CIPA Colloquium is a public affairs seminar series. This forum features invited speakers who engage participants in discussions of issues facing public affairs and public policy professionals. All colloquia are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. The public is encouraged to attend!
CIPA Colloquium is also a one-credit course for all CIPA students (GOV 6999); enrollment is required for each semester that a CIPA fellow is in residence at Cornell. While many students specialize in a policy subfield during their graduate careers, the colloquium series is structured to provide students with the opportunity to engage distinguished scholars and practitioners across subfields. Attendance at this series is an essential aspect of a student's professional development while at CIPA.
Colloquia are held on Thursdays (please see the schedule below) from 4:30-5:45 p.m. in 233 Plant Science.
This series is funded in part by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Finance Commission.
September 3
From Federal Government Contracting to Life in Local Government: Skills for Success
Paula Younger
Deputy County Administrator, Tompkins County
September 10
Keeping Disability in the Forefront of an Evolving Cross-Cutting Public Policy Agenda
Judith Heumann
Director, Washington DC Department of Disability Services
Co-Sponsored by the ILR Employment and Disability Institute
September 17
Census and Sensibility: The Politics and Science of the 2010 Enumeration
Robert Goldenkoff
Director of Strategic Issues, US Government Accountability Office
September 24
A Young Professional's Perspective on the Policymaking Process
Ryan Close
Presidential Management Fellow, US Department of State
October 1
The Role of Social Entrepreneurs in Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods and Social Equity in South Asia
Venkatesh Raghavendra
Chief Philanthropy Officer, American India Foundation
*Co-Sponsored by the Cornell South Asia Program
October 8
Civil Liberties in the Age of Obama
Susan Herman
President, American Civil Liberties Union
October 15
Trends in American Culture, Community, and New Communications Technology
John Morse
President and Founder, Byron Media
October 22
Principles of US Energy Policy
John Lowe
George W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law, Southern Methodist University
October 29
What We Can Learn About Energy and Geopolitics from the Cover of The Economist Magazine
Adam Sieminski
Chief Energy Economist, Deutsche Bank
*Co-Sponsored by the Johnson Graduate School of Management Energy Club
November 5
The United Nations Programme on Public Administration and Development
Haiyan Qian
Director, Division for Public Administration and Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
November 12
Building Self-Reliance through Community-Led Water Services and Technologies
Gemma Bulos
Founder, A Single Drop
November 19
Connecting Low-Income Smallholder Farmers to Markets: The Purchase for Progress Initiative
Ken Davies, Director, World Food Programme Purchase for Progress Program
*Co-Sponsored by the Institute for African Development
Spring 2009
January 22
Modeling Labor Market Policies
Gary Fields
Professor of Labor Economics and the
John P. Windmuller Chair in International and Comparative Labor,
Cornell University
January 28
Accelerating Effective Microfinance
Edward Bland
President, Unitus
February 5
Strategic Nonprofit Concepts
Greg Loushine and Ashley Sloan
Founders, Live St. Bernard
*Co-sponsored by the CIPA-New Orleans Professional Partnership
February 12
They'll Take it from Here...MCC and the Implications of Country Ownership
Jason Bauer
Director of Private Sector Initiatives, Millennium challenge Corporation
February 19
Medellin: From Fear to Hope
Sergio Fajardo
Former Mayor of Medellin, Colombia
*Co-sponsored by the Latin American Students Program, the Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Colombian Student Association, the Cornell Law School, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
March 5
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Kris Holloway
Author of Monique and the Mango Rains and
Director of Institutional Relations, Center for International Studies
*Co-sponsored by the Cornell Global Public Health Program, Cornell Health International, and the Cornell Student Society for Public Health
March 12
Beyond Microfinance: Finance for the 'Missing Middle' in Africa and Latin America
Brian Milder
Director of Strategy and Innovation, Root Capital
March 26
Implications of a Federal Carbon Program for Renewable Portfolio Standards Policies
Mark DeAngelis, CIPA MPA 1992
Managing Director, RNK Capital, LLC
April 9
The Homosexual Agenda Revisited
Jaime Grant
Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute
April 16
Global Nonprofit Public Affairs Management
William Martin
President, United States Council for International Business
April 23
Perspectives on Opportunities for Government and Commercial Interactions
William Prantl
Project Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton
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