Chloe Bird

Chloe Bird is an adjunct sociologist at RAND, professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy, director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Tufts Medical Center, and Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on women’s health, health equity, social determinants of health, and evidence-based policy; she is also an Oberlin College alumna and alumni trustee candidate.

Fourth of July Speeches Cast the Declaration as an Unfinished Obligation

Bryan Doerries’s Aspen closing session used Fourth of July speeches by Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and the women’s-rights leaders of 1876 to argue that America’s founding language remains an obligation rather than a settled inheritance. Framed through Theater of War’s town-hall model, the session treated the Declaration of Independence as promise, evidence and indictment: a vocabulary repeatedly invoked by people excluded from its protections to demand that the republic enforce the principles it celebrates.

The Aspen InstituteJul 1, 202620 min read