She was the recipient of a Research Scholarship at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1995. Currently she is a Fulbright Research Scholar at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy and President of the Georgian Association of Women for Urban Development. She is an author of 10 articles on urban development issues. This event is supported by a grant from the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture of the Open Society Institute. The event is cosponsored by the Institute on Crime, Justice and Corrections at the George Washington University, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, the Correctional Education Association, and a workgroup on correctional education reform convened by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Registration is free, but limited.
The purpose of the forum, which will be held Sept. 12 from 4-6 PM in the first floor auditorium of the Media and Public Affairs Building, is to provide GW students with background knowledge so that they may better understand the debate swirling around these issues when the meetings occur in Washington during the last weekend of September. The remainder of the forum will be devoted to questions from students and discussion among the students and faculty. This seminar will formally launch the Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy Field in both the MPP and the Ph.D. in the Public Policy program James Carr is Senior Vice President for Innovation, research and Technology of the Fannie Mae Foundation. He has published extensively in the areas of housing and urban policy. Attendance limited to 300 people.