Brelynn Bille (MPA student) served as panelist at the October 15 Go Big Read panel on disability on campus with Rebekah Taussig, the author of this year’s Go Big Read book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, and other UW–Madison students, faculty, and staff. Bille is an accelerated MPA student who completed a bachelor’s degree in community and non-profit leadership with certificates in public policy and disability rights and services in May 2024. She has been involved in disability rights activism independently and as a member of the Disability Cultural Center Coalition. Through her work with the National Disability Mentoring Coalition, she has worked with a cohort to build a student activism guide for other universities to use to build these community spaces for disabled students.
Sascha Krause (health policy certificate student) moderated the Q&A session with UW–Madison’s Diversity Forum keynote speaker, Steve Robbins, in November. Krause is a junior who is also pursuing double majors in neurobiology and Spanish and certificates in global health and Chican@/Latin@ studies.
Ali Mammadov (MPA student) recently represented UW–Madison as an Energy Analysis and Policy scholar at the Environmental Justice: Policy, Practice, and Progress conference in Chicago. The conference focused on advancing equity and sustainability through policy and practice.
Hunter McCormick (MPA student) was accepted into the Integrating Robots into the Future of Work Program at UW–Madison. Through this National Science Foundation research traineeship, he will explore the intersection of robotics, interaction design, and public policy.
Eli Tsarovsky (MPA-MPH student) supported organizers of an event that encouraged voting earlier this fall by providing connections to people in the Madison and campus community and helping promote it to students. The event was part of the Party to the Polls Purple Tour, a series of nonpartisan events aimed at encouraging voter turnout in areas with high concentrations of young people and low-propensity voters. It was highlighted in a New York Times story.