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What were you doing before you came to GSPP? Before GSPP, I served as an Immigration Services Officer (ISO) with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). As an ISO, I conducted interviews, adjudicated applications for immigration benefits, researched and applied immigration policies, and conducted national security checks. Prior to this, I completed a year of service with AmeriCorps VISTA at a nonprofit organization in Oakland, California that served union service workers. My role spanned from providing administrative support …

What were you doing before you came to GSPP? Before GSPP, I worked at think tanks specializing in international development and environmental policy in DC in roles ranging from government affairs and speechwriting to research. Most recently, I was working for the World Resources Institute’s New Climate Economy Project as a Research Manager overseeing global and/or country research reports. Before moving to Berkeley, I was working from WRI’s office in Jakarta as part of the…

The Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track appointment to the faculty at the Assistant Professor rank, with an expected start date of July 1, 2020. We seek applications from intellectually exciting scholars whose research informs and advances the design and analysis of policy and who will teach innovative courses to a diverse student body. We are especially interested in candidates whose research and expertise focus on international development and/or security policy. …

After serving the Goldman School as the Assistant Dean for External Relations and Development for twenty years, the inimitable Annette Doornbos retired at the end of June.  “Annette was visionary, creative, a superb writer and passionate about GSPP,” says Dean Henry E. Brady. “As dean, I have been lucky to be able to learn about development from her, and GSPP is certainly a much better place because of her exceptional work.” The Goldman School welcomes…

Associate Professor Sarah Anzia has been appointed the new faculty director of the Berkeley Institute for the Future of Young Americans (BIFYA).   Professor Anzia is a political scientist who studies American politics with a focus on state and local government, elections, interest groups, political parties, and public policy. Her work on public pensions and on the political participation of young people is especially relevant to BIFYA.  In her pension work she has examined how pension obligations have affected…

For its 38th consecutive year, the Goldman School welcomes 30 outstanding college juniors from across the nation to the Public Policy International Affairs Junior Summer Institute, a seven-week, intensive immersion into the world of public policy. The program, with its focus on empowering and better serving historically under-served communities, offers rigorous coursework designed to sharpen the analytic and quantitative skills vital to success at top-level graduate programs in public policy, international affairs, and law. The curriculum includes classes in policy analysis,…

BERKELEY – The Goldman School of Public Policy and the California State Treasurer’s Office led the inaugural California Green Bond Market Development Committee meeting on June 4th at the University of California, Berkeley. The Committee is working to promote and expand financing for climate-friendly infrastructure through green bonds.  “Green bonds are used to finance the infrastructure of a climate-challenged world,” said California State Treasurer Fiona Ma. “By investing sooner rather than later in…

The full article that appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Policy Notes can be downloaded here. The number of young people (ages 18-24) living in poverty has increased over the last several decades, with young adults among the most poverty-prone age groups since the onset of the Great Recession, according to a new issue brief released today by The Berkeley Institute for the Future of Young Americans (BIFYA). The issue brief analyzed historical data from IPUMS at the University…

BERKELEY – State Treasurer Fiona Ma chaired the inaugural meeting of the California Green Bond Market Development Committee today at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Environmental Public Policy “with the intent of developing the strategy and tactics necessary to lead California to a functioning green bond market that will be a model for other states and countries.” "California has been a green finance pioneer in the U.S. market,” said Sean Kidney,…

Emnet Almedom, Christopher Dokko, Robyn Levinson, Pauline Miller, and Anthony Rodriguez Palestine Trek (PalTrek) is a student-led venture designed to enrich the perspectives of the next generation of legal, business, political, and civil society leaders and advocates in the U.S. For the first time, graduate students from UC Berkeley—from, the Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley Law, Haas Business School, the School of Journalism, and the School of Social Welfare, among others—traveled throughout the West…