2025 Wildavsky Lecture: Jamila Michener

The Wildavsky Forum was established to honor the Goldman School's founding dean Aaron Wildavsky’s memory and his contributions to the field of public policy. Over the years, the Forum has sponsored lectures by impressive researchers and thinkers such as Dean Karlan, Mary Bassett, Larry Summers, William Julius Wilson, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Jim Heckman, Robert Frank, and Uwe Reinhardt.

This year, we are honored to have Jamila Michener as our 2025 Wildavsky Lecture speaker. Jamila is a professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University. She is also the Senior Associate Dean for Public Engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, co-director of the Politics of Race, Immigration, Class and Ethnicity (PRICE) initiative, and board chair of the Cornell Pr*son Education Program. 

The title of Jamila’s Wildavsky lecture is “Power from the Margins and the Promise of Democracy.”

Host or Publisher The Goldman School of Public Policy