Thursday, March 20, 2025
Since the 2025 presidential inauguration, President Trump has signed an overwhelming number of executive orders, many of which follow proposals in Project 2025 and the America First Agenda. Prof. Tami Gouveia, director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work in Health (CISWH) at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW), built the Beyond 2025 Action Hub to track these policies as they move through congress or cross the president’s desk. Speaking to BU Today, Prof. Gouveia explains how social workers and public health professionals can use the Action Hub to better understand how orders and policy proposals impact their communities.
Excerpt from “BU Social Work Professor’s Database Tracks Trump Executive Orders Compared to Project 2025 and America First Agenda” by Rich Barlow:
Prof. Tami Gouveia leads a team of 10 part-time people—SSW staff and students—working on the database, which went live January 21, one day after Trump’s inauguration. “Project 2025 has gotten a lot of the attention, but the America First agenda is just as extreme. There’s a lot of overlap,” says Gouveia, who joined BU in 2023 after a career that included two terms in the Massachusetts State House of Representatives.
“We were noticing that in social work and public health, colleagues across the country didn’t know what was in Project 2025,” Gouveia says. “I decided we need to help everyday people—not just social workers and public health practitioners, but really everyday people—understand what’s in here. We’ve been breaking it down into bite-sized pieces.”