Vesla Weaver has been listening in on long distance conversations between people in heavily policed neighborhoods in six cities on WYPR.

Vesla Weaver in The Washington Post

Vesla Weaver, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, in Financial Times.

Vesla Weaver in The New York Times.

Prof. Vesla Weaver's Portals Policing Project creates a “wormhole” in highly policed communities using a portal. Portals are virtual chambers where people who are far away from one another can converse as if in the same room. To-date, Weaver and her colleagues have amassed more than 850 conversations across 14 neighborhoods in six cities. It's the most extensive collection of first-hand accounts of policing to date.