Impacts of Policy

Following up on the launch of its successful podcast Desi Roots & Routes, the Roundglass India Center is rolling out a new webinar series addressing key issues that may impact the lives of Indian Americans under the new administration.

The series, “Indian Americans and the Trump Administration,” will cover topics including H-1B visas, green card backlogs, undocumented immigration, health care disparities, affirmative action and U.S.–India foreign relations. Moderated by Roundglass India Center Director and School of Law Professor Sital Kalantry, the webinars will feature high-profile experts all offering critical insights on the evolving policies and their impact on the Indian American community. Attracting a wide audience, attendees from 25 states and 13 countries have registered so far.

Here's a closer look at the upcoming webinar offerings:

• The series kicked off in February with “Visas, Green Card Backlogs, and Undocumented Immigration” featuring speakers Muzaffar Chishti, Migration Policy Institute Senior Fellow and Jeff Lande, President of advisory firm The Lande Group, who is an expert on the potential impact public policy and politics can have on global industrial sectors.
  
  
• On March 27 the webinar is “South Asian Health Research and Rights” featuring Dr. Vin Gupta, NBC News and MSNBC medical analyst and affiliate professor with the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Samira Khan, President, South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of South Asian communities in the United States and Seema Mohapatra, MD, Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University.
  
  
• The third webinar on April 9 is “Affirmative Action at Universities,” with SU President Eduardo Peñalver and Michael C. Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell University and an expert on U.S. constitutional law.
  
  
• And the webinar series wraps on May 16 with the focus “U.S. Foreign Policy with India” featuring Tanvi Madan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and Milan Vaishnav, Director and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

"In a time when trust in mainstream news is increasingly questioned, our webinar series offers a space for thoughtful and expert-driven discussion to educate and empower our community with actionable insights,” says Kalantry.

The webinar series is free but participants need to sign up to secure their spot.