Post Date: October 26, 2022

Meeting Focus is Strengthening Social & Economic Development

Through Meaningful Work

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration will host its annual Fall Meeting November 2-4, focused on “Strengthening Social and Economic Development Through Meaningful Work.” Featured speakers include Kiran Ahuja, Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Danielle Worthen-Ramos, Chief, Division of Workforce Investment (Region 1) of the U.S. Department of Labor.

The 2022 Fall Meeting will be held in-person and virtually at Academy headquarters in Washington, D.C. and at two additional host sites, Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in Pittsburgh, PA, and the University of Connecticut’s School of Public Policy in Hartford, CT.

Events will include the induction of the Academy’s 2022 Class of Fellows; the presentation of the 2022 George Graham Award for Exceptional Service to the Academy to Academy Fellow Major General Arnold Fields, retired U.S. Marine Corps and former Deputy Commander of Marine Corps Forces in Europe; the presentation of the 2022 Louis Brownlow Book Award to Dr. Andrew Rudalevige, Chair of Department of Government and Legal Studies and Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government at Bowdoin College, for his book, “By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power;” and the presentation of the 2022 Herbert Roback Scholarship Award.

A detailed meeting agenda and registration details can be found here. Media planning to attend in-person or virtual sessions should RSVP to bholahan@greatpointstrategies.com for access to registration and session links.

Wednesday, Nov. 2

National Academy of Public Administration

Washington, D.C.

11:00 am – Year in Review: How the Academy's Strategic Initiatives Program is Improving Government

• Featuring G. Edward DeSeve, head of the Agile Government Center

12:00 pm – Brownlow Book Award and Discussion

• Dr. Andrew Rudalevige, Chair of Department of Government and Legal Studies and Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, Bowdoin College; author, By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power

2:00 pm – Academy Awards

• 2022 George Graham Award for Exceptional Service to the Academy

Major General Arnold Fields, retired U.S. Marine Corps; former Deputy Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces in Europe; Academy Fellow

• 2022 Herbert Roback Scholarship Award
• Andrés Morana, Masters Candidate of International Relations, International Economics at The Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Clementine G. Starling, Masters Candidate at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

3:00 pm – Featured Speaker

• Kiran Ahuja, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
  
  

3:30 pm – Concurrent Panel Sessions:

• Accessibility, Disability & Neurodivergency and Meaningful Work
  • Featuring keynote speaker Jim Cook, Vice President for Strategic Engagement and Partnerships, MITRE
• Toward a Federal Workforce of the Future

Featuring:

• Terry Gerton, President and CEO, National Academy of Public Administration (moderator)
• Jeff Neal, Principal, ChiefHRO, LLC
• Kimberly Walton, CEO, DiverseUSA, LLC
• Angie Bailey, Former Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Dan Chenok, Executive Director, IBM Center for the Business of Government

5:00 pm – Induction of New Academy Fellows

Thursday, Nov. 3

Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

9:00 am – Mayor's Panel on Job Growth and Creation

• William Peduto, former Mayor of Pittsburgh, PA
• Andy Berke, former Mayor of Chattanooga, TN
  
  

10:30 am – Panel: Technology's Impact on Workforce Development

• Moderated by Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

12:30 pm – Elmer B. Staats Lecture

• Tom A. Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

2:00 pm – The Academy's Funded Studies and Their Impact on DEIA Within Government Organizations (virtual)

3:00 pm – A Look at Local Challenges Through Federal and Intergovernmental Lenses (virtual)

• Featuring Teryn Zmuda, Chief Research Officer & Chief Economists for the National Association of Counties (NACo); Dr. Nancy Augustine, Director of the Center for Intergovernmental Partnerships; and Brenna Isman, Director of Academy Studies

4:00 pm – Data-Driven Meaningful Work: How States and Localities Can Use Data in Workforce Development (virtual)

Friday, Nov. 4

School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT

8:30 am – Trends of the Public Sector Workforce

• Patrick J. Flaherty, Director of Research and Information, CT Department of Labor

9:00 am – Panel: Identifying Challenges Facing Local & State Public Workforce Development

• Featuring Natalie Braswell, State Comptroller of CT

10:30 am – Panel: Policies and Partnerships to Enhance the CT Public Sector

• Featuring Luke Bronin, Mayor of Hartford, CT

12:30 pm – Featured Speaker

• Danielle Worthen-Ramos, Chief, Division of Workforce Investment – Region 1, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

12:45 pm – James E. Webb Lecture

• Angela Hanks, Chief of Programs, Demos

About the National Academy of Public Administration

Chartered by Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice, the Academy is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established in 1967 to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations. Learn more at www.napawash.org

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