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Asia Canady, Class of 2019

Student Spotlight: Asia Canady, Class of 2019

Canady talks honestly about her experience as a Harris Public Policy student, including how the math component has been less daunting than she expected.
Americorps

Together, Harris and AmeriCorps Turn Students into Change Agents: Just Ask Wright, McGriffin

Assistant Professor Austin Wright and Director of Career Development Adam McGriffin know the value of service to others and partnerships with service programs like AmeriCorps.
Michael Greenstone

Professor Michael Greenstone Discusses Recent Efforts at Pollution Control

China's recent efforts to curb pollution have had a measured effect, and may result in longer lifespans.
Chris Berry

Professor Chris Berry Discusses New Findings on Cook County Property Tax Inequality

Following up on his research showing inequities in the Cook County property tax assessment system, Professor Chris Berry finds additional data to quantify the inequality.
Jonathan Giuffrida

Mentor Spotlight: Jonathan Giuffrida, MPP'15

Giuffrida parlayed his experience to become the system manager for community benefit at Presence Health, a health system with 150 locations across Illinois. His role is to ask how Presence Health’s hospitals make the communities around them better.

Washington DC Coffee Chat With a Current Student

Alfredo Gomez

Mentor Spotlight: Alfredo Gomez, MPP’91

Gomez, MPP’91, now a Director in the Natural Resources and Environment Team at the US Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C., leads the federal agency’s environmental protection portfolio.
Carolina Rojas-Hayes

Mentor Spotlight: Carolina Rojas-Hayes, MPP’06

Rojas-Hayes’ career has taken her around the world and to many rural parts of her own country in the public sector and bilateral and multilateral organizations. Today she is a senior executive in the Operations Programming Division for CAF.