I watched anxiously as President Joe Biden approached the podium flanked by two Black women. President Biden was about to make history—yet again. With Vice President Kamala Harris by his side, the first woman of color to serve in the role, the announcement that was weeks in the making was finally spoken into existence. Within minutes of their entrance into the grand...
Eight months into the pandemic, we’re trying to find a new use for this blank time, how we can make music of our being here inside, separated, but still together. But here is a fraught word these days. COVID-19 is still here to stay, but hundreds of thousands of our loved ones aren’t anymore. Many of us arrived here overnight, suddenly suffering from...
Governor Jerry Brown to Receive National Academy of Public Administration’s “Elliot L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public Service” Post Date: January 15, 2020 Prize awarded at January 23rd ceremony; Francis Rose to moderate discussion WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration today announced that Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr...
MEDIA ADVISORY National Academy of Public Administration to Host Conversation with OMB Deputy Assistant Director Dustin Brown Post Date: January 20, 2022 EOM Panel and Brown Will Discuss Biden PMA Vision and PMA Learning Agenda WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration’s Standing Panel on Executive Organization and Management (EOM) will host a...
Content Note: This essay describes parental abuse against children and animal abuse. “Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.” Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye was recently...