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Teaching about pandemics and inequality while living through those realities

  • Written by Jodi Benenson, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageRacial justice demonstrations became much more frequent in 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.Tim Evans/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Jodi Benenson and Tara Kolar Bryan are professors in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska Omaha. In the fall of 2020 they coordinated a team-taught graduate-level course called...

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