Birdsong: Ignoring The Grand Jury

Birdsong and Sheila Collins, Ph. D. discuss why the Parkland School shooting is different than earlier such
shootings. Then, Birdsong\'s opinions of the Andrew McCabe
firing where the Stormy Daniels case is going and Trump\'s purported hiring of Joe DiGenova.

Sheila Collins

Sheila D. Collins was a member of the Political Science Department from 1990 until 2011 where she served as Department Chair and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Public Policy and International Affairs. Prof. Collins’ s early research focused primarily on American politics, poverty/welfare and employment policy, social movements and religion, but more recently she has turned her attention to environmental policy and politics. She is the author or editor of six books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and policy monographs. Collins had a varied career before coming to William Paterson, having worked as a journalist for national religious agencies, director of a program that provided small grants and technical assistance to community organizations, coordinator of a network of scholars working on issues related to full employment, and a stint as National Rainbow Coordinator for the 1984 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign. She continues to maintain a full research and writing agenda in retirement, having contributed five book chapters, a just completed a co-edited/written book on learning from the successes and failures of the Great Depression and New Deal for policy making today and working on a biography of a prominent twentieth century social activist.



She is a member of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, an international network of scholars working on issues related to the environmental crisis http://www.geig.org.,a member of the International Advisory Board of the Toda Institute for Peace and Policy Studies, and co-chairs two seminars at Columbia University: the Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity and the Seminar on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles.

Sheila\'s page at William Patterson University