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Grand Challenge News Mar 18, 2020

A Social Equity Lens for COVID-19 Action: 10 Key Questions

By Phillip J. Cooper, Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration and Douglas and Candace Morgan Professor of Local Government, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University A Social Equity Len…

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General News Mar 5, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Stan Soloway ('16)

Stan Soloway is President & CEO of Celero Strategies, LLC, a full-service strategic consultancy focused on the federal market. Celero Strategies is Soloway’s latest step in a career during which he has become widely …

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Grand Challenge News Feb 26, 2020

Roundtable on Connecting Individuals to Meaningful Work

How should the MPA curriculum be adapted to meet future workforce needs? David Gragan Nearly all MPA curricula require similar evidence of mastery of a common body of knowledge—for example, The Principals of Public Pol…

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General News Feb 13, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Steven O. App ('05)

Steven O. App is the former Deputy to the Chairman and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) -- retired May 2019. As a member of the senior leadership team, he served as a key …

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General News Jan 9, 2020

Meet our Fellows: David Medina ('16)

David Medina currently serves as the COO and Co-Founder of Results for America. David previously served in Obama Administration as First Lady Michelle Obama’s deputy chief of staff and as the Peace Corps’ public engageme…

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General News Dec 20, 2019

Fellow Article: Federal State Coordination of the American Recovery Act During the Great Recession

The three authors include Raymond Scheppach, previously the Executive Director of the National Governors Association during ARRA and now Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at …

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General News Dec 9, 2019

Meet our Fellows: Ms. Antoinette Samuel ('09)

Antoinette A. Samuel served as deputy executive director of the National League of Cities (NLC) from 2013 to her retirement in 2019. NLC is the nation’s oldest and largest national organization representing municipal gov…

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Standing Panel News Nov 15, 2019

Registration Open for 2020 Social Equity Leadership Conference

The 19th Annual Social Equity Leadership Conference (SELC) is co-sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and co-sponsored and hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (HHH) at the Univers…

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General News Oct 17, 2019

Meet our Fellows: Peter Hutchinson ('08)

Peter Hutchinson has a long history in the Minnesota public sector. In 1975, Hutchinson served as a Deputy Mayor of Minneapolis; he's served as the state's Commissioner of Finance, the superintendent of the Minneapolis P…

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General News Sep 12, 2019

Meet our Fellows: John Kamensky ('10)

John Kamensky is a senior fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government in Washington, DC, which sponsors research on management challenges facing government leaders. During 24 years of public service, he had…

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General News Aug 28, 2019

Meet Our Fellows: Belkis Leong-Hong ('15)

Ms. Belkis Leong-Hong is the Founder, President, and CEO of Knowledge Advantage Inc., a woman-owned, SDB-certified company specializing in delivery of a wide array of services on Information Technology and Knowledge Mana…

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General News Aug 12, 2019

Meet Our Fellows: Don Bathurst ('18)

Mr. Donald Bathurst retired from federal service December 31, 2018, as Executive Director for Emergency Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security. Throughout his career his areas of focus included strategic ali…

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