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Susan DaviesOver the course of her career, Adjunct Assistant Professor Sue Davies has raised more than $250 million for nonprofits. In 2017, New York Nonprofit Media named her one of the Top 50 over 50 Nonprofit Leaders in New York City. Currently serving as a Senior …
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Ellen Schall Experience Fund (ESEF)Action Against Hunger Akilah Institute Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Asian Development Bank Beijing Forever Henghuaï Technology Co., Ltd. Cause Strategy Partners, LLC Center for an Urban Future China Center for Urban Development China General Chamber …
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Leadership, Diversity and RaceFoldy, E. G. & Ospina, S. 2015. “ Leadership styles, ethnicity and race. ” Entry for Hou, Xiaoshuo (ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Blackwell. Ospina, S., El Hadidy, W. Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion: Insights from …
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PADM-GP.2472
Climate EconomicsEconomics—misguided market forces—is at the core of most environmental problems. Economics—guiding market forces in the right direction—is also fundamental to the solution. In this course we develop some of the fundamental economic tools for environmental …News
NYU Wagner Student Jibreel Jalloh Selected as Obama Foundation ScholarNYU Wagner student Jibreel Jalloh (MPA 2026) has been selected for the prestigious Obama Foundation Scholars program , recognizing his outstanding leadership in nonprofit advocacy. Jalloh, who is the first NYU student ever to be selected for the program, …
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Project Leadership and Advisory BoardThad Calabrese studies public and nonprofit financial management, broadly focusing on the management and governance of public and not-for-profit organizations, as well as the institutions that affect managerial decision-making in these entities. His …
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Should Capstone Activities Be Subject to the Human Subjects Review Process?Like many schools of public policy and management, New York University's Wagner School offers a capstone course in which teams of MPA students provide consultation to client organizations, This year, as the they began to assign students to teams, some …
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NYU Wagner has Strong Presence in Mayor de Blasio's New AppointmentsNYU Wagner congratulates one of our faculty members, two alumni, and a current student for their newly announced appointments to leadership positions in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration. Mayor de Blasio announced in a press conference …
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Professor Martha E. Stark Receives NYU's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty AwardNYU Wagner is pleased to announce that Martha E. Stark , Clinical Professor of Public Service and Director of the Management Specialization, is a recipient of New York University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award for 2022–2023. The Dr. Martin …
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Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Visits NYU WagnerMarilyn Tavenner, Administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), visited NYU Wagner on January 30 and fielded questions about her extensive career, management learnings, and the Affordable Care Act from Dean Sherry Glied and a …
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NYU Wagner Student Focuses Attention on Persistence of FGM Around the WorldThe British newspaper The Guardian this week features Aissata M.B. Camara, an MPA student at NYU Wagner specializing in International Public & Nonprofit Management, in a news video about the persistence of Female Genital Mutilation ( FGM ) in many …
Alumni In Action
Anna VerdiyanHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? New York did not just impact my professional journey, it defined it entirely. Inspired by my mother’s transfer to New York City to lead global child development efforts in her position at …
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Sherry GliedIn 2013, Sherry Glied was named Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. From 1989-2013, she was Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She was Chair of …
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Bill de Blasio selected as 2023 Marnold Visiting Fellow at NYU WagnerBill de Blasio, the former mayor of New York City, will join New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service as the 2023 Marnold Visiting Fellow. Arriving in January, he will give formal talks, engage directly with students, …
Capstone Projects
Are you Ready, New York? Developing and Piloting an Evaluative Tool for Assessing a NYC Emergency Preparedness ProgramThe Incident Based Distribution Program (IBD) operated by Ready New York mails emergency preparedness literature to areas recently affected by emergencies in order to increase public safety and encourage New Yorkers to prepare for emergency situations. …
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Transforming 4th Avenue into a Community Asset4th Avenue is a key through road connecting Downtown Brooklyn to the Verrazzano Bridge, beginning at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues. Schools, churches, and auto repair shops shape the character of the 6.2 mile long avenue. Recognizing …
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The Relationship of Life Stressors and Maternal Depression to Pediatric Asthma Morbidity in a Subspecialty PracticeObjective: To examine the relationships among demographic characteristics, caregiver life stressors, and depressive symptoms of mothers and their children's asthma morbidity. Setting: Three pediatric asthma subspecialty programs, 2 in the inner city and 1 …
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The Role of Social and Behavioral Science in Public Health Practice: A Study of the New York City Department of HealthStudies over the last decade have demonstrated the effectiveness of public health interventions based on social and behavioral science theory for many health problems. Little is known about the extent to which health departments are currently utilizing …
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Student Spotlight: Ana Gabriela Cerón-OviedoAna Gabriela Cerón-Oviedo, MPA-PNP 2025 Can you share a bit about yourself and what motivated you to attend a school of public service? I was born and raised in Colombia and moved to New York City to pursue my Master of Public Administration at NYU …
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Large City Technical Exchange and Assistance Program Final Report: Inter-jurisdictional Coordination for Traffic Management, Interagency Sharing of Fiber Optic Systems, Planning for Pedestrians in Large Urban CentersSchaller, B. … Large City Technical Exchange and Assistance Program Final Report: Inter-jurisdictional Coordination for Traffic Management, Interagency Sharing of Fiber Optic Systems, Planning for Pedestrians in Large Urban …
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URPL-GP.2652
Urban Infrastructure Project PlanningThis course is about the process of scoping and planning public sector investment projects and the basic knowledge and skills required for their financial and economic appraisal (‘ex-ante’ evaluation). The focus is on urban infrastructure projects …Publication
The paradox of embedded agency: Straw-man argument or central epistemological issue?Battilana, J. & T. D'Aunno … The paradox of embedded agency: Straw-man argument or central epistemological issue? …
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Elizabeth AngelesElizabeth Angeles is currently the Senior Director of Advocacy at the United Way of New York City, a nonprofit organization that fights for the health, education and financial stability of every New Yorker. Prior to this work, in her role at the Clinton …
Alumni In Action
Lucia GoyenHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? Without Wagner and New York, I truly do not believe that I would be where I am today nor would I have had the experiences I did. Being here allowed me to intern at two wonderful, top-level …