Environmental and Water Policy: Jackson Parr, MPA ’20
"La Follette's interdisciplinary positioning at the university afforded me the opportunity to take courses in other departments that I would otherwise be unable to take."
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
"La Follette's interdisciplinary positioning at the university afforded me the opportunity to take courses in other departments that I would otherwise be unable to take."
"I use my La Follette training regularly. I regularly analyze large sets of data from thousands of students across the network."
"I use the grounding and frameworks I learned at La Follette to help understand the broader context of my policy areas of interest. In particular, the 'how' behind the policymaking process."
"Public management, policy analysis, and CBA course work has been valuable in better executing the creation and implementation of our office’s policy and best practices."
"I learned a great deal about how to facilitate cross-collaboration and partnerships with staff, students, and faculty which has helped me in my current role."
"What I took away from La Follette was not necessarily specific information or tools that were 'plug and play' in my career. Rather, La Follette prepared me for how to think."
"The nonprofit management skills I studied, more in a theoretical sense, help me greatly in applying them in practice."