The Digital Childhood Crisis in the United States: Policy Solutions to Address Kidfluencing, Data Privacy Gaps, and Financial Exploitation

This brief examines the growing gap between U.S. children's digital privacy law and the realities of sharenting and child-influencer culture, in which parents post, and often monetize, their children's images and personal information online with little legal oversight.

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Riley Tsai

October 30, 2026

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Inquiry-driven, this project may reflect personal views, aiming to enrich problem-related discourse.

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The Roots of Resentment: Affective Polarizations' Impact on Cross-Partisan Conversation

Capstones Fall 2025

Allison Cohen

This policy brief will examine how effective polarization serves as a threat to social and democratic cooperation, and the dangers it poses to social cohesion and stability. It will also propose policy implementations and initiatives for civil discourse, seeking to strengthen policy mitigating this rising problem.

Systemic Disparities within Education

Capstones Spring 2025

his policy brief explores the systemic disparities that are connected to educational opportunities. The paper delves into low literacy rates, institutionalized racism, and the denial of education minority groups experience.

It’s The Subsidies, Stupid

Capstones - Winter 2023

Jacob Lawhern

A research paper that dives into the benefits of government subsidies for private insurance attainment, looking at where they've been implemented before and the widespread success that they have fostered. The paper does call for some more "radical" reforms, but it includes a plethora of stats to support them.

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Other Fellowship Capstones

The Roots of Resentment: Affective Polarizations' Impact on Cross-Partisan Conversation

Systemic Disparities within Education

It’s The Subsidies, Stupid