Trump's second term
President Donald Trump’s second term is likely to include major changes to policies around immigration, climate, public health and more. It may also test the strength of the legal system and forever change the country’s political norms. UC Berkeley scholars are available to comment on a range policy and subject areas, noted below.
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Director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
Climate and environmental policy, Project 2025 and climate. UC Berkeley News, The Los Angeles Times
Professor of political science and public policy, former dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy
Electoral politics and political participation, education policy, California politics, polling, polarization and trust. UC Berkeley News
Assistant professor of sociology, faculty director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
Immigration policy, migrant children and families, U.S. integration. Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, KJZZ
Executive director of the California Constitution Center
California constitution, states’ rights, state-federal conflicts. CalMatters, Bloomberg Tax, San Francisco Chronicle
Assistant professor of environmental health sciences
Climate change and climate policy, health impacts of wildfire smoke, oil and gas development. UC Berkeley News, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Associate professor of public policy, leader of the Democracy Policy Lab
The causes and consequences of the nationalization of state politics; labor, racial and economic inequality, democracy. UC Berkeley News, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs
Professor of energy
Energy and environmental policy, climate justice. UC Berkeley News, Vox
Associate professor of public policy
Immigration, immigration policy. UC Berkeley News, The New York Times, CalMatters
Professor of public health
Infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemiology, public health, federal and state health authority. San Francisco Chronicle, CNBC, The Guardian
Executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice
Reproductive rights, gender and sexuality, health law and policy, racial and social Justice. Berkeley Law, ACLU
Founder, chair and lead researcher at the Center for Right-Wing Studies
Populism and nationalism in the U.S. and Europe, the rise of right-wing extremism. UC Berkeley News
Associate professor of social welfare
Social safety net, class and gender, and poverty and inequality, racial disparities in health care. Berkeley Talks, CNN
Associate professor of English, co-director of the Program in Critical Theory
Why people join insular groups, the transformation they undergo, how to reach them; cults of personality. UC Berkeley News, KQED, Berkeley Talks, Coda Story
Professor of political science, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies
U.S. politics, Congress, state-federal relations, public opinion. UC Berkeley News, The Washington Post, The New York Times
Associate professor of gender and women's studies, Haas distinguished chair in LGBT equity
Trans rights, anti trans/queer movements. UC Berkeley News, San Francisco Chronicle
Clinical professor emeritus of public health
Vaccines, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health. The Mercury News, KQED, CNBC
Professor in the department of Scandinavian and in the School of Information
Storytelling, rumor, conspiracy theory and belief. Berkeley Talks, UC Berkeley News, The Guardian, Science Friday
Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy
Public opinion, political psychology, race and justice. UC Berkeley News, PBS
