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Brooklyn is the New Manhattan… Mitchell L. Moss, Professor of Urban Planning & Policy at NYU Wagner and Director of the … Brooklyn's dramatic emergence as "the new model of urban redevelopment." "In fact," writes Professor Moss in The … 29), "Brooklyn has emerged as a global brand, a symbol of urban creativity—whether in cuisine, poetry, innovative …
Faculty Profile
Jemima A. FrimpongJemima A. Frimpong’s research focuses on the complex dynamics of decision making, and the intersection of information processing and discrimination. She has worked extensively in healthcare organizations, examining how managerial attributes affect the …
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Recent Employment Statistics… work in public and nonprofit management, healthcare, urban planning, policy analysis, public finance, financial … Management & Policy MPA-Health Policy & Management Urban Planning Online Master of Health Administration …
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Nancy Van DevanterNancy Van Devanter, DrPH., is a Professor Emerita at the College of Nursing. She is the former Director of the Mailman School of Public Health, Center for Applied Public Health created to identify, develop, and test replicable models of community academic …
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Undergraduate Offerings Our world is becoming increasingly complex and interconnected—as are the challenges we’re facing. Issues such as urbanization, healthcare, social justice, and inequality call for a new generation of public service leaders who can develop smart solutions …
Alumni In Action
Sam Berzok… to pursue the MPA-PNP degree, I was fascinated to take urban planning courses as well. What was your favorite …
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Child labor: The role of income variablity and access to credit in a cross section of countriesEven though access to credit is central to child labor theoretically, little work has been done to assess its importance empirically. Dehejia and Gatti examine the link between access to credit and child labor at a cross-country level. The authors measure …
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National Journal talks with Professor Ingrid Gould Ellen about Housing Subsidies – and Airbnb… director of the NYU Furman Center For Real Estate and Urban Policy, a leading academic center established by the …
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Centralization of Radical Prostatectomy in the United States… radical prostatectomy volume including teaching status, urban location, large bed size and ownership of a robot in … analysis the year, teaching status, large bed size, urban location and presence of a robot were associated with …
Capstone Projects
Evaluating and Expanding Primary Education Opportunities in NicaraguaProject Alianza (Alianza) is a development project that forms community alliances to build schools and provide educational opportunities for children on private coffee plantations. In Nicaragua, almost a half million school-aged children are not enrolled …
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Kameka WatersKameka Alston Waters is a Lecturer of Health Administration at NYU Wagner. She has dedicated the last eleven of her twenty-year career to the healthcare industry serving as in-house counsel to clinical trial organizations, hospitals, and healthcare IT …
Alumni In Action
Leda Bloomfield… you choose Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to find an urban planning school that connected planning to policy and to real people. I received traditional urban planning training, as well as non-traditional hands-on … Wagner alum working for the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Describe your current job. As a …
News
Alumni Spotlight: Hunter Blas (MPA-PNP 2023)Alumni Spotlight: Hunter Blas (MPA-PNP 2023), development manager, Elemental Impact Can you share your journey into climate technology? What initially drew you to this field, and how did your time at NYU Wagner shape your goals? My journey into climate …
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Saurabh BhargavaDr. Saurabh Bhargava is a behavioral economist and Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner, and an academic affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. He was previously an Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, …
Capstone Projects
ADOPTING A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH FOR SETTING ADVOCACY PRIORITIESDay One is a nonprofit organization that partners with youth to end dating abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV) through an empowerment model of community education, supportive services, legal advocacy, and leadership development. Day One’s clients …
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Student Spotlight: Glenda Kee (MPA-PNP)Name: Glenda Kee Hometown: Singapore Program and Specialization: MPA-PNP, International Policy and Management Current employment: Teaching Assistant for UPADM-GP 140 Economics for Public Policy 1. Tell us about yourself: I’m Glenda, a …
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Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in American Cities (undergraduate)… often found at the center of disputes concerning urban development, the allocation of city resources and …Alumni In Action
Dennis LiuTell me about your background when you started at NYU Wagner. When I joined Wagner in 2019, I was practicing as a hospital medicine Physician Assistant (PA) for about six years. At the time, I practiced as a medicine PA at Montefiore Medical Center while …
Alumni In Action
Namon Freeman… and a BA in Spanish. I worked as an architect in urban design firms for some time. While working in … that I could have the most impact in cities by shaping the urban policy and regulatory frameworks that govern the built … also had an advantage being located in NYC, the preeminent urban environment in the Western hemisphere. This location …
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NYU Wagner Graduates Gather in New E 17th Street Home for AlumNite 2025On June 12, 2025, NYU Wagner hosted AlumNite—the first time this celebration and fundraiser was hosted in its new home on East 17th Street—welcoming graduates ranging from the Classes of 1976 to 2025. Following a reception for the Host Committee …
Alumni In Action
Traci Sanders… degree, and a series of very fortunate events led me to Urban Planning. The two most important factors in my …
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NYU Wagner-USCM Institute for Mayors Provides Framework for Future Smart City Solutions Using Digital Data and New Technologies… run smarter. Under the guidance of faculty members and urban affairs experts Gordon Campbell and Neil Kleiman, NYU … meet the challenge of doing more with less” are growing in urban America. … “Technology alone can’t solve every urban problem,” he said, “but it’s a powerful and …
Stories
#MyWagnerLife: María Paz Hermosilla (MPA-PNP) TODAY!Follow current student @mphermosilla as she takes us through a day in the life at @nyuniversity #MyWagnerLife pic.twitter.com/e0kmAIglmf — NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) March 4, 2015 Looking forward to following @mphermosilla tomorrow as she tweets …