Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Social Equity Batten Student Group is Making the School a More Diverse and Inclusive Place Through their organization, Black Student Leaders in Policy, James Banks (BA ’20) and Sela Carrington (BA ’21) are working to give black Batten students a sense of ownership. Read More Student Stories, Leadership, Social Equity Alum in Action: Kathryn Babineau Batten alum Kathryn Babineau (MPP ’13) is a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia's sociology department, where she studies globalization, labor rights, and public and private regulation. Previously, she worked as a human rights investigator for the Fair Food Standards Council and as a research coordinator at National Defense University. Read More Alum in Action, Labor, Social Equity UVA Honors Its Leading Researchers at Boar's Head Banquet The inaugural Research Achievement Awards featured University leaders handing out 13 honors to UVA’s most outstanding researchers, including Batten's Daphna Bassok and Brian Williams. Read More Leadership, Social Equity, Education Roxane Gay Calls for Compromise in ‘Age of Inelasticity’ at MLK Event The author and cultural critic, keynote speaker for UVA’s Community Martin Luther King Celebration hosted by UVA’s Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Batten School, and other partners, spoke about “the age of inelasticity” and the difficulties of creating a global community. Read More Social Equity Bevin Etienne Bevin Etienne is assistant professor of commerce and public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Etienne has extensive teaching and course development experience in the areas of sustainability, entrepreneurship, energy, and engineering design. He emphasizes the importance of capacity building in promoting sustainability and social entrepreneurship in developing countries as well as the role of open source in innovation and entrepreneurship. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, McIntire School of Commerce, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Equity, Environmental Policy Paul S Martin Paul Martin is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Martin studies how and when political elites respond to the preferences of ordinary people; political participation and advocacy, how and when citizens become involved in the policy process; on the role of mass media; and on the origins and consequences of social capital . Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Political Science, Social Equity, Domestic Policy & Politics Sophie Trawalter Sophie Trawalter, Batten Family Bicentennial Teacher-Scholar Leadership Professor of Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, studies phenomena related to social diversity, specifically how people navigate intergroup contact and intergroup contexts, with a particular focus on how people develop competencies and learn to thrive in diverse spaces. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Racial Justice and Equity, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Leadership, Social Equity, Social Psychology Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3 Subscribe to Social Equity Categories New Student(18) Recommendations(11) Career Outcomes(8) Student Life(37) SE Minor(25) Alumni(6) Application(34) Policy Minor(43) Admissions(52) Batten Ambassadors(29) Curriculum(33) Accelerated MPP(61) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Events(13) Faculty(2) Essays(8) Study Abroad (1)MPP(40) Personal Statement(3) BA(66)