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Kate Darling
leading expert in social robotics & mit media lab Research Scientist
Thursday, February 5, 5:30-6:30pm
The robots are coming, and they’re getting smarter, evolving from single-task devices into machines that can make their own decisions and autonomously navigate public spaces. Whether you find it exhilarating or terrifying (or both), progress in robotics and related fields like AI raises new ethical quandaries and challenges legal codes created for a world in which a sharp line separates man from machine. Dr. Darling examines why people fear some robots and empathize with others, and answers questions about what society’s relationship with these robots could look like in the future.
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uché blackstock
founder and ceo of advancing health equity, Emergency physician, and Author
Thursday, February 19, 5:30-6:30pm
As an ER physician and one of the country’s leading health equity advocates, Dr. Uché Blackstock has a deep and hands-on understanding of how systemic racism is affecting the health of BIPOC communities across the country. From well-documented research that shows how clinicians of all races underestimate Black patients’ pain to the consequences that substandard housing can have on health, Dr. Blackstock opens her audience’s eyes to the social determinants of health and why we cannot reform healthcare without addressing systemic racism.
Carlos Alvarado
48th President of Costa Rica, current faculty member at Tufts University
Tuesday, March 17, 5:30-6:30pm
Under President Alvarado’s leadership, Costa Rica has contributed to global efforts to combat climate change, and defended human rights, democracy, and multilateralism, including the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) initiative with the World Health Organization to facilitate faster, equitable, and affordable access to COVID-19 health products for people in all countries. Furthermore, his administration has overseen historic fiscal reforms to strengthen the country’s economy.
Widely praised for his innovative approach to sustainable energy, his ambitious climate policies, and a highly successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Alvarado shares his journey of integrating democratic values with environmental stewardship, highlighting Costa Rica's global leadership in sustainable policies.
Gita Gopinath
Former First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, current Faculty member at Harvard University
Wednesday, April 8, 8:30-9:45am
What does it take to steer the global economy through turbulence, and to lead at the highest levels of international policy?
Join us for a fireside chat between Gita Gopinath, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Carlyle Group. Together, they will take on the defining topics of 2026: the anxiety of rising tariffs, rapid changes in international trade policy, the uncertainty of a shifting global economic order, and the policies that will shape the path toward sustainable growth globally.