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Topics and Speakers

Friday, February 7, 2020

"Ethics"
Ellen Balis, Budget Analyst, House Budget Committee
Mandy Moore, Analyst U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Dan Rodriguez, Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Friday, November 8, 2019

"Transportation Policy"

Angel Aymond (MPP '15), Location Studies Project Manager at Virginia Department of Transportation
Stephanie Bush (MPP, '10), Financial Analyst/Compliance Officer, Virginia Resources Authority
Amanda Baxter (TransUrban), Development Director, Transurban

Friday, September 27, 2019

"Cybersecurity"
Maurice Turner, Senior Technologist for the Center for Democracy & Technology
Walter McClean, Manager at Sony Corporation (and former contractor on cybersecurity at DHS)
Gary Brown, Professor of Cyber Law at the College of Information and Cyberspace, National Defense University

Friday, March 29, 2019

"Federal Role in Education"
Diane Stark Renter, Deputy Director of Center on Education Policy
Susanne James-Burdumy, Director of Federal Education Work at Mathematica
Pat Rooney, Deputy Director of the US Department of Education
Michael Ledford, President of Lewis-Burke Associates

Friday, February 8, 2019

"Women in Policy"
Jill Marsteller (MPP '93), Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Katherine Darke Schmitt (MPP '93), Associate Director, Office for Victims of Crime, US Department of Justice
Lisa August (MPP '02), Examiner, Office of Management and Budget
Carol Blackford (MPP '95), Director at Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Friday, November 2, 2018

"The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Policymaking"
Steve Hammond, Policy & Communications Manager, Tricycle Urban Agriculture
Kim Bobo, Co-Executive Director, the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Eddie Oliver, Executive Director, the Federation of Food Banks

Friday, September 28, 2018

"Immigration Policy"
Carlos Guevara, Senior Policy Advisor, Immigration Policy Project, ORA
Matt O'Brien, Director of Research, FAIR
Paul Schlege, Managing Director of Public Policy, American Farm Bureau Federation

Friday, February 16, 2018

"International Trade, focus on NAFTA renegotiations"
Brian Diffel, Washington Tax & Public Policy Group and Board of Advisor for W&M Public Policy
Jenny Leonard, Reporter, Inside US Trade
Greta Peisch, International Trade Counsel for the Senate Finance Committee (Democratic staff)
Doug Peterson, International Trade Counsel for the Senate Finance Committee (Republican staff)

Friday, October 27, 2017

"Social Safety Net Programs at the State and Local Level"
Massey Whorley (MPP '08), Senior Policy Advisor for Governor McAuliffe
Dr. Risha Berry, Project Management Analyst at the Office of Community Wealth Building

Friday, September 8, 2017

"International Economic Development/Aid"
Sarah Lane, Associate Director at MCC and Algerlynn Gill, Project Officer at MCC
Sean Maloney, Senior Advisor at CARE International
Nick Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at American Enterprise Institute

Friday, April 7, 2017

"Environmental and Energy Policy"
Nick Barbash, Legislative Assistant to Senator Kaine
Micah Barbour, Legislative Correspondent for Senator Warner
Staffers from the House Committee on Natural Resources

Friday, February 17, 2017

"Foreign and Homeland Security Policy"
Christopher Bright, Professional Staffer for the Armed Service Committee
Jim Phillips, Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, the Heritage Foundation

Friday, November 4, 2016

"2016 Election and its Anticipated Effects on Virginia Politics and Policy"
Alexis Rogers, Policy Director for the Lieutenant Governor
Kelly Gee, Majority Leader Kirk Cox’s Chief of Staff
Brian Cannon, Executive Director for One Virginia 2021

Friday, September 16, 2016

"Black Lives Matter"
Chris Greico, Majority Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security & Investigations
Ryan King, Senior Fellow, Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute
Hilary Shelton, NAACP, Director to the NAACP's Washington Bureau / Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy

Friday, March 25, 2016

"2016 Election"
Daniel Cox, Director of Research, Public Religion Research Institute
Chuck Todd, Host of Meet the Press Daily

Friday, February 19, 2016

"Social Media & Policy"
David Oxenford, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer
Rachel Lewis, Digital Strategist, Moxie Strategies

Friday, November 6, 2015

"Higher Ed Policy in Virginia: Key Issues for the Future"
Justin C. Brown, Associate Director, JLARC
Nicole K. Gaffen, Senior Associate Legislative Analyst, JLARC
Nia N. Harrison, Senior Associate Legislative Analyst, JLARC

Friday, September 18, 2015

"Immigration and the 2016 Election"
Michele Waslin, Manager of the Immigration and the States Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Pam Stevens, Deputy Communications Director and Director of Media Affairs, House Republican
Conference
Laura Vazquez, Senior Immigration Legislative Analyst, Office of Research, Advocacy, and
Legislation, National Council of La Raza (NCLR is the largest national Hispanic civil rights and
advocacy organization in the United States)

Friday, April 3, 2015

"Transpacific Partnership"
Cal Cohen, President, Emergency Committee for America Trade
Harry Bader, Professor, University of Alaska

Friday, February 13, 2015

"Assessment and Testing in Education"
Chad Aldeman, Bellwether Education Partners (Chad is a graduate of the Jefferson Program)
Betty Schwoebel-Mill, Director of Assessment, Arlington County Schools
Ben Schaefer, National Conference of State Legislatures

Friday, November 14, 2014

"Economic Development in Richmond and Virginia"
Charles Samuels, President, Richmond City Council
Lee Downey, Director of Economic and Community Development, City of Richmond
Thad Williamson, Director, Office of Community Wealth Building, City of Richmond
Keith Boswell, Managing Director, Business Attraction, Virginia Economic Development Partnership

Friday, September 19, 2014

"Refugees"
Jeffrey Hawks, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Mark Yarnell, Refugees International

Friday, March 28, 2014

"Water Policy"
Thomas Iseman, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Reclamation
Ben Mann, Global Partnerships Director, WASH AdvocatesChristian Holmes, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator and Global Water Coordinator, US Agency for International Development

Friday, February 21, 2014

"Options for Reducing the Deficit"
Jason Wheelock, Congressional Budget Office, Defense Anaylst
Molly Macauley, Economist, Resources for the Future

Friday, November 8, 2013

"Virginia's Gubernatorial Transition:  What's Next?"
Mike Maul, Virginia Department of Planning and Budget
Steve Ford, Department of Medical Assistance Services
Massey Whorley, Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis

Friday, September 13, 2013

"Implementing the Affordable Care Act"
Enrique Martinez-Vidal, Academy Health
Callan Smith, New York Governor's Office
Dana Thompson, Maryland Governor's Office
Charlie Iovino, Iovino Group

Friday, March 29, 2013 (Richmond)

"Transportation Policy"
Jacqueline Cromwell, Program Manager, Office of Transportation
Anne Oman, House Appropriatons Committee
Jason Powell, Senate Finance Committee 

Friday, February 22, 2013

"Immigration Policy"
Kristi J. Boswell, Director of Congressional Relations, American Farm Bureau Federation
Andrea Zuniga DiBitetto, Legislative Representative, AFL-CIO
Ann Morse, Program Director, Immigrant Policy Project, National Conference of State Legislatures 

Friday, November 9, 2012

"Climate Change and International Development" 
John Furlow, USAID
Jessica Sloan, World Bank
Cullen Hendrix, (Professor of Government, W&M)

Friday, September 14, 2012

"Energy"
Peter Robertson, Senior Vice President for Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, America's Natural Gas Alliance
Dan Lipman, Executive Director, Nuclear Energy Institute
Allan Hoffman, Wind Power Program, U.S. Department of Energy 

Friday, March 16, 2012

"Life on the Hill"
Paul Reagan, Chief of Staff for Senator Jim Webb
Kelly Hastings, Staff Member for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee
Michael Day, Chief of Staff for Representative Nydia Velazquez and staff member for the House Small Business Committee

 Friday, February 10, 2012

"The Executive/Agency Side of Policy"
Matthew Dalbey, Director of EPA's Federal and State Division of the Office of Sustainable Communities
Katherine Darke-Schmitt (Program alum and TJ Board Member), Policy Advisor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs in the US State Department of Justice
Sean O'Mealia ('09), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Special Assistant to Director Richard Cordray