Barry Van Lare
MEMBER SINCE: 2015
Independent Consultant, Management and Public Policy; Former Deputy Executive Director and Director of Management Consulting and Training, National Governors Association; Senior Vice President for Strategic Marketing, MAXIMUS Inc.; Executive Director, The Finance Project; Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche Consulting; Special Administrator for Gasoline Rationing, U.S. Department of Energy. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Welfare Legislation and Associate Commissioner of Social Security, U.S Department of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Former Commissioner, Erie County Department of Social Services and Director, Division of Community Services, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. Positions with State of New York: Executive Secretary, Health Planning Commission; Director, New York State Senate Task Force on Critical Problems; Executive Deputy and Acting Commissioner, Department of Social Services; Assistant Secretary to the Governor for Human Resources and Deputy Commissioner, Division of Human Rights.
History of Employment
Primary Policy Areas
Budget and Finance, Criminal Justice/Justice, Education, Energy, Government Operations/Innovation, Health Care, Intergovernmental System/Federalism, Intergovernmental Affairs and Coordination, Labor/Workforce Training and RecruitmentLabor, Nonprofit/Philanthropy, Oversight/Regulation, Poverty, Social Services
Primary Sector of Expertise
State
Primary Functions
Budgeting and Finance, Communications and Marketing, Change Management, County Management, Data Analytics, Grants Management, Information Technology, Intergovernmental, Nonprofit / NGO leadership, Organizational Structure/Design/Development, Performance Measurement, Program Evaluation, State Government, Strategic Planning
Academy Studies
Management Matters Podcast
How To Support the Election Workforce in the 2022 Election
Season: 1 Episode:129 | October 03, 2022
Show Notes:
On this episode, we are joined by our Election Integrity Working Group, made up of Academy Fellows Nancy Tate, Co-chair of the Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative, Mark Robbins, Interim Executive Director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Barry Van Lare, an Independent Consultant of Management and Public Policy, and Edie Goldenberg, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. They discuss the growing issue of disinformation regarding our electoral system, the rise in threats towards election workers, and what Fellows can do to uphold our country's electoral integrity.
This podcast episode was adapted from a webinar discussion that took place on September 29th. If you would like to watch the webinar, you can find it here.
Academic Resources mentioned:
- ESRA Annual Meetings
- ESRA 2021: https://electionlab.mit.edu/events/esra-2021
- Democracy Fund’s “Idea Page”
- Annual surveys of local election officials
- Election Law Journal
- Journal of Democracy
- MIT Election Data Lab
- U of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center
- Reed College’s Elections & Voting Center
Please access NAPA’s Election Resources at the 2022 Election Integrity Platform webpage, under our Grand Challenges tab.