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Joe Krakora, a lecturer with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, former New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Princeton SPIA Dean Amaney Jamal, and Anastasia Mann, a lecturer and the founding director of SPIA in NJ, pose with students in November 2025 during then-Governor Murphy's clemency grant announcements.

News May 07, 2026

Student Volunteers Help the Rehabilitated to Earn a Second Chance

Last November, as part of his historic clemency initiative, then-New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy visited Princeton to announce his latest round of clemency grants. In the process, he thanked a team of Princeton student volunteers who had spent the spring of 2025 assisting in the preparation of 32 petitions for executive clemency.Under the direction of Joe Krakora, a Princeton School of Public and International Affairs lecturer affiliated with SPIA in New Jersey, the students interviewed the petitioners, reviewed their court records, and assisted in the preparation of their application materials. By the time Murphy left office in January, he had…

SPIAction Newsletter

News May 06, 2026

SPIAction Newsletter — May 2026

Outside the Classroom, Princeton SPIA Faculty Contribute to a Stronger New Jersey“New Jersey's vibrant and diverse economy, politics, geography, and population afford us at SPIA the opportunity to address most if not all of the major public policy issues of our time, right here in our own backyard,” said Anastasia R. Mann, SPIA in NJ’s founding director.

SPIA students in DC office attending conference

News May 05, 2026

First MPP Day in the Nation’s Capital Shows Students What Comes Next

The Master in Public Policy (MPP) program at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is designed to prepare mid-career professionals to take the next step in their journeys to help shape domestic and international policy. That mission was on full display for the School’s first-ever MPP Day in Washington, D.C., held on March 20 at the SPIA in DC Center. The full-day program brought together current MPP students with Princeton SPIA alumni and senior leaders working in public service, international affairs, national security, and academia for a day of networking and career advice through a series of small discussion panels and informal…

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News April 29, 2026

SPIAccolades — April 2026

Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, contributed a chapter to Climate Change: What Must Be Done?, which will be published on April 30.The book brings together scholars and experts to examine the urgency of the climate crisis and the range of responses needed to address it.“The book is unusual in drawing on both technocratic and sociocultural perspectives of what a solution to the climate change problem might entail,” Oppenheimer said. “My chapter is about adaptation, specifically a future-looking view on how to limit climate…

Students from Pueblo and Navajo Nations visit during Summer Policy Academy

Features July 07, 2022

Students from Pueblo and Navajo Nations Visit Princeton During Summer Policy Academy

The Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute’s Summer Policy Academy (SPA) returned to Princeton University as part of a program that exposes high school students and recent graduates of Pueblo and Navajo nations to the power of public policy and law. The agenda included lectures and presentations exploring the last 100 years of federal policies and laws to help students “become familiar with the history and policies and laws that have been conceived to destroy their systems and institutions,” said Regis Pecos, a member of Princeton’s Class 1977 who founded SPA and is co-director. Pecos is a former Princeton trustee, former chief of staff to the…

participants in SAOC conference

Features June 27, 2022

SAOC Addresses Global Issues of Social and Racial Justice at Annual Symposium

Around 70 alumni returned to campus this spring for the annual Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC) Association symposium at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. This year’s theme addressed issues of social and racial justice from a global perspective, shining a spotlight on the global nature of oppression, resistance, and freedom. “Thinking Beyond Borders and About Transnational Solidarity” was held on April 2 and 3 at Robertson Hall and was the first SAOC Symposium held in person since 2019. “There's energy within the SAOC committee that put forward this symposium theme,” said Amina Johari MPA ’22, symposium co-chair. “The…

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Kenia Hale, and Christelle Tessono

Features November 16, 2021

Emerging Scholars Join CITP’s Community of Tech and Society Researchers

A computer scientist and artist. A data journalist. A former intern in the Canadian Parliament. Three recent university graduates with these diverse backgrounds joined Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) this fall as the inaugural class of Emerging Scholars, a program aimed at helping people start careers that combine technology and public policy. Kenia Hale, Klaudia Jaźwińska and Christelle Tessono, are part of a community of nine fellows currently conducting research and policy engagement at CITP, which is a joint initiative of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the School of Engineering and…

Fatemeh Abasianabyaneh

Senior Research Specialist, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance (JRCPPF)

E-mail: fa9204@princeton.edu

Rachael Acheson

Visiting Research Collaborator, Program on Science and Global Security (SGS)

E-mail: racheson@princeton.edu

Alicia Adsera

Senior Research Scholar, Lecturer in Economics and International Affairs

Office: 609-258-6916

E-mail: adsera@princeton.edu

Paolo Agnolin

Postdoc Research Associate, The Initiatives on Contemporary European Affairs (ICEA)

E-mail: paolo.agnolin@princeton.edu

Noreen Goldman

The Latino Health Experience: Past and Future

News, Research Briefs

Zia Mian

Renewed Interest in People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons

News, Research Briefs

Jake Shapiro

Determining Why Benefits for Women Go Unused

News, Research Briefs

Ethan Kapstein

Insecurity and Business Displacement in Afghanistan

News, Research Briefs

Amelia Frank-Vitale

Inside Immigration Court

News, Research Briefs

Jake Shapiro

Moderating Text-to-Image Content

News, Research Briefs

Medical Tourism Magazine May 6, 2026

Senior Stereotypes: An Age-Old Problem

PennLive May 6, 2026

Gaming money designed to aid the public goes to for-profit developers

Quoted: Owen Zidar

Good Authority May 5, 2026

Did Magyar’s rural tour help him win Hungary’s election?

Opinion: Grigore Pop-Eleches

Inside Higher Ed May 4, 2026

‘Vulnerable’ Medical Schools Caught in MAGA’s Crosshairs

Quoted: Kim Lane Scheppele

Thomas Emens

Community Profile April 27, 2026

#PolicyProfile: Thomas Emens, MPA ’29

“As mayor of Jamesburg, NJ, I wake up every day thinking about how to make my hometown stronger. I was born and raised here, a small, blue-collar community without wealthy donors or endless resources—just hardworking people who care deeply about where they live. Public service, to me, isn’t politics. It’s about showing up, listening, and getting things done. I was elected to the Borough Council during my first semester as a transfer student at Princeton. A year later, I became Council President, and in 2024, after our mayor resigned, I stepped in as Acting Mayor while finishing my senior thesis. Today, I’m serving a two-year mayoral term focused on…

Cassandra Azumah, MPA ’27

Community Profile April 15, 2026

#PolicyProfile: Cassandra Azumah, MPA ’27

“Being from Ghana, my path to public policy has been shaped by working across countries, sectors, and institutions — and seeing firsthand what it takes to turn good ideas into lasting change. After graduating from the London School of Economics, I spent a year and a half at the South Centre in Geneva, exploring how countries in the Global South can learn from one another’s development experiences. From there, I moved to Senegal, where I worked with IDinsight on monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategies for education and health programs. I later returned to Ghana to support the Ministry of Education through Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA),…

Nudhara Yusuf

Community Profile March 27, 2026

#PolicyProfile: Nudhara Yusuf, MPA ’27

"I grew up between places and histories. My parents raised me in the United Kingdom and India. Growing up hearing stories about my grandfather, a political activist who lost his life advocating for the right to speak against injustice, inspires who I am as a person. When I got to university, I had this self-realization that the spaces where I felt most energized were those focused on politics and civic engagement. That path eventually led me to consult with the United Nations Development Program, which launched my career path. Being inside the U.N. showed me its importance and limitations. I became interested in how global institutions can evolve to…

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