Alums Create Stubbing Fellowship Tries and Promotes Cross-Cultural Under- Standing by Telling the Artisans’ Stories

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2/Goss joins faculty PUBLIC POLICY 3/Stubbing Fellowship 8/Hart Fellow in Africa 10/Krupp to direct PIDP 12/Faculty news 14/Alumni news Focus national affairs and his advocacy for America’s Doctoral program Powell to speak youth provide an inspiring example to our students.” to launch in 2007 at Rubenstein Hall Powell is scheduled to speak at 4 p.m. in nearby Wilson Gym. The Institute will launch a new PhD pro- dedication event Powell served as U.S. Secretary of State gram in the fall of 2007, helping solidify from 2001 to 2004, during the ﬁrst Bush Admin- the Department of Public Policy Studies Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA istration. As a general in the United States and the Institute as among the best pro- (Ret.), former U.S. Secretary Army, Powell served as National Security Ad- grams in the country. of State, will deliver the key- visor (1987-89) and as chairman of the Joint “In most programs, master’s degrees note address during dedica- Chiefs of Staff (1989-93). Powell also served as still account for most of the students, tion events for Rubenstein founding chairman of Amer- but PhD students are an important com- Hall on Nov. 4. ica’s Promise–The Alliance ponent,” then-Director Bruce Jentleson “We are looking forward to for Youth, an organization told the Duke Academic Council in welcoming General Powell— dedicated to strengthening February. Duke is the only highly ranked one of our nation’s most re- the character and compe- public policy program in the country spected statesmen—as we mark this impor- tence of America’s youth. His without a PhD track. (Please see page 5) tant milestone in the growth and development numerous awards include two of the Institute,” said Director Bruce Kuni- Presidential Medals of Free- holm. “His extraordinary leadership in inter- dom and the (Please see page 3) Graduation Rubenstein

The Sanford Institute welcomed family and friends in May to its 2005 graduation exercises,which honored 153 under- MPPs put theory into action graduates, 44 master of public policy students and 30 master of arts in inter- with state petting zoo policy national development policy students. See pictures, award winners, page 4. hen the North Caro- year’s E. coli outbreak, in which became a front-burner issue for lina State Fair opens more than 100 people who N.C. regulatory agencies. W on Oct. 14, a group attended a petting zoo at the For their spring consulting of MPP students won’t be fair got sick. Children became project, the MPP students— focusing on the Tilt-a-Whirl, ill after coming in contact Dustyn Baker, Emily Hilde- fried dough and World’s Small- with animal feces containing brand, Tugba Gurcanlar, Matt est Horse. Instead, they’ll head the bacteria. Perault and Kuangzhen Wu— for the children’s petting zoo. The law, passed in July, is contracted with the State Di- They expect the petting named for a Carrboro 2-year- vision of Public Health to devel- zoo to look much different old who spent 36 days in the op recommendations on regu- this year, with new hand- hospital and suffered perma- lating petting zoos. Consult- washing stations, improved nent damage to her kidneys ing projects are a core ele- traffic control and strongly and pancreas. She developed di- ment of the MPP curriculum. worded health-warning signs. abetes as a result of her illness The petting zoo team in- The changes result from and now wears an insulin pump. terviewed affected families and “Aedin’s Law,” aimed at pre- The outbreak attracted wide- personal injury lawyers, re- venting a recurrence of last spread media attention, and searched reg- (Please see page 5) InstituteUpdates

Lecture series brings in philanthropy MPP alum joins experts on accountability, strategy PPS faculty Kristin A.Goss, a Duke MPP alumna (’96), series of dis- The following speakers plan to make pre- joins the faculty this fall as assistant pro- tinguished sentations this fall: Alan Grossman, professor, fessor of PPS and political science. Goss A speakers will Harvard Business School; Craig Kennedy, will teach Political Analysis for Public visit the Institute this president, German Marshall Fund of the Uni- Policy (PPS 114) and work with Professor fall as guests of the ted States; Carol Larson, president, Packard Joel Fleishman in his Philanthropic Foundation Impact Foundation; Rob Reich, professor, Stanford Foundation Research Program. Her Research Group fac- University; Stan Katz, professor, Princeton research interests include political partic- ulty seminar series, University; Lance Lindblom, president, Nathan ipation, interest groups and voluntary led by Joel L. Fleish- Cummings Foundation; Drew Altman, presi- associations, agenda setting,gun control man, professor of dent, Kaiser Family Foundation; Heribert politics and women’s organizations. PPS and law. Now Meffert, Bertelsmann Foundation; and Colin Goss is the author of the forthcoming in its fifth semester, the series explores the Campbell, president, Colonial Williamsburg. book Disarmed: The Missing Measurement relationships between strategic choice-mak- Faculty and students with an interest in for Gun Control in America, which explores ing and impact measurement in foundations foundations and nonprofits are welcome to the difficulties in mobilizing citizens for and not-for-profit organizations. attend the seminars in the Institute’s Rhodes gun control. To be published in early The seminars are one component of the Conference Room, usually from 4:30 to 6:30 Philanthropic Foundation Research Program p.m. (For dates and details, please check the 2006 by Princeton launched in 2004 with support from the Institute’s Web site.) University Press, the Packard, Ford and Hewlett foundations. The program is also establishing a teach- book is based on her Fleishman also is working on a book and de- ing case-writing program, which will produce doctoral study, veloping a course in strategic decision-mak- case studies on foundation initiatives that which won the ing within foundations. In addition, Assistant have achieved significant impact through the American Political Professor Kristin Goss, who joins the faculty successful leveraging of philanthropic re- Science Association’s this fall, was recruited to contribute to the sources. The first case studies will be written 2003 Harold D. foundation research and teaching program. by Matthew Nash, associate director of the Lasswell award for the nation’s best dis- The program’s mission is to develop a Center for the Advancement of Social Entre- sertation in policy studies. Goss earned clearer understanding of foundation deci- preneurship (CASE) at the Fuqua School of her PhD in political science at Harvard sion-making, suggest ways to increase foun- Business, and John Kalafatas, who joined the University. dation impact, and ways to stimulate greater CASE team this summer. Goss is a former senior editor of The foundation accountability to the public. Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she worked from 1988 to 1994. From 2002 to 2003,she served as a consultant to the Corporation for National and Community MPP program welcomes Peace Corps alums Service, which administers AmeriCorps and other federal volunteer programs. The MPP program welcomes 57 new stu- The MPP class of 2007 represents more Currently, she is working on a book dents this fall, including the first group than 20 states and six foreign countries. The about the changing agendas of women’s of Peace Corps Fellows. The Peace Corps incoming students bring skill sets honed by voluntary associations over the past 200 Fellows/USA program partners the Peace working in government offices, nonprofit years and how those changes have Corps and top universities to offer returned organizations and private corporations around affected the politics of important policy Peace Corps volunteers the opportunity to the world. Three of the students won J.B. issues. earn a graduate degree. Duke scholarships. Five of the incoming stu- Goss spent three years at Georgetown Peace Corps Fellows at Duke will work dents worked as elementary and secondary University, where she taught courses on towards an MPP or PIDP degree while com- schoolteachers. On average, the MPP stu- the U.S. political system, political partici- pleting a yearlong community service proj- dents have four years of post-undergraduate pation, the media’s role in politics and ect. The first class of Peace Corps Fellows experience. the politics of the policymaking process. includes students who served in Benin, “I am quite confident that this class is as Goss grew up near Denver, where she Honduras, Madagascar, Ivory Coast and strong or stronger than any other program in developed a passion for figure skating Guatemala, working on projects ranging from the country,” said Director of Graduate and animal welfare. Her earliest political health education and school construction to Studies Fritz Mayer. memory is of Watergate, which her par- teaching English as a foreign language. ents defined as “a hotel in Washington.”

2 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus UPDATES ELI Fellows work

CHUCK PRINGLE with nonproﬁts

Under a new fellowship program launched by Professor of the Practice Tony Brown, two recent Duke graduates will spend the next year working with nonprofits that support and initiate economic development in poor countries. The fellowships are an extension of Brown’s Enterprising Leadership Incubator course. Lisa Stratton, a Robertson Scholar with a degree in international studies, is working with Ten Thousand Villages on MPP alumni Dionne Brown (’94) and Andrea Howard (‘03), at right, talk to prospective students its new e-commerce about the Sanford Institute during the July 8 graduate school fair in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Web site at its head- the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA). MPP Director of Admissions Chuck quarters in Akron, Penn. Ten Thousand Vil- Pringle attended the event. lages, a nonprofit program of the Mennonite Central Committee, markets handcrafts made by artisans living in developing coun- Alums create Stubbing Fellowship tries and promotes cross-cultural understanding by telling the artisans’ stories. aster’s students studying U.S. public lic budgeting to life, with stories and anec- Stratton also will focus on creating inno- policy have a new source of tuition dotes drawn from his 20 years of experience in vative ways to present those stories in order Massistance thanks to the efforts of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. to boost sales,and will research new infor- two Duke MPP alumni. Matt Cullinan (’90) In addition, he was “a wonderful mentor to so mation about artisans and products. and Anna Reilly (’90) donated $100,000 in many students,” offering practical advice on “I wanted to get more business experi- June to create the Richard A. Stubbing job hunting and careers, she said. ence and felt like Villages was the perfect Memorial Fellowship Fund in honor of their It is their hope that this gift will inspire opportunity for me to do this, while work- late teacher. others to support the work of the Institute, in ing in a nonprofit setting,”Stratton said. “Dick was a major part of our experience particular the MPP program. “When I came up to visit last April I was at the Sanford Institute,” Matt said, “and for “This remarkably generous gift from two impressed by all of the people I met— the past 16 years he has been a mentor, a of our most valued alums will support worthy everyone was passionate about their work,” good friend—an important person in my graduate students who share the late profes- Stratton said. life. We saw this as an opportunity to honor sor Dick Stubbing’s deep commitment to Anthony Vitarelli, him, and also to respond to a need at the improving U.S. policymaking,” said Fritz a 2005 PPS/econom- Institute.” Mayer, associate professor and director of ics graduate, will work Stubbing, a national security expert and graduate studies. professor of the practice emeritus, died Nov. Matt and Anna currently live in South in Chile with Accion 11, 2004, from cancer. He was 74. Bend, Indiana, with their three children, Emprendedora (AE), Anna remembered Stubbing as the profes- Grace, Walker and Julia. an organization that sor who was able to bring the subject of pub- provides loans and other assistance to low-income entrepreneurs. Powell to speak (continued from page 1) Vitarelli plans to spend two months in Chile learning about the microfinance field Congressional Gold Medal. In addition to Powell’s talk, dedication and assisting AE with start-ups and interna- Rubenstein Hall, opening in August, is events include a series of morning and after- tional conferences. He’ll spend the remain- named for its principal benefactor, David M. noon symposia on the theme: “International der of the academic year in Washington, Rubenstein, a founding partner and manag- Challenges to Public Policy.” Symposia topics D.C.,setting up AE’s first U.S.office. ing director of The Carlyle Group. Ruben- will include global public health, civil society The office will write grant proposals, stein, a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of and children and violence. Panels will be made conduct lobbying efforts, and coordinate Duke, was deputy domestic policy assistant up of Duke scholars and graduate students, as with American nonprofits that share AE’s to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to well as leading academics from other institu- goals. Vitarelli aims to create a sustainable 1981. He joined the Duke Board of Trustees tions. Event details will be posted to the American internship program with AE. July 1. Institute’s Web site as they become available.

Summer 2005 3 UPDATES Graduation The Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy graduated 155 PPS students and 74 master’s students during its 31st annual ceremonies on May 14. Bruce Jentleson, leading his final graduation exercises as Institute director, urged students to “be ambitious for yourself and for society,” and “join self and service in a way that defines the most fulfilling vocations.” PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARENPHOTOGRAPHS BY TAM

Professors Bob Korstad, left, and Bruce Jentleson leave Wilson Gym after the graduate student ceremony. MPP students selected classmate Paul Stahle as their 2005 student speaker.

Katie Wilson-Milne earned the Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar award in recognition of her exemplary academic achievement. Wilson-Milne de- clined a Fulbright to accept a 2005-06 Hart Fellow- ship in Durban, South Africa. Anthony Vitarelli won the 2005 Terry Sanford Leadership Award. He Danielle Sass, left, and Anca Grozav were co- served as Campus Council president and is now the winners of the MPP 2005 Outstanding Student Young Trustee on the Duke Board of Trustees. Award. Sarah Hernandez spoke on behalf of PPS under- graduates.

Professor of the Practice Art Spengler walks away with the ﬁrst Richard Stubbing Graduate Teaching Rajiv Jalota, left, the PIDP student speaker for and Mentoring Award. Students chose Spengler for 2005, shakes hands with Professor of the Practice the award named in tribute to the late PPS professor. Elizabeth Ku (MPP ’05) adjusts her cap. Francis Lethem. 4 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus PhD program (continued from page 1) Sanford News Briefs

The PhD program will help public policy make better use of its Educators discuss segregation • Institute faculty mem- already strong interdisciplinary ties, Jentleson said. bers spoke at a May 23 conference on resegregation in North “We have eight different kinds of PhDs on our faculty right now. Carolina schools targeted at education administrators from Historically we have a lot of matches with departments and schools across the state, representatives of the N.C.General Assembly around the university. We’ve built those connections into the program. and state Board of Education,and education advocates. So in important ways, this proposal speaks to the larger theme of what Professor Charles Clotfelter described the trends in seg- the university is trying to do in interdisciplinary studies,” he said. regation among students and faculty, drawing on research Public Policy PhD candidates will take common core public policy completed for his book on the topic, courses and choose a social science field as a disciplinary focus, allow- After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of ing candidates to concentrate on substantial policy areas including School Desegregation. Professor William social policy, child and family policy, globalization and development “Sandy”Darity discussed how tracking or health policy. and ability grouping can create in- Upon successful completion, candidates will be awarded a PhD in school segregation by race and socio- public policy and the social sciences, with a concentration in their cho- economic class. sen social science. The conference at the Kenan Center The proposal received support throughout the social sciences and in Chapel Hill was organized in conjunction with the UNC the Nicholas School and won approval from the Academic Programs Center for Civil Rights and supported by the Ford, Knight, Committee, which reviews requests for new programs. For more infor- and Z. Smith Reynolds foundations. mation about the program, e-mail [email protected]. Griffith service winners • Ten of Duke’s 52 William Griffith Service Award winners this year had been students in Petting zoo policy (continued from page 1) Professor of the Practice Tony Brown’s Enterprising Leadership Incubator and Leadership,Development and ulations in other states, visited zoos, conducted cost/benefit analyses and Organizations classes. A total of 12 winners are Sanford developed criteria for evaluating options. Their final report went to state Institute graduates. Health Director Leah Devlin. Students receive the award for contributions to the uni- Among their recommendations: require hand-washing facilities, daily versity and the larger community that made a significant cleaning of animal pens and barriers between patrons and animals – a impact on university life. The Sanford winners are:Guiseppe significant change from the open interaction areas allowed last year. Auanno, Nicholas Alexander, Brandy Canady, Andrew “Parents were bringing in infants, taking them out of their strollers and letting them literally crawl in the feces,” said Jeffrey Engel, the state Cummings, Elizabeth Dixon, Julia Hamilton, Natalie epidemiologist to whom the students reported. Hardwick, Aneil Lala, Ashley Rudisill, Crystal Sanders, Because of concurrent efforts in the state Health Department, and Christopher Scoville and Anthony Vitarelli. the existence of federal Centers for Disease Control guidelines, the MPP Student awards • Hersh Sandesara, a chemistry/PPS students can’t say their recommendations led directly to the new law. double major, won a 2005 Truman Scholarship, which recog- However, Engel said, they did evaluate political and budgetary obstacles nizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential to implementing new rules and “develop a framework for what would be who are committed to careers in government, the non-profit the most effective approach to make the guidelines enforceable in North or advocacy sectors,education or elsewhere in public serv- Carolina.” Their work also added important momentum to the push for change, said Brant Goode, a CDC epidemiologist working with the N.C. ice. The scholars receive financial aid for graduate student in Division of Public Health. their field of choice. “Mentioning that there was a group of public policy experts at Duke Annick Charlot, a junior PPS major from West Palm looking at this issue gave our discussions with Agriculture and others Beach, Fla., was among students who received fellowships more credibility,” Goode said. from Students of Color Entering the Teaching Profession, a “That you crafted a comprehensive set of policy and implementation program sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). options, developed and applied criteria to evaluate them, and selected a Teaching fellows receive up to $22,100 over a five-year peri- final set of recommendations that so closely match the legislative and od that begins after their third year of college and ends when Agriculture work speaks extremely well for your efforts,” Goode wrote in they have completed three years of public school teaching. a follow-up note to the students. • Perault said their recommendations sought to balance an individual’s Stubbing remembered On April 16, nearly 50 atten- right to make choices about personal risk with government’s responsibili- dees gathered for lunch in Washington, D.C., to remember ty to protect people. Along the way, the students saw how human nature the contributions of Professor Richard Stubbing to the lives intersects with policy theory. They absorbed the truth of the phrase, of friends, colleagues and students. Co-workers from the “There are no easy answers.” Office of Management and Budget, friends and neighbors “It was shocking seeing how these kids’ lives had been fundamentally from the D.C.area, and MPP alumni John Giambalvo, Laura altered by the experience,” Perault said. Nevertheless, the families didn’t Haltzel, Melinda Haskins, Brad Keller, John McManus, advocate shutting down petting zoos. John Richardson and Ellen Weiss joined Dick’s wife, Pat, “You’d think they’d lead the charge, but they wouldn’t,” Perault said. his daughter, Laura, his son, Matthew, and three of Dick’s Parents acknowledged that even if warning signs about health risks are siblings to celebrate his life and share reminiscences. more alarming than before, they still might not read them. “They see it Former OMB colleague Dave Sitrin organized the event. as a difficult problem—everyone wants kids to have fun.” Summer 2005 5 Health & Social Policy

Health Inequalities Program fellows HIP studies gather to plan policy initiatives effects of info

wenty-two domestic and international qualities issues. HIP is directed by Kathryn technology collaborators in HIV- and health dis- Whetten, associate professor of PPS, commu- T parities-related research gathered at nity and family medicine, and nursing. on medical care Duke April 12 for the inaugural meeting of HIP, part of the Center for Health Policy, the Health Inequalities Program (HIP) Senior Law and Management, launched the senior taff from the Health Inequalities Research Fellows. research fellows program in 2003 to develop Program (HIP) of the Center for Fellows and HIP staff discussed establish- interdisciplinary research collaborations fo- S Health Policy, Law and Manage- ing a working group to channel research find- cused on health inequalities. Thirty-nine fel- ment attended a grantee meeting in ings to state, national and international poli- lows in nine countries are working in the fields Baltimore, Md., in April hosted by the cymakers; developing a health inequalities of public health, economics, medicine, statis- Health Resources and Services Adminis- Web portal to disseminate information to tics, psychology, sociology, divinity/religion, tration (HRSA). HIP is one of six national each other and the general public; and con- social work, nursing, health education and sites conducting research and demonstra- vening a forum on emerging health ine- information technology/computer sciences. tion projects under Title V of the Ryan White Care Act to evaluate the effects of information technology on medical care Health Policy Briefs Course participants had an opportunity to for persons living with HIV disease. give input to the Bangkok Charter, which The keynote speaker was Duke alum Sept.16 colloquium to honor Sloan • will succeed the landmark Ottawa Charter, Lammot DuPont, program manager for The Center for Health Policy,Law and Man- to organizers of the Sixth Global Confer- the Office of the National Coordinator for agement will host “The Effect of Population ence on Health Promotion.Global Health Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) Aging on Health Care and Public Policy: A Fellows in the Geneva program,along with of the Department of Health and Human Colloquium Honoring selected WHO staff, also participated in site Services. ONCHIT is the federal agency the Scholarship and visits at UNAIDS, UNHCR,the Global Fund leading planning efforts concerning Presi- Service of Frank and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases dent Bush’s vision for widespread adoption Sloan.”Sloan stepped Initiative during the week. of interoperable electronic health records down as center direc- (EHRs) within 10 years. Led by Principal Investigator Kathryn tor in January. First N.C.Family Impact Seminar • Nearly 80 North Whetten and Project Director Frank The half-day sympo- focuses on Medicaid Carolina lawmakers and state agency lead- Lombard, HIP researchers are examining sium at the Millennium ers attended meetings May 24 in Raleigh whether information technology can help Hotel in Durham will focus on the determi- as part of the state’s first Family Impact improve communica- nants of health outcomes among the elder- Seminar. Seminar participants explored tion and care coordi- ly, as well as technological innovation and nation between med- its effect on health and disability. Among “Medicaid Cost Containment Strategies in The semi- ical and ancillary care the presenters are Fredric Wolinsky of the North Carolina and Other States.” nar was convened by the Center for Child providers to improve University of Iowa and Joseph Newhouse and Family Policy and the UNC School of health outcomes for of Harvard University. Additional details at persons living with Government. www.pubpol.duke.edu HIV disease in North The seminar featured Medicaid experts Carolina. • Vernon K. Smith Jr. of Health Management Health policy in a globalizing world HIP will report its results and practical The Institute’s Program on Global Health Associates in Michigan; former Michigan experiences to HRSA and ONCHIT to and Technology Access, led by Dr.Anthony Medicaid Director Brian Burwell of Medstat help inform policy development surround- So, co-sponsored a course on “Health Policy in Massachusetts; and Sybil Richard of the ing the president’s initiative. The five in a Globalizing World” with the World Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. other participating sites are the Los Health Organization June 13-17 in Geneva. A detailed briefing report is available by Angeles County Department of Health, This first-time offering featured prominent e-mailing Jenni Owen at [email protected]. Columbia University, Johns Hopkins Uni- figures in global public health, from Dr. Jim The report describes North Carolina’s versity, Cornell University and Louisiana Kim, who leads the WHO’s 3x5 initiative on Medicaid program, addresses how states State University. HIV/AIDS, to David Heymann, widely cred- are trying to control rising Medicaid costs, ited for his work in containing the SARS and examines state experiences with epidemic. Medicaid managed long-term care and prescription drug spending.

6 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus HEALTH & SOCIAL POLICY Center leads This photograph by Professor of the symposium on Practice Alex Harris, taken in a New York City classroom, was one

ALEX HARRIS of a series exhibited in the rotunda violence among of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., July 11-15. young girls “Experience Corps and the New Wave of Civic Engagement,” docu- June 17 Roundtable on Practice and mented a national literacy project Research on Girls At Risk at the Fri- that pairs senior tutors with children A day Center in Chapel Hill brought in urban schools and after-school more than 55 N.C. juvenile justice practi- programs. Harris took the 19 photo- tioners from across North Carolina togeth- graphs—a mixture of color and er with a distinguished panel of experts to black and white images—in 2000 build connections between research, prac- and 2003 among Experience Corps tice and policy. The event was co-spon- mentors in Boston, New York, sored by the Institute’s Center for Child Philadelphia, San Francisco and and Family Policy (CCFP) and the N.C Portland, Ore. Department of Juvenile Justice and Delin- quency Prevention (NCDJJDP). The topic of the roundtable is timely— the last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of girls in the juvenile justice system. Ten years ago girls Social Policy Briefs Conference on girls and depression • accounted for 20 percent of all juvenile More than 150 faculty, researchers, gradu- arrests; now the figure is 29 percent. Policy brief grades teacher bonuses • ate students and practitioners attended the Scholars debate whether this trend reflects A recently released policy brief by profes- two-day conference in May,“Preventing actual increases in violence by girls, or sors Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Depression Among Adolescent Girls: instead reflects changes in adjudication Jacob Vigdor and Center for Child and Building a Multidisciplinary Approach.“ policies and practices. For example, prac- Family Policy research scientist Elizabeth The conference, the fourth in the Duke tices such as zero tolerance in the schools Glennie evaluates North Carolina’s teacher Series in Child Development and Public may be a factor. bonus program. Policy, was co-sponsored by the Center for “Regardless of the reasons for these “North Carolina Math/Science/Special Child and Family Policy and the Depart- increases, current programming for de- Education $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program: ment of Psychology: Social and Health linquent girls is based on theories and An Initial Evaluation” outlines one of North Sciences. models of boys and to Carolina’s attempts at hiring and retaining The conference featured scholars work- date there has been high quality teachers in math, science and ing at the cutting edge of theory, research, little empirical atten- special education, particularly in disadvan- intervention and policy to improve soci- tion given to the taged or low-performing schools. The ety’s ability to prevent girls from becoming study of girls and delinquency,” said Shari paper offers recommendations for future depressed during and after the transition to Miller-Johnson, sen- program design and implementation,as adolescence. The meeting fostered produc- ior research scientist at well as lessons for policymakers consider- tive “translational” interactions between CCFP. Miller-Johnson ing similar incentive programs. basic scientists studying the causes of is also a member of the state’s task force for This brief is part of a series by center depression among adolescent girls and girls in juvenile justice. researchers and affiliates on topics affect- prevention/intervention researchers work- “There is a clear need for additional ing education, youth violence, substance ing with adolescent girls. research to better understand how current abuse prevention and early childhood • Center for Child and Family theories of delinquency are relevant to adversity. Other recently released policy New book girls, as well as ways in which models may briefs include: Policy Research Scientist Lisa J.Berlin need to be sensitive to the needs of girls,” co-edited a book titled, Enhancing Early “Long-term Socioeconomic Impact of she said. Attachments: Theory, Research, Intervention, Child Abuse and Neglect: Implications Miller-Johnson has a five-year career de- and Policy, the second in the Duke Series in velopment award (K01) from the National for Public Policy,” by David S.Zielinski, Child Development and Public Policy. Institute of Mental Health. Her research postdoctoral research scientist. The collection of edited volumes program focuses on the nature, anteced- “Sorting Out Student Retention: 2.4 addresses contemporary issues in child ents, course and mechanisms of antisocial Million Children Left Behind?” by C.Ryan development and public policy. Berlin’s behavior in girls and how girls’ concerns Kinlaw, postdoctoral research scientist. book synthesizes the latest knowledge in about interpersonal relationships impact scientifically based therapeutic programs the expression of antisocial behavior. View all center policy briefs at www.childand for child-parent attachments and offers an familypolicy.duke.edu/briefs.html overview of treatment and prevention approaches currently in use. Summer 2005 7 Issues Searching for dignity in an East African slum Hart Fellow seeks understanding amid uncertainty

BY COURTNEY CROSSON ago and, like so many people, moved in with a In college, I was frequently asked to formu- relative. Will the proposed renewal make a late questions in the form of concise thesis difference in his life? statements, and to reply with airtight answers. Homes and During my first days in Kibera, I approached shops built of New roofs, old problems my new reality with mud and tree Upgrading is seen as an alternative to the that same problem- branches, topped relocation or resettlement of people living in solving zeal. with corrugated informal housing. At first it meant simply a tin. Networks of physical renovation of poor housing, but after Residents ask, dirt paths lined many failures to create long-term change, the ‘Who benefits?’ with trenches project now aims to deal with social, econom- Poor sanitary condi- filled with human ic and infrastructural needs. tions have created waste. Dogs too Kiberans usually share 8-by-8-foot rooms widespread respiratory- exhausted from with an average of five other people. Most live tract infections among hunger to move. on about a dollar a day. Emotionally con- Kiberan residents. They This is Kibera, sumed by my surroundings, I try to remember wait in long lines to pay for costly yet contami- the largest slum why I am here and what the faraway Gothic nated water. They defecate into polyurethane in east Africa. An arches of Duke University mean in the midst bags and then throw them into the street at estimated one of Kibera’s poverty. night because pit latrines are few. The initia- million people I came to Nairobi in July 2004 to work with tives of the UN-Habitat project—neighbor- live in this tiny a local nongovernmental organization and UN- hood clinics, rainwater catchment, community area in the south- Habitat, ready to test my education’s value. toilets, collective agriculture plots, living quar- ern part of I had been accepted into the Hart Fellows ters facing each other in pod formation to pro- Nairobi, Kenya. mote safety—seem like sensible solutions. Around me I hear voices discussing a project, But Kefa has voiced a question to which I sponsored by UN-Habitat, the United Nations do not have an airtight answer. I’ve begun to Human Settlements Program, to renew and realize that the problems here cannot be iso- improve their community. Kefa, a young lated from each other and resolved with pat Kiberan resident asks, “Will this slum-upgrad- solutions. Can improving the physical sur- ing project really give Kiberans the dignity they roundings really ameliorate the underlying seek? UN-Habitat sees itself as a savior, but will poverty? Living with access to clean water can this project really save Kiberans?” lower the incidence of typhoid, but will it bet- He asks an important question. Now 21 ter Kiberans’ lives if they are still without jobs years old and unemployed, Kefa migrated to and have no more than a primary-school edu- the capital city from rural Kenya four years cation? Now, faced with the severe difficulties in Kibera, my previous cer- Program, which places recent Duke graduates tainty seems to be the only in community-based research projects in the green thing in this densely developing world. Despite ample support and populated place. close advising, we had been warned: you’ll be in My Kiberan friends tell me over your head and not always equipped to 80 percent of the residents are make sense of your experiences. That has cer- tenants, and that, in their tainly been the case with me. opinion, the upgrading project will benefit only the “structure” owners. The structure ‘Poor sanitary conditions have owners acquired their blocks of one-story tenements in created widespread respiratory- some cases through political tract infections among Kiberan connections, but more often by simply grabbing the land residents.’ and buildings. They do not PHOTOGRAPHS BY COURTNEY CROSSON/HART FELLOW ’05 have any legal title to the

8 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus JOEL FLEISHMAN,professor of PPS, on giving: ‘Living with access to clean “More than one hundred years ago, long before our planet was widely perceived as a global water can lower the inci- community, Andrew Carnegie, in his Gospel of dence of typhoid, but will Wealth, urged the rich to use their surplus resources, which are what foundations are made it better Kiberans’ lives if of, to create community between the rich and the poor. As the rich parts of the world have they are still without jobs become steadily richer and the poor have re- mained in abject poverty, the divide between and have no more than a the two has become ever more excruciating. Because of the magnitude of want and dis- primary-school education?’ ease, it is clear that governments and intergovernmental agencies will have to play the land, nor do they pay the government any fee. Helping residents be heard major roles in lifting the millions at the bot- tom end out of the poverty that engulfs them. Many Kiberans fear that once the upgrading Kiberan residents must be able to have But philanthropy, especially U.S. philanthropy has gone through, structure owners will charge their voices heard. With that goal in mind, I with its long tradition of setting the pace for higher rents, forcing tenants to the streets. have worked with them to create a Kibera government innovation, and NGOs, both Youth Congress to lobby the government and Distrust hinders progress domestic and global which have long since other development partners for the rights of established themselves as the alarm-sounders What’s more, residents say, the plans are to residents. Who knows how successful it will ‘‘and leading firefighters in the fight against be carried out by the Kenyan government, be? Clearly it is no global poverty, disease, human rights violation whose past policy has often been to bulldoze panacea. But it is and environmental degradation, have an makeshift settlements because it deems them a start. absolutely indispensable role to play in waking illegal. If the government bulldozes their At the end of up the public, alerting the press, galvanizing housing to build new structures that will not my year here, I governmental action and shaping solutions to even benefit them, why should Kiberan resi- will better under- these problems that can in fact solve them. dents support such plans? In fact, a few stand the effec- The challenge is clear and urgent, and we months before I arrived, residents rioted in tiveness, or inef- all have the responsibility to grasp it firmly opposition to the entire project. fectiveness, of and devote our full energies to it, even if we Officials of UN-Habitat have assured me housing-develop- cannot imagine ourselves mastering it. As residents’ homes will be secure. They say resi- ment initiatives Rabbi Tarfon states in Ethics of the Fathers, - dents will be relocated to waiting structures and how they ‘The task is great. ...It is not your responsibili- closer to their jobs, and only then will their intersect with ty to finish it, but you are not free to withhold houses be bulldozed and rebuilt. Officials also public health. I yourself from it.’” say that not just structure owners will benefit will have a more from the project, and that residents will receive nuanced under- Excerpted from a talk given May 5, “How Much financial assistance and job-skills training. standing of my privilege and how to situate is Enough?: Foundation Grantmaking for Inter- Surrounded by debris and doubts, I try to re- myself within it. I will have gained a more national Benefit,” at the Princeton Conference concile this information into a response for Kefa. complex understanding of nongovernmental on Ethics and International Grantmaking. I envision myself as an undergraduate, sitting in organizations and international aid in devel- a classroom scribbling out answers to complete oping countries. an exam. I picture myself at 4 in the morning in I’ll also have a better understanding of the Duke library, poring over a uncertainty. Rather than trying to find the REP.DAVID PRICE, towering stack of books, trying to “right” answers, I am searching for balanced visiting professor of PPS, finish my senior thesis. Such solutions—those that call for compromise, familiar methods of reconciling sensitivity and collaboration. on partisanship: facts seem so artificial here in And so I reply to Kefa: “Maybe the upgrad- “Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs Kenya. Now I must assess the ing is, at this point, largely cosmetic. But the capacity to deal with budget and entitle- Kibera project without the assur- uncertainty and complexity should not mean ment challenges that are likely beyond the ance of a satisfying conclusion. inaction. We must search for solutions, even reach of pure partisan exertion. It is on this The largest hindrance to the when we’re not sure we’ll find them.” question of partisan excess, perhaps more than effort’s success seems to be a any other, that the perspectives of my two lack of communication between Courtney Crosson, a 2004 careers converge: as a Member looking for a fair UN-Habitat and the residents of Duke graduate, recently shake for my ideas and the people I represent, Kibera. A history of corrupt and completed her fellowship in and as a political scientist and citizen con- Kenya. A longer version of exploitative local nongovernment- cerned that real and lasting institutional dam- al organizations has created dis- this commentary appeared ’’ age is being done. We simply must do better.” trust and alienated residents from in the July 22 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. the decision-making process. Excerpted from a May 9 commentary in Roll Call. ‘‘ ’Summer’ 2005 9 Global Policy

Krupp takes the lead at growing PIDP New Faculty at DCID Phyllis R. s Cory Krupp professors often carry heavy teaching loads. Pomerantz joins begins her new Krupp, a visiting associate professor of public the Duke Center A job as director of policy studies with expertise in international for International graduate studies for the trade and finance, will teach two classes this Development fac- Program in Internation- fall and one in the spring, in addition to her ulty this fall. al Development Policy administrative duties. Pomerantz (PIDP) this fall, big “Increasing the number of faculty is impor- received her PhD, changes may be on the tant as the program grows, so we can better MALD and MA from the Fletcher School horizon. serve our students,” Krupp said. of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. The PIDP, a master’s Her goals also include recruiting more Pomerantz was appointed the World program for mid-career professionals from students from Latin America and Africa, and Bank’s first chief learning officer and was developing nations, is part of the Duke Center securing stable funding sources that would the country director and country opera- for International Development (DCID), one of allow the PIDP to enroll more students from tions manager for the Southern Africa De- several centers whose status is being reviewed poor countries. Now, both the center and the partment. She was also division chief of by a task force studying whether the Sanford program rely solely on revenues generated environment and agriculture operations Institute should become a school. The task through tuition, executive education and for the Brazil, Peru and Venezuela Depart- force may recommend that some centers or consulting services. ment. Pomerantz has taught at several programs become independent. Krupp, 42, began teaching with DCID in universities including Pontifical Catholic Affiliation with the Institute has many ben- 1998. Previously, she taught at UNC’s University of Peru and Tufts. efits, and Krupp would like to maintain the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, as well as connection if possible. Yet DCID and PIDP in the economics departments at UNC- Dennis A. wish to maintain control over their faculty hir- Greensboro and Michigan State University. Rondinelli joins ing and curriculum decisions, she said. The She worked as an economic consultant to the the Duke Center decision won’t come until sometime after the trade law group of Wilmer, Cutler and for International task force makes its September report to the Pickering in Washington, D.C., from 1987 to Development fac- provost. In the meantime, Krupp has plenty to 1995. She earned her PhD in economics from ulty this fall. keep her busy. the University of Pennsylvania. Rondinelli received The number of PIDP fellows grew substan- Krupp has three children, ages 14, 12 and his PhD from tially under Francis Lethem, PIDP director 9, and her husband, Michael Toth, is the Cornell University and his BA from since 1997, and is now at 30-35 new students owner of PWI Consulting Engineers, a firm in Rutgers University. Prior to joining the a year. Through a new agreement with the Durham. She also is a proud member of the DCID faculty, Rondinelli taught at the Peace Corps, U.S. citizens with experience dormant Sanford Institute band (keyboards). Kenan-Flagler Business School at the abroad also are part of the student mix. When not recovering from an injury, she University of North Carolina at Chapel Keeping up with growth means the center’s enjoys running, kickboxing and racquetball. Hill as the Glaxo Distinguished Inter- national Professor of Management. Rodinelli has taught and researched PIDP graduates, from left, Hien global competitiveness, business strate- Tu of Vietnam, Bai Ji of China and gy, the public role of the private sector, Dechen Zam of Bhutan doffed multinational corporations, corporate their black graduation gowns to environmental management, emerging show off traditional dresses of their market economies and international home countries. trade and investment. He has carried out his research in Asia, Central Europe, Latin America and Africa. Rondinelli has served as an adviser or consultant to private corporations and the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Canadian International Development Agency, International Labour Office and the United Nations Development Program. He serves on the Expert Committee on Public Administration for the U.N. Economic and Social Council. 10 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus GLOBAL POLICY 33 incoming PIDP Fellows represent five continents KEN ROGERSON The Program in International Develop- ment Policy (PIDP) welcomes 33 new fellows this fall from five continents. New partnerships with the Government of Kazakhstan, FLACSO (La Facultad Latino- americana de Ciencias Sociales) in Chile, the government of India, the Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program, and the Kosovo American Education Fund (KAEF) have increased geographic representation in the program and will add to the depth of learning both in and outside of the classroom. New countries represented for the first time in the program include Dominica, Afghanistan, Germany and the Netherlands. The incoming class brings an impres- sive background of professional experi- A reunion of Menell Media Fellows, a group of South African journalists who studied at the Institute’s ences. Among their accomplishments are DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, took place during an international conference the founding of an NGO in Nepal to assist April 22 and 23 in Johannesburg. The center organized the conference, titled “Toward Tomorrow’s with housing issues for the poor, work on Journalism,” to bring together top journalists, media experts, academics and other media professionals local governance reform in Iraq, use of to discuss domestic and international coverage, ethics, journalism economics and recommendations electronic information technology to aid in for the future of journalism in South Africa. the overhaul of Ukraine’s land retitling initiative and the founding of an under- Pictured are, back row, from left, Sharon Chetty, media and public information officer, United Nations ground school for girls in Afghanistan after Development Program; Ellen Mickiewicz, director, Dewitt Wallace Center; William Gumede, colum- the Taliban came to power. nist, Sunday Independent, Johannesburg; Ayesha Ismail, reporter, eTV, Capetown; Patrick Conroy, New fellows also join the program after editor, eTV; Marianne Merten, correspondent, Mail and Guardian, Capetown; Marion Edmunds, participation in the World Bank’s Junior correspondent/producer, Carte Blanche, Capetown; Denzyl Janneker, reporter,SABC TV; Anthea Professional Program, working on policy Garman, Department of Journalism and Media, Witwatersrand University; Aakash Bramdeo, advisement issues such as national de- reporter, eTV, Durban; Antoinette Lazarus, reporter, SABC TV; and Laurie Bley, director, Media Fellows Program. Front row, from left, are director, South Africa Department of Arts fense, public finance and local infrastruc- Sandile Memela, and Culture; Angie Kapelianis, special features journalist, SABC radio, Johannesburg; Charles ture for several foreign governments, and Leonard, columnist, PopMatters, Johannesburg; Tumoetsile Mogamisi, senior communications consult- various community and rural development ant, POGC South Africa; Jacob Ntshangase, Director, Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. projects in the developing world. Their wide perspectives and expertise on these many development fronts will be a welcome addition to the PIDP and Sanford communities. DCID explores project in Moldova —Stephanie Alt-Lamm A team from Duke Center for International Moldova, a former Soviet republic, is the Development (DCID) made a four-day visit poorest country in Europe and a transitioning to Moldova in late May to discuss a possible country in terms of its economic, domestic and New Rotary coordinator project to build capacity for policy analysis, foreign policy. Its government is seeking Euro- policy reform design and policy implementa- Atlantic integration to foster economic devel- Susan Carroll is the new coordinator for tion. Natalia Mirovitskaya, senior research opment and promote better educational and the Duke-UNC Rotary Center, replacing scholar and lecturing fellow of public policy, governmental systems. Darla Deardorff, who became director of and Ted Triebel, visiting lecturer in public DCID has proposed a 10-day study tour the Association of International Educat- policy, traveled to the capital city, Chisinau. for rectors of select universities that would ors (AIEA), headquartered at Duke. Mirovitskaya and Triebel met with senior focus on the academic, programmatic and fis- Carroll has more than 20 years experi- government officials, rectors (presidents) of cal management of U.S. universities. This ex- ence in the field of international humani- five major universities, U.S. embassy officials, ecutive training, modeled on one DCID com- tarian assistance, principally working for and other parties. Heath Cosgrove, an incom- pleted in 2004 and organized by Mirovitskaya the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees ing PIDP fellow who has worked in Moldova for Russian university rectors, would include (UNHCR). She has worked on large-scale for the last three years, helped plan and coor- sessions on interdisciplinary collaboration, refugee operations in Sudan, Ethiopia, dinate the meetings. The trip followed a continuing education, faculty training and Malawi, Turkey, Hong Kong and Thailand. December 2004 visit by a Moldovan delega- distance education. tion to Duke and the Sanford Institute. —Ted Triebel Summer 2005 11 Faculty News

Bernard Avishai, visiting professor of PPS and Center for Child and Family Policy researchers business, gave a talk at the Fuqua School of Beth Gifford and May Alexander have been Faculty Publications Business in May on why the Israeli entrepreneurial invited to participate on the “Shared Outcomes/ economy needs peace. Shared Indicators for School Readiness” project Berlin, Lisa, co-editor. Enhancing Early organized by the North Carolina SPARK initiative Attachments: Theory, Research, Intervention and Hart Leadership Program Director Alma Blount, and the Early Childhood Comprehensive System Policy. The Guilford Press, July 2005. Kenan Institute for Ethics Director Elizabeth Kiss, (ECCS) planning team. The purpose of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Director of Shared Outcomes/Shared Indicators project is to Cook, Philip; Jan Ostermann; and Frank A. Assessment Matt Serra, and consultant Alan create a common understanding of the factors that Sloan. “The net effect of an alcohol tax increase Peterfreund presented a workshop, titled affect how children are doing, as well as a shared on death rates in middle age.” American “Building an Evaluation Strategy that Fosters sense of accountability for outcomes. Gifford also Economic Review Annual Meeting Papers and Ownership and Facilitates Change,” at the presented a poster and a talk (with E.M. Foster) Proceedings, 95(2) [May 2005]: 278-281. Association of American Colleges and Universities at the 5th World Conference of the International (AACU) April conference, “Pedagogies of Cook, Philip and Nataliya Khmilevska. Health Economics Association July 10-13 in “Cross-National Patterns in Crime Rates.” In Engagement: Deepening Learning In and Across Barcelona, Spain titled “Understanding provider the Disciplines.” Michael Tonry and David Farrington, eds. Crime influences on residential length of stay among and Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Hart Leadership Program faculty member Tony youth with mental health, substance abuse, and 2005: 1-15. Brown was recognized as April’s professor of the co-occurring disorders: A Bayesian crossclassified month by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. approach.” Joseph, James A. “Managing Diversity.” In Convergence, a business journal in South Africa. Professor Phil Cook’s book (with Robert Frank) Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the PPS, spoke May 16 on “The Health of Blacks in Kelly, Roy. “Property Taxation in Indonesia: Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us was on the United States: Some Thoughts on Funda- Emerging Challenges from Decentralization.” the reading list for The New York Times’ May series mental Causes of Racial Inequalities in Health and Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 26(1): on “Class in America.” their Implications for U.S. Public Policy,” The 71-90 (2004). Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Robert Cook-Deegan, research professor of PPS, Kelly, Roy. “Property Taxation in Tanzania,” He presented “Lifecourse Socioeconomic Position “Property Taxation in Kenya,” “Property presented “The Science Commons in Health and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in African Research: Structure, Function and Value” at the Taxation in Indonesia,” three chapters in Americans: The Pitt County Study,” at Columbia International Handbook of Land and Property University of Toronto conference “Bringing Science University, New York, on March 11. He also was to Life” on April 29. He gave the keynote address Taxation, Richard Bird and Enid Slack, eds. appointed to the Board of Governors for the Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004. at Genomics and World Health: Surviving in the University of North Carolina Press. Information Jungle, a conference in Brussels, Kelley, Judith. “Strategic non-cooperation as Bruce Jentleson, professor of PPS and political Belgium, on July 7. He also was a co-signer on a soft balancing: Why Iraq was not just about Iraq.” science, is now a regular contributor to the America letter on “Issues in Biosecurity and Biosafety” pub- International Politics 42(2) [2005]: 153-173. lished in Science 308 (24 June): 1867-1868. Abroad foreign policy blog at TPMCafe.com. Jentleson participated in meetings of the Princeton Gifford, Elizabeth J.; R. Weech-Maldonado, Joel Fleishman, professor of law and PPS, gave a Project on National Security in April (Princeton) and P.F. Short. “Low-income children’s preven- talk titled “How Much is Enough?: Foundation and June (Washington, D.C.), and the Brookings tive services use: Implications of Parents’ Grantmaking for International Benefit,” at the Project on Force and Legitimacy in June Medicaid status.” Health Care Financing Review Princeton Conference on Ethics and International (Washington, D.C.) He also lectured in June on 26(4)[Summer 2005]:1-14. Grantmaking on May 5. “Foreign Policy in the Second Bush Administra- Tifft, Susan (with Michael Schudson). “American Journalism in Historical Perspective.” In The Press, Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds. Oxford University Press, 2005. KAREN TAM Wiener, Jonathan B., co- editor. “Global Administrative Law,” symposium issue of Law & Contemporary Problems 68 (2005). Also co-author of foreword.

tion” at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, and on “Regional Security in the Mediter- ranean” at Madrid Autonomous University. Ambassador James A. Joseph, professor of the practice of PPS, delivered the baccalaureate address at Washington & Jefferson College (Pa.) on May 20 and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in recognition for his achieve- ments as an inﬂuential voice in the campaign for ethical action in public life and the struggle for peace in South Africa. On June 3rd, he joined former President Bill Clinton in Little Rock, Ark., as a speaker for City Year’s One World Celebration. He also moderated a panel on educational reform in the South. From left, Professors Jake Vigdor, Helen Ladd and Phil Cook compare notes while waiting at Wilson Gym for graduation exercises to begin.

12 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Roy Kelly was a co-facilitator at the “Regional Jake Vigdor, assistant professor of PPS and eco- symposium in Monterey for California state legis- Workshop on Fiscal Policy and Poverty Alleviation: nomics; presented “The New Promised Land: lators sponsored by EdVoice, a nonprofit group Practice of Intergovernmental Transfers,” a joint Black-White Convergence in the American South based in Sacramento. workshop of the Local Government Finance Com- 1940-2000” at New York University Law School, Yvonne Wasilewski, researcher with the Center mission, the World Bank, and the government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Economics for Child and Family Policy, was elected to the Belgium, in Entebbe, Uganda, Dec. 14-16, 2004. Dept., and the University of Washington Evans National Asthma Educators Certification Board He continues serving as the senior resident advisor School of Public Policy. Vigdor also presented and will co-chair its research committee. to the Ministry of Local Government in Kenya un- “Teacher Bonuses and Teacher Retention in Low der a 3-year Duke University project funded by the Performing Schools: Evidence from the North Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of law, environ- Department for International Development (UK). Carolina $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program” (co- mental policy and PPS, will be on sabbatical, 2005- The support focuses on issues of intergovernmental authored with Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth 06, at the Centre International de Recherche sur transfers, local government finance, budgeting, rev- Glennie and Helen Ladd) at the American l’Environnement et le Dévelopement (CIRED) enue mobilization and participatory planning. Education Finance Association meeting, March and at l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. Wiener gave the Bruce Kuniholm, Institute director and professor 17-19, and the Maxwell Policy Research keynote address, “Hormesis and Regulation,” at of PPS and history, spoke on “U.S. Policy Towards Symposium, May 20-21, at Syracuse University. the Fourth Annual International Conference on Iran, Iraq & Saudi Arabia” at the Duke in Napa He also presented, “Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Hormesis, June 6, University of Massachusetts – Seminar, May 26-27, in St. Helena, Calif. Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segrega- tion,” a joint paper with D. Cutler and E. Glaeser Amherst. He spoke on “Beyond Kyoto: Moving Helen “Sunny” Ladd, professor of PPS and eco- of Harvard University, at an April 28-29 confer- Climate Change Policy Forward,” at the Yale nomics, and her husband and co-author, Te d ence on immigration at the Federal Reserve School of Forestry and Environmental Studies on Fiske, returned to South Africa for two weeks in Bank of Philadelphia. He presented “Should Sixth April 21 and about “Precaution in the U.S. and May for the launching of the paperback version of Graders Attend Middle School?” (with Phil Europe,” at a conference co-sponsored by the their book, Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Cook, Clara Muschkin, and R. MacCound of European Policy Centre, the European Post-Apartheid South Africa. They presented two UC Berkeley) at the Society for Prevention Commission, and the US Mission to the EU in academic seminars, published an op-ed about Research annual meeting, May 25–27, in Brussels, March 17-18. school fees and appeared on TV and on radio. Washington, D.C. In March, Vigdor spoke at a Back in the United States, they gave a keynote address June 17 to the South African Initiative at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Gunther Peck, associate pro- Fritz Mayer, associate professor of PPS, spoke on Faculty Announcements fessor of PPS and history, “The End of Empire: Globalization, the Rise of the received an American Council Developing World, and the Decline of American Allen Buchanan has been of Learned Societies (ACLS) Supremacy” at the Duke in Napa Seminar, named the James B. Duke fellowship in April for the cal- May 26-27, in St. Helena, Calif. Professor of Public Policy endar year 2006 to write a book Shari Miller-Johnson, senior research scholar, Studies and Philosophy. The currently titled White Slavery, presented a paper and chaired a symposium on distinguished professorship was National Freedoms: Race, Labor, and Sex in the United “Developmental Pathways of Aggressive Behavior announced at an April 21 States and Great Britain, 1800-1930. He will be on in Girls” at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for awards dinner at the paternity leave for the fall 2005 semester. Research in Child Development in April. She also Washington Duke Inn. served as a discussant for the symposium “Girls David H. Schanzer, a former and Juvenile Justice: Examining Mental Health, Charles Clotfelter, professor of public policy, law Capitol Hill staff member, has Education, and Treatment” at the annual meeting and economics, will spend his September-to-June been hired to head the new of the Society for Prevention Research in May. sabbatical as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Triangle Center on Terrorism Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Foundation in New York City, researching segrega- and Homeland Security, a proj- Practice of Journalism and PPS, spoke May 18th tion by income class. Clotfelter also will continue ect sponsored by Duke, the on a panel titled “Perspectives on Long-Term research on K-12 education in North Carolina University of North Carolina Success” at a conference convened by the Kellogg with Helen Ladd and Jake Vigdor. The trio won a at Chapel Hill and RTI International. The center Center for Family Enterprise at Northwestern two-year, $430,000 award from the Spencer will be headquartered in Rubenstein Hall. University. She also participated in the June 12-14 Foundation to study how various state policies Schanzer will teach one public policy course each meeting of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at affect the quality of teachers and, by extension, semester, alternating between Duke and UNC. Sunnylands’ Commission on the Role of the Press student achievement. The center aims to stimulate cross-disciplinary in a Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania. discussion and scholarship on military, diplomatic During her semester-long leave, In May, Anthony So, senior research fellow in and domestic counterterrorism strategies and poli- PPS and law; presented workshops on access to Judith Kelley, will continue her cies for preventing and protecting against future medicines and global tobacco control at “Forging research on how international terrorist attacks. The center will provide a bridge Partnerships for Global Impact,” a strategy meet- actors can influence domestic between the academic community and policymaking in Istanbul of the Open Society Institute’s policy reforms. Kelley is exam- ers at the state, federal and international levels. Public Health Program and its network of country ining the influence of the Schanzer served since 2003 as the Democratic foundation counterparts. So also opened the Intel- European Union on reforms in staff director of the House Select Committee on lectual Property Track at the May consultative its neighbor states, and exploring a project on inter- Homeland Security and as principal advisor to for- meeting for the World Health Organization’s national election monitoring and observation. mer U.S. Rep. Jim Turner of Texas, who was the Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation ranking Democrat on the committee. While in and Public Health with an overview of “Research Frederick Mayer, associate professor of PPS, this position, he was the supervising editor of a Tools: Defining problems and solutions.” Joining a began his yearlong sabbatical July 1. Mayer will series of strategy documents and reports on home- panel of Canadian experts, he spoke on “The work on a book tentatively titled Narrative and land security. Ownership of Scientific Knowledge: Challenges Collective Action, describing the role of storytelling for Access in Health” at the Special Libraries Asso- in social movements such as the civil rights and Ted Triebel, visiting lecturer in PPS, has retired ciation meeting in Toronto in June. On March 4-5, anti-globalization movements. Mayer also will from teaching, but intends to remain involved with So, Director of the Program on Global Health and travel to India, China and Geneva to research the Institute, working with the Duke Center for Technology Access, and Arti Rai, professor of law another publication on the Doha round of trade International Development on various projects. He at Duke Law School, co-organized a conference barrier negotiations. also plans to be active in local government affairs. on “Collective Action and Proprietary Rights: Promoting Innovation and Access in Health.”

Summer 2005 13 Alumni News

Beth Kidder (’98) recently was pro- MPP Notes moted to the position of bureau chief for Medicaid services for the Kristen Dubay (’04) married Kevin state of Florida, responsible for poli-

Jermyn Jr. on April 3 at the Sarah P. JIM HUYN (’04) cy development and oversight of all Duke Gardens. They live in Durham, services except pharmacy in Florida’s where Kristen is a project director $14 billion Medicaid program. for the N.C. Institute of Medicine. Classmates Liz English (’05) and Liz Peter Brown (’97) has a new posi- Peters (’04) attended the wedding. tion at Deloitte Services LP doing government affairs work within its Fernando Lohmann (’04) has a federal practice, specifically in the new position as associate at GG area of homeland security. Peter and Investimentos, a private equity firm his family live in Reston, Va. in Sao Paolo, Brazil, led by Antonio Kandir, former minister of planning Tim Johnson (’97) and his wife, during the Cardoso presidency. Angie, announce the birth of Nigel Zane Johnson on March 15. They Mark Moland (’04) and his wife, live in New York, N.Y., where Tim Shana, welcomed daughter works in the Domestic Capital Ruthanne Elizabeth on June 2. Markets Group of the Federal Mark and Shana live in Norwich, Reserve Bank of New York. Conn., where Mark is an instructor Washington, D.C., MPP alumni take in a recent Nationals baseball game, one of Brant Phillips (’97) was named a at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. several events the group organized this year. The group also volunteered with Hands partner in Bass, Berry & Simms PLC Lesley Woodburn (’04) has a new on DC, a program that cleans up public schools, and enjoyed a March Madness in Nashville, Tenn. consulting position at Booz Allen happy hour. Alumni interested in participating in future activities can contact Ben Hamilton in Fairfax, Va. Marglin at [email protected]. Pictured are, left to right: front row, Sara Tom Danielson (’96) and his wife, Vande Kappelle (’04), with friend Kevin Matthews, Gina King (’04) with Nicole, welcomed their daughter Neal Fann (’03) has a new position and second child, Kaila, on January performing cost-benefit analysis at friend Dan Dillion; second row, Tim Greeff (’04), David Rice (’06), Megan Fotheringham (’04), and Jennifer Nevin (’03); third row, Jonathan 25. Tom and his family live in EPA in the Office of Air Quality Mount Vernon, Maine, where he is Planning and Standards in Research Morancy (’04), Brett Stohs (’05) and wife Julie Stohs; fourth row, Chuck Anderson (’03) (wearing cap), Seth Messner (’04), and Nick Cornelisse (’03). a biologist with the Maine Depart- Triangle Park, N.C. ment of Environmental Protection. Robin Gelinas (’03) has left the Kristin Goss (’96) will join the fac- Alliance for Excellent Education for Tim Saintsing (’02) is joining the Markus Laine (’99) has a new posi- ulty of the Sanford Institute this fall a new position as manager of the New York City Department of tion at NASD, a private-sector reg- as assistant professor of public policy Department of Educational Education’s Student Enrollment, ulator primarily responsible for studies and political science. Initiatives at the Texas Education Planning, and Operations Depart- NASDAQ and AMEX in Rockville, Agency in Austin. ment, which is responsible for Md. Peter Kant (’96), along with his implementing the No Child Left wife, Zoe, and son, Toby, welcomed Sarah Rankin (’03) is a program offi- Mark Wiggin (’99) has accepted Behind Act. Abigail Josephine Kant on June 19. cer at Local Initiatives Support Corp., the position of project manager with Pete and his family live in Arlington, a community development financial Trip Stallings (’02) will enter the Arctic Slope Regional Corp., Energy Va., where he has a new position as organization in New York, N.Y. PhD program in the University of Services Division, in Anchorage. vice president for government affairs Ilse Wiechers (’03) received her North Carolina School of Susan Biles (’98) is engaged to for Rapiscan Systems Inc., a security M.D. degree from Duke School of Education’s Culture, Curriculum Michael Nink and planning a wed- inspection firm. Medicine in May and is working this and Change Program this fall. ding in April 2006. Susan is associate Jon Rosenwasser (’95), in addition year as a fellow for the Center for Charmeka Bosket (’01) has left deputy commissioner of the Texas to his full-time job at Booz Allen Public Genomics at the Duke Insti- classroom teaching to become the General Land Office in Austin. Hamilton, is an adjunct professor of tute for Genome Sciences and education advisor for South Chris Bugg (’98) and Carolyn U.S. national security policy in Policy. She will enter a residency Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Crone Bugg (’97), along with George Mason University’s School program in 2006. of Public Policy, where he taught a Brad Keller (’00) is engaged to daughter, Meredith, announce the summer course on intelligence. Scott Douglas (’02) and his wife, Alexandra Bradley, with a wedding birth of Everett Christopher Bugg Diane, are proud to announce the planned for summer 2006. Brad works on June 7. Chris and Carolyn live in Jeannette Tunnicliff Goldsmith birth of Malcolm Day Douglas on at Westat Inc., in Rockville, Md. Virginia Beach, Va., where Chris is a (’95) and her husband, Andy, and naval aviator working as an instruc- son, Mason, announce the birth of March 22. Scott and Diane live in Amy Raslevich (’00), along with tor pilot for an F/A-18 Hornet Charles Ladds Goldsmith, born on Washington, D.C., where Scott is a husband, Jeff Kelly, and daughter, squadron and Carolyn is an adjunct April 5. Jeannette has returned to science policy analyst in the U.S. Laura, announce the birth of economics professor at a local work, celebrating the fifth anniver- Department of Health and Human Samuel Thomas Kelly on April 7. Services. college. sary of her company, McCallum Evan Fuguet (’99) has taken a new Mollie Finch Hunter (’98) and her Sweeney Consulting, located in Lisa Kahl Welsh (‘02) married position as policy counsel at The husband, John, welcome Luke Greenville, S.C. Justin Welsh on May 22 in Center for Responsible Lending, a McLean Hunter, born on May 27. Williamsport, Pa. Lisa just complet- Catherine Cunniff Brooks (’94) national nonprofit, nonpartisan re- Although John is stationed in ed her second year of law school at and husband, Robert, brought home search and policy organization dedi- Bahrain until December, he was able the University of Maryland School their new son, Robert (Bobby) Nam cated to protecting homeownership to fly home for two weeks to meet of Law and is a summer associate Soo Brooks, born Nov. 9, 2004, in and family wealth by working to elim- his new son. Mollie is living in with Ballard Spahr Andrew & South Korea. inate abusive financial practices. Alexandria, Va., until John returns Ingersoll in Baltimore. to the United States.

14 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Dionne Brown (’94) has joined Sue Heilbronner (’91) has been David Edwards (’88) was published Administration, given to a part-time Booz Allen Hamilton to provide promoted to executive vice president in the May/June 2005 edition of instructor in recognition of making consulting services in IT strategic of business development and market- Public Administration Review in an an impact on students and their planning and capital asset portfolio ing at TIG Global in Washington, article titled “Developing a Munici- public service careers, excellence in management. Dionne lives in D.C., the leading interactive market- pal Performance Management teaching, advising, and mentoring, Washington, D.C., where she has ing firm in the hospitality industry. System: Reflections on the Atlanta and excellence in linking education extensive experience in federal Nicole Sullivan (’91) was recently Dashboard.” David works in the and practice. health sector organizational change, Office of Atlanta Mayor Shirley named manager of the Office of Stephen Tippie (’84) was married financial management and informa- Franklin. Research and Planning for the N.C. to Patricia Morrill on April 23 in tion technology. Department of Corrections in Jess Hale (’88) recently published Chicago. Stephen is currently vice Susie Powell (’94) has started a Raleigh, where she has been work- book reviews in Sojourners and president of marketing and licensing new position in the Washington, ing since 1992. Nashville Scene, and has an article in for Tribune Media Services, a sub- D.C., office of McKinsey and Co. as Jack Alden (’90) has a new position the upcoming Encyclopedia of the sidiary of Tribune Co. He and his the professional development man- as senior staff attorney with Honda Stone-Campbell Movement. Jess con- wife live in downtown Chicago. ager for their strategy practice. Susie tinues to work as a senior legislative North America in Torrance, Calif., Ashley Files Flory (’83) has been also is engaged to Zak Andersen, attorney for the Tennessee legisla- where he is responsible for managing named deputy executive secretary with a wedding planned for August ture focusing on Medicaid, health most of the class-action litigation infor the U.S. Department of Health 19 in Big Sky, Mont. care and worker’s compensation. volving Honda operations in the Uni- and Human Services. The executive Jennifer Martin (’93) has left inde- ted States. He and his wife, Stephanie Tina Morris-Anderson (’88) has secretariat coordinates policy devel- pendent consulting to become a pro- LeBlond, welcomed Marielle been appointed the director for opment across the entire depart- gram director at Center for Resource Francoise Alden on March 12. research, policy and planning for the ment, resolving policy disagree- Solutions in San Francisco. Jennifer Mike Sorrell (’90) has opened his N.C. Department of Labor in Raleigh. ments and assuring consistent appli- and her husband, Tim Johnson, and own consulting practice, Victor Credo Noelle McAfee (’87) has taken a cation of administration and secre- son, Zachary, welcomed a new son, LLC, a public affairs and sports man- two-year leave of absence from her tarial policy preferences. Daughter Benjamin, on Nov. 10, 2004. agement firm in Dallas, Texas. associate professor position at the Grace, 3, is bearing up well under Garrick Francis (’92), his wife, the transition pressure. Chris Stoneman (’90) reports that University of Massachusetts–Lowell Sheila, and their son, Ries, 4, wel- he’s still working at EPA in Research to work as deputy director of the The Rev. Sandy Strauss (’83) was comed Karis Nicole Francis into the Triangle Park after 15 years, and his Center for Social Media at American married on May 7 to the Rev. David world on May 4. wife, Kelly, and 3-year-old enjoy life University in Washington, D.C. Arnold in Harrisburg, Pa. Sandy Suzanne LeFave Sardina (’92) has in Carrboro, N.C. One of her assignments is to run the works at the Pennsylvania Council started a new home-based business center’s new Public Media Think of Churches. Ariel Ahart (‘88), her husband, with USANA Health Sciences, a Tank. Noelle and her family have Don Lu, and son, Kip, announce the Walter Daniels (’79) of Daniels, manufacturer of nutritional supple- moved to Alexandria, Va. birth of Aliya Abigail on March 14. Daniels & Verdonik P.A. has been ments and skin care products. Ariel is a PhD student at the Johns Dan Durham (’85) has left the awarded the Charles Hamner Maureen Sullivan (’92) was Hopkins University School of Public U.S. Department for Health and Leadership Award for exemplary appointed visiting assistant professor Health, currently studying in the Human Services for a new position vision and leadership in biotechnol- of social studies at Harvard Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. as deputy vice president for policy ogy at the 14th Annual Biotech University in July 2004, and lives in at Pharmaceutical Research and Conference in North Carolina. In Naveena Daniels Bembry (’88) has Somerville, Mass., with her 3-year- Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). presenting the award, Dr. Hamner recently completed her seventh year old son, Emmanuel. David Liebschutz (’85) received explained that Daniels, as an attor- as a teacher at the William Penn ney, has pioneered the representa- Cindy Adcock (’91) has a new Charter School in Philadelphia, the 2005 Arnold L. Steigman Excellence in Teaching Public tion of technology-based companies position as senior program manager where she lives with her husband, in North Carolina and served the for leadership and research at Equal Bob, and daughters Danielle, 12, Administration Award from the New York State Academy of Public technology industry in a large num- Justice Works in Washington, D.C. and Gabrielle, 10. ber of civic capacities.

Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Jill Gentry (’01) will enter the mas- The award recognizes excellence in Undergraduate focusing on entertainment law. ter in public policy program this fall public relations initiatives and tac- Alumni Notes Melissa Lan (’01) is moving to at Harvard University’s Kennedy tics in the Nevada, Arizona and Beijing in October to be one of two School of Government. Utah tri-state area. Jackowich is public affairs associate for Pulte Jason Jones (’05) will serve a one- Olympic coordinators for the U.S. Matthew Pritchard (’01) recently Homes/Del Webb in Las Vegas, Nev. year fellowship with the Public Department of State for Beijing 2008 was promoted to account manager in Hospital Pharmacy Coalition in Olympics. Google’s advertising sales group. Jenny Hansen (’98) has joined the Washington, D.C., working with Casey Reckman (’02) is a second- After two years of management and staff of Senate Committee on Health, MPP alumnus Ted Slafsky. year student at Johns Hopkins Uni- IT consulting with Accenture, he Education, Labor and Pensions’ Sub- joined Google in January 2004 and committee on Bioterrorism and Public Shana Ginsburg (’04) will teach versity’s Nitze School of Advanced works out of their Atlanta office. Health, serving as health policy direc- American literature this fall in a International Studies in Washington, tor. Jenny previously was legislative model public high school in D.C., concentrating in Latin Ingrid Sheriff (’00) is an account assistant to Sen. Richard Burr Columbia County, Ga., and attend American Studies and International supervisor on the healthcare/health (R-N.C.) on health care legislation law school in Fall 2006. Finance. Casey worked this summer policy team at Edelman Public at ManattJones Global Strategies, Relations in Washington, D.C. Her related to the Food and Drug Admin- Jainey Bavishi (’03) will enter the and she will spend the fall semester primary clients are Pfizer, PhRMA, istration, Medicare and Medicaid. master in city planning program in studying at University Torcuato Di and the American Academy of Nicole Kelly Vickey (’98) welcomes the Department of Urban Studies Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ophthalmology. She lives in daughter, Elle Clair, born Nov. 1, and Planning at MIT this fall. Sari Silverman (’02) graduated in Arlington, Va., and is planning to 2004. Nicole is currently working as Lucy Popkin (’03) is a third-year June from Harvard Law School. be married in September. The Nature Conservancy’s Alabama student at Stanford Law School. She Sasha Jackowich (’00) was awarded Coastal Program director, based in spent the summer with the Dana Tyree (’02) is working toward a 2004 Public Relations Society of Mobile, Ala. New York City law firm Paul, Weiss, a master of education in the teaching (please see back cover) of social studies at Teachers College, America Pinnacle Award for the best Columbia University. internal communication program. Summer 2005 15 Alumni (continued from page 15) Sarah Sumner Kirsch (’98) was promoted to vice president of Robert Charles Lesser & Co. LLC, in Atlanta, Ga. She also welcomed a son and first son and first child, Sumner Roberts Kirsch, on February 1. Brent McGoldrick (’97) co-found- PUBLIC POLICY ed Grassroots Targeting, a political grassroots consulting firm in Alexandria, Va. Prior to co-founding the firm, McGoldrick completed an Focus MBA from Georgetown University and ran the Republican National Committee’s campaign in West is published four times Virginia during the 2004 election. a year by the This past winter, he served on the Terry Sanford Institute 55th Presidential Inaugural PPS students with summer internships in Washington, D.C., met with U.S. Rep. of Public Policy Committee. David Price (D-NC) for dinner recently. Students are, from left around the Duke University table: Jay McKenna, Trish Lenza, Jenny Bonilla, Becky Logsdon, Jeff Caleb Burns (’96) is an associate at Davis, Seema Kakad, Lexi Richards and Evan Shoop. Box 90239 Wiley Rein and Fielding LLP in Durham,NC 27708-0239 Washington, D.C. He practices law cation and research association for teers who repair and rebuild neigh- www.pubpol.duke.edu in the firm’s election law and gov- the insurance and financial services borhood homes in and around ernment ethics group. industry. Newark, N.J. The Terry Sanford Institute Kira Marchenese (’95) earned her Michael Gorman (’88) is a co- David Leitch (’82) has been named of Public Policy is a national and MPA in the mid-career program at founder and managing director of general counsel and senior vice pres- Harvard University’s Kennedy international leader in public Split Rock Partners, a venture capi- ident of Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, School of Government, and has policy studies. Its mission is to tal firm focused on investments in Mich. David formerly was White a new job as director of Internet educate tomorrow’s leaders and health care, software and Internet House deputy counsel and deputy strategy for the nonprofit Environ- improve the quality of public services companies. Michael and his assistant to President George W. Bush. mental Defense. She lives in wife, Elizabeth Loyd Gorman (’88), policymaking through research, Washington, D.C. Terri Mascherin (’81) recently was live in Minneapolis, Minn., with professional training, and policy selected to take part in a two-year Geoff Archer (’94) has moved to their three children. and community engagement. nonpartisan, privately funded proj- Charlottesville, Va., to begin a PhD Sheila Stafford McThenia (’88) ect that aims to overhaul Illinois’ program in management (entrepre- lives in the Orlando, Fla., area where criminal code, the CLEAR Initiative Institute Director: neurship) at the Darden School of she and her husband, Tom McThenia, (Criminal Law Edit, Alignment and Bruce Kuniholm Business at the University of work in the office of the president at Reform). Terri is a partner at Jenner Focus Editor: Karen Kemp Virginia. Campus Crusade for Christ Interna- & Block LLP in Chicago. Ted Jackson (’93) and his wife, tional. She continues to home edu- Ron Kertzner (’78) was ordained as For more information, Jennifer, and daughter, Emily, cate three of their four boys. an interfaith minister by the OneSpirit please contact announce the Nov. 12, 2004, birth Marc Supcoff (’88) spoke with a Interfaith Seminary on June 26. [email protected] of Charles Theodore Jackson. distinguished faculty of construction Ron and his wife, Susan, are princi- Denise DiBlasi-Olivares (’88), vice and legal professionals on July 14 in pals in ChoicePoint Consulting Inc., president of strategic alliances pro- Parsippany, N.J., on critical issues with a mission to help individuals grams for AXA Financial Inc., has and developments in construction and organizations to make conscious recently completed input into change orders. Marc also was elect- choices to align their values with Financial Services Marketing, a book ed to the board and is general coun- their outer action. for a new industry course that is sel of Rebuilding Together, Essex being published by LOMA, an edu- County, an organization of volun-

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