FACULTY & STAFF – PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Sally Wallace
MWF-YALI, Program Director
Associate Dean and Professor of Economics
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Sharon L. Hill
MWF-YALI, Academic Director
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Public Management and Policy

Kimberly Hoyt
MWF-YALI, Administrative Director
Program Coordinator Kenny A. Project
Fiscal Research Center

Shereen Bhan
MWF-YALI, Program Manager
Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate
International Center for Public Policy

Jennifer Giarratano
MWF-YALI, Communications Coordinator
PR Manager Dean’s Office

Emma Roach
[email protected]
Logistics
Graduate Research Assistant

Naima Bari
[email protected]
Financial Administrator

Tyler Rogers
[email protected]
Academic & Administration
Graduate Research Assistant
FACULTY & STAFF – ACADEMIC SESSIONS
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

K. Jurée Capers
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Management and Policy

Musharraf Cyan
Research Assistant Professor of Economics
International Center for Public Policy

Dean Dabney
Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

Jorge Martinez-Vasquez
Regents Professor of Economics
Director, International Center for Public Policy

Dr. Glen Ross
Clinical Associate Professor
Center for State and Local Finance
Department of Economics

Ross Rubenstein
Professor and Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational & Community Policy
Department of Public Management and Policy
Non-Profit Studies Program

Cynthia Searcy
Assistant Dean for Academic Programs and Assistant Professor
Department of Public Management and Policy

Michael Shapiro
Clinical Instructor
Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

Ron Shelby
Staff
Ph.D. Candidate Andrew Young Fellowship

John C. Thomas
Associate Professor
Department of Public Management and Policy

Mary Beth Walker
Dean and Professor of Economics
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Laura Wheeler
Senior Research Associate
Center for State and Local Finance

Andrea Idelle Young
Professor of Practice
Department of Public Management and Policy
J. Mack Robinson College of Business

Kris Byron
Associate Professor Managerial Sciences
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
School of Public Health

Dr. Christine Elizabeth Stauber
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

President Carter
39th U.S President
Founder of The Carter Center

Ambassador Andrew Young
Former Mayor of Atlanta
Chair Andrew Young Foundation

Kasim Reed
Mayor of Atlanta
EXTERNAL PRESENTERS

Karen Baynes-Dunning
Associate Director
Governmental Services

Sonji Jacobs Dade
Senior Director
Corporate Affairs at Cox Enterprise

Pierre Ferrari
President and Chief Executive Officer
Heifer International

Udaiyan Jatar
CEO
Blue Earth Network

Vipul Kapadia
Founder at thingshift & VP at Pariveda Solutions

Devika Rao
Vice President of Account Services
O’Neill Communications

Trenny Stovall
Director of DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center (DCCAC)

Michael L. Thurmond
CEO
DeKalb County

Shannon M. Turner
Managing Director at CORE dance

Anupama Vishamitra
Director of Mitigation
Office of the Georgia Capital Defender