Taubman Center for Public Policy AND AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS

ANNUAL REPORT 2013–2014

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Senator Olympia Snowe on how to fix Congress PAGE 19 FROM THE INCOMING DIRECTOR New Directions, New Connections

I’m thrilled to have been named the new director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy. The study of public policy is so exciting — to me and to most of you — because it’s about imagining a better world. The whole point of a center like ours is to combine our policy dreams with the skills to make them reality.

I want to thank Professor Marion Orr for his inspiring There is one thing that will never change. We will always leadership. For six years, Marion raised the profile of the return to the same powerful idea: Individuals can make a Center — developing new educational programs and find- difference. Our mission, first and foremost, is to train students ing fresh ways to engage the broader community. Professor who can make a difference, and to engage in scholarship Orr will remain a vital part of our program. that opens minds and builds a better world. In that spirit, let me invite you to participate in the life What lies ahead? We’re planning to introduce many of the Center. The Center thrives on lively discussion. Please innovations. We’ll broaden our focus to include interna- Contact us About the Taubman Center feel free to come visit us, to engage our many speakers, and tional public policy. Perhaps it made sense to limit public 67 George Street, Box 1977 to share your ideas about education, about policy, about Since 1984, the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and policy to American institutions back in the 1980s when the Providence, Rhode Island 02912 change, and about building a better future. American Institutions has been Brown’s hub for connecting students, Center was founded. But we now no longer stop at the water’s phone faculty, the community, and distinguished visitors for interdisciplinary edge. So we’ll be getting more ambitious: Our studies, sur- Jim Morone 401-863-2201 study, research, and advocacy of sound public policy and the veys, and education programs will stretch from Providence Director, Taubman Center for Public Policy website betterment of American institutions. across the United States and around the world. We have John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy www.brown.edu/taubman-center begun preliminary discussions with colleagues in France, The Center administers an undergraduate degree in Public Policy email India, Brazil, China, and Sweden in the hopes of facilitating and American Institutions as well as Master of Public Affairs and [email protected] easy interchange with public policy studies abroad. Master of Public Policy degrees. The Center brings together Find us on Facebook We’ll also be strengthening our ties around campus. distinguished professors in political science, education, economics, We’re looking to make more robust connections with the Follow us on Twitter sociology, community health, and related areas. Our faculty are a @TaubmanCtr Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Engineering, the mix of published scholars and experienced policy practitioners. Swearer Center for Public Service, Environmental Studies, © 2014 Taubman Center for Public Policy. We are most grateful to our benefactor, A. Alfred Taubman, a pioneer Urban Studies, History, Economics, the Watson Institute, Text, photography, design by Ellen Dessloch. in America’s shopping center industry who remains active in many and other departments and centers at Brown. We’ll be put- ting a new emphasis on governance, economic development, business, civic, cultural, and educational activities around the world. ethics, and law. After all, one of the joys of life at Brown is the collaboration across departments and centers. Above: The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at And we’ll continue to pay special attention to issues of 67 George Street, Providence. Front cover: Senator Olympia Snowe speaks with governance. Policy plans don’t do anyone much good if they public policy students before the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture. Back cover: Kimberly Fayette PPAI ’14 (second from left) helps carry the class of 2014 banner in are not carefully attuned to the real world of politics — Brown’s Commencement procession. Right: Photo of James Morone by Gabby Salazar. and markets.

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Annual Report

From the Director 3 Director Marion Orr reflects on a productive year and a shift in leadership at the Center. Undergraduate Program 4 Taking Leave Graduates in the concentration presented outstanding honors theses (including Amy Senia, right) and made a It has been my privilege to be steward of the Taubman number of contributions at Brown and beyond. Center for the past six years. Year after year, I have been awed by the enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, and achievements Master’s Program 10 of the students and faculty associated with the Center, and Our graduate students aided the community through this year has been no different. government consulting, capstone projects, and more. 4 In this report, we feature some of our undergraduate con- centrators, among them Todd Harris, Brown’s outgoing student Lectures and Events 18 council president; Jean McCabe, a top-ranked college debater; Marion Orr and A number of top policy experts and politicians, and Sam Gilman, who co-founded a national political advo- Senator Olympia including Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, right, Snowe, who cacy group for millenials. As I write this, eleven students are delivered this year’s came to campus this year. engaging in internships around the country and abroad Krieger Lecture. through the Happy and John Hazen White, Sr. internship Public Opinion Polls 22 program. The program provides financial support for stu- The Center’s statewide and city polls gauged dents to pursue an unpaid summer internship with a public, Our faculty has had an extremely productive year. A major public opinion on issues affecting Rhode Island. private sector, or nonprofit organization involved in the for- highlight is the publication of The Witch Hunt Narrative: mulation, implementation, or evaluation of public policy. Politics, Psychology and the Sexual Abuse of Children, a book Faculty News 23 authored by my esteemed colleague Ross Cheit. Taubman faculty, including Ross Cheit, right, 18 Two master’s capstone projects reached far The product of 15 years of research conducted with have published and presented ground-breaking the assistance of 81 Brown students, the book was research that will shape tomorrow’s policy debates. beyond Rhode Island’s borders, to the published by Oxford University Press and subse- White House Office of Management and Budget quently reviewed in the New York Times. Alumni Careers 26 This year, we welcome Postdoctoral Research Career news from Taubman alumni, including and BRAC Microfinance in Bangladesh. Associate Steven White, who earned his PhD from Arsalan Faheem MPP ’10, right. Columbia University. Professor White’s research Our master’s students have been active in the greater Rhode examines the impact of World War II on civil rights, how Commencement 2014 32 Island community — our own “learning laboratory” — non-southern, state-level Democratic elites viewed civil Photographs from the annual Pre-Campus through research projects with Brown’s Center for Prisoner rights in the immediate postwar period, and the development Dance Mixer. Health and Human Rights, the Rhode Island Public Expen- of agricultural taxation in the post-bellum South. He will 26 23 diture Council, and the Senate Fiscal Office, among many teach Race and Public Policy this fall. other organizations. This year, two master’s capstone projects This year completes my second and final three-year term reached far beyond Rhode Island’s borders, to the White as director of the Center. Next year, I will be on sabbatical House Office of Management and Budget and BRAC Micro- leave. During the past six years, the Center has continued to finance in Bangladesh. carry out its mission of training students to better under- In February, it was my honor to welcome Senator Olympia stand public policy. The Dean of the Faculty has appointed Snowe to campus to deliver the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial my long-time colleague Professor James Morone to succeed Lecture. She spoke about her efforts to foster bipartisanship me as director. Jim is an outstanding scholar of public policy. and move our country forward through her political reform I am looking forward to returning to the Taubman faculty work with the Bipartisan Policy Center and tirelessly an- in the fall of 2015. swered questions long after concluding her formal presenta- tion. The Center’s lunchtime lecture series, which features Marion E. Orr academics and practitioners presenting new policy research, Director and Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy 32 16 drew crowds to 67 George Street this year. Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies

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SENIOR AWARDS Eyes on the Prize This year, the Center awarded prizes to two outstanding seniors. Established in honor of Noah Krieger ’93, the Krieger Prize recognizes a graduating senior for academic achievement in the concentration. The Frederick Lippitt Prize, in honor of the late Mr. Lippitt’s long career in public service, recognizes a student dedicated to public service.

Alvina Pillai opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals. In 2013, Noah Krieger Prize for Academic Excellence he interned at Alameda County Probation, where he devel- oped case plans for youth offenders. “Since graduating in Pillai graduated with honors and won the Krieger Prize for December, my efforts have focused on racial and economic her outstanding senior thesis “The Role of School Resource justice. I expect to continue to focus on these objectives as I Officers in the School to Prison Pipeline: An Analysis of School move forward,” said Taylor. He currently volunteers for Lift CAREERS Resource Officer Effectiveness.” Pillai, who graduated Phi Up Oakland, a campaign to raise Oakland’s minimum wage. Beta Kappa, also co-authored He is also working on the Oakland mayoral campaign of After Brown Our 2014 graduates are already making their mark in a number of policy arenas. “Avenues of Criminal Justice: Alvina Pillai Dan Siegel, a civil rights attorney. presents her The Blackfoot Confederacy thesis. Olivia Conetta is a consultant help to immigrants seeking Shruti Nagarajan is a Daniel Sack is a student at from 1877–1889,” which was with IBM Global Business citizenship and fighting consulting associate at Columbia Law School in New published in a recent issue of Services in Washington, D.C. deportation in New York City. Cambridge Associates, an York City. Great Plains Quarterly. Pillai investment-consulting and Jeffrey Velez researched Chance Craig is a New Jonathan Hilgart is a media firm in Boston. Amy Senia is a paralegal for and wrote the paper as an York City Urban Fellow analyst at Ampush, a social Dovel and Luner, an Undergraduate Teaching and participating in an intensive media marketing company in Daniel Newmark is an intellectual property and seminar series on current San Francisco. associate consultant at Bain patent litigation law firm in Research Award project. Pillai urban issues impacting and Company in Boston. Santa Monica, California. has deferred her admission to Harvard Law School for a year. public policy before being Hannah Jones is pursuing a “Up to this point, all of my internships and extracurricular placed in a city agency. master of behavioral and Alvina Pillai (see page 4). Luke Taylor (see page 4) experiences were either in the public sector or had something social sciences intervention to do with civil rights. I want to gain experience in the pri- Samantha Enriquez is at Brown University’s School Michael Robinson is content Jean Witmer is a research vate sector,” she said. She is a paralegal at Muri Associates, pursuing a master of of Public Health. creator and operations mana- analyst for a hedge fund a Providence-based law firm specializing in environmental, science in philosophy and ger for the Grove Church in at Select Equity, New Luke Taylor (left) with other public policy at the London Afia Kwakwa is a Teach for Fayetteville, Arkansas. York City. construction, and other business litigation. Lift Up Oakland volunteers. School of Economics. America high school mathe- matics teacher at Coahoma Luke Taylor Kimberly Fayette is a Agricultural High School in PPAI Class of 2014 (above). Front row, left to right: Samantha Enriquez, Alvina Pillai, Amy Senia, Olivia Conetta, Shruti Nagarajan, Frederick Lippitt Prize for Public Service HONORS THESES community fellow with Clarksdale, Mississippi. Jean Witmer. Back row: Daniel Newmark, Todd Harris, Michael Robinson, the Immigrant Justice Jonathan Hilgart, Kimberly Fayette, Jean McCabe, Chance Craig, Three concentrators graduated with honors, having Taylor was very active in social service, community organiz- Corps, which provides legal Jean McCabe (see page 7). Afia Kwakwa. Not pictured: Hannah Jones, Luke Taylor, Daniel Sack. written outstanding theses that they presented at the ing, and criminal justice work while at Brown. A Phi Beta Taubman Center in April. Kappa graduate, Taylor volunteered with several organiza- CAREERS tions in Providence. At Makin’ Moves, he served as a tutor Alvina Pillai “The Role of School Resource Officers in and mentor for student-athletes, and at the Writers Group, the School to Prison Pipeline: An Analysis of School DEGREE DAY The Public Policy DUG invites Taubman alumni back to talk about their careers. he led creative writing workshops for developmentally dis- Resource Officer Effectiveness” This year’s department undergraduate group (DUG) lead- executive director of Breakthrough Providence, which abled adults. While studying at Brown, Taylor interned at Daniel Sack “The Effects of the Media’s Portrayal of ers hosted a Degree Day in March, inviting public policy seeks to create a pathway to college for low-income and the Department of Human Services, and at the Juvenile Ser- High-Profile Trials on the Public’s View of Court alumni back to campus to speak about how their time at minority students; and Bradley Silverman ’13, a student vices department of Rhode Island Family Court, he co-led Legitimacy” Brown influenced their careers. The speakers included at Columbia Law School, where he is vice organizational a mentor group for youth charged with drug offenses. In Amy Senia “The Effectiveness of Federal Public David Kopans ’91, co-founder and chief financial officer of chair of the Civil Rights Law Society. Zachary Rubin, California, he was a summer intern with 826 Valencia, where Defenders Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and GreenerU, an organization that partners with universities Dana Schwartz, and Kyle Giddon, all juniors, led this year’s he tutored kids in a literacy camp in addition to interning Mandatory Minimum Policies” to bring about clean energy solutions; Dulari Tahbildar ’00, department undergraduate group. with Oakland Community Organizations, where he helped

promote Proposition 30, an initiative to increase employment BROOKELUKETAYLOR: ANDERSON/LIFT UP OAKLAND

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SUCCESS STORY Thinking (and Speaking) on Her Feet Jean McCabe PPAI ’14 ended her senior year as the most successful Brown debater in years.

Poised and clearly in her element, Jean McCabe researches and writes cases to present to opponents; half introduces the two finalists for the Brown Debating Union’s the time they argue their own cases, and half the time annual Radcliffe Hicks Debate. They have been winnowed they rebut unfamiliar cases prepared by their opponents. from a field of sixteen, and tonight’s victor will win bragging McCabe has a binder crammed with cases she prepared for rights and a cool $2,000. The finalists and three faculty the 2013–2014 season. judges, including Brown President Christina Paxson, listen McCabe started debating in high school and credits the intently as McCabe announces the debate topic that she has research and writing skills she learned there with helping kept secret until this moment: her gain admittance to, and

Major international sporting Jean McCabe ultimately succeed at, Brown. events like the World Cup and the moderating the “In debate, I had to teach Hicks Debate Olympics should not be held in finals. myself how to write persua- White Internship Awards Crystal Avila ’16 countries with known current sively and quickly,” she said. As Care for the Homeless, a policy human rights abuses being perpe- a public policy concentrator, The Happy and John Hazen White, Sr. internship program provides a stipend to public policy advocate and service provider trated by the government. McCabe used her debating undergraduates to pursue an unpaid summer internship with a public, private sector, or nonprofit for the homeless in New York City organization involved in the formulation, implementation, or evaluation of public policy. This year, Working on: Advocacy efforts “You’ve got 15 minutes to pre- skills to write policy memos, a a record number of concentrators — eleven — were awarded funding through the program. to pass New York State’s pare your cases,” she tells finalists standard assignment in public Homeless Protection Act Aashay Sheth and Lyall Stuart. policy classes. “The number Michael D’Ortenzio ’15 Working on: Building Julia Stoller ’15 McCabe starts a small timer and one thing that debate has Law offices of George West CSA’s bipartisan millennial Voices of Youth in Chicago Rachel Black ’16 both students set to work, Sheth taught me is how to be concise. and Associates, Providence, policy agenda and the Education, a youth collabora- Defy Ventures, an educational scribbling on a yellow legal pad It really did teach me to boil my Rhode Island organization’s presence on tive that focuses on and entrepreneurship program and Stuart tapping on his laptop. thoughts down to very simple Working on: A post-conviction U.S. college campuses education policy in Chicago for formerly incarcerated The Hicks competition is open statements. When you write a appeal case for which West is (read more on page 8) public schools individuals in New York City the court-appointed attorney Working on: Researching Working on: Evaluating the to all Brown sophomores and policy memo, it has to be less Shane Grannum ’15 punitive disciplinary policy trials of a blended online- juniors and is run by Brown’s de- than two pages,” she said. Kyle Giddon ’15 Campaign Legal Center, learning platform bate team, which selected McCabe McCabe, who said she spent Office of Andrew M. Cuomo, Washington, D.C., a Diego Arene-Morley ’16 to act as moderator this year. As- up to 30 hours a week preparing Governor of New York, New nonpartisan legal advocacy National Center on Shaken Kodjo Kumi ’16 signing debate topics and running for debates while at Brown, York City group focusing on campaign Baby Syndrome, International Center for Missing the competition she dominated confesses she’s picked a number Working on: Research and finance reform and voting Providence, Rhode Island and Exploited Children, — and won — during her sopho- of her policy electives based on policy work to articulate and rights Working on: Legal research Washington, D.C. “The number one thing more and junior years at Brown topics that might come up in implement the Governor’s Working on: Helping litigators on high-profile shaken baby Working on: Researching child that debate has taught me is legislative and administrative and policy experts to conduct cases pornography and cyber-bullying is the icing on a successful colle- debate. “I took Juvenile Justice agenda interviews and voting rights legislation giate debate career for McCabe. how to be concise.” with Valerie Cooley this fall, research, which will inform Carly Armstrong ’16 She finished her senior year as the and for some reason this year I Sam Gilman ’15 his senior thesis Directive Legislative 2014 White Interns. Front row, third-ranked debater in the have had to debate an enormous Common Sense Action, Foundation, Buenos Aires, left to right: Crystal Avila, Carly American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA), mak- number of juvenile justice cases. I got lucky,” she said. Washington D.C. (at the Zachary Rubin ’15 Argentina Armstrong, Kyle Giddon, Sam ing her Brown’s best debater in a decade. APDA is a national Debate continues to fuel McCabe’s success. In April, she Bipartisan Policy Center), Office of U.S. Senator Working on: Policy research Gilman, Zachary Rubin. Back row: the grass-roots policy Sheldon Whitehouse, on Argentina’s high school Shane Grannum, Rachel Black, league that includes teams from eighty-five colleges including secured an analyst position with Market Metrics, a finan- Meiling Jabbar (declined award), organization he co-founded Washington, D.C. civic education courses and the Ivy Leagues. cial market research and strategy consulting firm in Boston. Michael D’Ortenzio, Diego to address policy issues that Working on: Research related the recent law allowing 16- and Arene-Morley, Kodjo Kumi. Unlike the Hicks debate format, which is one on one, two- The interviews went well, she said, because she felt confi- affect millennials to health care reform 17-year-olds the right to vote Not pictured: Julia Stoller. person teams debate in Parliamentary format. Each team dent thinking — and speaking — on her feet.

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SUCCESS STORY SUCCESS STORY

Gilman shares how the political advocacy group he co-founded Q+A: Sam Gilman ’15 got started two years ago and where it’s headed. Presidency with a Purpose

How did Common Sense Action start? Todd Harris ’14.5 reflects on his year as the Undergraduate Student Council president. The summer after my freshman year, I was an intern at the Bipartisan Policy Center researching the causes of gridlock in Todd Harris set an ambitious agenda when he physical campus, and sustainability. The council also held Congress and the decline in relationships between members assumed the Undergraduate Student Council (UCS) presi- four student forums to solicit opinions from student group of Congress. I was getting a sense of how broken Washington dency: revitalizing the organization’s engagement with leaders. Harris and UCS committee members incorporated was. I talked to other interns about their experiences, and it Brown’s undergraduate student body. “In past years, UCS the poll and forum feedback into a ten-page report that Har- was the same story. They had dreams about seeing how politics work and changing the country one day, but they were also a has not had a very good reputation with students. I wanted ris presented to Brown president Christina Paxson and little bit dejected by the state of affairs in Washington. I called to try to rebuild that relationship and reach out to different Brown’s Corporation in response to the university’s strategic my best friend from Brown, Andrew (Kaplan, political science organizations at Brown and make UCS more useful and fun,” plan, “Building on Distinction.” The report highlighted stu- concentrator), and said, “I think we should start thinking about he said. “I wanted to make sure that everyone who had an dent concerns about making improvements to financial aid connecting with D.C. interns who believe in politics as a vehicle idea to make Brown better could do it through UCS.” and whether the university’s focus on developing additional for change and organize them to make an impact.” We got back Statistics bear out Harris’s success. Applications from graduate programs would “detract from the undergraduate to campus and found a third co-founder, Heath Mayo ’13. An- student groups for UCS funding have surged from just a focus that makes Brown unique.” drew’s a Democrat from New York, I’m an Independent from handful in previous years to 65 this year. Voter participation The skills he has acquired through his policy studies have D.C. and Heath is a Republican from Texas. We built the first is up, too. When Harris was elected in April 2012, about 2,000 helped him develop into a more effective leader, said Harris. chapter at Brown that fall. Heading into this summer we had undergraduates voted. This April, nearly 3,000 students “A lot of the professors I’ve had in public policy are very skill- 24 chapters in fifteen states. Now we’re up to 34 chapters. voted for his successor. oriented and future-oriented,” he said. “They’re not just teach- Harris’s tenure got off to a strong start in the fall with 2,000 ing us how to think but how to be proactive and successful.” How did CSA grow so quickly? “Because it’s grassroots, That next summer the Bipartisan Policy Center gave us a space undergraduates completing a UCS poll — nearly double the He credits his policy analysis and program evaluation class to work and seed money to help grow our membership. Four number of responses to previous polls — asking students to (with Taubman professor Andy Pennock) as being particu- of us went door to door, walking into 435 House offices, Sen- it’s going to be a little messy. rank the importance of issues such as financial aid, the larly helpful in strengthening the council’s relationship with ate offices, and think tanks and asked to speak to the interns. the student body and driving up interest in UCS member- The pitch was simple: “We’re talking about the issues that We like that.” ship. “We sent out multiple surveys to the campus asking really impact millennials and how to repair politics through “We sent out multiple surveys what the council could do better,” he said, “and we evaluated bipartisan collaboration. With free pizza.” Our speakers in- is going to look different at Vanderbilt or the University of every meeting after it concluded. The council became a lot Alabama. We spent an hour just setting the norms. One of our to the campus asking what the cluded Senator Olympia Snowe, Senator Angus King, and more open to self-evaluation.” This culture shift helped UCS norms was to respect and honor partisanship. We are explic- other members of Congress. We recruited students to form a council could do better.” to become more inclusive, and consequently more students steering committee to build a forty-page document that pro- itly bipartisan, not nonpartisan. There are no absolute answers joined and remained on the student vided the framework for CSA’s Agenda for Generational Equity to policy problems. To use a football metaphor, our agenda council throughout the year, said Harris (AGE). The staff at the Bipartisan Policy Center, including plays between the forty-yard lines. Some of our generational fairness policy for entitlements solutions are center right and By the middle of spring semester, UCS President Jason Grumet ’89, played a key role in supporting Todd Harris listens us as we drafted AGE. some of the investment solutions are center left. One of the intently to a presenter had more than 70 members, up from 30 biggest things I’ve learned is that building relationships is at at a spring semester the previous year. UCS meeting. What did the framework include? the heart of political organizing. The times we haven’t accom- Harris is looking forward to his final We proposed 19 policy objectives that advance solutions to plished our goals, it’s because we haven’t spent enough time semester at Brown, when he’ll be able to four issues that impact millennials — fiscal responsibility, eco- strengthening relationships. focus on his policy studies without the nomic mobility, investments, and national services. We re- demands of leading the student council. What’s next? leased the framework in August 2013 and asked our chapters “It’s a full-time job,” he said, that typi- This past summer we were back in Washington — the political to build their own agenda based on the framework. In January cally includes hours of weekly council intern capital of the United States — working to recruit interns 2014, we held our national summit. Leaders from 17 colleges business as well as regular meetings with brought their own versions of the agenda to the table. Louisi- to start more chapters. Now that we have launched AGE, we’re President Christina Paxson and Vice ana State, Lafayette, Berkeley, Northern Iowa — they all looked researching a number of policy issues in more depth so we can President Margaret Klawunn. He intends different. We spent a weekend, including one fifteen-hour day prepare our chapters for advocacy campaigns this fall. The boiling it all down to a national agenda we could all support. 2014 midterm elections offer us an opportunity to educate to help with transition — a rare boon to candidates and voters about key millennial issues. the new UCS president — since he is How did you reach consensus? graduating mid-year, the result of having

Because it’s grassroots, it’s going to be a little messy. We like Above: Sam Gilman (right) with Bipartisan Policy Center President Jason taken a semester off to work on Presi- that. We understand that what is common sense in Berkeley Grumet ’89 at the June 2014 launch of AGE. Photo by Greg Gibson. dent Obama’s reelection campaign.

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POLICY IN PRACTICE FIRST-YEAR AWARDS

Keeping It Local Samuel Rogers Top of the Class (right) with RIPEC Student teams led by Lecturer Erik Godwin executive director The Center awards scholarships to master’s students who put their policy skills to work in two projects John Simmons. for state and local government clients. have done outstanding work during their initial year at Brown. The Darrell West scholarship, in honor of the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund Analysis second director of the Taubman Center, is awarded to a Client: City of Everett, Massachusetts student who has demonstrated outstanding engagement with the Center, Brown, and the community. The A. Alfred Godwin headed up a team of three students to Taubman scholarship, named for the Center’s founding conduct an analysis of Everett, Massachusetts’ benefactor, recognizes a student for academic excellence. water and sewer enterprise fund. Godwin and graduate students Matthew McCabe MPP ’14,

Jonathan Wolinsky MPP ’15 Meredith Stone MPP ’15 and public policy POLICY IN PRACTICE Darrell West Scholar undergraduate Sophia Dalal, in cooperation with Policy focus: State policy. It’s layered Everett’s Division of City Services, undertook a CAREERS comprehensive examination of the enterprise between federal and local and inter- Making the Grade fund’s budget, water and sewer projections, Where our 2014 master’s acts with both. recordkeeping system, and rate design in Samuel Rogers MPA ’14 created a formula to measure the effectiveness graduates have headed. Summer 2014: I worked with the Rhode After Brown anticipation of setting water and sewer rates for of Rhode Island’s banking regulatory agency. Island State Senate fiscal advisor and his staff on proj- Ivy DePew MPA (above) was crowned Miss Rhode Island in June fiscal year 2015. The report contained three ects relating to the state budget. My projects ranged from and will compete in the Miss America Competition in September. primary work products including: water and The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) has released updating comparisons on state taxation policies to help- DePew will spend a year promoting “United We Stand,” her platform sewer rate recommendations; a custom dataset a report outlining a suggested performance management framework ing to draft legislation. I was fortunate to start during for supporting U.S. military service members, veterans, and families, of water usage data by connection; and a for evaluating the regulatory agency responsible for overseeing the synopsis of the relevant state and local laws the final phase of the budget process and took part in and serving as an ambassador for the Children’s Miracle Network. state’s banking sector. John Simmons, executive director of RIPEC, governing the use of the enterprise fund. some very formative elements of the end of the fiscal hired Samuel Rogers on a consulting basis to research and write the Eleanor Kane MPA is pursuing a PhD in education at the year. A highlight was watching my boss give the whole report, which was released in May. “Sam had worked on other proj- University of New Hampshire. Her degree will focus on children Rhode Island 911 Emergency Services Senate an update on the budget and getting a shout out ects for us, and we’ve been very happy with his work. He has a unique and youth in communities. She also co-manages Brasen Hill Farm, Dispatch Analysis for the work I’d done. a sustainable farm that she owns with her husband. set of measurement and performance outcome skills,” said Simmons. Client: Joint Municipal Shared Services Favorite policy class so far: Urban Economic Policy with Terri Devine and stats with Andy Pennock and Syon Bha- Matthew McCabe MPP is an analyst in the Massachusetts Godwin and Lecturer Andrew Pennock directed a “This may become a national model not. I’m drawn to classes that mix theory and application. Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Planning in comprehensive analysis of the state’s 911 system Boston, Massachusetts. for monitoring the work that bank as it undergoes the shift from a strictly voice- Meredith Stone MPP ’15 based 911 call system to one with the ability to JOHN SIMMONS Melina Packer MPP is pursuing a PhD in environmental science, regulators are doing.” — A. Alfred Taubman Scholar receive multimedia messages. Students policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley. Policy focus: Environmental regulation. Jonathan Wolinsky MPP ’15, Meredith Stone Rogers worked closely with the Rhode Island Department of MPP ’15, and applied math-economics concen- Summer 2014: Working with Policy Gayatri Sahgal MPP is an analyst for Altai Consulting, a French Business Regulations’ (DBR) Banking Division, which reviews state- trator Jamie Rosen (below) worked with the Navigation Group (PNG) in Washing- consulting firm with clients in Africa, the Middle East, and Central chartered banks and credit unions to determine whether they faculty to evaluate the current 911 system, identify ton D.C. PNG develops and manages Asia. She is in Kenya working on an evaluation of programming comply with the state’s banking laws and maintain fiscal solvency. potential infrastructure needs, and generate offered in Somalia by Nairobi-based Radio Ergo, which broadcasts strategies for trade associations and other companies for recommendations for state decision makers. The DBR commissioned RIPEC to produce the report, which nonpartisan humanitarian information. Sahgal is also working emerging science and technology issues. I worked on The team plans to present its findings to state discusses the challenges of measuring state government effectiveness on a study for GSMA, a global network of cell phone operators, environmental regulatory issues and the rule-making legislators in September. to identify the causes of gender disparities in adopting phone and outlines a set of metrics — the Banking Regulation Index — to process at the federal level. I learned to navigate the in- technology in developing countries. gauge DBR’s efficiency and effectiveness in monitoring the health tersection of policy, politics, and scientific analysis as it of the state’s banking sector. The DBR will launch a pilot of the index pertains to the executive branch and its agencies. The Graham Sheridan MPA is a research analyst at Motley Rice, a to seek industry input before broadly implementing it in 2015. In project I was most involved with concerns EPA’s Inte- Charleston, South Carolina, law firm that practices in the areas of researching other Northeast state banking regulators, Rogers found grated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program that anti-terrorism and human rights, personal and occupational injury, that while many are transparent in reporting performance in terms of is responsible for developing toxicological assessments environmental hazards, medical malpractice, and aviation. output or outcomes, few states report on performance indicators such of environmental contaminants. as efficiency, and none report on agency effectiveness. “This may Kelsey Sherman MPP is staff assistant to the president and vice Favorite policy class so far: Jack Comb’s Social Science Data president of the Council of Independent Colleges, an organization become a national model for monitoring the work that bank Technologies. It introduced us to software that can help that provides educational support to administrators at indepen- regulators are doing. We don’t know of any other state that has done us to make better-informed policy decisions. dent liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States. this analysis,” said Simmons.

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Betsy Loucks (left) and Amber Ma.

patients’ mental, physical, and social well-being. “I felt like Rhode Island provides a learning laboratory where public policy was a more effective way to make broader Work & change,” she said. Before starting the master’s program last the Center’s students can delve into real-world policy making. Here are three master’s students who fall, Opdycke began an internship at Rhode Island’s Depart- balanced policy work with their classwork. ment of Human Services (DHS), which she continued through study her first year at Brown. Working for public information officer and legislative li- aison Frederick Sneesby, Opdycke prepared briefing materials Kyle Lynch MPA ’15 mentation — emails, meeting minutes, and letters — turned on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to educate customer service over by RIEDC. The team produced two weighty document Analyst, Rhode Island House Committee on Oversight representatives with DHS. Because of her familiarity with review books, with Oversight Director Beth Cotter and the ACA, Opdycke was invited to participate in “Implemen- Lynch presenting an overview of their findings to the com- nals, think tanks, and local and national research groups, Kyle Lynch has one word to explain how he combined full- tation of the ACA: Complications of the Here and Now,” a mittee in early August. Each book, said Lynch, contains Ma compiled a data-heavy report on Rhode Island’s health time work in the State House with his studies at Brown. panel on the Brown campus that focused on how the law would about 35 key documents that trace RIEDC’s due diligence care landscape from where it had been pre-ACA to where its “Coffee,” he said with a wry laugh. affect Rhode Island’s most vulnerable populations. Opdycke process in guaranteeing the loans. projected effects would be. Fortunately for Lynch, one of his most time-consuming gave an overview of the ACA and discussed how it would Oversight has also focused on the Rhode Island Higher “It’s critical for HealthRIght to inform the public what projects for the Oversight Committee culminated just before affect the prison population and the formerly incarcerated. Education Authority, which lost the power to originate loans the data and peer-reviewed research has shown,” said Loucks. he began his studies at Brown. In August 2013, Lynch was Opdycke became knowledgeable about health care access under a 2010 federal law that centralizes student loans at the “We pull from that core document for grants, testimony, and part of a team to present a review of the Rhode Island Eco- issues for prisoner and ex-offender populations when she and federal level. Lynch and Cotter studied how to sensibly wind presentations to business groups and health care advocates. nomic Development Corporation’s (RIEDC) Jobs Creation two undergraduates helped organize the first in a series of down the agency’s operations as its revenue stream declines. It’s like a database itself — and we will keep building on it, Guaranty Program to the House Oversight Committee and symposia at Brown, entitled “Incarceration, Disparities, and (Lynch left his position in the Oversight office after the lead- using the scaffolding Amber has created.” the General Assembly. Under the program, the state guaran- Health in America in the Age of Healthcare Reform,” under ership of the committee changed hands in April.) Ma also worked closely with Loucks to provide research teed a multi-million dollar loan to 38 Studios, former Red Sox the direction of Brad Brockerman, executive director of The MPA curriculum yielded immediate benefits in his support for the Rhode Island Health Care Authority Act, a player Kurt Schilling’s video game venture. The business Brown’s Center for Prison Health and Human Rights. The work at the State House, said Lynch. “My most important bill written by HealthRIght and introduced in the Senate in failed, leaving the state on the hook for $75 million in loans. January symposium provided an overview of the inequalities job was relaying information in a correct and meaningful February 2014. The act would consolidate the state’s health The mission of the Oversight Committee — one of just that incarcerated individuals face and barriers to care they way,” he said. “From Professor Moffitt showing us how to care reform efforts under the direction of a new commis- two House committees that is professionally staffed — is to encounter after they are released. write succinctly and clearly to Professor Pennock showing sioner and would move the state from a fee-for-service ensure that public agencies are efficiently utilizing taxpayer Opdycke notes that addressing barriers to care for this us how to translate complex statistics into a graph, I have so model to a payment model based on health care outcomes. dollars and fulfilling their mission statements. population is complex since offenders are vulnerable to a much more in my toolbelt, even after just the first semester.” Ma admits that there was a “huge learning curve” to be Lynch and two other staff members spent more than six number of social problems. “You can’t really address their able to hold her own in coalition meetings. “There are people weeks combing through more than 14,000 pages of docu- lack of connection to health care without addressing the fact involved who have been in health care for decades,” she said. that they don’t have a place to live, they don’t have healthy Amber Ma MPA ’14 Ultimately, though, she learned the most from keeping an food, or a job,” said Opdycke. Research has shown that access Research and Policy Assistant, Health RIght eye on Loucks, who has a talent for knitting together con- Kyle Lynch (right) to health care reduces recidivism, so the benefits of connect- with Representative sensus with “ten different viewpoints in the room,” said Ma. Michael Marcello, ing this population with good care are clear, she said. who chaired the Late in her first year at the Taubman Center, Amber Ma “I’ve learned how to communicate to a diverse range of audi- House Oversight joined what she terms “a small, but mighty group that par- ences and be open to being challenged. My work with Betsy Committee. ticipates in statewide health care reform efforts.” That small has honed my ability to research a complex topic and distill Lisa Opdyke at the Center but mighty group is HealthRIght, a coalition dedicated to it down into the base points for various audiences.” for Prison Health and improving the quality of health care, controlling health care Human Rights symposium. costs, and providing health care coverage to all Rhode Is- landers. The coalition includes representatives from local Lisa Opdycke MPP ’15 businesses, labor groups, medical care providers, patients, Policy and Communications Intern, Rhode Island consumers, and public officials and is headed by its sole em- Department of Human Services ployee, director Betsy Stubblefield Loucks. Loucks hired Ma to help her research health care reform Lisa Opdycke has always been interested in health care — she policy and prepare policy materials for coalition meetings. completed Cornell’s premed program — but after spending One of Ma’s largest projects for Health RIght was a compre- months volunteering in hospitals, she realized that doctors hensive study of the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) who care for underserved populations often end up provid- on the state. Drawing on research from peer-reviewed jour- ing reactive treatment rather than proactively fostering their

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT The OMB capstone team at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Left to right: Samuel Rogers, OMB performance manager Mark Bussow, Capstone 2014 Matthew McCabe, Eleanor Kane, Sarah Hall. est, concerns, current resources, and gaps in the healthy During the year-long capstone, student teams focus on a consulting project with a client. housing system and determined that Rhode Island is rich in After meeting with their client to delineate the scope of their research, each team interviews resources but limited in its ability to effectively coordinate key stakeholders, does field research, and analyzes related data and case studies. In May, the healthy housing interventions, especially from the standpoint teams presented their research and recommendations to peers, faculty, and their clients. of the resident. The team developed its recommendations to help the client prepare for a September 2014 public launch. RECOMMENDATIONS: “AS220 Youth Program Evaluation: • Focus on soft skills, art skills, and professional opportunities, • Strengthen identity of RIAHH’s executive steering com- Indicators and Lessons” honing in on arts skills and relevant career benefits. mittee by creating chair, vice chair, and secretary positions. TEAM: Chang Liu, Sukhna Matharu, Weichao Zhang • Build an evaluative culture. Evaluation should be embed- The OMB team’s recommendations • Complete business and strategic planning to consolidate its CLIENT: AS220, Providence, Rhode Island ded in AS220’s programs and targeted to outcomes sought have been incorporated in a mission and goals, prepare for risks, manage growth, and by specific stakeholders. Sampling can be focused on sub- build ownership among the steering committee. BRIEF: AS220 is an artist-run nonprofit that offers arts classes groups of youth participants and sponsors. presidential memorandum • Foster a collective impact culture including highlighting and studio, exhibit, and performance spaces to the greater • Build a solid relationship with the evaluation team, as a small wins, clearly defining participant engagement, and Rhode Island area. The team sought to provide an effective comprehensive evaluation requires strong collaboration. on infrastructure permitting. preparing for differing stages of coalition-building. evaluation framework for AS220’s youth program, which • Be attentive to available funding sources and deliver skills • Develop a membership strategy to inform recruitment, ad- delivers free arts-based programs to youth, particularly aligned with the expectations of various stakeholders. dress retention, and mitigate turf issues. those in state custody. The team proposed that this frame- • Create a statement that captures the impact of the permit- • Shift donor perspectives by helping funders see the value of work be focused both on process (inputs, activities, and “Implementing a Presidential Priority: ting process before a formal project application is made. longer-term collective impact work. outputs) and outcomes (immediate to long term), as well as Protecting the Environment While Cutting Red • Form a system to classify if the permitting process produced • Establish systems-level evaluation and measurement that be attentive to the needs of various stakeholders. The team Tape in the Infrastructure Permitting Process” better outcomes in each of these impact categories, and by can account for all the moving parts of the system and analyzed AS220’s existing data sources and used outcomes TEAM: Sarah Hall, Eleanor Kane, Matthew McCabe, which method these improved outcomes were achieved. tailor evaluation data to different stakeholders. >> such as job readiness and digital literacy to demonstrate Samuel Rogers evaluative skills and processes. The team also consulted with CLIENT: White House Office of Management and Budget, “Organizing Innovation: Building the Rhode Island similarly aligned organizations focusing on youth develop- Washington, D.C. Alliance for Healthy Homes” ment, including Providence After School Alliance (PASA), TEAM: Amber Ma, Kelsey Sherman, Qiyao Zhu “It would have taken two or three years to launch Young Voices, and YMCA Greater Providence. BRIEF: As part of a larger presidential initiative to modernize CLIENT: Green and Healthy Homes Initiative and the Rhode RECOMMENDATIONS: the federal infrastructure permitting and review process, Island Alliance for Healthy Homes, Providence, Rhode Island without our capstone team. They helped • Use digital badges, a validated indicator of acquired skills, this team was asked to create a method to measure environ- us swim fast enough to catch the wave.” to recognize student achievements. mental and community outcomes. As the administration BRIEF: This team helped build out the Rhode Island Alliance — MARK KRAVATZ, GREEN AND HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE aims to cut timelines in order to facilitate investments in for Healthy Homes (RIAHH), a new coalition that fosters AS220 capstone team with clients. Back row, left to right: Sukhna the nation’s critical infrastructure, it also seeks to ensure collaboration amongst state and local agencies on health and Matharu, Weichao Zhang, Chang Liu. Seated, left to right: Jenn Tierney, that this streamlining does not adversely impact the envi- safety issues related to housing. RIAHH brings together ac- AS220 youth development; Cynthia Langlykke, development director. ronment and communities. The team studied how the fed- tors from the state’s Department of Health, Office of Energy eral government can assess the impact of the permitting Resources, Department of Human Services, Housing Re- process on outcomes for communities and the environment. sources Commission, and Rhode Island Housing and con- The team’s recommendations are currently being incorpo- nects them with policies advocated by the Green and Healthy rated in an implementation plan for the Presidential Mem- Homes Initiative (GHHI). GHHI is a national nonprofit that orandum on Modernizing Infrastructure Permitting by the creates programs and policies to prevent childhood lead Steering Committee on Federal Infrastructure Permitting poisoning and home-based environmental health hazards. and Review Process Improvement. The secretary of trans- The team recommended organizational modeling, business portation has asked Congress to authorize a center to ensure planning, constituent analysis, and developing RIAHH’s long-term implementation. value proposition. The team also assessed community inter- RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Use a mixed-method approach for outcome measurement. Right: The RIAHH capstone team with clients. Front row: Kelsey • Design a group of impact categories under which agencies Sherman, Qiyao Zhu, Amber Ma. Back row: Kurt Teichert, Brown Environmental Studies; Mark Kravatz, Providence Outcome Broker, Green can report changes in project impacts — air, water, land, and Healthy Homes Initiative; Garry Bliss, The Providence Center; Russell biological, cultural, and community. >> Johnson, Rhode Island Housing; Jess Cigna, HousingWorks Rhode Island.

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The BRAC MF capstone Assessing Rhode Island’s Food Policy Council team on a field visit to BRAC operations in Melina Packer, who worked for Brown’s East Asian Studies department full time while pursuing Bangladesh. Gayatri Sahgal her MPP degree part time, presented a thesis as the capstone to her studies. and Ivy DePew (third and fourth from left) with BRAC Microfinance staff outside a Packer presented her research on the structure BRAC Microfinance branch and effectiveness of the Rhode Island Food Pol- office in Manikgonj District, Bangladesh. Not pictured: icy Council (RIFPC) to peers and faculty as the Jonathan Stoll. capstone to her Master of Public Policy degree in December 2013. Her master’s thesis, “Civil Sub- version: Making ‘Quiet Revolution’ with the Rhode Island Food Policy Council,” examined the genesis and first two years of the nongovernmen- tal organization, which promotes community food security — where all people can produce, process, distribute, and access quality food. (Packer has “BRAC Microfinance: Program Evaluation for distinguishes between projects that are targeted in nature been a member of the RIFPC since January 2013.) an International NGO” and those that are broader. While lauding RIFPC for its success in recruit- TEAM: Ivy DePew, Gayatri Sahgal, Jonathan Stoll • More comparative analytics: Future evaluative indicators ing key state government officials to participate in the council, she concluded that the “opaque” CLIENT: BRAC Microfinance, Dhaka, Bangladesh should allow for increased comparative analytics. For instance, BRAC MF should benchmark the status of its nature of its formation — a small group of profes- sionals drafted its mission, vision, and goals without direct Food Policy Council staff and members with Melina Packer. BRIEF: BRAC seeks to catalyze lasting change by empowering clients against a relevant comparison group that has not input from traditionally marginalized stakeholders — to Front row, left to right: Katherine Brown, Tess Brown-Lavoie, people and communities afflicted by poverty, illiteracy, dis- participated in the programs. Leo Pollock. Back row: Dorothy Brayley, Krystal Noiseux, Melina be a hindrance in achieving its central goals. ease, and social injustice. BRAC Microfinance (MF) is its • Big picture analysis: BRAC MF should begin to assess Packer, Jennifer Quigley-Harris. “I believe the well-intentioned Rhode Island Food largest program, with more than four million registered bor- not only the impact of specific programs, but also how Policy Council now faces a longer, more uphill battle of rowers. The program’s mission is to extend financial services individual programs contribute to the organization’s over- earning the general public’s trust and genuinely engaging job of including a more diverse group at the council’s table. to populations who cannot access credit or services from all objective. the ordinary, average resident,” she said. “Their profes- “You’ve given us a clear diagnosis,” she said. An adapta- formal financial institutions. This team sought to develop sionalized beginnings also risk alienating less ‘expert’ but tion of Packer’s thesis appeared in the June 2014 issue of logic models and a set of performance metrics, or indicators, “Transportation and Infrastructure Funding highly effective participants. This power dynamic not only Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, which focused on to aid evaluation of BRAC’s six microfinance pilot programs. and Governance in the Ocean State” undermines the council’s commitment to equity but food systems and social justice. The team provided a framework for a comprehensive assess- TEAM: Adolfo Bailon, Graham Sheridan also delays broad political support and subsequent policy Packer was also a part of a team of Brown students ment of each program’s efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and CLIENT: Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council change.” and researchers to launch the Providence Foodshed Jus- sustainability. In doing so, the team offered a more strategic Packer urged RIFPC members to find ways to engage tice Mapping website, which presents a multifaceted look approach to determining metrics of success that are informed BRIEF: The team evaluated the structure and financial aspects a variety of ordinary residents and elected officials, argu- at the city’s food system. Nearly 300 student researchers by the program’s overall objective. The team presented their of Rhode Island’s transportation and infrastructure con- ing that addressing food policy issues should be a civic act were involved in building pvdfoodshedjusticemapping.org. findings through these products: struction and maintenance systems, which are crucial for open to all voices. Co-founding council member Katherine The site contains a wealth of statistics, graphics, and au- dio that bring the city’s food landscape to life. • Logic models to aid in understanding each program’s objec- economic development and public safety. The team re- Brown acknowledged that the RIFPC should do a better tives and outcomes, and to identify any inconsistencies searched the state’s current between resources, activities, and outputs. (Logic models practices and collected link outcomes with the activities performed, providing a data through meetings Graham visual representation of a program’s theory of change.) with state elected officials, Sheridan. team determined that the state is too reliant on the federal • Increase state self-reliance by creating new revenue streams • Indicators to improve BRAC MF’s ability to assess the pro- agency directors, state government for financial support and would be dispropor- for transportation and infrastructure projects. The team cesses and impacts of pilot programs. Each of the indicators and federal legislative tionately affected should the federal government alter its considered increases in the state gas tax and sales taxes, was based on research and best practices review, as well as staff, and local stakehold- current funding practice. The team researched financial and and an impermeable surface fee. on its relevance to the program’s overall logic and design. ers including the Airport structural alternatives for the state to consider. Should any • Maximize current available funding and new, projected RECOMMENDATIONS: Authority, Rhode Island or all of these options be implemented by the state legislature, revenue by implementing changes in both the political and • Benchmarks and targets: Pilot project design should include Public Transit Authority, Rhode Island may benefit from hundreds of millions of dol- bureaucratic structure. a clear criterion of desired outcomes. the legislature, and the lars in locally generated revenue. • Consider changes to transportation governance including • Pilot location and scalability: Decisions regarding future Rhode Island Turnpike RECOMMENDATIONS: creating a secretary of transportation or increasing the pilot project location should be based on a framework that and Bridge Authority. The • Reduce dependence on the federal government. power of the Rhode Island Statewide Planning Council.

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The Taubman Center’s endowed lectures brought well-known policy experts to campus to speak about issues ranging from public safety and congressional Talking Points gridlock to the state of Latino politics in Rhode Island. “Rhode Island is very special. We have one of the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture the following evening. The president subsequently charged a most diverse Latino October 29, 2013 campus committee chaired by Professor of Africana Studies Anthony Bogues to “make recommendations regarding how communities in the country.” Last fall, former New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Brown can maintain an inclusive and supportive environment — PABLO RODRIGUEZ Kelly came to campus to deliver the annual Noah Krieger ’93 for all of its members while upholding our commitment to Memorial Lecture. Kelly’s talk, “Proactive Policing in America’s the free exchange of ideas.” Specifically, she asked the com- Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and Stefanie Chambers, professor of Largest City,” included remarks about the controversial “stop- mittee, in an email to the Brown community, to chart a political science at Trinity College. and-frisk” policy instituted in New York City under his course for Brown to “move forward as a leader in cultivating leadership. Shortly after Kelly was introduced, protesters an open environment in which community members from disrupted the lecture by chanting slogans and shouting. The all backgrounds and intellectual viewpoints feel welcome.” protesters included Brown students and members of Direct After an investigation of the events and interviews with Anton/Lippitt Conference on Urban Affairs RILPAC, added that “education is at the crux of all the prob- Action for Right and Equality, a social, economic, and students, faculty, and staff, the committee made a number November 13, 2013 lems that we face” and that given that the Latino population political justice organization for people of color. The lecture of recommendations around racial ethnic diversity in hiring, is on track to rise to 50 percent nationally by 2020, educa- was cancelled after it became clear that the protestors would strengthening the university’s office of institutional diversity, This year’s conference was titled “Latino Mayors: Politics and tional disparities are a national policy problem. Central Falls continue to prevent Kelly from speaking. and expanding relationships with community organizations. Policy in the City.” Providence Mayor Angel Taveras delivered mayor James Diossa, who was born in that city and became The incident made headlines and immediately became a Ultimately, students, faculty, and Brown’s administration the keynote address for the event, which featured a panel of its first Latino mayor in 2012 at the age of 27, emphasized catalyst for a broad, campus-wide conversation about ideas came away from the event and its aftermath with a renewed influential Latinos in Rhode Island politics. Taveras, who that the City of Central Falls, with a 60-percent Latino pop- on free speech, inclusion, and diversity, starting with a com- commitment to free speech and the exchange of ideas, as well noted that as a child he lived in Providence public housing ulation, presents “an opportunity to rebuild,” tackle quali- munity forum called by Brown President Christina Paxson as a greater focus on issues around diversity and inclusion. with his Dominican-born parents, said his rise from the ty-of-life issues, and engage young people in the political projects to Harvard University, Georgetown Law School, and process. Central Falls’ school board is more diverse than Providence City Hall “is not a Latino story; it’s really an ever, and its city council includes five women as well as mem- Senator Olympia Snowe speaks with public American story.” He also spoke about the challenges of tak- bers of Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Columbian descent, policy students before delivering the spring 2014 Krieger Lecture. ing charge of the city as it faced a $110-million budget deficit said Diossa. All of the panelists agreed that as a growing that threatened to send the city into bankruptcy. Taveras proportion of the population, Latinos will play a key role in noted that today the city is on more stable ground, spending statewide politics, particularly in the 2014 race for governor. less than it did in 2010. The Anton/Lippitt Conference honors public policy professor Taveras’s keynote was followed by “The State of Latino and Taubman Center Director Emeritus Thomas J. Anton and Politics in Rhode Island’s Cities,” a panel discussion with four community leader Frederick Lippitt, and commemorates their key players in Latino politics. Pablo Rodriguez, president of work on policy issues in Providence. Latino Public Radio, spoke about the founding of the Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee (RILPAC). Rodri- guez noted that the Latino electorate in Rhode Island is the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture nation’s most diverse, including more than a dozen ethnicities, February 10, 2014 with Puerto Ricans and Dominicans comprising the largest groups and Mexicans making up just 8 percent. RILPAC Speaking to a packed auditorium, former Maine Senator fosters cooperation amongst the varied Latino electorate, Olympia Snowe offered a way forward out of legislative grid- unlike other areas of the country where one ethnicity may lock in her talk, “Bridging the Divide: What Hyper-Partisanship dominate the political conversation, said Rodriguez. Means for 2014... And How We Can Fix Washington.” Speaking Tony Affigne ’76 ’92, a professor of political science at with the authority of more than three decades spent serving Providence College and a past vice president of RILPAC, in the two branches of Congress, Snowe said she had con- emphasized that despite the gains made in politics, Latinos cluded that the environment on the Hill had become so suffer disproportionately from poverty, educational gaps, polarized that only sustained pressure from the American and poor relations with law enforcement. Doris De Los Santos, electorate could break Congress out of its cycle of “dysfunc- past president of the Rhode Island Latino Civic Fund and tion and gridlock.” >>

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LUNCH AND LEARN Panel Discussion with Author Ross Cheit April 1, 2014 The Taubman Center’s luncheon lecture series gives students and faculty the opportunity to connect with Faculty, students, and community gathered on campus for scholarship, it’s great teaching. Finding both in a book of this That realization, said Snowe, led to her decision to leave the the latest policy research and practices. a discussion of Taubman professor Ross Cheit’s new book, power is something you rarely, if ever, find.” Smith College Senate in 2012. Snowe, long known as a centrist Republican The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexu- professor of sociology Nancy Whittier spoke about the social who brokered a long slate of bipartisan legislation during her SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Carol Irwin, associate professor al Abuse of Children. Cheit gave an overview of the book, context of this modern-day witch-hunt narrative, asking, career, found her more moderate views — once embraced of health sport sciences, University of Memphis: which empirically challenges the view that a series of high- “What does it say about academia and about journalism that by a majority in Congress — marginalized in recent years as “Swimming and Drowning Disparities: Policy profile child abuse cases in the 1980s and early 1990s were this wrong theory was so uncritically accepted?” Jennifer compromise became the exception rather than the rule. Implications for Communities” hoaxes and shows how a narrative based on thin evidence Freyd, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, Many of Congress’ core tasks, including budgeting and ap- OCTOBER 15, 2013 John Simmons, executive director, became a theory with real social force, and how that theory spoke about the book’s links to betrayal trauma theory. Al- propriations, have stalled, she said. Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council: “Rhode stood at odds with the reality of child sexual abuse. luding to the controversial nature of the book, Freyd praised “I came to the cold stark reality that the U.S. Senate and Island’s 2013 Economic Development Reforms” Sharon Krause, chair of Brown’s political science depart- Cheit’s determination in examining the evidence on a series the U.S. House of Representatives would not be witnessing ment, moderated the discussion. Brown professor of political of highly complex cases. “Ross has been so brave and so per- a diminishment of polarization and partisanship,” she said OCTOBER 30, 2013 Timothy Edgar, visiting fellow, Watson science and urban studies James Morone provided historical sistent,” she said. “His bravery is an incredible inspiration.” of her decision to leave Congress. Change from within was Institute and adjunct professor of law, Georgetown context, reviewing the social and political conditions that impossible; the fight for common ground had to be taken University Law Center: “Big Transparency for the NSA: bred the Salem witch trials, which spawned the term “witch outside of Congress, she said. How Good Government Can Help the Intelligence Community Regain Trust and Get Ahead of the Leakers” hunt.” Morone also praised Cheit’s book as a stellar example “It’s the sheer power of the research of Brown’s identity as a university-college. “It reflects the that makes this book so remarkable. NOVEMBER 5, 2013 Anna Aizer, associate professor of university because it’s a big argument about the zeitgeist, the “We’ve miniaturized economics and public policy, Brown University: “The way we talk and think,” he said, adding “This is not just great The evidence speaks.” –JAMES MORONE our ambitions and our legislative Long-Term Impact of Welfare Receipt in Childhood” capacity for achieving great things NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Thomas Shapiro, director, Institute on Assets and Social at The Heller School for Social for this country.”— SENATOR OLYMPIA SNOWE Policy, Brandeis University: “Racial Wealth Analysis, Public Discourse, and Narrative Development” Many Hands Ross Cheit recognizes the many Brown students who helped him research his book.

Snowe spoke about her work to promote bipartisanship. FEBRUARY 27, 2014 Ross Cheit (see “Many Hands,” right). In February, Ross Cheit gave a lecture at the Taubman book differed in significant ways. The book could not She has written a book about fostering bipartisanship and Center titled “The Amazing True Story of How 81 Brown have been completed without the skill, dedication, and formed her own political action committee — Olympia’s MARCH 19, 2014 Marc Dunkelman, senior fellow, Clinton Undergraduates Helped Give ‘Extreme Research’ Its Name.” untold hours that Brown undergraduates contributed, List — which will support primary candidates who pledge Foundation; visiting fellow, Taubman Center: “The His talk focused on the central role that student research said Cheit. Though they may span 15 years and have gone bipartisanship, she said. As a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Hidden Transformation of American Community” assistants played in helping him obtain, comb through, and on to a range of careers (many have since studied law), Policy Center, Snowe co-chairs a commission that recently analyze thousands of pages of court records and tran- they all have one thing in common: They are forever part APRIL 14, 2014 Ebonya Washington ’95, professor of eco- released recommendations for political reform around pri- nomics, Yale University: “The Politics of Tax Evasion” scripts related to his book. The challenge was not volume of what Ross Cheit fondly terms, “Team Cheit.” maries, redistricting, and campaign finance. alone. Often just obtaining readable documents required Snowe urged the audience to get involved, noting that APRIL 24, 2014 David Blanding, Taubman Center extraordinary perseverance, said Cheit. Crucial records Congressional inaction on critical issues like the national postdoctoral research associate, Brown University: were stored using outmoded software, typed on crumbling debt and the viability of social safety net programs including “The Voting Rights Act: A Tale of Two Tenses” onion skin paper, or were stored in hard-to-find locations. Social Security and Medicare would have serious consequences Cheit shared a number of anecdotes that illustrated his for millennials. She praised three Brown undergraduates — Ebonya Washington researchers’ dedication. Carey Jaros ’00, one of his first Sam Gilman, Andrew Kaplan, and Alyssa Garrett — who ’95, professor research assistants, persuaded two retired court reporters of economics, lead Common Sense Action, a policy advocacy organization Yale University. to grant access to files that they had kept in their own committed to bipartisan solutions for issues affecting mil- possession. Morriah Horani ’02 lugged several thousand lennials (read more about Common Sense Action on page 8). dimes into the Bronx Supreme Court to photocopy stacks Snowe ended her talk with a generous question-and-answer of records from another case, he said. period, fielding questions from students and the community Another Brown student who worked closely with Cheit long after the formal lecture ended. during her undergraduate years, Arthi Krishnaswami ’00 The Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture was established to (right), designed the book. Her innovative graphics provide bring speakers in the field of politics and public policy to campus. a visual representation of how crucial court cases in the Noah, who was interested in political science, public policy, and economics, died shortly after graduating from Brown.

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Publications, presentations, and professional What Voters Think New and Noteworthy accomplishments from Taubman Center faculty. The Taubman Center is Rhode Island’s only independent, nonprofit polling entity. An endowment from the late John Hazen White, Sr. allows the Center to poll on Adjunct lecturer Bill Allen participated in the uate Student Workshop at the May 2014 Law and Society subjects of public interest. The Center conducts several polls of registered voters panel “Competencies and Assessment of Social Association Meeting in Minneapolis. He also participated in an Innovators” at Brown’s Ashoka U Exchange in authors’ roundtable, “Speaking of Sex Offenders: Contrasting each year, with at least one poll focusing on the city of Providence. February 2014. Policies, Practices, and Narratives,” at the meeting.

Adjunct lecturer Richard Lecturer Valerie Cooley presented “Beyond the Early Look at the 2014 Governor’s Race October 9, 2013 Democratic primary. The survey shows that Taveras has a • Arenberg has had opinion columns related to Capstone: Integrating Professional Competencies lead among voters with union membership but finds no sig- Senate rules reform published in publications from Orientation to Graduation” at the American This statewide poll found that among voters who are likely nificant preference among women voters between the two including the Washington Post, the New York Society for Public Administration’s June 2013 to vote in the Democratic primary for governor of Rhode top Democratic candidates. Among likely and somewhat Times, Politico, the Hill, the Providence Journal, Teaching Public Administration Conference in Island, 42 percent would choose State Treasurer Gina Rai- likely Republican primary voters, Cranston Mayor Allan and Constitution Daily. In August 2013, he par- San Francisco. Cooley received the Engaged mondo and 33.6 percent would choose Providence Mayor Fung (31.4 percent) and Ken Block (36 percent) are in a sta- ticipated in the roundtable “Causes and Consequences of Scholars Presidential Faculty Fellowship award from Rhode Is- Angel Taveras. Nearly a quarter of likely Democratic pri- tistical dead heat, with 38.5 percent of Republican primary Ideological Polarization and Hyper-partisanship in American land Campus Compact to incorporate engaged scholarship mary voters remained undecided. Raimondo led regardless voters undecided. Rhode Island voters were asked whether Politics” at the American Political Science Association Annual opportunities in her introduction to public policy course. “Teach- Meeting in Washington, D.C. In September 2013, Arenberg spoke ing Policy Analysis through the Movies,” a paper she co-authored of party affiliation or gender. In a matchup between Taveras they supported making it legal to possess small amounts of about filibuster reform in the U.S. Senate as part of the Lyceum with Taubman lecturer Andrew Pennock, was presented by Pen- and Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, 41.5 percent of Rhode Island marijuana for personal use. Nearly half (47.6 percent) sup- Speaker Series at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. nock at the April 2014 Association for Public Policy Analysis and voters say they would vote for Taveras, 32.9 percent for Fung, port this idea, about the same level of support as in nation- Management Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. Cooley was and 25.6 percent were undecided. In a potential race between al polls on the subject. The survey shows that 39.3 percent of Postdoctoral research associate David Blanding also recognized by the Alpha Epsilon chapter of Kappa Alpha Raimondo and Fung, it was a statistical tie with 26.5 percent Rhode Island voters oppose legalization and 9.3 percent are presented two papers at the January 2014 Theta at Brown for “outstanding leadership as a member of the undecided. Taveras’ approval rating was 63.9 percent, and undecided on the issue. Southern Political Science Association Confer- Brown community” and for being a “positive influence on the Raimondo scored an approval rating of 54.2 percent. ence in New Orleans: “Classical Liberalism in lives of so many students.” the Courts? The Impact of Mood on School De- segregation Decisions” and “The Impact of the Lecturer Erik Godwin was invited to speak at Fewer City Voters Pessimistic About the Local Economy • Voting Rights Act Coverage Formula on Black Office Holding.” In the United States Air Force Air War College in November 21, 2013 APPROVAL NUMBERS March 2014, he presented “Voting Rights Act: A Tale of Two Montgomery, Alabama In December 2013. He Tenses” at the National Conference of Black Political Scientists spoke about how interest groups and govern- This poll found that while most Providence voters remain Every Taubman Center poll tracks the approval ratings of a in Wilmington, Delaware. He presented the same paper at the ment entities strategically use information to number of state and local politicians. Below is a sampling of pessimistic about the local economy, the percentage of voters Taubman Center in April. Blanding has accepted a tenure-track influence U.S. policy. He was also invited by the job performance ratings for better-known local politicians. who thought the city is on the “right track” has risen more position as Assistant Professor of American Politics and Juris- U.S. Office of Personnel Management to give two presentations prudence at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. than 10 percentage points — 48.8 percent compared to 38.4 percent — in the last year. A larger minority of voters rated FEB 2013 OCT 2013 APR 2014 Professor Ross Cheit’s book, A Focus on Families the local economy excellent or good: 26.3 percent compared 65% The Witch-Hunt Narrative: The new Family Impact Seminars will connect Rhode Island to 16.5 percent a year ago. Providence Mayor Angel Taveras’s • • Politics, Psychology, and the Mayor Angel Taveras policymakers to research around family-centric public policy. approval ratings are virtually unchanged over the past year, 60% Sexual Abuse of Children, was with 59.1 percent of city voters rating his performance excel- State Treasurer Gina Raimondo published by Oxford Univer- The Taubman Center was selected as the host institution for the 55% • • lent or good compared to 60 percent last year. Voters report- • • • sity Press in April 2014 and Rhode Island site of the Policy Institute for Family Impact ed much greater satisfaction with upkeep of city roads — 60.3 Sen. Jack Reed was subsequently reviewed in the New York Seminars. Lecturer Valerie Cooley was named its director, with 50% • Times and the Providence Journal. Cheit spoke percent are satisfied or very satisfied — from just 31.6 percent • Taubman professors Kenneth Wong and Marion Orr as co- about the book at Brown (see page 21), UC directors. A national network with sites in 26 states, the Policy reporting satisfaction a year ago. 45% Berkeley School of Law, the University of Cali- • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Institute for Family Impact Seminars aims to strengthen family fornia-Davis’ Psychology Department, Harvard 40% • policy by connecting state policymakers with research know- Raimondo and Taveras in a Dead Heat in Gubernatorial • • Law School, Columbia University’s Sociology Primary • April 10, 2014 Rep. James Langevin Department, and the Penn School of Social ledge and researchers with policy knowledge. The Institute 35% Policy and Practice. In April 2014, Roger Wil- provides nonpartisan, solution-oriented research and a family impact and racial equity lens on issues being debated in state This statewide poll of likely and somewhat likely Demo- liams University Law Review published Cheit’s 30% paper (co-authored with Andrea Matthews legislatures. Cooley has recently begun working to develop the cratic primary voters found that State Treasurer Gina Rai- Rep. David Cicilline • • PPAI ’11) “Revisiting the Jordan, Minnesota, infrastructure for an advisory council of legislators to identify mondo (29.4 percent) and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras 25% • • Cases.” Cheit delivered “The Problems with Be- timely issues of concern to state policymakers. Rhode Island (25.8 percent) were in a statistical tie for the Democratic • Gov. Lincoln Chafee • ing a Locavore” at the Niman Ranch Sustainable legislators will be invited to the inaugural seminar in 2015. gubernatorial nomination. However, one-third of likely Registered voters rating job performance good or excellent 20% Agriculture Education Sessions at Brown in May Democratic voters are undecided five months before the 2014. Cheit helped organize and teach the Grad-

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to federal managers at the Eastern Management A Fellowship at Another Ivy Development Center in Shepherdstown, West Taubman professor Susan Moffitt has won a prestigious fellowship Virginia, in April 2014. His presentation, “NGO’s to pursue her research at Harvard University. Influence on the Budget,” outlined how interest groups influence the federal budget process at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Univer- multiple levels. His other presentation, “Unin- tended Consequences in Budget Formulation,” sity has selected Susan Moffitt to be a Radcliffe Institute fellow thored, (with Petra Böhnke, University of Hamburg) “Social stressed how carelessly selecting budgetary for the 2014–2015 academic year. Moffitt will spend the year Exclusion,” an entry in the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and measures can generate suboptimal policy out- examining how links between state administrative capacity Well-Being Research (Springer, 2014). Silver’s article “Social comes. In May 2014, Political Research Quarterly and the professions of teaching and nursing affect the delivery Inclusion and Affirmative Action: Conceptual and Policy Distinc- published “Presidential Defense: Decisions and of public services to support maternal and child health and A view of “The Meeting Room,” tions” was published in Inequality and Affirmative Action: Strategies to Preserve the Status Quo,” a paper the education of students with special needs. She will join Queen Anne Square, Newport. Situating Nepal in Global Debates (Himal Books). Silver’s edito- Godwin co-authored (with Nathan Ilderton, Uni- Photo by Alexander Nesbitt. rial “The Centrality of Public Space” was published in City and scholars, scientists, and artists from around the world in the versity of Central Florida). See page 11 for local Community in April 2014. She coauthored (with Peter Messeri, government research projects headed by Godwin. program, which has an acceptance rate of just four percent. Columbia University) “Concentrated Poverty, Racial/Ethnic Fellows have access to Harvard’s libraries, the stimulation Adjunct lecturer David Preston’s communications firm resolved Diversity and Neighbourhood Social Capital in New York City,” a Adjunct lecturer Stephen Gresham, who is ex- of other fellows, and the help of undergraduates that work for a controversy regarding the Newport Restoration Foundation’s chapter in Social Capital and Economics: Social Values, Power, and ecutive vice president at Fidelity Investments, the Radcliffe Research Partners program. (NRF) plans for an art installation in Newport’s Queen Anne Social Identity, which was published by Routledge in May 2014. presented “Global Graying: The Impact of an Square park. The installation, designed by Maya Lin, honors NRF Aging Population” to other senior executives at founder Doris Duke, and opponents to the project had com - Professor John Tyler and assistant professor of Fidelity Investments in September 2013. Fidelity plained that the project was inconsistent with her vision as a education John Papay have been awarded a subsequently launched an initiative in support of aging investors Illinois. In November 2013, she presented “Making Policy Public: preservationist. Preston’s firm countered a local campaign to halt four-year research grant from the Bill and and family engagement called “The Family Conversation.” The Impact of Advisory Committees’ Diverse Expertise on Drug the installation by keeping stakeholders and the public informed Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant funds a Safety” at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Man- of what the project entailed. The controversy over the $3.5 mil- three-year project to study how teacher evalu- Adjunct lecturer Alan Harlam presented “Re- agement Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. In April 2014, lion project first surfaced in 2011 when plans for the memorial ation can be used to improve instructional centering Higher Education” at the February Moffitt presented “Making Policy Public: Participatory Bureau- were unveiled. “The Meeting Room” is a series of three seating practice. The research team is currently using detailed evaluation 2014 Ashoka U Exchange, which was held at cracy in American Pharmaceutical Regulation” at the Midwest areas set on stone foundations that form outdoor rooms repre- data to pair teachers who struggle in specific areas of practice Brown this year. The Swearer Center’s Social Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. senting the scale and materials used in Newport’s historical with colleagues who have demonstrated success in those areas. Innovation Fellowship program, which was buildings and reflecting an aspect of life in the city. The team will evaluate the effectiveness of this program on founded by Harlam in 2007, received a Cordes Professor Marion Orr delivered the keynote ad- teacher practice and student achievement. Innovation Award at the Ashoka U Exchange. dress for the Joint Legislative Black History Professor Wendy Schiller’s paper “U.S. Senate Month Heritage Celebration at the Rhode Island Elections before the 17th Amendment: Political Professor Kenneth Wong’s research on school Postdoctoral research associate Rebecca Loya State House in February 2014. In March 2014, Party Cohesion and Conflict 1871–1913” (co- governance, innovative management, and ac- conducted a collaborative needs assessment he served as moderator for a Providence may- authored with Charles Stewart, MIT, and countability reform has continued to make focused on transportation, law enforcement, oral debate hosted by the Rhode Island Black Benjamin Xiong, Brown) was published in the contributions in the public policy community. and social services for people with disabilities Business Association. Orr co-edited (with Brown professors Tony July 2013 issue of Journal of Politics. His research on improving complex school sys- who have been sexually assaulted in the greater Affigne and Evelyn Hu-Dehart) Latino Politics En Ciencia Política: tems received the attention of U.S. Secretary Boston region. Funded by a federal grant from The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness (New York Professor Hilary Silver’s article “Mixing Poli- of Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne the Office on Violence Against Women, the study was commis- University Press, April 2014). The book uses evidence from the cies: Expectations and Achievements” was Duncan, who jointly appointed him to serve as an advisor on the sioned by the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Massachusetts Latino National Survey, the largest-ever political survey ad - published in the July 2013 issue of Cityscape: A federal effort to improve American Indian education, especially Bay Transportation Authority, Transit Police Department, and dressed exclusively to Latino and Hispanic respondents. In April Journal of Policy Development and Research . tribally controlled, high-poverty schools in Indian reservations the Boston Center for Independent Living. In September 2013, 2014, Orr presented “Political Transition in Providence: The Elec- Silver presented “Lessons from Mixed Housing across several states. His research has contributed to a “Blue- Loya was invited to present “The Economic Impact of Sexual tion of Mayor Angel Taveras” at the Midwest Political Science Programs: Implications for Obama’s Choice print for Reform,” a plan to transform the federal Bureau of Trauma: Implications for Social Policy and Social Change” at the Association in Chicago. Neighborhoods Initiative” at the Center for Urban Research and Indian Education from primarily a regulatory agency into a multi- Advancing the Economic Security of Survivors of Domestic and Education at Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey, in October functional, agile organization that supports school improvement Sexual Violence conference in Northampton, Massachusetts. In Lecturer Andrew Pennock’s paper “The Politi- 2013. She organized “The Return of Urban Crisis: Fiscal Alterna- in tribal communities. The White House announced “Blueprint” May 2014, she participated in the panel “Policy: Framing Op - cal Economy of Domestic Labor Mobility: tives to Bankruptcy,” a conference held at Brown in November in June 2014 when President Obama visited the Standing Rock portunities and Outcomes” at the Women and Economic Specific Factors, Landowners, and Education” 2013. Silver was a visiting fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. In Providence, Wong is Security Conference: Changing Policy and Practice at the Univer- was published in the March 2014 issue of Eco- Institute for Advanced Study (JNIAS), New Delhi, India, from leading a multidisciplinary research team to conduct an indepen- sity of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently she is nomics and Politics . Pennock presented December 2013 to January 2014. In January 2014, she presented dent evaluation on Providence Talks, an innovative program that conducting research with the Institute on Assets and Social “Teaching Policy Analysis through the Movies” “Caste and Exclusion around the World” at the International has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Bloomberg Philan- Policy at Brandeis University and teaching public policy courses (co-authored with Taubman lecturer Valerie Cooley) at the April Workshop on “Addressing Multiple Exclusions” at Banaras Hindu thropies to bridge the “word gap” in young children who grow up at the Boston University School of Social Work. 2014 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management University, Varanasi, India, and “Mechanisms of Social Exclusion” in low-income homes. Research has shown that by the time a Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. He was also awarded a at JNIAS. In May 2014, she was a visiting professor at L’École child in a low-income household turns four, they will have heard Professor Susan Moffitt presented “Managing 2013 Teaching with Technology Award for use of technology in des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where she pre- 30 million fewer words than their peers in middle- and high- Complexity through Diverse Expertise: Public two courses: Statistics; and Comparative Policies: Analyzing sented “Vers l´inclusion sociale? La ségrégation résidentielle et income households. The research team’s findings on the initial Participation in FDA Public Advisory Commit- Policy Making Around the Globe. The award is co-sponsored by les politiques de mixité sociale dans les villes américaines” and implementation process of Providence Talks have shaped the tees” at the August 2013 American Political Brown’s Dean of the College, the Sheridan Center for Teaching “The Role of Non-profit Associations in Service Delivery to the design and will influence the program’s full-scale implementation Science Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, and Learning, and CIS Academic Technology. Homeless: A Voluntarist Regime of Attachments?” Silver coau- in the next two years.

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Our Public Policy and American Institutions alumni hold a ment Accountability Office in POLICY PROJECTS vast array of policy and consulting jobs around the globe. Washington, D.C. He reports Here are updates from some of our graduates. that a chance connection Taking Racial Bias Cases to the Supreme Court Good Policy with Heather Klemick ’99 at his tenth reunion led to his Allison Elgart ’00, legal director, Equal Justice Society (EJS), UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM participation as an expert on Oakland, California, recently led a legal team that submitted two a team that wrote “A Policy amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court that discussed social Matthew Riven ’87 is chief of Enforcement, Boston NEW BOOKS By PPAI Alumni Framework for a 21st Century science research on diversity and bias. In Fisher v. University of finance and administration Regional Office. Grid.” He worked for Jason Texas at Austin, EJS (in partnership with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich of the Vermont Judiciary in Bordoff ’94, Chioke Harris and Rosati and Haas Diversity Research Center at University of Montpelier, Vermont. Alex Harris ’98 is senior ’08, Amy Salzman ’80, and program officer for education Neal Kemkar ’01 on the California, Berkeley) wrote an amicus brief on behalf of 13 of the nation’s leading Gregory Baldwin ’90, president at the Harold K.L. Castle Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama project. social scientists to offer a deeper understanding of how a diverse educational of VolunteerMatch.org in Foundation in Kailua, Hawaii. and the Politics of Freedom environment benefits all students and society as a whole. In Mount Holly v. Mt. San Francisco, reports that in He focuses on reducing the Duke University Press Seth Andrew ’00 transitioned Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., EJS and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich filed a 2013, volunteermatch.org K–12 achievement gap By Elisabeth Anker ’97, from the role of superinten- brief on behalf of 23 sociologists, social and organizational scientists, and legal had more than 10 million through stronger instruc- assistant professor of dent at Democracy Prep scholars. The research in the brief demonstrates that housing discrimination users and helped the tional leadership in public American studies and political Public Schools to superinten- continues today, in part because implicit and unconscious biases play a role in a nonprofit sector source education. He reports, “I science, George Washington dent in residence and senior nearly a billion dollars worth spent the past three years University, Washington, D.C. advisor to U.S. Secretary of wide range of housing-related decisions. EJS’s goal is to fully restore the constitu- of volunteer services. helping get Hawaii’s Race to Education Arne Duncan in tional protections of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause the Top work back on track, the Office of Education to address contemporary forms of racism. The society’s legal strategy aims to Eric Golden ’90, chief an effort that U.S. Secretary Technology. He is also broaden conceptions of discrimination to include unconscious and structural executive and founder of of Education Arne Duncan working to expand the reach bias by using cognitive science, structural analysis, and real-life experience. Imagility, has sold Equipois, upheld as an example of of AlumniRevolution.org, a a technology startup that effective education reform college success and advocacy designs and manufactures during recent public remarks. Rethinking Private platform for first-generation exoskeletal arms that reduce As evidence, he cited our Authority: Agents and college students that he community outreach POLICY PROJECTS injuries and increase progress as the one of the Entrepreneurs in Global founded. Andrew is focusing consultant with Hyacinth’s productivity in industrial, top states to increase Environmental Governance on growing the site’s school Place, a Washington, Protecting Affordable Housing military, and medical fourth- and eighth-grade Princeton University Press network in Harlem, New D.C.-based nonprofit that applications. Imagility, based math and reading perfor- By Jessica Green ’98, assistant York; Camden, New Jersey; provides permanent in the Capital City in Santa Monica, California, mance on the recent National professor of political science, and Washington, D.C. supportive housing for home- Brian Rajan Nagendra ’03, designs and manufactures Educational Advancement Case Western Reserve less women with a mental associate vice president, impact products for entertainment, Programs exam.” University, Cleveland, Ohio Butch Trusty ’02 is vice health diagnosis. industrial, military, and president of network impact investing and real estate finance medical markets. Robert Letzler ’99 is a senior at The Cities for Education Michael Ruderman ’07 recently at Washington, D.C.-based economist with the Govern- Entrepreneurship Trust, a graduated from the Stanford City First Enterprises (CFE), is Deborah Ahrens ’94 has nonprofit that works with a Graduate School of Business leading an initiative that so far recently been promoted network of city-based and is marketing manager at has ​created and ​preserved ​fifty units in Washing- POLICY PROJECTS to a tenured position as nonprofits and foundations Personal Capital, a venture ton, D.C., as permanently affordable housing. associate professor of law to improve public education capital-backed financial tech Nagendra focuses on underwriting, structuring, Measuring Environmental Health Hazards start-up in San Francisco. at Seattle University in cities across the country. and deal development for CFE’s community School of Law. Trusty will be developing special assistant, California Office of development and real estate investments. CFE Julian Leichty ’06, core programming and Cara Farber ’08 is a STEP acts as a nonprofit bank holding company and Erica (Forssen) Wines ’94 is Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Sacramento, services and providing trainer associate at UChicago an incubator of social finance solutions that director of human resources California, was part of a team that released a first-in-the-nation consulting to network Impact in Chicago, Illinois. for Genzyme’s U.S. multiple environmental health screening tool. The tool, created in members. STEP is a literacy assess- promotes social justice by increasing economic sclerosis commercial team in collaboration with the California Environmental Protection ment that gives teachers and access and expanding opportunity for low-wealth Cambridge, Massachusetts. Agency, is designed to help decision-makers’ resources and Diana Jeffery ’04 is area school and network leaders communities. CFE is an incubator for large- programs to improve the environmental health of Californians living in areas of senior manager of perfor- data about students’ reading scale community-development solutions. CFE Kevin Currid ’96 was promot- the state disproportionately burdened by sources of pollution. It employs a mance improvement at the development. Farber works has financed over5,000 units of affordable ed to assistant regional science-based method for evaluating pollution burden in a community while Ritz-Carlton in Chevy Chase, with charter schools across housing, 7,000 school seats, and 3,400 jobs. the country to support their director, U.S. Securities and accounting for a community’s vulnerability to pollution’s adverse effects. Maryland. CFE is supported by a White House Social Exchange Commission, use of this data to improve Leichty’s office drafted an extensive report explaining how the tool works. Innovation Fund. Municipal Securities/Public Vanessa Wellbery ’05 is reading instruction in grades Pensions Unit, Division of government affairs and pre-K through three. >>

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Cash McCracken ’08, a foreign Paris Hays ’10, development MASTER’S PROGRAM service officer for the U.S. and acquisition manager at POLICY PROJECTS Department of State, Hanergy America Solar Ashley Denault MPP ’07 is POLICY PROJECTS recently completed a Solutions in San Francisco, policy and communications one-year tour in the State recently managed the Launching Social Venture manager at the Spark Policy Department’s Bureau of acquisition of a 1050 kilowatt Partners in Connecticut Institute in Denver, Colorado. Making the Case for Non-human Rights Intelligence and Research. solar power plant in Spark partners with commu- , executive director, Nonhuman In May, he began a two-year Gainesville, Florida, that Karen R. Brown ’90, vice nities, policymakers, and Natalie Prosin MPP ’07 assignment on the State provides renewable energy to president of programs, Fairfield advocates to find solutions Rights Project (NhRP), Washington, D.C., was part of a team Department’s Somalia Desk. about 250 homes. to complex policy problems County Community Founda- that recently filed lawsuits on behalf of chimpanzees in captiv- in human services, health, tion, Norwalk, Connecticut ity. In suits filed in three New York county courts, the NhRP Aartik Sarma ’08 is a resident Perie Koyama ’11 is a student behavioral health, natural recently helped launch the first argued that chimps should be accorded some basic fundamental in the department of internal at Georgetown Law School, resources, agriculture, housing, legal rights. The NhRP’s argument is based on principles of medicine, Massachusetts Washington, D.C. Social Venture Partners (SVP) juvenile justice, criminal liberty and equality, and the legal team is using the procedural vehicle of a common General Hospital, Boston, chapter in Connecticut. SVP is a group of justice, education, early law writ of habeas corpus, which entitles a third party who believes someone is Massachusetts. Alexandra Stine ’11 graduated entrepreneurs and business people who are childhood, and diversity. from Carnegie Mellon Univer- committed to supporting local nonprofits via a being held illegally to a court hearing on behalf of the captive. The NhRP Zachary Townsend ’08 is sity’s H. John Heinz III venture philanthropy model. SVP CT offers Brian LeFebvre MPA ’07 is a claimed that certain chimpanzees are being held illegally and should be released. co-founder of San Francisco- College with a master of funding and pro bono management assistance commander in the U.S. Coast As the NhRP expected, the petitions for habeas corpus were denied at the trial based Standard Treasury, a science in public policy and to nonprofit organizations that have an earned Guard in Charleston, South level in all three cases. These cases are currently making their way through the technology startup that management with highest revenue component aligned with their mission. Carolina. Recently he served appeals process. The NhRP works with lawyers and scientists to establish legal builds systems to make a distinction in May 2013. She as the senior Coast Guard SVP CT’s engagement with these nonprofits rights for some of the most cognitively complex species of animals including more open banking system. is a healthcare policy analyst representative to the 2014 aims to help them grow their earned revenue. great apes, elephants, and cetaceans (marine mammals that include whales and After an initial round of at McLean, Virginia-based Cooper River Bridge Run Uni- The Connecticut chapter has been accepted into dolphins). The organization is currently developing a case on behalf of captive fundraising through Y LMI Consulting, a nonprofit fied Command in Charleston, elephants. The work of NhRP was recently featured in a New York Times Maga- Combinator, a startup that provides management the SVP International network. In April, Brown South Carolina. zine cover story. Prosin will be appear in an upcoming documentary about the incubator, Standard Treasury consultation to the federal returned to campus for the SEEED Conference, NhRP filmed by the husband-and-wife team of documentarians D.A. Pennebak- has attracted millions in government. Stine provides which brings together social entrepreneurs from Rebecca Lee MPP ’07 has er and Chris Hegedus, Academy Award-winning filmmakers who madeThe War investment funding to management support for the across the country. She was part of a panel that been promoted to director, continue its development. implementation of the addressed fundraising for social entrepreneur- information group, at the Room, about Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign. federal healthcare exchanges ship. The conference was sponsored by Social Providence Plan, Providence, Sarah Gentile ’09 is a full-time run by the federal govern- Enterprise Greenhouse of Providence. Rhode Island. MBA student at Harvard ment’s Department of Health Business School. and Human Services. Jennifer Paolino MPA ’07 is Margaret Pletnikoff MPP ’08 Andrea Goezinne MPP ’10 is ment-related air transport associate director for became grants manager at business development issues including airline and education – President’s the New York City Depart- manager at Paris-based airport safety and security, POLICY PROJECTS Emily Carroll ’13 is a teacher Commission on White House ment of Health and Mental Donicité Fundraising, a new airport finance and infra- development coordinator at Fellowships, Washington, D.C. Hygiene in Long Island City, fundraising agency working structure, sustainability, Empowering Providence High School Students Success Academy Charter New York last summer and with nonprofits and policy, and research. Schools in New York City. Jill Walsh MPP ’07 has earned was promoted several non-governmental agencies. Zack Mezera ’13, cofounder of Providence Student Union She is part of a team that her PhD in sociology from months later to deputy Chris Soto MPA ’11 rebranded (PSU), was recently promoted from organizer to executive manages a master’s and Boston University. Her director of that department. Vilay Senthep MPP ’10 has the college access organiza- director of this youth-led organization, which builds student certification program that dissertation, “The Highlights been named to the board of tion that he founded in 2011. power to ensure Providence high school students have a fair supports teachers in getting Reel and the Real Me: How Theodore Przybyla MPP ’08 is directors for Young Voices Formerly called New London say in improving their education. Mezera and the PSU staff teaching certification and Adolescents Construct the project associate at the of Rhode Island, which College Access Program, the support youth as they develop leadership skills and push for master’s degrees while they Facebook Fable,” examines Rockefeller Brothers Fund in supports urban youth as they New London, Connecticut, student-led systemic change. This spring, PSU successfully completed a two-year are teaching full time. the ways that social media New York City. become education advocates organization is now known campaign to ban high-stakes testing as a graduation requirement. The Rhode has affected adolescent who work to create systemic as Higher Edge. Island General Assembly approved a three-year ban on requiring seniors to pass Nawal Traish ’13 has joined development. Kaitlin Yaremchuk Gastrock reform and policy change. classmate Brittany Davis ’13 MPP ’09 has earned a Senthep is a supervisory Jennifer Boulay MPA ’12 the New England Common Assessment Program exam to graduate. In May, at Children’s Rights, a New Cara Camacho MPA ’08 is master’s of education in rating services representa- presented a student the Rhode Island Foundation awarded PSU an advocacy best practice award for York City-based organization director of the National Secu- human development and tive at the U.S. Department leadership forum titled its campaign to expand bus passes for Providence youth. Once fully implement- that monitors child welfare rity Council at the White psychology at Harvard of Veteran’s Affairs in “Preparing Students to be ed, the transportation plan will provide free transportation to an additional and foster care policy and House, Washington, D.C. Graduate School of Educa- Providence. Effective Leaders in Their 1,800 Providence students. In June, PSU was also recognized for its advocacy initiates class-action lawsuits tion. Gastrock is vice Community and Workplace” work by the Red Bandana Fund, which honors exemplars of social justice in on behalf of children who James Huang MPP ’08 is a president for regional Shruti Vijayakumar MPP ’10 is with Mary Zahm at the Rhode Island. have been mistreated in clerk on the Washington, communications in Teach air transport specialist for Convention for the American state care. Traish and Davis D.C., Circuit of the U.S. Court For America’s Boston the World Bank. Her work Association of Community are paralegals. of Appeals. office. covers a range of develop- Colleges in Washington,

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POLICY PROJECTS POLICY PROJECTS architecture, will be utilizing Cory King MPP ’13 is those skills to assist the delivery systems analyst at principal with space planning, the Office of the Health Managing the Way Forward in Building Ties with Local Government in Pakistan and programming. Insurance Commissioner, Rhode Island Health Care Providence, Rhode Island. J. Catherine Rollins MPA ’11, senior legislative Pakistani and U.S. participants’ understanding of Alison Segal MPP ’12 has been Matthew Harvey MPP ’09, analyst, Massachusetts Municipal Association, each other’s local governments, culture, and civil promoted to program Wonyong Shim MPP ’13 is associate director for operations, recently joined a delegation of ten elected and society. With the support of the U.S. Embassy in manager at Mass Insight budget analyst at the Executive Office of Health and Education, a Boston-based appointed local officials on a ten-day trip to Pakistan. Islamabad, the delegation visited the cities of Islam- Division of the Budget, New Human Services (EOHHS), national nonprofit that York State Governor’s Office, The trip was the culmination of a four-year project abad and Lahore. In Islamabad, Rollins participated Cranston, Rhode Island, was partners with state education Albany, New York. He funded by the Bureau for Educational and Cultural in a conference of Pakistani officials focused on hired in January by the EOHSS Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, which developing strategies for countering corruption and agencies and school districts primarily works on budget to redesign support for their issues related to New York to find ways to improve the internal business brought 75 Pakistani government officials to the U.S. minimizing bureaucratic entanglements, where she lowest-performing schools. State employee and retiree processes and performance of the agency, from to meet and work with Massachusetts government gave a presentation on enhancing civic engagement She co-authored (with Mass fringe benefits. personnel and facilities to project management officials. The purpose of the project was to deepen the through constituent-focused communications. The Insight Education President and implementation of key priorities. EOHHS is delegation also met with the director general of Justin Cohen) “The State of Keeley Smith MPP ’13 is Below: The American delegation with Pakistani officials from the responsible for managing the departments of Press Information Department of the Punjab Province in Lahore. human rights for the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the State: New SEA Struc- account executive at Los health; human services; youth and families; and Rollins is seated, third from the right. the governor of Punjab Province. tures for a New Approach to Angeles-based Cerrell behavioral health care, developmental disabili- Turnaround,” a chapter in Associates, a public affairs ties, and hospitals. Harvey’s current projects The State Role in School firm that offers commu- include development of the agency’s five-year Turnaround: Emerging Best nications strategy and strategic plan, the design of an office building for Practices. Segal and Cohen management to clients presented their work at a engaged in public policy and the agency, and overseeing the recertification of School Improvement Grant politics in southern Califor- 120,000 Rhode Island Medicaid beneficiaries. (SIG) symposium in nia. The firm has expertise He has spent the last three years working in Arlington, Virginia. in political campaigns and health care reform, playing key roles in the issues management, energy implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Nate Walton MPP ’12 is a and the environment, land Rhode Island and Massachusetts as a policy and principal at Sachem use, local government, and technology leader. Strategies, a public policy media relations and crisis consulting firm. Walton splits management. his time between Boston and Washington, D.C., advising POLICY PROJECTS mid-size defense and technology businesses on federal relations. He also Developing the Niger Delta’s Oil Responsibly hosts industry events with Arsalan Ali Faheem MPP ’10, business development senior members of Congress. Walton has been recognized manager, DAI, London, recently worked on an innovative as a young leader in foreign economic development program in the Niger Delta. Though it is policy by Pacific Forum Center oil-rich, the region is plagued by high levels of poverty and is D.C. Boulay is civic engage- issues into focus for the REAL aims to be the organization and develop- for Strategic and Interna- recovering from years of violence and militancy. Faheem was ment coordinator at Bristol state’s voters. The Job One nationally recognized mark of ment at Common Cause in tional Studies and was invited part of a team that advised a global oil company seeking to Community College in Fall Leadership Initiative provides excellence for food and food Providence, Rhode Island. to participate in meetings integrate its supply chain with the economy of southern Nigeria to contribute to River, Massachusetts. multiple resources to the service operators committed of the Council of Security social stability. The team’s economic opportunity analysis showed the client how electorate, including a public to holistic nutrition and Robert Newton MPP ’12 is a Cooperation in the Asia its supply chain could facilitate economic growth that benefits impoverished Kathryn Cantwell MPA ’12 is opinion poll, a series of environmental stewardship, fellow with Education Pacific held in Beijing, China. populations. The team also presented a cost-benefit analysis framework outlin- deputy director of the opinion pieces, interviews, much like LEED certification Pioneers, which seeks to ing the financial, economic, and social impacts of such a change. If adopted, their Hassenfeld Institute for and a voter guide. for construction projects. identify, train, connect, and Aaron Hertzberg MPA ’13, recommendations would reduce the corporation’s operating costs, enable Public Leadership at Bryant Glazer is also associate inspire a new generation of executive director of the University, Smithfield, Rhode Alan Glazer MPA ’12 recently counsel for Triple Five, a mul- leaders dedicated to Pawtucket Foundation, has low-income communities to receive a greater share of economic benefits, and Island. Recently she launched served as legal counsel to the tinational company that transforming the education completed a comprehensive indirectly reduce the risk of conflict in the region. Since completing the project, the Job One Leadership team that launched REAL develops, owns, and manages system. Newton is working river corridor development Faheem joined DAI’s private sector development practice. This London-based Initiative, a partnership Certification (Responsible some of the world’s largest with the new principal of an plan to stimulate investment practice provides technical advice to inclusive growth programs working to between the Hassenfeld Epicurean and Agricultural tourism and retail complexes. underperforming high school in the Rhode Island cities of generate economic opportunities for low-income communities in sub-Saharan Institute, Rhode Island PBS, Leadership), a program of in Newark, New Jersey. Pawtucket and Central Falls. Africa and Asia. He is currently focusing on Tanzania and Pakistan. and the Providence Journal to the U.S. Healthful Food Tracy Miller MPA ’12 is Newton, who has an The plan was featured in bring important election-year Council in Washington, D.C. assistant director for undergraduate degree in Providence Business News.

30 l A. ALFRED TAUBMAN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS • BROWN.EDU/TAUBMAN-CENTER 2013–2014 ANNUAL REPORT l 31 Commencement 2014 Class of 2014 TAUBMAN CENTER FACULTY & STAFF On May 23, 2014, public policy seniors, graduate students, Bachelor of Arts Taubman alumni and faculty, and their families joined us at Public Policy and American Institutions 67 George Street to mingle before this year’s Commencement Anna Aizer Stephen Gresham Andrew Pennock Associate Professor of Adjunct Lecturer in Public Lecturer in Public Policy weekend dance. We enjoyed seeing old friends and celebrat- Olivia Conetta Economics and Public Policy Policy ing commencement with the class of 2014. Chance Craig David Preston Samantha Enriquez Bill Allen Alan Harlam Adjunct Lecturer in Public 1) Cody Cleland, Aubrey Nicole DePew, Ivy DePew MPA ’14, Kimberly Fayette Adjunct Lecturer in Public Director of Social Policy Debbie DePew and Stephen DePew. Policy Entrepreneurship, Swearer Jonathan Hilgart 2) Kyle Lynch MPA ’15, Melissa Nicholaus, Xay Khamsyvoravong. Center; Adjunct Lecturer in Wendy J. Schiller Hannah Jones Ernest Almonte Public Policy Associate Professor of 3) Chance Craig ’14, Taubman Center Director Marion Orr. Afia Kwakwa Adjunct Lecturer in Public Political Science and Public 4) Professor Ross Cheit, Daniel Sack ’14. Policy MJ Kaplan Policy Jean McCabe 5) Rob Letzler ’99, Sarah Remes ’99. Adjunct Lecturer in Public 1 Shruti Nagarajan 6) Radhika Sahgal, Arun Sahgal, Gayatri Sahgal Richard Arenberg Policy Hilary Silver MPP ’14, Punam Sahgal. Daniel Newmark Adjunct Lecturer in Public Professor of Sociology, Urban Policy Richard Kerbel Studies, and Public Policy Alvina Pillai 7) Sarah Hall MPA ’14, Qiyao Zhu MPP ’14. Adjunct Lecturer in Public 8) Adolfo Bailon MPA ’14 (bow tie) and family. Michael Robinson Syon Bhanot Policy Jennifer Slattery 9) Lauren Baer ’89, Ross Cheit, Jim Berson ’89. Daniel Sack Adjunct Lecturer in Public Assistant Director of Amy Senia Policy Rebecca Loya Professional Programs; Postdoctoral Research Lecturer in Public Policy Jean Witmer David Blanding Associate in Public Policy Postdoctoral Research Kathryn Spoehr Associate in Public Policy Peter Marino Professor of Cognitive and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Linguistic Sciences and Master of Public Affairs Elizabeth Burke Bryant Policy Public Policy 2 3 Adolfo Bailon Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Patrick J. McGuigan Patrick Tigue Ivy DePew Adjunct Lecturer in Public Adjunct Lecturer in Public Sarah Hall Russell Carey Policy Policy 4 Eleanor Kane Senior Vice President for Corporation Affairs and Susan Moffitt John Tyler Amber Ma Governance; Adjunct Mary Tefft and John Hazen Professor of Education, Samuel Rogers Lecturer in Public Policy White, Sr. Assistant Economics, and Public Graham Sheridan Professor of Public Policy Policy Ross E. Cheit and Political Science Professor of Political Kenneth Wong Science and Public Policy; James A. Morone The Walter and Leonore Master of Public Policy Director of Undergraduate John Hazen White Professor Annenberg Professor of Studies of Political Science and Education Policy; Professor Chang Liu Public Policy of Political Science, Public 5 6 7 Matthew McCabe Jack D. Combs Policy and Urban Studies Melina Packer Research Administrator; Melissa Nicholaus Lecturer in Public Policy Graduate Programs and Gayatri Sahgal Student Affairs Coordinator Campus Advisory Kelsey Sherman Valerie Cooley Committee Jonathan Stoll Lecturer in Public Policy; Marion Orr Director of Graduate Studies Director; Sharon Krause Weichao Zhang Frederick Lippitt Professor Chair, Political Science Qiyao Zhu Isabel Costa of Public Policy; Department Center Manager Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies David Lindstrom Ellen Dessloch Chair, Sociology Department Communications Specialist Christina Paxson University President; Roberto Serrano Theresa Devine Professor of Economics and Chair, Economics Lecturer in Public Policy Public Policy Department

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