2012-2013 Urban Public Policy Fellowship Program

In partnership with:

The Urban Public Policy Fellowship (UPPF) program, a new program designed to expose historically underrepresented

minority undergraduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to

key public policy issues.

UPPF Fellows were selected through a highly competitive process that

considered grade point average, history of engagement, and leadership

experience.

UPPF Fellows attended weekly seminars throughout the spring semester.

Seminars included policy issues, project management, research, government

issues and education budget information.

UPPF Fellows presented Public Policy Posters at the IALHEA Research

Conference, April 5, 2013.

UPPF Fellows were also assigned an internship designed to expose him or her

to the theory and practice of public policy-making, advocacy, community development, and service provision.

The UPPF program is administered through the Institute for Policy and Civic

Engagement (IPCE), in partnership with the Latin American Recruitment and

Educational Services Program (LARES) and the African-American Academic

Network (AAAN).

•Alivio Medical Center

•Center of Excellence in

Eliminating Health Disparities

•Chicago Commons

•Chicago Legal Clinic

•Little Village Environmental Justice

Organization

•Cook County

•Environmental Control

•Edge Alliance

•Girls in the Game

•Illinois African American

Coalition for Prevention

•Illinois Coalition for

Immigrant & Refugee Rights

•Illinois Council Against Hand Gun Violence

•Institute for Health

•Research & Policy (IHRP)

•Latino Policy Forum

•Office of Congressman Danny Davis

•The Black Star Project

•UIC Center for Clinical & Translational Science

•UIC Office of Sustainability

2012-2013 UPPF Partnerships & Internship Locations

Oluwabukola Ajasa

Noely Alicea

Manuel Andrés Beltrán

Sara Cruz

Jacquelyn Delgado

Addis Enyew

Rosio Galarza

Samantha Gordon

Obehi Ilenikhena

Gabriela Illa

Alexander Kimbrough

Justina Lebron

Jamesetta Mator

Albert Murphy

Maab Osman

Brittney Marie Shurn

Elizabeth Torres

Alma Zamudio

2012-2013 Urban Public Policy Fellows

Urban Public Policy Fellowship

2012-2013 Highlights

UPPF Seminar Sessions

Harold Washington Library Site Visit: Facing History and Ourselves Exhibit

Steve Tozer, PhD College of Education, UIC

Dick Simpson, PhDProfessor, Political Science Department UIC

ROSA CABRERA, PhDDirector, UIC Latino Cultural Center

UIC Latino Cultural Center

Thea Crum & Maria Hadden, Participatory Budgeting Project

UPPF Community Service

25th Ward Thanksgiving Holiday Luncheon

UPPF Alumni; 2010-2012 UPPF Cohorts

Albert Murphy, 2012-2013 UPPF Fellow

Catalina Nava, IPCE Program Coordinator

Alderman Danny Solis, 25th Ward

IALHEA Research Forum

UPPF Fellow Posters

THANK YOU!