwined, but our destinies diverge like weather forecasts, hingeing on small variations in contingency: the circumstances of our birth, the changing contexts of our lives. Seen through a complex systems science lens, the problem of unfairness — in economic opportunity, in health care access, in susceptibility to a pandemic — stays wicked. But the insights therein could steer society toward a much better future, or at least help mitigate the worst of what we’re left to deal with now. This is where the rubber meets the road — where quantitative models of the lung could inform economic policy, and research into how we make decisions influences who survives the complex crises of this decade.Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, <a href="https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/michael-garfield" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Garfield</a>, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, in a conversation recorded on December 9th 2021, we speak with SFI External Professors <a href="https://polisci.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/kathy-l.-powers.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kathy Powers</a>, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, and <a href="https://moseslab.cs.unm.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Melanie Moses</a>, Director of the Moses Biological Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico. In the first part of a conversation that — like COVID itself — will not be contained, and spends much of its time visiting the poor and under-represented, we discuss everything from how the network topology of cities shapes the outcome of an outbreak to how vaccine hesitancy is a path-dependent trust fail anchored in the history of oppression. Melanie and Kathy offer insights into how to fix the vaccine rollout, how better scientific models can protect the vulnerable, and how — with the help of complex systems thinking — we may finally be able to repair the structural inequities that threaten all of us, one boat or many.  Subscribe for Part Two in two weeks!If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complexity/id1482984603" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, and/or consider making a donation at <a href="http://santafe.edu/give" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">santafe.edu/give</a>. Please also be aware of our new SFI Press book, <a href="https://www.sfipress.org/books/the-complex-alternative" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Complex Alternative</a>, which gathers over 60 complex systems research points of view on COVID-19 (including those from this show) — and that PhD students are now welcome to apply for our tuitionless (!) Summer 2022 SFI GAINS residential program in Vienna. Learn more at <a href="http://SFIPress.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SFIPress.org</a> and <a href="http://SantaFe.edu/Gains" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SantaFe.edu/Gains</a>, respectively. Thank you for listening!<a href="https://facebook.com/groups/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join our Facebook discussion group</a> to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by <a href="https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch Mignano</a>.Follow us on social media: <a href="http://twitter.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> • <a href="http://youtube.com/c/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> • <a href="http://facebook.com/santafeinstitute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> • <a href="http://instagram.com/sfiscience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> • <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/20131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>Related Reading &amp; Listening:<a href="https://nautil.us/issue/93/forerunners/a-model-for-a-just-covid_19-vaccination-program" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Model For A Just COVID-19 Vaccination Program</a> <a href="https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/transmission-t-031-melanie-moses-and-kathy-powers-models-protect-vulnerable#Reflection" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legacies of Harm, Social Mistrust &amp; Political Blame Impede A Robust Societal Response to The Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic</a> <a href="https://nautil.us/issue/95/escape/how-to-fix-the-vaccine-rollout" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How To Fix The Vaccine Rollout</a> <a href="https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/transmission-t-031-melanie-moses-and-kathy-powers-models-protect-vulnerable" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Models That Protect The Vulnerable</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG3koOW4l6s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexities in Repair for Harm (Kathy’s SFI Seminar)</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/nvgyu5/how_a_coastline_100_million_years_ago_influences/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama @ Reddit</a> 🎧 <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/34" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological &amp; Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)</a> 🎧 <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/51" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice &amp; The Physics of Inference</a> 🎧 <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mirta Galesic on Social Learning &amp; Decision-making</a> 🎧 <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/12" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matthew Jackson on Social &amp; Economic Networks</a> 🎧 <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities</a>Mentions Include:Johan Chu, James Evans, Sam Scarpino, Simon DeDeo, Tony Eagan, Matthew Jackson, Mirta Galesic, Stuart Firestein, David Kinney, Jessica Flack, Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin, Cris Moore, Miguel Fuentes, Stephanie Forrest, David Krakauer, Luis BettencourtMany additional resources in the show notes for the next episode!  Stay tuned…

Fractal Inequality & The Complexity of Repair: Kathy Powers & Melanie Moses, Part 1

Dr. Kathy Powers is a professor of political science. Respected around the globe. Twenty years ago, she had an encounter with a student that left her speechless. Then it completely altered the course of her career...Her student, who was bi-racial (Jewish and Black), asked a simple question:"Why did my Jewish grandmother get reparations, but my black grandmother didn't?"The professor did not have a good answer for him. But the disparity in treatment led her on a quest to understand the mechanics of reparations. Who gets them? Who decides? And who decides WHO decides??She has traveled extensively in Europe for her work and her  scholarship has covered reparations cases from Bosnia to the Caribbean. Dr Powers work can be found https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050620490884065?journalCode=gini20

Dr. Kathy Powers is a professor of political science. Respected around the globe. Twenty years ago, she had an encounter with a student that left her speechless. Then it completely altered the course of her career... Her student, who was bi-racial (Jewish and Black), asked a simple question:"Why did my Jewish grandmother get reparations, but my black grandmother didn't?" The professor did not have a good answer for him. But the disparity in treatment led her on a quest to understand the mechanics of reparations. Who gets them? Who decides? And who decides WHO decides??She has traveled extensively in Europe for her work and her  scholarship has covered reparations cases from Bosnia to the Caribbean. Dr Powers work can be found  <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050620490884065?journalCode=gini20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050620490884065?journalCode=gini20</a>

Reparations - Part 1 with Dr. Kathy Powers