Alumni updates – October 2024
Congratulations to our alumni who have recently received promotions or started new jobs!
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
Congratulations to our alumni who have recently received promotions or started new jobs!
Hosted by La Follette Assistant Professor Héctor Pifarré i Arolas, the 2024-25 La Follette Seminar Series kicked off on September 11 with a presentation by David Frisvold of the University of Iowa.
The 2023-2024 academic year is a momentous one for La Follette as we celebrate 40 years of training future policy leaders.
Ross Ryan (MPA, MPH ’17) is a principal performance evaluator at the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau.
Hudson has worked at GAO—an independent and nonpartisan agency that is the investigative arm of Congress and serves as a congressional watchdog—for over 20 years.
Yang received her MPA from La Follette in May 2024 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience through the Neuroscience and Public Policy combined degree program.
The La Follette community is excited to welcome 30 Master of Public Affairs and seven Master of International Public Affairs students this fall.
Many of our students recently received awards or started new jobs or internships.
After one semester as a visiting scholar in the Transformations of Democracy research group, Mark was awarded the Axel Springer fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
The authors examine determinants of aggregate foreign exchange reserve holdings by central banks before observing central bank behavior.