November 2013 News & Updates

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In This Issue "Orange is the New Black" Author to Speak at End of Five Policy Residency Concludes College Social Justice Policy Residency Program with "Orange is the New The Five College Social Justice Practitionerin Black" Talk Residence program is concluding this week with a powerhouse schedule, including a conversation Merck Grant Supports between resident Tina Reynolds and Piper Kerman, Wellspring Growth author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. Reynolds is the cofounder and CPPA Turns 15 executive director of Women on the Rise Telling Touring Springfield to Examine HerStory (WORTH), a nonprofit organization in New New Tech Possibilities York City that works with currently and formerly incarcerated women to Professional Development confront barriers they and their families face during Seminar Goes to Boston and after prison. Kerman, a Smith College alumna, Badgett Remarks Highlight spent most of 2004 in the Women's Federal Prison LGBT Landmarks Camp in Danbury, Conn., completing time for a drug related money laundering charge. She is now a public Fountain Publications Focus relations consultant, working with publicinterest on Improving Government organizations and nonprofits. Kerman and Reynolds Schweik Featured in UMass will discuss women's rights in America's prison Article industrial complex and the new Netflix television series based on Kerman's memoir. Alumni Updates Merck Grant to Support Next Phase of Wellspring's Growth The Wellspring Collaborative is growing. The Events Springfield economic development project codirected by CPPA lecturer Fred Rose has received a $45,000 Wednesday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m. grant from the John Merck Fund to support market Roundtable Discussion: research and planning for a cooperatively owned Reproductive Justice and greenhouse business. This will be the collaborative's second business the Prison Industrial venture; the first, an upholstery shop, will launch within the next several Complex weeks. Based on Cleveland's successful Evergreen Cooperatives, Five College policy resident Wellspring aims to establish cooperatively owned businesses in Springfield, Tina Reynolds participates in a strengthening the region's economy by providing city residents with jobs and conversation with locally and by selling goods and services to local anchor institutions such as hospitals nationally based activists and and universities. advocates who work at the intersection of reproductive CPPA Community Celebrates 15 Years and Looks Ahead justice and the criminal justice More than 100 people gathered last week system. to celebrate the Center for Public Policy Franklin Patterson Hall, and Administration's 15th anniversary. faculty lounge, Hampshire State Rep. Ellen Story joined current and College former faculty and staff, as well as friends,

students and alumni including two Thursday, Nov. 21, 4 p.m. graduates from CPPA's original class in "Orange is the New Black": marking CPPA's accomplishments to date The Age of Mass and looking forward to many more years of Criminalization of Women innovative teaching, research and service. Five College policy resident Visit our Facebook page for more photos. Tina Reynolds and Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Students Women's Prison, discuss women's rights in America's prison industrial complex and Research Methods Class Tours Springfield with Eye on the new Netflix series based on Kerman's memoir. Technology for the Common Good Commonwealth Honors https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1115715305434&format=html&print=true 1/3 11/20/13 "Orange is the New Black" Author to Speak + More News and Events College Events Hall, UMass Students in the Participatory Visual and Amherst Digital Research Methods class took a walking tour of Springfield last weekend to Monday, Dec. 2, noon examine how new technologies could WOAA! (Women Organizing improve public spaces and services in the Across Ages): Hear Our city in the near future. Rep. Richard Neal Stories for Justice joined the tour, which stopped at the Lyman Associate Professor Aline and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield Gubrium (public health) talks History; the Springfield Data Center; the Roger about her recent research in L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy; Indian Orchard Mills; and the the final CPPA Faculty Geek Group of Western Massachusetts. The class, taught by Associate Colloquium lecture of the Professor Krista Harper (anthropology and public policy) and lecturer semester. Gretchen Gano, is part of a national project called Futurescape City Tours, Thompson 620 which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Professional Development Seminar Travels to Boston Quick Links Earlier this month students met with representatives from organizations and government agencies during a CPPA Website daylong professional development trip to Boston and Job Bulletin Cambridge. Under the guidance of Associate Director Satu Zoller, the group visited CPPA alumni Michele Event Calendar DesAutels (MPPA/MBA '08) and Kevin Greer Alumni Update Form (MPPA/MBA '09) at the U.S. Coast Guard and New Profit, Inc. The class also had appointments at JumpStart; Gov. Deval Patrick's office; the Massachusetts Department of Environmental

Protection; and Mathematica Policy Research.

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Badgett Remarks Highlight Two LGBT Landmarks Comments from Professor M.V. Lee Badgett (economics) have made national news recently, as two public policies related to gay rights have marked significant milestones. Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate passed the Employment NonDiscrimination Act, which would make it illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on sexual orientation. Badgett testified in favor of the bill last year and was interviewed by Inc. after the Senate passed it. In addition, Badgett was quoted widely in articles marking the 10th anniversary of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's ruling to allow samesex marriage in the state.

Fountain Publishes Report on CrossAgency Collaboration and Article on Rollout of HealthCare.gov Professor Jane Fountain (political science and public policy) released a report last month titled "Examining Constraints To, and Providing Tools For, Cross Agency Collaboration," through the Administrative Conference of the United States, a publicprivate partnership whose goal is to make government work more efficiently. In addition, Fountain published an article for the London School of Economics analyzing the rollout of the federal health care exchange, HealthCare.gov.

Schweik's Unique Research Combination the Focus of New Feature Article Associate Professor Charles Schweik (environmental conservation and public policy) is featured in a new article on the UMass Research Next website. The piece highlights Schweik's trajectory from computer programmer to tenured professor and examines how he is using his research and field work to try to tackle some of the world's wicked problems.

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Thank you to all the CPPA alumni who stopped by during the networking event and happy hour at the end of the professional development trip to Boston earlier this month!

Christa Drew (MPPA '11) was featured recently in an article on GoLocalWorcester.com. Drew is the executive director of the Worcester based Center for Nonviolent Solutions and program manager of the Massachusetts Food Policy Alliance.

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