trachtenberg school of public policy and public administration
Student Receives Net Impact Fellowship
By Perry Yates (MPA 2011)
Receiving the Net Impact Sum- these values while working at Amnesty International to prepare
mer Fellowship Award for her and respond to human rights crises around the world Jacleen
internship with Amnesty Inter- was able to apply tools learned in class to researching ongoing
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national wasn’t the highlight of conflicts in order to prevent human rights abuses and to analyze
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Jacleen Mowery’s (MPP 2010) more effective solutions to rebuilding after natural disasters Her
summer, it was just the begin- other duties included updating the website for the Crisis Preven-
: Jacleen M ning The Net Impact Summer tion and Response team with the most current information on the
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Fellowship Award was designed to applications of science and technology in preventing human rights
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support graduate students atrocities Jacleen is a great example of a Trachtenberg student
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who accept low-pay or unpaid who is exemplifying our values to go out and change the world!
Jacleen Mowery (MPP 2010)
internships that focus on solving
some of the world’s toughest social, environmental, and eco- To view the website Jacleen updated and learn more about
nomic problems Jacleen, a current MPP student, embodied all human rights issues, please see www amnestyusa org/science
International Conference on Governance
By Kathryn Newcomer, Director, Trachtenberg School
The Trachtenberg School hosted the Fifth Annual Transatlantic • Transparency and Accountability in Governance:
Dialogue on “The Future of Governance in Europe and the Evolving Concepts of Accountability for Governmental
U S ” on June 10–13, 2009 This ongoing Dialogue involves and Non-Governmental Actors
North American and European academics in discussions Co-Chairs: Suzanne Piotrowski, Rutgers University—Campus at
about public sector issues, and alternates between meeting Newark, U S A , (spiotrow@rutgers edu) and Sarabajaya Kumar,
in the U S and in Europe Trachtenberg Director Kathryn New- Oxford University, UK, (sarabajaya kumar@sbs ox ac uk)
comer co-chaired the planning committee with Marc Holtzer
of Rutgers University at Newark and Paul Posner of George • How Will Emerging Technologies Transform Governance:
Mason University Emergent Forms of Public Deliberation and Collaboration
Co-Chairs: Priscilla Regan, George Mason University, U S A ,
This year the six workshops focused on: (pregan@gmu edu) and Albert Meijer, Utrecht University, The
• Can the Public Sector Reestablish Its Legitimacy?
Netherlands, (a j meijer@uu nl)
Co-Chairs: Jed Kee, The George Washington University, U S A ,
(jedkee@gwu edu) and Steven van de Walle, Erasmus University
• Collaboration, Hybrid Governance and Networking
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, (vandewalle@fsw eur nl)
Co-Chairs: Alan Abramson, George Mason University, U S A ,
(aabramso@gmu edu) and Chris Skelcher, Birmingham University,
• Financing Governance: Managing Commitments Over
UK, (C K Skelcher@bham ac uk)
the Long Term
Co-Chairs: Philip Joyce, The George Washington University,
The Trachtenberg School sponsored a reception hosted by GW
U S A , (pgjoyce@gwu edu) and Jan-Kees Helderman, Radboud
President Emeritus Stephen Trachtenberg to honor our European
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (j helderman@fm ru nl)
colleagues at the National Botanical Gardens There were about
40 Americans and the same number of Europeans in attendance
• The Contribution of Other Disciplines to the Debate
at the Conference, and all left with a very nice impression of GW
on Governance
The exchange of views and discussion of comparative public
Co-Chairs: Meredith Newman, Florida International University,
policy and administration issues was extremely invigorating It
U S A , (newmanm@fiu edu) and Wim van de Donk, Tilburg
was a huge success
University, The Netherlands, (donk@wrr nl)
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