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November 2013
In This IssuePolicy Residency Concludeswith "Orange is the NewBlack" Talk
Merck Grant SupportsWellspring Growth
CPPA Turns 15
Touring Springfield to ExamineNew Tech Possibilities
Professional DevelopmentSeminar Goes to Boston
Badgett Remarks HighlightLGBT Landmarks
Fountain Publications Focuson Improving Government
Schweik Featured in UMassArticle
Alumni Updates
Events
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m.Roundtable Discussion:Reproductive Justice andthe Prison IndustrialComplexFive College policy residentTina Reynolds participates in aconversation with locally andnationally based activists andadvocates who work at theintersection of reproductivejustice and the criminal justicesystem.Franklin Patterson Hall,faculty lounge, HampshireCollege Thursday, Nov. 21, 4 p.m."Orange is the New Black":The Age of MassCriminalization of WomenFive College policy residentTina Reynolds and PiperKerman, author of Orange isthe New Black: My Year in aWomen's Prison, discusswomen's rights in America'sprison industrial complex andthe new Netflix series basedon Kerman's memoir.Commonwealth Honors
News & Updates
"Orange is the New Black" Author to Speak at End of FiveCollege Social Justice Policy Residency ProgramThe Five College Social Justice PractitionerinResidence program is concluding this week with apowerhouse schedule, including a conversationbetween resident Tina Reynolds and Piper Kerman,author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in aWomen's Prison. Reynolds is the cofounder andexecutive director of Women on the Rise TellingHerStory (WORTH), a nonprofit organization in NewYork City that works with currently and formerly
incarcerated women toconfront barriers they and their families face duringand after prison. Kerman, a Smith College alumna,spent most of 2004 in the Women's Federal PrisonCamp in Danbury, Conn., completing time for a drugrelated money laundering charge. She is now a publicrelations consultant, working with publicinterestorganizations and nonprofits. Kerman and Reynoldswill discuss women's rights in America's prisonindustrial complex and the new Netflix television
series based on Kerman's memoir.
Merck Grant to Support Next Phase of Wellspring's GrowthThe Wellspring Collaborative is growing. TheSpringfield economic development project codirectedby CPPA lecturer Fred Rose has received a $45,000grant from the John Merck Fund to support marketresearch and planning for a cooperatively ownedgreenhouse business. This will be the collaborative's second businessventure; the first, an upholstery shop, will launch within the next severalweeks. Based on Cleveland's successful Evergreen Cooperatives,Wellspring aims to establish cooperatively owned businesses in Springfield,strengthening the region's economy by providing city residents with jobs andby selling goods and services to local anchor institutions such as hospitalsand universities.
CPPA Community Celebrates 15 Years and Looks AheadMore than 100 people gathered last weekto celebrate the Center for Public Policyand Administration's 15th anniversary.State Rep. Ellen Story joined current andformer faculty and staff, as well as friends,students and alumni including twograduates from CPPA's original class inmarking CPPA's accomplishments to dateand looking forward to many more years ofinnovative teaching, research and service.
Visit our Facebook page for more photos.
Students
Research Methods Class Tours Springfield with Eye onTechnology for the Common Good
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College Events Hall, UMassAmherst Monday, Dec. 2, noonWOAA! (Women OrganizingAcross Ages): Hear OurStories for JusticeAssociate Professor AlineGubrium (public health) talksabout her recent research inthe final CPPA FacultyColloquium lecture of thesemester.Thompson 620
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Students in the Participatory Visual andDigital Research Methods class took awalking tour of Springfield last weekend toexamine how new technologies couldimprove public spaces and services in thecity in the near future. Rep. Richard Nealjoined the tour, which stopped at the Lymanand Merrie Wood Museum of SpringfieldHistory; the Springfield Data Center; the RogerL. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy; Indian Orchard Mills; and theGeek Group of Western Massachusetts. The class, taught by AssociateProfessor Krista Harper (anthropology and public policy) and lecturerGretchen Gano, is part of a national project called Futurescape City Tours,which is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Professional Development Seminar Travels to BostonEarlier this month students met with representativesfrom organizations and government agencies during adaylong professional development trip to Boston andCambridge. Under the guidance of Associate DirectorSatu Zoller, the group visited CPPA alumni MicheleDesAutels (MPPA/MBA '08) and Kevin Greer(MPPA/MBA '09) at the U.S. Coast Guard and NewProfit, Inc. The class also had appointments atJumpStart; Gov. Deval Patrick's office; theMassachusetts Department of EnvironmentalProtection; and Mathematica Policy Research.
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Badgett Remarks Highlight Two LGBT LandmarksComments from Professor M.V. Lee Badgett(economics) have made national news recently, astwo public policies related to gay rights have markedsignificant milestones. Earlier this month, the U.S.Senate passed the Employment NonDiscriminationAct, which would make it illegal to discriminate in theworkplace based on sexual orientation. Badgetttestified in favor of the bill last year and wasinterviewed by Inc. after the Senate passed it. Inaddition, Badgett was quoted widely in articlesmarking the 10th anniversary of the Massachusetts Supreme JudicialCourt's ruling to allow samesex marriage in the state.
Fountain Publishes Report on CrossAgency Collaborationand Article on Rollout of HealthCare.gov
Professor Jane Fountain (political science and publicpolicy) released a report last month titled "ExaminingConstraints To, and Providing Tools For, CrossAgency Collaboration," through the AdministrativeConference of the United States, a publicprivatepartnership whose goal is to make government workmore efficiently. In addition, Fountain published anarticle for the London School of Economics analyzingthe rollout of the federal health care exchange,HealthCare.gov.
Schweik's Unique Research Combination the Focus of NewFeature ArticleAssociate Professor Charles Schweik (environmentalconservation and public policy) is featured in a newarticle on the UMass Research Next website. Thepiece highlights Schweik's trajectory from computerprogrammer to tenured professor and examines howhe is using his research and field work to try to tacklesome of the world's wicked problems.
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Alumni
Thank you to all the CPPA alumni who stopped by during the networkingevent and happy hour at the end of the professional development trip toBoston earlier this month!
Christa Drew (MPPA '11) was featured recently in an article onGoLocalWorcester.com. Drew is the executive director of the Worcesterbased Center for Nonviolent Solutions and program manager of theMassachusetts Food Policy Alliance. CPPA wants to hear from you! Update your information through our AlumniUpdate Form or drop us a line at [email protected].
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