Good Reason: Purpose and Public Policy, with Van Jones

Van Jones is a CNN commentator, author, and criminal justice reformer. He is one of the architects of the First Step Act, a criminal justice bill signed by President Trump in December 2018. Under President Barack Obama, he served as a green jobs advisor. Jones is the author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream.

Presented as part of Good Reason: Purpose and Public Policy, a two-day virtual immersion in a new kind of space where artists, activists, academics and practitioners from a range of policy fields re-imagine how public policy can build a better world. This workshop is a program of the Purpose Project. The Purpose Project, sponsored by The Duke Endowment, makes matters of character, questions of purpose, and explorations of one’s life work signature features of the Duke experience.