Miguel Centeno in conversation

Professor Miguel Centeno, an early advocate of Princeton Studies Food via the PIIRS Systemic Risk in Global Agriculture conference in 2014, will be in conversation with author Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) on Friday, Feb 10, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Miguel Centeno
Miguel Centeno

From the piece: “Giridharadas is the author of the New York Times bestseller Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, “The True American,” and “India Calling”. He is an editor-at-large for TIME, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of the newsletter The.Ink. Centeno, now Vice Dean of Princeton School of Public & International Affairs @PrincetonSPIA, is Musgrave Professor of Sociology. He studies a range of subjects related to globalization and trade.”

He is particularly appreciated for a project he began In the summer of 2000 with John Webb, Director of Princeton’s Program in Teacher Preparation, and in partnership with three Central New Jersey school districts. The program? Princeton University Preparatory Program, an an intensive program to prepare high school students who are traditionally underrepresented at selective institutions due to socioeconomic status to apply to and succeed within highly selective colleges and universities.

This talk is part of the School’s Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership through Mentorship Program. Register here: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnZHD6LmT928Em0v7jg1VA

Click here for information on the lecture series and here for more information on the PUPP.