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Against the odds: How a first-gen policy student became a voice for child welfare

Tony Parsons (MPM’24), a Master of Policy Management student in Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, spent much of his childhood in foster care in, …

February 20, 2024

General News
Policy Perspectives
Student Experience

National Urban Fellow Michelle Meza wants to reimagine our democracy

Public service has always been Michelle Meza’s North Star, so it’s fitting that she joined the National Urban Fellows (NUF) class of 2024 at McCourt. Fresh out of the Biden…

October 2, 2023

Discovery & Impact
Student Experience

National Urban Fellow Cecil Brooks Jr. looks to break cycles of poverty

Hailing from the South Bronx in New York, by way of Central America, National Urban Fellow Cecil Brooks Jr. has always obsessed over the intricacies underneath stable. &#…

January 9, 2023

Alumni
Student Experience

Q&A: McCourt and National Urban Fellows alumna Regina Johnson

What drove you to apply to the National Urban Fellows program?  I felt stagnant in my role and was looking for an opportunity to expand my network and shake up my. …

January 21, 2022

Alumni
Student Experience

Q&A: McCourt and National Urban Fellows alum Omar Suarez

Imagine if you could take five year’s worth of career experience and boil it down to a 14-month period of time… That’s the kind of acceleration that NUF provides. Omar…

January 19, 2022

Discovery & Impact
General News

McCourt School deepens commitment to increasing diversity in public service

The McCourt School of Public Policy has deepened its partnership with the National Urban Fellows program by committing to fund full tuition for the Class of 2022 Fellowship.…

January 8, 2021

Student Experience

A Wider View

If you took a snapshot of the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Master of Policy Management (MPM) program 10 years ago, you’d see a classroom full of mostly male, mostly…

November 20, 2020

Discovery & Impact
General News

Dr. Lisa Rawlings Named President and CEO of the National Urban Fellows

Dr. Rawlings is a dynamic leader, a skilled strategist, and a creative problem solver with a tireless work ethic. She brings two decades of experience in the nonprofit and public…

June 26, 2020