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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
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- Policy Perspectives
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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
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- 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
An interview with Regina Johnson 1. What drove you to apply to the National Urban Fellows program? I felt stagnant in my role and was looking for an opportunity to…
January 21, 2022
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- 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
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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
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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