Domestic and Gender Policy Alumni Career Panels

Date & Time Feb 24 2023 2:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location Robertson Hall
Bowl 016
Topics Families, Children Finance, Fiscal and Monetary Policy Health Housing, Communities, Neighborhoods Poverty, Inequality, Opportunity Race, Gender, Identity
Department Graduate Career Development
Speaker(s)
Domestic and Gender Policy Alumni Career Panels
Audience Restricted to SPIA graduate students, faculty and fellows

 

Join SPIA’s Graduate Career Development and Alumni Relations, SPIA in NJ, and the Gender Policy Network for an afternoon of alumni panels, including:

Careers in Domestic Social Policy: Alumni on the Realities of Implementing Equitable Federal and Local Policy

Careers in Gender Policy

Panels will be followed by a networking event for students to meet the panelists and other area alumni representing a diverse range of organizations and policy areas centered on economic equity. Note: Alumni will be in town through the weekend for Alumni Day on Saturday, so we encourage students to schedule additional followup chats and coffees! 

Friday, February 24th 

2:00--3:00 PM Careers in Domestic Social Policy: Alumni on the Realities of Implementing Equitable Federal and Local Policy, moderated by Anastasia Mann, Lecturer in SPIA and Founding Director of SPIA in NJ

  • Ashwin Warrior MPA *20, Program Analyst, U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Adam Kent MPA *14, Senior Advisor, Green Finance Center, Natural Resource Defense Council
  • Farah Ahmad MPA *12, Deputy Under Secretary Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Midori Valdivia MPA *09, Chief Operating Officer, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  • Nick Kelly MPA *15, Senior Fellow, Boston Housing Authority
  • Joy Sinderbrand MPA *07, Senior Vice President for Capital Programs, New York City Housing Authority

3:00--4:00 PM Gender Policy Alumni Panel, moderated by Professor Elizabeth Armstrong, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Head of Butler College

  • Mica Bumpus MPA *14, Practice Transformation Director at Upstream USA
  • Spogmay Ahmed MPA *20, Senior Policy Advisor at Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
  • Brett Libresco MPA *03, Senior Operations Officer, Gender and Development at the World Bank
  • Clarke Wheeler MPA *21, Federal Policy Manager at Black Mamas Matter Alliance
  • Amy Williams Navarro MPA *20, Senior Manager of Legislative Affairs at NARAL Pro-Choice

4:00--6:30 PM Networking Event

For more information, please contact SPIACDAR@princeton.edu