Alumni

SPAA Alumni Highlights: Academic Year 2022-2023

July 1, 2022
  • Meril Antony (MPA'17, PhD'22) received the American Society for Public Administration’s (ASPA) 2023 Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (SPALR) Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation, "Essays on Co-Production, Social Equity, and Administration of Schools."
    https://go.rutgers.edu/antony-2023-spalr
     
  • RaJade Berry-James (PhD'99) was elected vice president of the executive council of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA).
    + Berry-James was elected as chair of the Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).
     
  • Amina Bey (MPA'13) was inducted into the 2022 Class of the Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance (RAAA) Hall of Fame.
     
  • Atta Ceesay (PhD'11) received the 2022 Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA).
     
  • Kenneth Douglas (BA'15, MPA'17), director of fire and emergency services for the City of Trenton, NJ, shared his career successes and challenges as an exemplary leader through a conversation with Rutgers SPAA in recognition of Black History Month 2023.
    https://go.rutgers.edu/spaa-bhm-23-douglas
     
  • Victoria Fernandez (MPA'12) took on the newly created role of the Director of Thriving Communities at the Grunin Foundation.
     
  • Patria de Lancer Julnes (PhD'97) was installed as the president of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) for a two-year term.
    + Julnes was named an associate editor of Public Performance & Management Review.
     
  • Cheon Lee (PhD'22) received the 2022 Emerging Scholars Fund Scholarship from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
  • Devane Murphy (BA'18, MPA'20) was named the head intercollegiate debate coach for the University of Kentucky Intercollegiate Debate Team.
     
  • Lolan Sevilla (MPA'20) celebrated their one-year anniversary as the Director of Organizing at Funders for Justice, a national network and organizing platform of funders increasing resources to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color grassroots organizations working at the intersections of racial justice, gender justice, ending criminalization, and building models for community safety and justice.
     
  • Kareem Willis (BA'16, MPA'17, PhD'22) joined Rutgers SPAA as a presidential postdoctoral fellow.
     
  • Kaifeng Yang (PhD'03) was named editor of Public Performance & Management Review.
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