Interviewing Skills for Law and Public Policy

Join the policy lab to learn techniques to interview stakeholders for your public policy research. You will learn how to conduct semi-structured interviews to communicate empathy and gain the trust of your interviewees. Communications professor Cheryl Phillips will guide you through an interactive simulation that grounds you in fundamental techniques. This workshop is part of the elements of policy analysis (law 7846). All are welcome!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Cheryl Phillips has a long career as a reporter and editor for major news outlets. She teaches journalism and is founder and director of Big Local News, part of the Stanford Journalism and Democracy Initiative. BLN collects disparate local data, standardizes and shares it publicly along with training journalists to use it. She is co-founder of the Stanford Open Policing Project, which collects and publicly shares police stop data. As a member of the California Civic Data Coalition, she also helps to make California campaign finance data publicly accessible. She brings to the Policy Lab decades of experience interviewing witnesses, experts and stakeholders.