FALL 2016 CEPP’s New Executive Director Energy Upgrades for Affordable Housing Classroom Lessons from a City Administrator

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AS I WRITE THIS, IT IS ELECTION DAY 2016 WITH THE RESULTS STILL UNKNOWN. departments Certainly this election reveals the anger citizens feel about government and their con- cerns about stagnating incomes and inequality. It also demonstrates the tremendous 6 GSPP Honors David L. Kirp political divide at the national level between Democrats and Republicans. No matter 4 and Lee Friedman who gets elected, it is hard to believe that the national government will be able to get 8 Faculty Notes much done in the next four years. 10 Celebrating 35 Years Luckily, in the American federal system there are state and local governments, and at of PPIA these levels we find tremendous experimentation and innovation. As this issue of Policy Notes shows, GSPP is leading the way in thinking about new ways to improve state and 11 MPA Perspective: local governments. For example, we are working with the Volcker Alliance (started by act locally Scott Koll former Fed Chair Paul Volcker) to analyze the quality of state budgets and state budget 12 MPP Summer Internships procedures. We are also working with many state and local governments through our 14 Alumni: Debra Lam IPAs, APAs, and internships. Another exciting area is the use of more data and data science to improve city services 9 Classroom Lessons from a City Administrator 15 Alumni: James Toma and to develop innovative ways to link and use data to improve the performance of gov- Dan Lindheim Brings His Expertise to GSPP 16 Event Highlights ernment. Data can be used to better understand the availability, effectiveness, and inno- 18 From Annette Doornbos vation in the provision of services. Data can track the cost-effectiveness of government. 14 Energy Upgrades for Affordable Housing Data science draws upon methods of data analysis developed in statistics, computer sci- An Internship in Austin, TX 19 Class Notes ence, and the various scientific fields, and it provides new ways to understand data gen- 20 Center on Civility & erated by all the sciences and even by the arts and the humanities. 24 CEPP’s New Executive Director Democratic Engagement At the campus level, I am one of the Principal Investigators for the Berkeley Institute GSPP Welcomes Ned Helme 21 From the Alumni Board Dean Henry E. Brady for Data Science which is bringing people from astronomy, physics, biology, ecology, engineering, social science, computer science, statistics, public policy and other areas 22 Center on Governing and together to develop new data science methods for analyzing big data, ensuring reproduc- Investing in the Future ible scientific results, and finding ways to incorporate data science within the university. 23 Center for Studies in Founded in 2013 with $12.5 million funding from the Moore and Sloan foundations and Higher Education with significant support from UC Berkeley, BIDS is one of three Moore-Sloan Data Sci- 23 Silver Society: David L. Kirp ence Environments — the others are at the University of Washington and NYU. These three universities have a common vision: Just as in the 19th century universities devel- 26 Berkeley Global Programs oped libraries and museums as ways to archive data and to make it accessible to research- ers, in the 21st century we must develop data science enterprises that make new methods of storing, analyzing, and using data available to students, faculty, and staff. One final note. The retirements of David Kirp and Lee Friedman are truly the passing of an era. David was one of the founding members of the GSPP faculty (coming here in 1971) and Lee came soon thereafter (1974). They have helped define the field of public policy. David designed and taught for many years the “Law and Public Policy” course that Editor’s Note became a signature part of our MPP curriculum. In addition to writing numerous books, “POLICIES AFFECT INDIVIDUALS WITH NAMES AND ADDRESSES,” writes GSPP’s he also set a standard for outreach with his frequent newspaper columns — including Professor of Practice Dan Lindheim, the former Oakland City Manager who now now as a regular columnist on education for the New York Times. In 1984 Lee wrote the teaches a Goldman School class on local government. That sense of accountability textbook, Microeconomic Policy Analysis (McGraw Hill) based upon his years of teaching came up time and again as I spoke with Goldman School alumni, faculty and stu- economics to Masters students. The book is now in its second edition (2002) as The Micro- dents about their work in local government. West Covina James Toma and Oakland economics of Public Policy Analysis (Princeton University Press), and it has defined the councilmembers Anne Campbell Washington and Abel Guillen are featured in this field of micro-economic policy analysis. I am happy to report that both Lee and David issue; they are among the hundred of GSPPers working in local government, put- will continue to teach courses at GSPP. G ting their talents and skills to use in the service of “individuals with names and addresses,” with specific concerns, in distinct locales.G [email protected]

Bora Reed Henry E. Brady Editor Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy 2 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 3 On the Oakland City Council

Abel Guillen (MPP ’01) and Anne Campbell Washington (MPP ’01) are not just Goldman Our national discourse seems increasingly School classmates. They are fellow council members for the City of Oakland. Policy Notes polarized. Given that, what kinds of things can be accomplished at a local level? spoke with them about the source of their passion for public service and what it’s like to lead AG: Most real solutions are created and implemented at the local during turbulent times. level. State and federal support is helpful, but sometimes those levels of government are obstacles to change. One example is our country’s disinvestment in infrastructure. Cities are where policy What made you decide to seek elected priorities are informed by the concerns my constituents are deal- gets implemented and where lives are most affected. At the local office? Was this something you had in ing with, and policy success, implementation of programs and level, we hear all voices. In Oakland, we have been able to get mind when you were at GSPP? positive, equitable results depend on their ideas and support. For many things accomplished this past year, including development AG: I was always interested in public service, but I just wasn’t sure example, homelessness seems to be increasing in Oakland with impact fees, placing a bond measure for critical infrastructure exactly form it would take. I first ran for the Peralta Community about 1,400 sheltered residents on any given night. Working in funding, and a soda tax proposal to reduce childhood diabetes. College District Board in 2006 because, as the first in my family partnership with Laney College (located in my Council district), ACW: Politics and government at the local level is where the to graduate from college, I wanted to make sure other young we’re working together on a pilot program to help mass produce real work happens that affects our daily lives. It is incredibly chal- people had the same opportunities that I had. While I didn’t have ‘tiny homes’ as one solution and part of a pathway to getting lenging and satisfying to serve on the issues that really have the this specific course in mind while I was at GSPP, my commitment people out of the elements and into permanent shelter. ability to help people — providing jobs and job training, improv- to public service was deepened. ACW: Oakland residents play a critical role in setting my agenda. ing our education system, creating walkable/bikeable/shoppable ACW: The two things that drove me to seek elected office are As a City Councilmember, I have the opportunity to get involved neighborhoods, supporting our artists, creating parks and librar- being a Mom and being a passionate Oakland lover. I have served in a myriad of issues and projects because I am driven by the ideas ies, filling potholes and trimming trees — everyone cares deeply the Oakland community for the past 16 years in a variety of and problems that residents bring to my attention. After serving and passionately about all of these things. I have the ability to roles — School Board Member, Chief of Staff to two Mayors, in this city for over 15 years, the issues that have demanded the work on every one of these issues in a single day. It can be exhil- Chief of Staff to the Fire Chief, and Assistant to the City Admin- most attention during that entire span are health and wellbeing of arating and exhausting — and definitely requires courage! istrator, among others. In all of these positions, I have been able children and families, education, safety, and economic develop- to form deep relationships with incredible people throughout ment — specifically through job creation and support of our small, What aspects of your GSPP education Oakland. It’s a city driven by artists, small, independent busi- independent businesses and the artist community. have been particularly useful? nesses and community-minded people who care deeply about AG: My network of talented GSPP colleagues that I work with on the people who live here. It’s a passionate city and one with a lot This has been quite a year for Oakland, including a daily basis, including City Administrator Sabrina Landreth of heart. This long career in public service has allowed me to dive a big crisis with the Oakland Policy Department. (MPP ’04) and Councilmember Anne Campbell Washington, into all of Oakland’s most challenging problems and I’ve loved What insights have you gained about leading and Richard Raya (MPP ’96), my Chief of staff, makes my work it, so when my local seat became available on the City Council, during a time of turbulence? more engaging, productive — and fun. GSPP gave me tools to I felt a very strong calling to serve the residents of Oakland in AG: In these situations, it’s important to avoid making assump- be a more effective policymaker. In directly applicable real-world this way. I went into this work with my eyes wide open. I under- tions and ask tough questions. Leaders are responsible and must lessons, there is always a 48-hour project at City Hall, and the stood how challenging it would be. be accountable at every level. We must get the facts, (define the budget simulation exercise was pretty spot on in that regard. As a Mom, I feel the systemic problems in Oakland in a deep problem accurately) before forging ahead. This allowed the Coun- GSPP taught me how important it is to define the problem and and personal way. I have a strong desire to make Oakland the cil to come together to put needed police reforms on the Novem- get that first step of the eight-fold path right on the trek to make most liveable city in every way, so that my kiddos can see what ber ballot (Measure LL) that may provide stronger oversight over better policy choices. it means to give back, to create community and to build the world our police department. At the end of the day, the result of the ACW: GSPP’s greatest gift is the people — the fellow students, that we want to live in. I get fired up to work on a wide breadth crisis, the shape of the future, will get us closer to solving issues. the professors, and the staff. I benefit greatly from all of these of issues because my kids are always top of mind and I picture ACW: Serving in local government requires one to become relationships to this day. It is so important to surround yourself how they would want me to respond. accustomed to dealing with life and death on a daily and personal with a great network of policy minds, so that you can pick up the level. As Councilmember, I am often privy to deeply troubling phone and call when you are faced with a problem on a topic that With the all the complexities facing a city like problems that residents are suffering from and it is my job to get is not your area of expertise. G Oakland, how do you determine priorities? involved and push for solutions that are in my sphere of influ- AG: As a Councilmember for the most diverse district in one of ence. There will always be challenges in local government — you Right, top: Abel speaks with Coro Fellows, a leadership the most diverse cities in the nation, I must balance addressing are literally trying to solve systemic problems and improve our development program for government, nonprofit and the needs of all our residents while looking at broader policies society. The key is to stay focused on the outcomes you seek to business sectors. Right, bottom: Anne speaks at to create the type of Oakland we want to see in the future. My achieve and stay true to your values. the launch of the “Oakland vs Big Soda” campaign.

4 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 5 With a combined 82 years of teaching at the Goldman School, GSPP honors the extraordinary careers of Professor David L. Kirp and Professor Lee Friedman.

David L. Kirp Lee Friedman is the former James D. Marver Professor at GSPP and a current joined the Berkeley faculty in 1974 to help fashion the econom- Professor of the Graduate School. He is the prolific author of ics curriculum of the public policy program. His research is on prize-winning books and scholarly articles, as well as a con- a wide variety of issues, among them climate change policies, tributing writer to the New York Times. In his work, he has utility regulation, educational finance, criminal justice policies, explored a wide range of social policy issues, including pre- agricultural subsidies, and consumer decision-making. He is school, K–12 and higher education, race and gender equality, known worldwide for his book The Microeconomics of Public affordable housing, and the AIDS crisis. His recent books Policy Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2002) which was include Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American translated into Chinese in 2016. He is the editor and a contribu- School District and a Strategy for America’s Schools (winner of tor to a new volume Does Policy Analysis Matter? that will be the AERA outstanding book award), Kids First: Five Big Ideas available from The University of California Press in March 2017. for Transforming Children’s Lives and America’s Future, Sandbox Professor Friedman’s work strives to improve the effective- Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids First Politics and ness of microeconomic policy analysis on actual public policies Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of and practices. He is a recipient of the David N. Kershaw Award American Higher Education. A frequent consultant with gov- for distinguished public policy research, and of the University ernment agencies and nonprofits, he has delivered scores of of California’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He is former keynote addresses and university lectures. He was a member Editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and of President Obama’s 2008 transition team. has served as President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 2016, he became a Professor of the Graduate School and Professor Emeritus of Public Policy.

“The driving force behind any David Kirp course is a “While David can wax enthusiastic about many things, “Lee Friedman: the ‘dismal science’ made clear. He was “Lee’s task was perhaps the most difficult among all the searching intellectual rigor interspersed with a gener- I think he derives the greatest pleasure from writing the best economics professor I ever had. Lee, which is GSPP faculty. His classrooms were full of idealistic stu- ous helping of David’s sharp wit. Conventional wisdom about the people and institutions he discovers in his how he preferred we address him, made complicated dents on a mission to save the environment, reduce often takes a drubbing. By the end, if you’ve paid any research — people like the extraordinary educators in concepts easy. He taught us how and why economics poverty, or end discrimination. But the good policy ana- attention at all, you emerge with an impressive array of the Union City, NJ public schools, which are the focus is relevant to everyday life and to the making of policy. lyst, as Alan Blinder reminds us, must have both a hard analytic tools to tackle any vexing legal or policy issue. of ‘Improbable Scholars.’ A former journalist, David Lee’s demeanor distinguished him — calm, deliberate, head and a soft heart. And it was up to Lee to develop “On a personal level, David tipped me off to and sup- believes in stories and storytelling as a valuable tool for open-minded, unflappable. He handled our class, which in his students the economists’ hard headed under- ported me for the opportunity in media, which changed research and teaching. But beyond that, David’s included socialist, libertarians, progressives and even a standing of how to achieve a better world most effi- my entire career trajectory. I will be eternally grateful.” approach reflects his belief that individuals and institu- few conservatives with equanimity and force of intel- ciently. Lee was so effective because he himself brought tions matter — a perspective on public policy that often lect. He disarmed us with his charm and gave us what a hard head and soft heart to the classroom.” — Gary Pruitt (MPP/JD ’81/’82) gets lost in even the best cost-benefit analyses or quan- we expected from GSPP — tools to understand and President and CEO, Associated Press — Suzanne Donovan (MPP ’81/PhD ’87) titative research. change our world. Thanks, Lee.” Executive Director, Strategic “In addition to teaching the truth that individuals and — Aaron Estis (MPP ’85) Education Research Partnership institutions matter, David embodies it. As a teacher and President, The Estis Group scholar, David has had an incalculable effect on people like me, and he is a key reason that Goldman as an insti- tution has had the influence it has on important policy debates. I pinched myself the entire time I was there because of the exposure I had to David and the other faculty. I still pinch myself.”

— Dorothy Robyn (MPP ’78/PhD ’83) former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.

6 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 7 FACULTY NOTES Bringing City Government

and debated Daniel Acland is part of a team of research- Alexander Gelber presented his work on Dis- Daniel Kammen published an analytic review Robert Reich Jennifer Granholm to the Classroom ers from UCB and UCLA’s schools of public ability Insurance at the Council of Economic of energy for urban sustainability in the inau- Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham in Cana- health that is implementing an online gami- Advisors. The paper is now forthcoming in gural special issue of Science on urban futures da’s Munk Debate, before 3,000 people and By Dan Lindheim, Professor of Practice fication intervention to motivate young men the American Economic Journal. Gelber’s in May. Kammen visited Malaysian Borneo to broadcasted across Canada, on the ques- who have sex with men (MSM) to engage paper in the National Tax Journal also won evaluate progress on clean energy oppor- tion “Will Donald Trump make America great TOO OFTEN, POLICY ANALYSIS IS AT HIGH LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION. At in repeat HIV testing. This is one of the first the Musgrave Prize for the best paper in this tunities and progress instead of proposed again?” Reich and Granholm argued against the local level, there is little abstraction–everything is excruciatingly real. the proposition. large-scale online gamification interventions journal in 2016. construction of rainforest-destroying mega- Policies affect individuals with names and addresses who raise their concerns to be tested in the field of public health, and dams (August 2016). As Science Envoy for and struggles directly to your face. As President Obama once told visiting represents a significant step forward in the organized and ran a confer- US Secretary of State, Kammen travelled Jennifer Skeem was awarded $1.6M by the Hilary Hoynes mayors, “being president is tough, but thank goodness I’m not a mayor.” study and application of cutting-edge gami- ence, “The Future of the Safety Net: Les- to Morocco, Jordan and Kuwait to launch Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) to fication design in public policy. Results of the sons from Two Decades of Welfare Reform,” clean energy collaborations in each nation conduct a five-year study that will advance Using my experiences as a former Oakland city study will be available in Fall of 2017. which featured Newt Gingrich as the keynote in advance of the COP22 climate summit in policy for justice-involved people with mental manager, I introduce Goldman students to the speaker, at the Brookings Institution in Wash- Morocco that he attended (September 2016). illness. This study will test whether and how world of local government and the complexities of interventions, a risk-focused group treat- Sarah Anzia presented new research on politi- ington, DC (September 2016). She herself was Kammen also released a major report on non- ment program, reduces recidivism for these the issues facing top officials in running a city: cal party involvement in local elections as part the keynote speaker at Agricultural & Applied coal options for Kosovo that coincided with inadequate and inflexible budgets, crime and vio- of a Hewlett Foundation-sponsored confer- Economics Association’s Annual Conference the visit of US VP Biden to Kosovo (Septem- people, compared to existing justice services. ence on political parties, interest groups, and in Boston (July 2016). Hoynes recently had ber 2016). Kammen chaired a submission to This summer, stakeholders in education, child lence, police reform, jobs and affordable housing, polarization (at the University of Maryland, two appointments — one to the Federal Com- the 100&Change MacArthur proposal on the welfare, and mental health participated in inadequate infrastructure, conflicts over land use, College Park) this past June. In September, mission for Evidence-Based Policy Making use of renewable energy to address conflict a working group meeting at UC Berkeley, unmet labor demands, under-funded pensions, funded by a grant to Professor Skeem by the Anzia presented a new work on the activity by Nancy Pelosi, and another to the Execu- (October 2016). Most recently, Kammen was departing sports franchises, dysfunctional politics Zellerbach Family Foundation. The meeting is of senior citizens in local elections at Indi- tive Committee of the American Economic featured as the lead voice for energy access in and press, and much more. ana University’s School of Public and Envi- Association. Her paper, “Long Run Economic the United Nations energy access and equity part of a project designed to advance under- To what extent can cities meaningfully address ronmental Affairs. She also presented a new and Health Impacts of Participation in the documents that resulted from discussion at standing of how and when to intervene with working paper on the governance of public Food Stamp Program,” was published in the the UN General Assembly meetings in Sep- youth at risk for violence. Professor Skeem these issues and provide the services that people employee pensions at the annual meeting of American Economic Review and her policy tember and as negotiating materials for the was recently named the Milton and Florence expect, demand and deserve? These are not just the American Political Science Association in brief, “Strengthening Temporary Assistance COP22 climate conference (October 2016). Krenz Mack Distinguished Professor in Men- interesting conceptual issues, but issues one deals Philadelphia, PA. Anzia is also the recipient for Needy Families,” was presented at The tal Health and Social Conflict. Her appoint- ment will facilitate research on promoting with every day, and too frequently, all at the of the annual faculty award for UC Berkeley’s Hamilton Project in Washington, DC (May Robert Birgeneau continues to co-lead the same time. Prytanean Women’s Honor Society. 2016). Hoynes is currently a visiting scholar American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ positive development for at-risk children at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. Lincoln Project. This project has now tran- and adolescents. Recently accepted articles At the local level, issues of power and gover- for Skeem and her colleagues include: “How Henry E. Brady published “Conclusion: Why sitioned to the “activist” stage of trying to nance, and the lack of clarity in respective roles, Dan Lindheim well do juvenile risk assessments measure Did We Do It That Way Then? What Might Rucker Johnson spoke about “Winning with effect public educational policy at the state directly impact city actions. Similarly, equity and factors to target in treatment?” (in press, We Do Differently Now,” in New Advances in the Power of Mass Equality: School Funding, and national level. Birgeneau continues to distributional issues cannot be ignored, as too often in broader policy dis- Psychological Assessment); “Gender, risk the Study of Civic Voluntarism: Resources, Integration, & Access for Later-Life Success” serve as the university liaison for the Sci- cussions. The key democracy question is ever present–how to involve the Engagement, and Recruitment, a book that at American Educational Research Associa- ence Philanthropy Alliance, which recently assessment, and sanctioning: The cost of “community” in policy-making; and who are the relevant communities – presents a cohesive collection of essays tion’s (AERA) annual distinguished Spencer helped secure the historic $3B commitment treating women like men” (in press, Law and from leading scholars of civic participation. Foundation Lecture in Washington, DC. In by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to sup- Human Behavior), and “Race, risk, and recidi- current residents or also future residents; those who sleep there or also those This book was released in celebration of the September, Rucker presented his research on port basic biomedical research focused on vism: Predictive bias and disparate impact” who just work or invest; and what issues require regional or national involve- landmark Voice and Equality, which Brady the long-run benefits of preK-12 educational curing diseases. The first $600M is directed (in press, Criminology). All are available at ment; and of course, issues of race, class, ethnicity, and more. http://risk-resilience.berkeley.edu/ co-wrote alongside Sidney Verba and Kay investments at a state hearing on school towards Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford. Last How these questions are addressed determines the good, bad, and ugly Lehman Schlozman. finance reforms in Pennsylvania. In Octo- but not least, Cal Teach honored Birgeneau of policies. For example, Jerry Brown wanted to bring “quality people” ber alone, he spoke as the keynote closing for his foundational contributions to K-12 Jesse Rothstein released four new papers: “The Great Recession and its Aftermath: What Michael Nacht taught a course titled “Leading speaker at the EdSource Education Policy education while serving as the Chancellor “with disposable income” to Oakland. His “10k” policy (as with the cur- People and Organizations” for the inaugu- Summit Symposium at the Oakland Conven- of UC Berkeley. Role for Structural Changes?” (Social and rent housing boom) was geared to importing higher income non-residents. ral Goldman School Master of Public Affairs tion Center — where he presented on school Economic Effects of the Great Recession, RSF Proponents argue that the consequent displacement and gentrification is Journal of the Social Sciences), “The Measure- class this summer. He is serving as Interim resource equity issues — and was a featured David Kirp is a contributing editor to the welcome. His successor Ron Dellums tried to prioritize the needs of exist- ment of Student Ability in Modern Assess- Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Stud- panelist at the “Education Equity 50 Years New York Times and currently writes about ing residents regarding jobs and housing and public safety. Both are defen- ies in Higher Education during the 2016–17 After Coleman” conference at Vanderbilt strategies that middle-tier universities have ment Systems” (Journal of Economic Per- sible policies, but with very different distributional impacts; and we discuss academic year. He continues to serve on the University. developed to improve the scandalously low spectives), “Tax Policy Toward Low-Income Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Com- national graduation rate (59% graduate in six Families” (The Economics of Tax Policy) and the merits of each. mittee that advises senior officials of the US years). He is embarking on a book that will “The Earned Income Tax Credit” (Econom- These issues and debates are enriched with classroom presentations from Department of Defense. explore these themes in depth. ics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the city managers, police chiefs, department directors, elected officials, and United States, Volume I). activists. Similarly, students are required to involve themselves in real-world local government projects. Maybe best of all, students with no interest in local government prior to the course are now working in cities across the country. G

8 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 9 Celebrating 35 Years of PPIA

ALMOST 25 YEARS AGO, I was introduced to a program that public policy and international affairs programs. During this By Martha Chavez, Senior Assistant Dean for would have a profound impact on my life. At the time, I had no time of great economic instability, I was proud to step in and lead Academic Programs and Dean of Students idea that a seven-week intensive academic summer program both UC Berkeley’s PPIA Program and the PPIA national con- would not only change the course of my academic and profes- sortium to ensure fiscal stability. sional career but that 2.5 decades later, I would play a pivotal role Over the last ten years, my affiliation with PPIA has allowed in shaping the direction of this now 35-year old program. me to serve as a mentor to thousands of diverse students nation- My first exposure to the Public Policy and International Affairs wide. In 2004, I helped Carnegie Mellon University relaunch (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute took place during my freshman their PPIA Program, strengthened PPIA national partnerships, year at UC Berkeley. As one of the first in my family to attend and promoted innovative models to increase access to graduate college, I proactively sought the advice of mentors to ensure that school for more diverse students. At PPIA’s 35th anniversary I leveraged every possible educational opportunity. One of my event, I was honored to be a part of an amazing milestone cele- fantastic mentors was a PPIA alumna, who shared that the sum- bration, and I have been thrilled to give back to a program that On July 15, 2016, the Public Policy mer institute would expose me to vital quantitative and analyti- profoundly changed the direction of my academic and profes- International Affairs (PPIA) cele- cal skills necessary for graduate school. It would also provide sional life. brated 35 years of empowering stu- critical professional networks and the financial support to pursue Thirty-five years later, PPIA is continuing to evolve, seeking to dents from diverse backgrounds to a graduate degree in public policy. I knew that I had to pursue expand and scale its efforts for even greater impact. Now more this amazing opportunity. than ever, we need to increase educational opportunities that sup- attend graduate school and go onto Through rigorous coursework in economics, quantitative meth- port the inclusion and participation of diverse populations in the careers in public policy. For each of ods and policy analysis, and by meeting policy professionals of public, nonprofit, and private sectors. I am excited about PPIA’s those 35 years, the Goldman School color who were making positive change in the world, I became future, and I look forward to continuing to support and develop Martha Chavez with Cecilia Rouse, Dean of Princeton University’s has hosted the PPIA Junior Summer hooked on public policy. I received a full fellowship to pursue a innovative programs to meet its bold and critical mission. G Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs. Master’s degree in public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Institute, making it the longest-run- After receiving my MPP, I launched my career in Washington, ning program of its kind. DC as a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of Education. I worked on national education policy — a dream At its national event in Washington, come true. I eventually returned to my home state of California, DC, PPIA awarded Martha Chavez, and in 2007, I joined the Goldman School as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs. GSPP’s Senior Assistant Dean for The 2008 financial crisis inevitably impacted UC Berkeley and MPA Perspective Scott Koll Academic Programs and Dean of the Goldman School, and thus, we were required to scale back Students, the Reverend Clementa C. financial resources. These financial pressures impacted PPIA By Scott Koll (MPA ’17) Lake Wobegon, so I see the power behind Pinckney Achievement Award for her both locally and nationally. I was asked to serve on the PPIA I HAVE SPENT THE LAST TWELVE YEARS in local government, community bonding. National Board of Directors, to direct the PPIA national office as a business manager working closely with the police depart- Local governments have become a labora- outstanding commitment to public and lead a national diversity consortium of over 30 of the top ment. As such, I am often the liaison between the police depart- tory for policy research, especially for law service, and for her transformational ment, city hall, and the community; I translate “cop culture” into enforcement. Given the national debate sur- impact in strengthening the PPIA everyday business terms, and vice versa. rounding police oversight and the use of body National Program, including For the last year and half, I have served as the business man- cameras, I am quite lucky to have the world- ager for the San Leandro Police Department. San Leandro bor- class research of Berkeley at my fingertips. I relaunching the PPIA Junior Summer ders Oakland in the East Bay, and ranks among the top five most have the good fortune of discussing these chal- Institute at Carnegie Mellon Univer- diverse cities in the nation. I’ve spent the last year creating a lenges with those researchers who explore the sity. On the right, Martha reflects on roadmap to help police managers navigate the city budget pro- depths of local policy and its implications. I the role program has played in shap- cess, procurement, contracts, grant and risk management, as well sought out the Master of Public Affairs (MPA) ing generations of diverse leaders, as legislation. for this reason. I had prior coursework in busi- I am also responsible for community engagement and out- ness, but I sought out a program where I could explore policy including herself. reach. We recently began an outreach campaign on multiple alternatives while concurrently developing a more holistic Chinese platforms, coupled with an Asian business outreach approach to policy leadership. Above: Donovan Hicks, Vaneshia Reed, Sino campaign, which we funded in part through a federal grant. I want to be equipped to respond thoughtfully to a changing Esthappan, Andrew Lomeli, Adriana Medina We’re continually seeking to build programs that will help us policy landscape. Ultimately, I look to serve as a city manager; a (front), Martha Chavez (back), Jazmin Firo, Jazmin Firo, Isaac Castro, Martha Chavez, Andrew Lomeli, connect with communities that might otherwise not speak up or key piece to a well-functioning city is managing public safety Isaac Castro, and Jose “Pepe” Gil and Jose “Pepe” Gil be heard. I grew up in Minnesota, listening to Garrison Keillor’s through innovative leadership. G

10 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 11 MPP Summer Internship Profiles GSPP students were involved with over 90 internships worldwide. Here is a small sampling.

Mark Jimenez (Sacramento, CA) interned in Gita Devaney (San Francisco, CA) interned Juan Ramirez (Washington, DC) worked at Karolina Maslanka (Washington, DC) worked Alejandra Barrio (Geneva, Switzerland) Dan Blaustein-Rejto (Hanoi, Vietnam) the Department of Finance, Local Govern- at the Government Accountability Office’s The World Bank Group within the Enabling at The White House Council on Environmen- interned for the Labour Mobility and Human worked with the International Center for ment Unit focusing on housing policy. He con- field office in San Francisco. As part of the the Business of Agriculture Unit. He analyzed tal Quality as a Federal Sustainability Intern. Development Division of the International Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and University ducted programmatic and fiscal analyses of International Affairs and Trade team, she policies and regulations that have an impact She helped manage the review process of Organization for Migration (IOM). As a sup- of the Philippines–Los Baños on how to numerous proposed legislation introduced by worked on the early stages of a report on on the ease of doing business in the agricul- Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans port for IOM’s focal point on Migrant Inte- make Philippine agriculture more climate the California legislature and recommended State Department allowances and benefits tural sector of 62 countries around the world. submitted by federal agencies and conducted gration and Training, she authored a series resilient. He conducted focus groups with a position Governor Brown should adopt. for civilian employees serving overseas, which data analysis to ensure that federal agencies of strategic policy papers on topics related agricultural extension workers, interviewed included analyzing data on expenditures and serve as an example by reaching their sus- to labor migration, political participation, farmers and administered surveys to gov- interviewing State Department officials. tainability goals. refugee youth, and xenophobia, to guide ernment officials. the agency’s transition into the UN structure. She bridged her experience at IOM with a week-long course on Humanitarian Action, facilitated by the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy.

Michael Drane (Oakland, CA) worked in the office of Oakland City Councilmember Abel Paloma Corcuera (Arusha, Tanzania) pre- Guillen (MPP ’01) focusing on housing leg- pared a feasibility study on the implemen- islation and ballot measures. He provided tation of plastic crates in the supply chain research and supported decision-making of tomatoes in Arusha with the objective on a variety of topics including just cause, of increasing farmer’s income and adding public lands, and the Renters Protection Act. nutritional value by decreasing tomato dam- age caused by the currently used wooden crates. The study relied on informational inter- views, surveys, and a cost benefit analysis that engaged all the stakeholders: farmers, trad- ers, plastic crate manufacturing companies, government agencies, and NGOs.

Alice Hur (San Francisco, CA) interned at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the agency’s San Francisco field office. Her main task was developing a data collection instrument and protocol for assessing the compliance of privately insured credit unions Hortencia Rodríguez (Durban, South Africa) with federal website disclosure requirements. was awarded a Global Development Fellow- In addition, she helped lead interviews with ship to work with the Maternal, Adolescent state financial regulators, planned credit union and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH) at site visits, and prepared a knowledge trans- the University of Witswatersrand to inves- fer presentation on cybersecurity with fellow tigate factors associated with uptake and interns on the Financial Markets and Com- sustained use of female condoms across munity Investment mission team. South Africa.

12 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 13 students Laura Maria Sanchez Bolanos alumni James Toma

WHEN LAURA SANCHEZ “Most affordable housing is privately In the process of talking with people, JAMES TOMA (MPP ’95) is the Mayor of West Covina, California. FOUND OUT that the Envi- owned, but they receive subsidies from the two properties emerged as candidates for He spoke with Policy Notes about how he became a politician, a ronmental Defense Fund local, state and federal level,” says Laura. pilot projects. Laura connected the prop- group he once considered a “different breed.” (EDF) Climate Corps pro- “Since PACE requires lender consent from erty owners with PACE, who connected gram had matched her for a the mortgage holder, it can get quite com- them with an energy audit firm. “If the What was your path to becoming summer internship with the plicated when so many sources of funds energy/water savings are greater than cost mayor of West Covina? city of Austin, she was a bit are involved. The key question is: if a of the loan, the properties are eligible for After graduating from GSPP, I worked in the California State skeptical. She had grown up property owner wants to use PACE, who PACE financing,” she says. “Thanks to Assembly and loved it. It was a great opportunity to understand in Costa Rica and had lived would have to approve the use of this efforts during the summer, these two and help make state policy, and was also a practical education in Mayor James Toma speaks at a May 2016 press conference in the in New York and Berkeley innovative financing tool?” properties are in the midst of the process politics. After my son was born in 2007, we moved to West aftermath of the shooting of a West Covina police officer but had never been to Texas. Though there were two examples of right now.” Covina where I became president of the Friends of the West “Lots of people told me, ‘you should go!’ PACE having been used in affordable Laura spent the second part of her Covina Library. The city council pushed a commercial develop- What GSPP skills/tools have and ‘Austin is a great city,’” she recalls. housing nationwide (in Michigan and in internship on what turned out to be ment that would hurt the Library. I opposed the project at plan- been most useful for you? “Ultimately, I turned down other offers Washington, DC), there was no existing a 60-page, comprehensive paper on ning commission and city council meetings. That experience The Goldman School offered a great education on how to think and decided to go, not only because the literature to draw upon. Laura tackled affordable housing co-authored by PACE sparked my interest in running for city council. When I ran in and communicate clearly about policy problems. It made me project was interesting but because Texas her project by interviewing the members and EDF. The full paper is available at 2013, I was told I hadn’t lived in the city long enough to win. I comfortable with both qualitative and quantitative analysis. I also represented a major challenge in the of the Affordable Housing Committee http://bit.ly/EDFSanchez. won the election with 40% more votes than the second-highest learned how to work better in groups and I learned a great deal energy sector.” created by the Mayor of Austin. In total, Laura says that her internship, along vote getter. Last December I was sworn in as Mayor. from my classmates. GSPP is all about breaking down policy The Texas Property Assessed Clean she talked to over 40 stakeholders (lend- with her first year at the Goldman School, issues and thinking creatively about solutions. Energy (PACE) Authority administers the ers, property owners, developers, and shaped her sense of what she would like to What are the unique challenges and opportunities PACE program in the state, which enables public housing authorities) to learn about do in the future. “I now know that I’m par- of working in a city like West Covina? What advice would you have for owners of residential, industrial and com- the sector from their various points ticularly interested in the intersection We’ve inherited years of deferred maintenance and infrastruc- GSPPers seeking elected office? mercial properties to access low-cost funds of view. between energy markets, sustainability, ture. Our city took a financial beating during the great recession. The GSPP students and alumni I’ve known would make great for energy and water efficiency retrofits as “Everyone represented a different and business practices, and not just climate When the Governor eliminated redevelopment, our city lost mil- elected officials. Diverse life experiences are helpful. You have to well as distributed generation investments. agenda,” she recalls. “For example, Texas change or environmental policy,” she says. lions of dollars. Rapidly increasing retirement and healthcare communicate with different people in a variety of settings. A lot (This system of funding energy efficiency has over 250 public housing authorities, Her summer internship may also have costs have taken a toll on our budgets. I also see the same distrust of people would like to be elected but don’t want to ask for votes upgrades was innovated by Goldman alum- which in some cases own but mostly direct shaped where she heads after graduation. of government that affected the presidential race in play at the or money. You have to do both. Once elected, a desire to learn nus Cisco DeVries (MPP ’00). The mayor of federal and state funds towards affordable “I loved Austin,” she says. “I would like to local level. We have a relatively new council and city management and excel at your job is essential. It’s been three years since I was Austin wanted to know if there was a way housing properties. Everyone expected a go back and live there in the near future.” G so there are lots of opportunities to think and do things differ- elected and I’m constantly learning. Also, you have to make deci- to leverage PACE funds for affordable hous- report that would address their specific ently. We’re working on a General Plan that will create a blueprint sions with little information. So don’t underestimate the value of ing and reached out to EDF to do a study. concerns, which was a bit complex.” for development in the next few decades. good policy and political instincts. G

How is data and technology being leveraged What are the biggest obstacles to innovation alumni Debra Lam to address some of the challenges faced by and what are strategies to overcome? cities like Pittsburgh? Change is always difficult, and it is important to engage with the DEBRA LAM (MPP ’07) is the Chief of Innovation and Performance for Pittsburgh, PA and We established the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center stakeholders in the process so that they can contribute to the oversees technology, sustainability, performance, and innovation for the city. Policy Notes with Allegheny County and the University of Pittsburgh to make outcome. We held roundtables and feedback sessions in person, spoke with her about the career path and why good data is a means, not the end. it easier for the public to find and use information. For example, did online surveys, utilized social media, the City Cable Chan- people may find transportation data useful because it affects how nel, the website, and worked closely with our partners. What was your background before you entered this role? people choose to commute and travel. Crime data can help citi- Prior to joining the City of Pittsburgh, I spent years as a management consultant with zens better understand their communities. We have also made What is one takeaway from Arup, an engineering and design consulting firm. I was mainly based in London and it easier for other public sector agencies, academic institutions, your time at the Goldman School? Hong Kong, but had an opportunity to travel the world and work on some amazing and nonprofit groups to release their data through the common I first learned about the meaning of “speaking truth to power” at projects and with incredibly smart people. My work included working with cities on framework for further transparency. GSPP and hope to continue to apply it in my public service. G sustainability, urban policy and strategy. Nothing fully prepares you for working in city Data and technology though should be seen as the means, not government, but this was a great foundation. the end. Our next stage for open data is training, educating, and The Chief of Innovation and Performance is a newly-created position. I serve on the working with the community on how to use and apply the data Mayor’s executive cabinet and also lead a department. to improve their communities.

14 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 15 event highlights

SCiPP’s 6th Annual Race Commencement 2016 & Policy Symposium: Congratulations to the newly-minted Modern Segregation graduates of the Class of 2016. Students of Color in Public Policy (SCiPP), with co-sponsorship from Blacks in Public Policy (BiPP), the Graduate Assembly (GA), Housing and Urban Policy (HUP), and the Migration and Refugee Policy Group (MRPG), sponsored a week of learning and conversation about segrega- tion in education, housing, in interna- tional settings, and with a debate on envi- ronmental justice.

Breaking Promises: San Francisco The Young’s Declining Networking Reception Share of the Economic Pie The Goldman School’s San Francisco Do we need to make major changes so that mil- Networking Reception connects Bay lennials can enjoy the same economic opportuni- Area prospective employers and alumni ties as previous generations? How can our young with current Masters and PhD students citizens be more engaged in the political process from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of that will shape their future? Geoffrey Canada of Public Policy who are interested in cre- the Harlem Children’s Zone and Stanley Druck- ating career connections in the public, enmiller of Duquesne Family Office LLC dis- private and nonprofit arenas. cussed how current government policies and practices stack up for younger generations.

Cal Day 2016 Environmental Policy Group Alumni Dinner Political Life @ Berkeley: Conversations Across the Divide The Environmental Policy Group (EPG) welcomed its alumni to its annual dinner, giving students, alumni, faculty and staff the The Goldman School of Public Policy’s Center on Civility & Democratic Engage- chance to connect over their mutual interest in environmental policy. ment sponsored a multi-partisan discussion on issues such as student elections, student movements, the study of politics in the classroom, and the 2016 US election season. Student speakers (representing ASUC student government, Berkeley Col- lege Republicans, and Cal Berkeley Democrats) explored ways Berkeley’s culture of free expression and political debate finds a balance with the need for civility and constructive engagement. The panel was moderated by Richard “Dick” Beahrs (’68), former ASUC President.

16 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 17 from the desk of CLASS NOTES Annette Doornbos Jamie Allison (MPP ’06) was promoted to David Creighton (MPP ’85) continues to work Sasha Horwitz (MPP ’07) and wife Jamie Vice President of Grant Programs at the SH on behalf of the ex-untouchable community Polster welcomed their first child Dean Cowell Foundation this July. She began work- in India as an advisor to the Nagaloka Centre Oliver Horwitz, born Oct 1, 2016. Dean was ing at Cowell upon completing her MPP at in Nagpur, where low-caste men and women born 8 weeks early and is doing great, thanks Goldman and has been at the foundation are trained to be community organizers and in no small part to the amazing doctors and for 10 years. social workers. David also organizes visits nurses at Sutter Women’s and Children’s with Western groups who are interested in Center hospital. learning about the social situation in India. MJ Moore, his spouse, has retired from her David Deming (MPP ’05) and Janine teaching career and they are looking forward Santimauro (MPP/MPH ’05) have moved to more travel and quality time together. from Cambridge, MA to Brookline, MA. Janine GSPP in David’s son Robbie, who graduated from the was recently promoted to Executive Direc- Price School with an MPP earlier this year, is tor of the Heart Center at Boston Children’s now working for the Economic Development Hospital. David was recently promoted to full group at USC. professor with tenure at Harvard University. the Arena Their two kids Maia and Serena are currently Bill Hederman (MPP ’74) recently completed 7 and 5, respectively. his assignment as Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz’s Senior Advisor for Energy Markets. In Trish Koman (MPP ’94) earned her PhD in Drs Pamela Arbuckle Alston (MPP ‘84) and late May, Bill and small group of senior execu- Environmental Health Sciences in August “It is not the critic who counts; not Susan Ehrlich (MPP ‘84) tives from DOE and FERC visited with energy 2016 from the University of Michigan. She is officials in each of the Baltic nation states currently the interim Managing Director of the the man who points out how the Susan Ehrlich (MPP ’84) and Pamela (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). These nations Risk Science Center at the University of Michi- Arbuckle Alston (MPP ’84) met up for the had learned of DOE’s technical assistance to gan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI. strong man stumbles, or where the first time since graduation at the Califor- Ukraine and requested similar energy policy nia Healthcare Foundation Leadership Pro- guidance. Soon after Bill returned to the US, Marc Lieber (MPP ’81) and wife Annette are gram’s Alumni Event and Graduation (see the new Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr thrilled to welcome their first grandchild, doer of deeds could have done them photo). Susan is an alumna of the program Groysman, made a personal visit to Secre- Noah Gershon Lieber, born on May 22 in and Pamela graduated this year. Susan is tary Moniz to thank him for the 2015 DOE Cambridge, MA. better. The credit belongs to the CEO of the Priscilla Chan & Mark Zuckerberg mission to Ukraine. Bill spent July 2015 in San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Kyiv and was privileged to be invited to the Michael Look (MPP ’85) joined the US Depart- Center. Pamela is the dental director at Alam- ceremony between the Prime Minister and ment of Housing and Urban Development man who is actually in the arena….” eda Health System. Both Susan and Pamela the Secretary. (HUD) as the Deputy Regional Administrator received their doctoral degrees from UCSF for Region X (Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and – Theodore Roosevelt (Susan, MD 1999 and Pamela, DDS 1982). Kristin Homme (MPP ’94) co-authored “Thi- Oregon) in September 2016. He is currently merosal-containing Hepatitis B Vaccine Expo- based out of HUD’s Seattle Regional Office. Jennifer Baka (MPP ’07) returned to the US sure is Highly Associated with Childhood After thirty years of service to local govern- after 3 years in London to begin a faculty Obesity: A Case-control Study Using the ments, Michael is excited to join the federal position at Penn State’s Department of Geog- Vaccine Safety Datalink,” an epidemiologi- government and take on new challenges. raphy. She joins the school as an Assistant cal study that reveals a link between infant Professor and is affiliated with the Institutes exposure to vaccine mercury and childhood John Mikulin (MPP ’11) is an Environmental of Energy and the Environment. obesity. This paper was published in the July Protection Specialist in the United States to life with stories of Goldman School might lead legislators and three-star gen- 2016 issue of the North American Journal of Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Annette Doornbos is young alumni and their struggles and erals to assume you didn’t belong at the Joseph Castro (MPP ’90) received the Alumni Medical Sciences. Kristin continues to work on Region 9 Clean Energy & Climate Change the Assistant Dean for achievements as public policy innovators. table — all three translated powerful per- Excellence in Education Award from Stan- raising awareness about the risks of chronic Office located in San Francisco, CA. His External Relations and The personal narratives of Megan Gar- sonal experiences into an equally powerful ford’s Graduate School of Education for his and low-dose mercury exposure from den- work focuses on efforts to reduce emissions Development cia (MPP ’10), David Gray (MPP ’12), and drive to speak truth with power. service as the President of CSU Fresno. The tal amalgams and certain vaccines, which from mobile sources of air pollution in the ceremony honoring Joseph took place on are denied and downplayed by most health western US. John’s current projects include: Carmen Chu (MPP ’03) reveal the defin- The resolve to speak truth with power, October 20, 2016. institutions despite much scientific evidence Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) ing life experiences that motivated each of i.e., to take the role of the policy leader, to the contrary. implementation, West Coast Collabora- HARD TO THINK THAT ANYONE could them to pursue a career in public policy. was the leap that brought Megan, David John Chang (MPP ’97) is now the Chief of tive stakeholder outreach and DERA grant have put it better than Theodore Roosevelt Giving back and promoting positive and Carmen to their current roles. Each is Staff to the Vice President and Chief Infor- Michael Kobori (MPP ’95) just celebrated project oversight, coordination of regional when it comes to articulating the domi- change are the common threads in their deeply involved in pivotal policy decisions mation Security Officer of Discover Financial his 15th year at Levi Strauss & Co. where he electric vehicle deployment, coordination nant characteristic of Goldman School otherwise divergent narratives. Whether of far-reaching consequences for the peo- Services in Chicago, IL. is Vice-President of Sustainability. He was of mobile source technology demonstra- recently appointed to the Cotton Board by tion, assistance with national vehicle fuel students and alumni: the drive to be the it was growing up as a child of immigrants ple they serve. They are “in the arena” and Margaret Salazar (MPP ’06) was appointed the Secretary of Agriculture. In addition to his economy and greenhouse gas emission one who makes the difference. GSPP’s new whose education stopped short of high are a testament to the School and the com- Director of Oregon Housing and Community day job, Michael enjoys teaching an under- standards development, assistance with UCTV video and podcast series, In The school, living through the ineptitude and munity that helped prepare them. G Services by Oregon Governor Kate Brown. graduate course on Strategic Corporate Sus- regional biomethane deployment, diesel Arena, hosted by Jonathan Stein (MPP/ injustice of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, She looks forward to finding creative solu- tainability at the Haas Business School and emissions reduction technology benefit-cost JD ’13), brings Theodore Roosevelt’s quote or realizing that one’s youth and gender tions to bring housing opportunities to completing his first sprint triathlon earlier assessment, and National Environmental all Oregonians. this year. Policy Act (NEPA) review.

18 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 19 CLASS NOTES c o n t . alumni board Ways to Connect

David Gutierrez (MPP/MA-IAS ’16) entered on bureaucratic legalism and at Golden Gate and policy; see http://bit.ly/2ehvTmW. ELC By Shelly Gehshan (MPP ’85) We look forward to serving alumni and the US Foreign Service as a Political Offi- University’s international law symposium on will release in December an update of its NEWS FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IS GOOD. Quite good. supporting the school. To volunteer, please cer on September 6, 2016. He will be reconciling the protections afforded domestic 2015 report on the growing number of “co- posted to Guadalajara, Mexico beginning care workers and people with disabilities. He violations” of nature’s rights and human rights We had 20 candidates run for four board slots. Last year, we reach out: [email protected]. December 2016. was also a panelist at a symposium on alter- worldwide; see http://bit.ly/ELCCoVi. donated more money to GSPP than the board had given in years. native dispute resolution at the Universidad We helped the excellent student-run PolicyMatters Journal find Matt Reed (MPP ’07) recently joined the Autónoma Faculty of Law and Criminology Martha Ture (MPP ’04) has returned to jour- a wider audience. We supported regions across the country in 2016–17 Alumni Board University of California Office of the Presi- in Monterrey, Mexico. nalism since retiring from the California Pub- hosting events for alumni. And we organized alumni to call to dent (UCOP) as an Institutional Research lic Utilities Commission. She now regularly newly-admitted students to encourage them to choose GSPP. and Planning Analyst. When not working, James Savage (MPP ’78) will be a Fulbright writes about news from a feminist’s perspec- Victoria Brown (MPP ’11) he keeps busy with his boy/girl twins, born Visiting Professor at the Diplomatic Academy tive for Garnet News. Martha also enjoys tak- This year, we’ve got a polished 3-year plan that follows a ringing Call to Action the Brittaney Carter (MPP ’15) April 2015. in Vienna, Austria during Spring of 2017. He ing photographs of Mt. Tamalpais — one of GSPP administration scripted to inform our work. And we have a talented, diverse is currently a professor of politics and public her images won best in show at the Marin slate of officers and committee chairs chosen before our first meeting. Did I mention James Chadam (MPP ’95) Stephen Rosenbaum (MPP ’79/JD ’80) policy at the University of Virginia. County Fair this year. She and her husband, I’m one of them? On October 22, 2016, I took over as chair of the Alumni Asso- Ginny Fang (MPP ’08) returned to California Rural Legal Assistance Jim, are enjoying good health as she turns ciation, the first woman in the organization’s 17-year history to do so. It’s a privilege Mary June Flores (MPP/MPH ’15) (celebrating its 50th year) as a Regional Linda Sheehan (MPP ’90, JD ’91) is the Execu- 71 on Thanksgiving this year. Maureen Friar (MPP ’90) Director of Advocacy. He also joined the UCB tive Director of Earth Law Center, which is to serve in that capacity, particularly since I’m a policy ex-pat, having shifted to career Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society building a movement to recognize nature’s Kitty Williamson (MPP ’75) is happy to and executive coaching a few years ago. Shelly Gehshan (MPP ’85) as a Visiting Researcher Scholar. Cambridge rights in law. Linda recently returned from announce that UC Berkeley enriches life, even Our leadership includes Vice-Chair Armando Salcedo-Cisneros (’10), Secretary Jay Liao (MPP ’11) Scholars published Experimental Legal Edu- Hawaii for the quadrennial Congress of the in retirement. She is currently a trip leader Brittaney Carter (’15), and committee chairs Jonathan Stein (’13, governance), Sarah Martin-Anderson cation in a Globalized World: The Middle East International Union for Conservation of Nature with Inspiring Connections Outdoors, a pro- Jay Liao (’11, alumni activities), and Swati Pande and Lauren Vargas (both ’14, & Beyond, a book that Steve co-edited with (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation orga- gram that takes at-risk and underserved chil- (MPP ’08, PhD ’13) student services). the Dean of Hebron University Law. The Uni- nization, where she successfully advocated dren on outdoor adventures. One of Kitty’s Swati Pande (MPP ’14) versity of Windsor law journal also published to include nature’s rights in IUCN’s four-year whitewater rafting trips was included in a Here are a few ways the Alumni Association board plans to add value to the Enrique Ruacho (MPP ’12) his article recommending that special edu- work Programme. See http://bit.ly/RES100 study by the UC Berkeley Dept. of Psychology. GSPP community: Armando Salcedo Cisneros cation due process hearings be scrapped in for the IUCN’s commitment to nature’s rights. The research found that such trips promote ■■ determine the best ways to raise the visibility of the school on social media. (MPP ’10) favour of a “quasi-inquisitorial process” of Linda also co-wrote for the United Nations awe, curiosity, and positive emotions (happi- ■■ expand the number of regions around the country that have coordinators and hold review. Steve spoke at the Hungarian Acad- a just-released report of global experts on ness, pride, gratitude) as well as measurable at least one interesting, fun event to bring alumni together; and Jonathan Stein (MPP/JD ’13) emy of Sciences Institute for Legal Studies Earth Jurisprudence, or Earth-centered law hormonal and attitudinal changes. ■■ a webinar series featuring alumni and other experts on topics of keen interest: stu- Lauren Vargas (MPP ’14) dent debt, successfully transitioning from analyst to manager, increasing diversity, Evan White (MPP/JD ’12) and creating a pipeline among international alumni for the MPA program.

Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement

Presidential Debate Standards national concerns and pressing policy among the debaters, the moderators, and viewpoints during the primary. Speakers Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley. Part of a This election is the most uncivil in recent problems are far too important. How have in-person audience members. Carolyn Goldman School Dean Henry E. Brady, series of regional events timed for the memory. According to recent polling, 69 all our choices about the future become Lukensmeyer of NICD added, “We urge Professor Lisa García Bedolla of Berkeley’s release of KQED’s Voter Guide, the gath- percent of Americans agree that civility mired in such pettiness and selfishness? the moderators to adopt the National Travers Department of Political Science, ering featured discussion of California has decreased in the last few years, and Everyone knows we can do better, and Institute for Civil Discourse’s Debate Stan- and Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institution ballot propositions by the station’s news 2 out of 3 voters say the 2016 campaign is these debate standards reflect that.” dard and therefore ensure a civil debate, at Stanford also exchanged views on the team and audience members. Following less civil than other elections. As a found- The Debate Standards call for active where both sides are heard and respected key role to be played by the growing upon CCDE’s involvement with KQED’s ing member of the National Civility Net- demonstrations of respect and tolerance and treated equally.” Latino presence at the ballot box, and the “Start The Conversation” campaign last work, CCDE joined the National Center interplay among mainstream and other spring, “Ballots & Brews” advanced a for Civil Discourse (NICD) and more than Homecoming Panel constituencies in Democratic and Repub- shared mission between the station and sixty other leading organizations endors- The 2016 campaign gen- lican leadership. More than 200 people the School working toward voter educa- ing a set of standards for the conduct of erated serious questions attended this lively discussion moderated tion, citizen engagement, and commu- the 2016 presidential debates. about the viability of by Richard “Dick” Beahrs (’68) and view- nity-based leadership. G “The only way to restore civility and two-party politics in the able on the Goldman School’s UC Public respect in our political campaigns, and United States, and this Policy Channel on UCTV. our government, is for people to stand up year’s CCDE Homecom- and demand better treatment,” said Dr. ing panel addressed key KQED Ballots & Brews Larry Rosenthal, CCDE Program Direc- issues relating to the CCDE served as outreach partner for Bay tor. “The American people have grown composition of the elec- Area public broadcaster KQED’s “Ballots Larry Rosenthal tired of all the distraction and theater. Our torate and their evolving & Brews” event held October 10th at the (MPP ’93/PhD ’00)

20 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2016 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 21 Center for Studies in Higher Education

UC BERKELEY’S CENTER FOR STUDIES survey research on undergraduates and ing universities and IN HIGHER EDUCATION (CSHE) graduate students and share data and best the complex roles was established in 1957 as the first practices with global academic and institu- they play in mod- research institute in the world devoted to tional partners, a major study of pension ern society. Recipi- the study of systems, institutions, and pro- reform in higher education, and the ents of the honor cesses of higher education. CSHE is now Research Universities Going Global Project are selected once part of the Goldman School of Public Pol- that is studying why and how universities are every two years and icy, in part reflecting the Center’s long his- pursuing greater international engagement. are sponsored by tory of interdisciplinary and policy-rele- The Center also offers a visiting scholars CSHE. Lectures are vant research. Previously, CSHE reported program, the Gardner Seminar for gradu- given at one or directly to the UC Berkeley Executive Vice ate students at UC Berkeley and other UC more of the univer- Chancellor and Provost. campuses writing dissertations on higher sity’s ten campuses. The Center has had a major impact on education, the Research and Occasional Previous holders of the study of higher education since its Paper Series, and an ongoing colloquium the lectureship Michael Nacht is interim founding under a proposal developed by series that sponsors more than a dozen include Simon director of the Center for Clark Kerr, Robert Gordon Sproul, T.R. presentations each academic year address- Marginson, Neil Studies in Higher Education Students of community colleges, Cal State Universities and UCs gathered to listen, learn and brainstorm McConnell (the Center’s first Director), ing research in higher education and con- Smelser, Harold around topics of work, advocacy and higher education. and John Gardner — then president of the temporary policy issues. Shapiro, Charles Vest, Donald Kennedy, and Carnegie Corporation. Its focus and mis- Currently, the Center is planning the Hannah Gray. sion will remain devoted to multidisci- Spring Colloquium Series. Participants This coming April, the Clark Kerr Lec- plinary research, supporting comparative will have the opportunity to hear view- ture Series will feature Michael Mcpher- #OurFutureCA studies across the nation and internation- points from Bay Area senators, university son, former President of the Spencer ally, acting as a University of California- presidents, and leading scholars on higher Foundation; Larry Bacow, President By Sarah Swanbeck (MPP ’11), CGIF Executive Director wide resource for faculty and senior education issues. All lectures take place on Emeritus Tufts University; and Rick Levin, IN JULY, the Goldman School of Public term financial security. We featured schol- administrators, and providing a neutral the University of California, Berkeley CEO of Coursera and former President of Policy’s Center on Governing and Invest- ars from the Public Policy Institute of Cal- Millennial Summit Impact forum for discussion among university campus and are free of charge. Graduates, Yale University. The topic for this series ing in the Future brought together Millen- ifornia Higher Education Center, the ■■ Over 150 California under- leaders and government officials. faculty, staff, and members of the general will be on finance and sustainability in nials from across California to explore Roosevelt Institute, Student Debt Crisis, graduate students and young Current research conducted at the Center public are welcome to attend. Higher Education. their generation’s vision for a better future Govern for California, and others. professionals with diverse includes the Student Experience in the The Center also sponsors the Clark Kerr Contact: (510) 642-7703 or cshe@berke- in the Golden State. Day 2 focused on the power of young backgrounds from across the Research University (SERU) Consortium — Lecture Series, which provides a forum for ley.edu for further information on the The two-day summit gathered over 150 leaders to implement economic and polit- state participated. a group of top-tier universities that conduct analysis and reflection about the forces shap- Center’s programs and events. G young leaders at the the forefront of social ical change by building and sustaining ■■ Over 50 different public and change. Students representing 50 Univer- lasting social movements. Activists from private colleges and universi- sity of California (UC), California State successful campaigns such as Million ties were represented University (CSU), California community Hoodies, NextGen Climate, Evolve, GetE- ■■ Over 20 percent of attendees colleges, and private universities from qual and others were featured. Day 2 also came from community colleges around the State came to the Goldman included a panel on how to amplify mil- across California. silver society David L. Kirp School to discuss the economic challenges lennial voices in the 2016 Election and ■■ Over 60 percent of attendees that young Californians face and to set out beyond, featuring Congressman Eric travelled from outside the Bay BY INCLUDING THE GOLDMAN SCHOOL admitted but often lost to schools offering better financial aid), an agenda for their generation’s priorities Swalwell, US Representative from CA Dis- Area to attend the Summit. in his estate plans, Professor Emeritus to donating several pieces of art to GSPP from his private collec- in an important election year and beyond. trict 15 and a national leader on millen- ■■ Over 70 percent of attendees David L. Kirp joins GSPP’s Silver Soci- tion, Professor Kirp connects all the dots. While summit participants repre- nial political engagement. represented communities of ety. For over forty years Professor Kirp “The variety in the art hanging on the walls of the School sented 50 colleges and universities from Participants commented that it was “a color, with strongest representa- has shown through his actions what is reflects the diversity that is such an important part of GSPP.” across the state, our online reach was rare opportunity to engage with young tion from Latinos (31 percent) important to him. He has shared his Recently, Professor Kirp took full advantage of a campus even greater. Over 300,000 individuals people from across the State” and that it and Chicanos (22 percent). knowledge and love of learning and matching program to establish three named endowed fellow- connected with us via Twitter using was “a fantastic opportunity to learn from ■■ Over 300,000 individuals given of his time, money and resources ships: the first in his name, the second named in memory of #OurFutureCA (see sidebar). many experts, express our ideas, and net- participated in the Summit with hundreds of MPP students. Chancellor Emeritus Ira Mike Heyman, and the third named the Day 1 featured experts discussing the work with enthusiastic students.” Another via Twitter “Students are the School’s central resource,” he says. “They are Dean’s Fellowship in Education, Children & Youth Policy. economic and political barriers that young participant wrote: “I’ve done some work the heart and soul of this place.” “An increasing number of GSPP students are interested in edu- Californians face, including the challenge on student debt and long-term outcomes From spearheading the launch of the New Community Fund cation and kids’ issues,” he says. “With so many of us on the GSPP of financing an education, finding a job in for Millennials, but had never met with or in 1999 (to provide fellowship support to retain more of the “out- a weak economy, and planning for long- heard from activists in the space.” G standing and diverse community of policy scholars” the school Continued on page 25

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The Center for Environmental Public Policy wel- CCAP’s clean air success came in part from a close connection What drew you to CEPP? tailored training coupled with on the ground assistance between comes Ned Helme (MPP ’77) as its new executive we had built between US Governors and their counterparts in What are your priorities for CEPP? visits. This will need to be a collaborative effort with potential director. Policy Notes spoke to Ned about his dis- Germany who had spearheaded that nation’s successful effort to The passage of the Paris Climate Agreement last year coincided Berkeley partners, including the Haas Energy Institute, CNR, tinguished career and what brought him back to his reduce air pollution that was killing the revered Black Forest in with my 30th year directing CCAP. The Paris Agreement has LBL, CEGA, and BECI, working with the leaders in the develop- alma mater. the mid-1980s. We continued to build on our connection to Ger- established the core bottom-up country-driven strategy for cli- ing countries to insure that the training fits with the economic, many and to the EU in the 1990s and with their encouragement, mate action in the coming years. The next challenges lies in political and development realities they face. You founded the Center for Clean Air Policy stepped into the climate change debate in 1991, contributing to implementation on the ground, so it’s a natural point for a change In addition to training, CEPP could potentially host dialogues (CCAP) and served as its president for 30+ years. the design of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and expanding to work for me personally. on specific climate and energy policy issues, bringing together What need did you see that led you to found this with the major developing countries of China, India, Brazil and CEPP appeals to me because of the clear opportunity, for the key developing country policy makers with their counterparts organization? Are there milestones you are par- Mexico in 2002–10 on cost-effective win-win approaches to car- Goldman School and the University as a whole, to play an impor- from the EU, the US, California, and the private and NGO sec- ticularly proud of from your tenure there? bon emissions reduction. Notable CCAP successes included: tant role in this next critical implementation phase for climate and tors. Such dialogues can point the way to policy innovations and I founded CCAP with a bipartisan group of 7 state Governors ■■ Brokering the first project in the world that used private sector energy policy. It is a time to continue to attract and bring together provide vital peer review. California is a global leader in both led by Wisconsin Governor Tony Earl, early in President Reagan’s investment to reduce coal-fired air pollution and greenhouse at Berkeley the proverbial “best and the brightest” to work on the climate policy and in design of the new electric utility regulatory second term. This was a time when environmental policy was gases at a Czech Republic heating plant in return for carbon key research, policy, and financial steps and programs that will help paradigm. CEPP can mobilize faculty and stakeholders in dia- under attack and air pollution and acid rain were major chal- credits (a key model for the successful Clean Development the world generate the $90 trillion in public and private investment logue to help California sort out the challenges of meeting both lenges, largely ignored by the Administration. I sensed that Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol), in low carbon infrastructure that the UN estimates we need over environmental justice and climate policy priorities in its imple- Washington needed new bipartisan approaches with sound eco- ■■ Facilitating successful developed and developing country the next 15 years to insure that global temperatures do not increase mentation of the new 40 percent greenhouse gas reduction tar- nomic and market principles as our best hope for breaking the negotiations to design the CDM, as well as leading a US- more than the 1.5 degree C threshold experts suggest we must not get, as one example. national deadlock on environmental and energy policy. Europe dialogue on emissions trading that led to Europe’s exceed to protect our planet. Climate is an issue that cuts across all My training at GSPP had taught me the importance of under- decision to create the first GHG emissions trading system, disciplines and all economic sectors. Tackling it requires careful What’s it like to be back at GSPP? standing the underlying economics of policy issues and the need ■■ Leading the principal advisory team that developed the origi- integration, synthesis and collaboration, and the University of Coming back to the Goldman School gives me a chance to “give to build coalitions based on those interests and on cost-effective nal design for the EU’s CO2 emissions trading system (ETS) California is an ideal place to connect faculty, staff, students, back” to an institution that had a profound impact on my career. regulations as opposed to the conventional higher cost “com- and continued to provide advice to the EUETS implementa- alumni, trustees, boards of advisors, donors, and administrators. It gives me the chance to share what I have learned with today’s mand and control” approaches to environmental regulation. tion, and For CEPP specifically, my early thinking centers on the poten- students who I find to be incredibly committed to these issues Immediately prior to founding CCAP, I was the Director of ■■ Assisting key states in the US to develop the first climate change tial to build on GSPP’s strong executive programs to provide and to have much broader experience than I and my classmates the Natural Resources Division of the National Governors Asso- regulatory programs from 2001–2008, laying the groundwork direct and continuing training to key developing country poli- did when we entered GSPP. The climate issue is a true genera- ciation, where I had been able to build an emerging policy con- for the Obama Administration’s domestic climate initiatives cymakers in the areas of climate mitigation and transformative tional issue, and it’s time now to help develop the next set of sensus for national legislation to amend the Clean Air Act in a in recent years. energy policy in particular. Developing countries hold the key leaders for the challenges ahead. cost-effective market-based way. However, opposition from One of the benefits of directing a nongovernmental organiza- to whether we can attain our Paris goals — if just six developing Being back at the University is a fascinating experience. Learn- governors from the high sulfur coal producing states of the Mid- tion is the fact that you can build on your successes, extend your countries (China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Vietnam and the ing new things in the climate field, even after 25 years of doing west limited our ability to push aggressively for national legisla- reach in new directions, and change strategy and focus to deal Philippines) build all the coal-fired power plants envisioned for climate policy is refreshing. And being exposed to the enthusi- tion through the NGA, so the bipartisan group of governors with changed political realities, (provided of course that your their nations, the game will be over. asm of students and their zest for learning and for the policy agreed to launch CCAP as a think tank to champion the first donors follow you). After the infamous 2009 UNFCCC Confer- I would see inviting teams of senior policymakers from challenges ahead is empowering. I haven’t lost the sense of won- national emissions cap and trade program to reduce acid rain. ence of Parties meeting in Copenhagen failed to agree on a top- selected developing countries to come to Berkeley for periodic der that Berkeley inspired in me when I was a student. G We built a powerful congressional coalition in 1987–88, and down climate treaty, I redirected CCAP’s efforts to focus instead when one of our governors became new President George H.W. on pioneering a new bottom-up approach to developing country Bush’s chief of staff, our ideas formed the basis for the Bush emission reduction policies, one that emphasized strategies that Administration’s legislative proposal. This launched CCAP as a produce both climate and sustainable development, health and major player in national and increasingly international environ- quality of life benefits. With financial support from Germany and Silver Society Continued from page 23 mental and energy debates. Denmark, we built successful on-the-ground programs in One of the keys to CCAP’s success over the years was our reli- Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Peru that formed the model faculty thinking about these issues, it makes sense for the School launched by two of our alumnae. Making a substantial financial ance on policy dialogues that combined a search for consensus, building blocks for developing country commitments that were to support them. We are making a statement about the impor- commitment to GSPP is my biggest investment in the future. careful listening to stakeholders, and use of objective analytic made in the Paris Climate Agreement. tance of training a new generation of leaders in this field.” What’s more, it’s a pleasure to do so.” G modeling and other tools to inform those dialogue discussions. As we had done in the Czech Republic years before, we proved Of his decision to join GSPP’s Silver Society, Professor Kirp Again, my training at GSPP was critical to my understanding that real-world programs on the ground could provide multiple explains, “The Goldman School is the place where some of the what objective economic analysis was and how to make it digest- benefits and win broad political support. Those win-win pro- best policy-relevant research is being done, and connections with Editor’s Note: More than 20 MPP students have benefited from ible to governors, senators, UN negotiators, developing country grams combined policy change with innovative financing mech- policymakers are made. It’s where the best and brightest — and Professor Kirp’s generosity alone. GSPP faculty, alumni, students, ministers, policy advisors, and other non-technical participants. anisms that catalyzed private sector finance. Those examples the nicest — students are being prepared as the leaders of the staff, and friends of the School have continued in the same That unique dialogue approach helped me in my work in the US helped us to craft critical consensus in last December’s Paris Cli- future. Virtue rewarded — the School competes on more than vein by giving to the New Community Fund or any of GSPP’s and has been a cornerstone of my work with both developed and mate Agreement on providing finance to developing countries even footing with Harvard, the richest university in the world. I Fellowship Funds to invest in our nation’s next generation of developing countries, with UN negotiators, and with diverse to assist with the implementation of their national commitments am a supporter of several Bay Area nonprofits that do great work public policy leaders. stakeholders in a variety of nations. under the Paris Agreement. with children and youth, including First Place for Youth, that was

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Semester Fellows In collaboration with the Center for relationship of public affairs, leadership In May, Global & Executive Programs’ Studies in Higher Education, GEP con- and followership, and the common good. (GEP) graduated five Spring 2016 Execu- ducted a faculty leadership and develop- The six overarching sub-themes of the tive Public Policy for Internationals ment program for distinguished profes- program — one for each week — included (EPPI) and Independent Leaders Scholar sors of material sciences, engineering and gender, politics and diversity, climate Program (ILSP) fellows. They represented political theory from Xi’an Jiaotong Uni- change and environmental preservation, the Government of India and Universiti versity, China. This program was designed public private partnerships, inequality, Brunei Darussalam. In August 2016 we to expose the professors to learning peda- and public service and strategic leader- Fall Semester Fellows from the Hong Kong Civil Service and New Executive Education program participants from the May 2016 “Disrup- hosted 14 new fellows for the fall semes- gogies, to further understand the structure ship. Overall, the program provides Zealand Tuaropaki Trust tive Technologies: Value of the Public Good” program, from India’s ter: three mid career civil service officers of university systems, and find new ways opportunities for the fellows to develop Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. from the Government of India, an excep- to inspire their students. the leadership and courage necessary to tional student from New Zealand who be change agents. comes to us through our partnership with Mandela Washington Fellowship Tuaropaki Trust, and 10 fellows from the Young African Leaders Initiative The Hague Domestic Hong Kong Civil Service. These fellow- (YALI) 2016 Violence Project ships are extremely competitive and pro- For the third consecutive summer, GEP The Hague Domestic Violence Project has vide opportunities for the selected fellows hosted a six-week Civic Leadership Insti- developed another new Bench Guide for to study current and progressive solutions tute for 25 emerging leaders from sub- New Jersey courts: the fourth produced by to policy making, and share and build Saharan Africa as part of the Mandela the Hague DV Project. The guide was cre- upon this knowledge back home. We are Washington Fellowship. The Mandela ated to assist both state and federal court thrilled to have them here this semester! Washington Fellowship, the flagship pro- judges in New Jersey who are confronted gram of President Obama’s Young Afri- with a petition for the return of a child Executive Education program participants from the September 2016 “Ethics & Governance” executive education program participants from Executive Education Programs can Leaders Initiative (YALI), empowers pursuant to the Hague Convention in “Disruptive Technologies: Value of the Public Good” program, from the Department of Personnel & Training, at a site visit to the Oakland Throughout this summer and early fall, young African leaders through academic cases that involve domestic violence. India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Police Department. GEP hosted a total of 115 senior Govern- coursework, leadership training, men- Assistant Dean Sudha Shetty spoke at ment of India officers, as well as 20 senior toring, networking, professional oppor- the International Family Law Conference faculty members from China’s Xi’an Jiao- tunities, and support for activities in 2016 held at the Singapore Academy of tong University, for our custom trainings. their communities. Law in Singapore. The conference,The This included Ethics & Governance and The goal of the program is for these Future of Family Justice — International Negotiations for Public Leaders, programs young leaders to gain skills, insights, and and Multi-Disciplinary Pathways, brought tailored to ministerial-level administrative resources for their future initiatives and family judges, chief justices and attorneys officers in the civil service. Global pro- organizations in their home country. from New Zealand, Australia, England, grams also hosted a delegation from the Upon graduation from the fellowship, Hague, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan, Comptroller & Auditor General of India they should have knowledge, skills, wis- Denmark, India and US to discuss inter- for the Making Leadership Count pro- dom, and motivation that enable them to national protocols for issues that impact gram, a training for officers who are about improve their leadership practice in orga- families. Topics ranged from adoption, to be, or recently were, promoted to nizations, networks, and communities. protection orders, custody rights, child YALI Fellows at UC Davis Solar Farm “Negotiations for Public Leaders” executive education program par- ticipants from the Department of Personnel & Training, at a site visit Accounts General in charge of auditing an They will be deeply attuned to the inter- abuse, to international child abduction. G to the Port of Oakland. entire state in India. Our Executive Education Program con- tinues its strong relationship with the Gov- ernment of India. This included the devel- FALL 2016 opment of a new program designed for mid-career civil officers from the Ministry Policy Notes is published twice a year by UC Berkeley’s Goldman of Information & Broadcasting, focused on School of Public Policy. Send questions or comments to Bora Reed, enhancing participants’ understanding of (510) 642-7591, [email protected] the far reaching impact of media, movies and print communications and the trans- Assist. Dean for External Relations and Development: Annette Doornbos formational use of social media. This new Editor: Bora Reed Editorial Assistant: Jessica Ying Fu program was so well received that the Min- Photos: Emerson Kim istry sent a second delegation for a repeat Design and Layout: Matt Vanderzalm, Design Site “Making Leadership Count” executive education program participants “Faculty Leadership & Development Program” executive education program in early fall. from the Comptroller Auditor General of India. program participants from the Xi’an Jiaotong University of China.

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