Faculty & Staff
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
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Sally Wallace MWF-YALI, Program Director Dean and Professor of Economics Andrew Young School of Policy Studies |
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Sharon L. Hill MWF-YALI Academic Director Clinical Associate Professor Department of Public Management and Policy |
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Tyler Rogers MWF-YALI Administrative Director Research Associate I Center for State and Local Finance |
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Jennifer Giarratano MWF-YALI, Communications Coordinator PR Manager Dean’s Office |
ACADEMIC SESSIONS
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
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K. Jurée Capers Assistant Professor Department of Public Management and Policy |
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Dean Dabney Associate Professor Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology |
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Charles Hankla Associate Professor International Center for Public Policy |
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Harvey Newman Professor Emeritus Department of Public Management and Policy |
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Glen Ross Clinical Associate Professor Center for State and Local Finance |
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Ross Rubenstein Professor and Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational & Community Policy Department of Public Management and Policy Non-Profit Studies Program |
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Cynthia Searcy Assistant Dean for Academic Programs and Assistant Professor Department of Public Management and Policy |
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Michael Shapiro Clinical Instructor Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology |
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Ron Shelby Assistant Director, Executive Education Center for State and Local Finance Ph.D. Candidate Andrew Young Fellowship |
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John C. Thomas Associate Professor Department of Public Management and Policy |
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Mary Beth Walker Dean and Professor of Economics Andrew Young School of Policy Studies |
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Laura Wheeler Senior Research Associate Center for State and Local Finance |
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
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Kris Byron Associate Professor Managerial Sciences J. Mack Robinson College of Business |
School of Public Health
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Dr. Christine Elizabeth Stauber Assistant Professor School of Public Health |
Distinguished Speakers
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Ambassador Andrew Young Former Mayor of Atlanta, Chair Andrew Young Foundation |
EXTERNAL PRESENTERS
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Omotayo Alli Chief Administrative Officer Fulton County Juvenile Court |
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April Campbell Program Director, Central Outreach and Advocacy Center |
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Robert Ebel Senior Adviser in the Energy and National Security Program Center for Strategic and International Studies |
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Virginia Floyd Associate Clinical Professor Morehouse School of Medicine |
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Udaiyan Jatar CEO Blue Earth Network |
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Vipul Kapadia Founder at thingshift & VP at Pariveda Solutions |
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Joyce Latson Founder, Women Helping Women, Inc. |
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Ike Okosun Associate Professor, Director of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Georgia State University |
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Kimberly Parker Executive Director, Central Outreach and Advocacy Center |
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John Preli Director, Regulatory Management & Data Governance IBM Corporation |
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Devika Rao Vice President of Account Services O’Neill Communications |
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Jennifer Swain Executive Director youthSpark |
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R. Demetrius Taylor |
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Michael L. Thurmond CEO DeKalb County |
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Shannon M. Turner Managing Director at CORE dance |
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Shameka Wells Director, Women’s Resource Center Kennesaw State University |