Jessica Carter

Jessica Carter is a Communications Specialist and Team Leader at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She joined the EUI in 2022 after having served as Deputy Director of Communications for six years at the European University Association. Previously, Jessica worked at the Aspen Institute’s Rome headquarters for nearly a decade, where she was co-founder and Managing Editor of the award-winning journal on geopolitics, Aspenia online. A trained journalist, Jessica spent the first six years of her career as a political reporter and anchor working in television newsrooms in the United States.

Racism in the US justice system and the shift coming into view

2014 has seen a return of the prison debate in the US with new emphasis on issues ranging from racial disparity in the criminal justice system, to the ill effects of solitary confinement, as well as the death penalty, and the gray areas…

US prisons, racial disparity and civil rights in the 21st century, a conversation with Marc Mauer

Racism, crime and poverty. These three issues are so intertwined and ingrained in the US that it often seems like there is no way to untangle the mess (created in relatively little time) responsible for a whole array of troubles so…

Middle-class women in post-recession America: greater responsibility, greater vulnerability

When the Great Recession hit, the term “mancession” was coined in the US to describe the disproportionate amount of unemployment affecting males. By some counts men lost more than twice as many jobs as women (5.3 million compared to 2.1…

Beyond their control: the long-term unemployed America

There is clearly something different about the Great Recession. Though it officially ended in June 2009, it lingers. We still see it in lives around us and it could definitely be sensed in President Obama’s State of the Union Address on…

Washington’s inherent gridlock, a conversation with Bill Schneider

Though there are signs that a compromise may be on the horizon, it is remarkable how the American spirit of teamwork has tragically failed in Washington as the US government deadlock threatened to put the whole world's economy at risk.…

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