Elizabeth Stephens during an interview with NBC 7 San Diego on June 2, 2020.
Last week, with widespread unrest, the National Guard activated in at least 29 states, and President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, three Master’s of Public Leadership students, all military veterans, stepped forward to speak out, offering clarity and context in a chaotic and rapidly shifting moment.
Bryan Medema applied his scholarship of history, war, and law to an analysis of how a community’s demonstration of its capacity for violence can bring about change, referencing the Stonewall uprising of 1969, among other events.
And in an interview with Priya Sridhar of NBC 7 San Diego, herself a Naval Reserve Officer, Elizabeth Stephens and Shawn VanDiver shared insights into how the military might intersect with other law-enforcement efforts on the ground. (Stephens’ and VanDiver’s comments begin at around 2:09 in the video linked above.)
(You can read more of Stephens’ words here.)
Shawn VanDiver in an interview with NBC 7 San Diego on June 2, 2020.
