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Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Olsson (MPA-PNP 2011)… directly impacted communities and strengthening the leadership of those closest to the ground. Your career … deeper understanding of the injustices within that system as well. Ultimately, I realized that all these issues are … just how often directly impacted communities are excluded from decision making as the Senior Policy Associate for the …
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Alumni Spotlight: Errol Pierre (MPA-HPAM 2013)… of Wagner’s Health Policy MPA program, he has held senior leadership roles across major health plans, including Empire … BlueShield, Healthfirst, and Anthem, and currently serves as Chief Growth Officer at Healthfirst. In addition to his … in the richest country in the world. After graduating from college, I began working full time at Empire BlueCross …
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Alumni Spotlight: Alvin Irby (MPA-PNP 2015)… and innovative literacy tools. Drawing on his experience as an educator, nonprofit leader, and Wagner alumnus, Alvin’s … one of my students in the barbershop across the street from the school. Watching him sit bored and antsy made me … and accessible. Your background includes nonprofit leadership, comedy, and children’s writing. How do these …
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Student Spotlight: Santana Kavanaugh (MPA-PNP 2025)… them with community-led, restorative solutions. In her leadership, she champions a philosophy of "bottom-up" change, … local and global contexts. What drew you to public policy as a field of study, specifically focusing on International … to challenging systems of inequity globally stems from my personal beliefs as a decolonialist and from …
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Melissa Beck… Before she joined the Sozosei Foundation, she served as executive director of The Educational Foundation of … the foundation was the victim of an embezzlement. Her leadership ensured a new pathway forward for EFA that was … of Hampshire College, Melissa earned her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and holds a …
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Online MHA Frequently Asked Questions… You will be prepared to assume leadership roles in hospitals, community healthcare clinics, … entering the Online MHA program, you will be able to move from entry-level management jobs to supervisory positions (such as a front-line manager), to positions where you manage …
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Laura Gale… Laura is a leadership development practitioner and an Adjunct Assistant … Nightingale Coaching & Consulting, where she works as a facilitator, coach and change consultant, partnering … transformative learning theory, as well as her training from New Ventures West, the Art of Transformational …
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Laura Kavanagh… Laura served as the 34th New York City Fire Commissioner, overseeing the … worked on some of the most complex public policy issues, from universal pre-K implementation and congestion pricing to … Security. She is currently a keynote speaker and writer on leadership, transformation, and resiliency. …
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Health & Wellness… in degree-granting programs maintain health insurance. As an international student, you are automatically enrolled … with faculty, staff, and students, is to play a leadership role both at New York University and within the … at all levels in order to create an environment free from discrimination, harassment, retaliation and/or sexual …
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Social Change Leadership Practices… Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Laurie Goldman and Sonia Ospina. The Leadership Task of Prompting Cognitive Shifts: Shaping … and the role of cognitive shifts in the work of leadership. The Leadership Quarterly 19, : 514-29. … 2010. Building bridges from the margins: The work of leadership in social change organizations. The Leadership …
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Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy… Develop expertise in areas such as climate change, criminal justice, education, health, … with strong management principles and visionary leadership. Learn more about the Management & Leadership specialization … We invite students from all majors and backgrounds who demonstrate aptitude in …
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Participants and Projects… with the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) as a Program Officer. She is responsible for managing … that have created barriers to inhibit women and girls from enjoying their economic rights in Ghana. Cynthia holds a … and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Sociology from the University of Ghana. Action Learning Project (ALP) …
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CYC: The S.E.E. Strategies… opportunities are there in my courses to use assignments as a way to further my career exploration? (e.g. is there an organization in my field of interest that I can use as a case study for a project?) How can I use an assignment … books or publications are most often cited or mentioned as having influenced the field? What online resources should …
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SUMMER 2024 LEAD AND PARKE FELLOWS… policy. Art changes culture and culture changes policy. As a theater/film performer and composer, Afsar is excited to … up her last year at Wagner to understand the intersection from the policy perspective. As a fellow for Headcount, Afsar … of creating political education to combat voter apathy from a nonpartisan perspective. As a LEAD Fellow , Arianna …
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Sonia M. Ospina… governance have produced research on social change leadership, social innovation, and public accountability, … both in the United States and in Latin America. Apart from her numerous journal publications, her latest books are … Center for Leadership in Action in 2003, where she served as Faculty Co-Director until 2015. She is an elected Fellow …
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Course Highlights… and health, wage theft, misclassification of workers as independent contractors, the fissured workplace, labor … economic activity have long been present in the economy, from consumer cooperatives to nonprofit enterprises. As … institutions in the largest city in the country shows that leadership isn’t innate, it’s built. In this class, she …
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Garrett Lucien… Vice President of Programs and Training at Coro New York Leadership Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of … Development (SoBRO) for eight years, most recently as the Senior Director of Economic Development and Financial … new businesses throughout the Bronx. Garrett holds a B.A. from SUNY New Paltz and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of …
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Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment (SI3) Specialization… , Microeconomics CORE-GP.1020 , Management and Leadership CORE-GP.1021 , Financial Management CORE-GP.1022 , … and skills, you may also wish to choose electives from across course offerings, including from the school-wide … . Relevant school-wide focus areas for you to consider as a Social Impact specialization MPA student include …
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PNP - Management - Checksheet… MPA-PNP: MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP I. DEGREE CORE REQUIREMENTS [15 CREDITS] Students … 2110*, 2135, 2170* (*2110 and 2170 strongly recommended as the 2 courses to take prior to capstone) 1.5 credits … 1018, 1020, 1021, 1022 AND PADM-GP 2902 and PADM-GP 2171 AS WELL AS CO-REQUISITES (taken no later than fall of …
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Toward inclusive leadership scholarship: Inviting the excluded to theorize collective leadership… Growing interest in collective leadership challenges the heroic models of the leadership … broader lens to look for leadership. Theorizing leadership from the experience of marginalized groups in a … if it is to offer insights about the human condition. As new voices shift from the margins to the center, and enter …
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David Schachter… consulting, and facilitation nationally in the areas of leadership, staff development, supervision, team building, … designed to educate college career services professionals from across the country on how to increase the visibility and … Management, one of New York’s largest providers of leadership and management technical assistance to the …
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Susan Misra… so that people prioritize the planet, biota, and humans as much as they prioritize their own self-interest? How can … on a range of topics such as strengthening senior leadership and fundraising of grassroots organizations, … electoral politics. Susan holds a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, …
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Ma Fides Talania, NYU Wagner, Named Global First Runner-Up of the 2021 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition… and the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy have announced the … Championship on April 17. This year, over 400 students from 120 universities in 30 countries took part in the … “Simulation-based learning is incredibly valuable, as it applies theory to practice, and goes beyond …