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Northeastern Law graduates are shaping policy and conversations on justice, philanthropy, migration, history, aging, viniculture and so much more. Check out these great new books written by our graduates and get inspired!
Dimple Abichandani ’02
A New Era of Philanthropy:Ten Practices to Transform Wealth into a More Just and Sustainable Future — How We Fund in Times of Crisis and Opportunity
On the cusp of the greatest wealth transfer in history — with $84 trillion moving between generations in the next 20 years — this book by Dimple Abichandani, former executive director of the General Service Foundation, explores how philanthropy can be transformative and transformed. Can philanthropy be an anti-racist, feminist, relational and joyful expression of solidarity? Abichandani argues that it not only can be — for the future we seek, and for philanthropy to achieve its greatest impact, it must be.
Stephen Casscles ’84
The Wine Grapes of Chungcheongbuk-Do, Korea
Stephen Casscles, a viticulturalist based in Athens, New York, has co-authored a groundbreaking new book on Korean and North American cool climate grape varieties. The Wine Grapes of Chungcheongbuk-Do, Korea is the first winemaking grape book devoted to Korean and American native grape varieties published in Korea.
M.T. Connolly ’84
The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money and Meaning Later in Life
Writer, lawyer, researcher, policy expert and elder justice pioneer M.T. Connolly offers a sweeping and intimate portrait of the elder justice movement in The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money and Meaning Later in Life. A founding head of the US Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative and a MacArthur Fellow, Connolly offers a new map of aging, one that helps us understand and navigate practical challenges and fragmented systems while also showing how connection, purpose and awe can protect and enrich us as we age.
Roger Levine ’96
The Borscht-Meister of Babi Yar
Roger Levine, an estate planning and elder law attorney, has penned a historical novel stretching from the Holocaust to the current war in Ukraine. In 1941, two young lovers, Yakov Levin and Katya Luvshenko, living at the edge of the Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv, witness the murder of 35,000 Jews. Yakov, a cooking savant, is soon captured by the Germans and becomes the “Borscht-Meister of Babi Yar” on a journey that takes him to Berlin, the gulags and, finally, Moscow, as a cook privy to Joseph Stalin’s inner circle. Katya, his beautiful Ukrainian wife, follows him every step of the way in a love story encompassing 85 years.
Ragini Shah ’99
Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities
In Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities, Ragini Shah, a clinical professor at Suffolk Law, examines migration from the perspective of Mexican migrant community members, including migrants themselves, their family members and community organizers. These perspectives, gathered over five years and in four diverse geographic areas of Mexico, form the basis of the book’s key insight that migration is part of a larger cycle of colonial extraction from marginalized Mexican communities to benefit Mexican and US elites. Professor Rachel Rosenbloom, who provided expert feedback to Shah in the writing process, calls it a “paradigm-shifting book [that] makes a timely and important contribution to the literature on migration, gender and racial capitalism.”
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