Tag politics, government, public policy

Bill Rizzo

Local government specialist, UW Extension Local Government Center

Expert on civility in local government, and community dialogue and deliberation.

Eric Sundquist

Managing director, State Smart Transportation Initiative (Center on Wisconsin Strategy)

Expert on transportation policy focused on sustainability, contemporary solutions, and social equity.

Jason Fletcher

Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on social networks, teen fertility, mental health, education, adolescent health, obesity, sociogenomics, and social policy

Martha ("Meg") Gaines

Director, Center for Patient Partnerships; Distinguished Clinical Professor, Law School

Expert on issues related to consumer health advocacy, health care policy advocacy and interdisciplinary health care education.

Lori DiPrete Brown

Associate director, Global Health Institute, Director, 4W Initiative, Distinguised Faculty Associate, SOHE

Global health expert focusing on women, children and highly vulnerable populations. Works to improve quality of health and social services from a human rights perspective.

Yang Sao Xiong

Assistant Professor, Social Work, Asian American Studies

Expert on social movements, race and ethnicity, immigrants and refugees, English Learners, American political institutions, Hmong Americans

Lawrence Berger

Professor, School of Social Work

Expert on the economic resources, sociodemographic characteristics, and public policies affecting parental behaviors and child and family well-being

Scott Gomer

Senior Marketing Manager, WIDA at WCER in the School of Education

Expert on strategic communications, national conferences, public relations, marketing, and military radio and TV broadcasting.

Satya Rhodes-Conway

Senior associate, COWS; Managing director, Mayors Innovation Project

I work with local government to implement innovative policy that promotes the high road of sustainability, equity and democracy.

Miriam Seifter

Assistant professor, law

Expert on administrative law, state and local government law, executive power, federalism, and the U.S. Supreme Court

Eleanor Powell

Assistant professor, political science

Expert on Congress, money in politics, and political parties.

Kathryn Moeller

Asst. professor, Educational Policy Studies; affiliate, Gender & Women's Studies/Latin American, Caribbean, Iberian

Expert on gender equity and feminism and on philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in the fields of education and international development

Steven Wright

Instructor, law

Criminal law, criminal procedure, law and literature, legal writing, and wrongful convictions.

Jennifer Gaddis

Assistant Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies

Expert on school lunch workers, history of the U.S. National School Lunch Program, farm-to-school programs, and food work as a form of care work.

Thomas (Tom) O'Guinn

Professor, marketing; Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Chair in Marketing Research

Expert on branding, consumer behavior, advertising, social class and consumption, and institutional responses by marketers to social disruption such as wars, recessions, oil spills,

Lindsay Palmer

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Former journalist, current professor of global media ethics. Focuses on the safety of journalists in the field.

David O'Connor

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Associate Director, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center

Study the interplay of genetics, immunology, and viral pathogenesis. Focus on HIV/AIDS and novel viral pathogen emergence in human populations.

Lewis Friedland

Journalism and Mass Communication, Sociology (affiliated)

Lew Friedland studies the role of civil society in democracy and how our social relations and cleavages affect our politics.

Carolina Sarmiento

Assistant professor, Civil Society and Community Studies, School of Human Ecology; affiliate faculty, Urban and Regional

Expert on community based planning, urban development, governance, and cultural spaces in working class communities

Noah Williams

Juli Plant Grainger Professor of Economics

Expert on macroeconomics, monetary policy, tax policy, and the Wisconsin economy. Can comment on national and state-level economic policy.

Robert Yablon

Assistant Professor of Law

Expert on the Supreme Court, the federal judicial system, and political/election law (including voting rights and campaign finance)

Timothy Smeeding

Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs

Expert on social and economic mobility across generations; inequality of income, consumption and wealth; and poverty in national and cross-national contexts.

Yunji Kim

Asistant Professor, Planning & Landscape Architecture; Extension Specialist, Local Government Center

Expert on local government fiscal stress, local government revenues, local government services, and community wellbeing

Ramzi Fawaz

Assistant Professor of English

I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.

Ed Jalinske

UW-Madison Office of Cybersecurity

Expert on Cybersecurity education, training, awareness, and policy

Alex Wiedenhoeft

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany

Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany

Jo Handelsman

Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Lisa Rand

A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities

Expert on the past and present of space technology and space junk, history of gender and technology, planetary analogs

Gina Bryan

Clinical Professor; Director, Post Graduate Psychiatry Program

Psychiatric advanced practice registered nurse; frequent state and national policy advisor on opioids, nursing scope of practice, and access to mental healthcare

Emilia Tjernström

Assistant professor, Public Affairs and Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert on development economics, with a focus on agricultural technology adoption, social networks, political economy, and the role of beliefs and learning in shaping decision-making.

Gavin Luter

Director, UniverCity Alliance

Expert about university/community partnerships, with an emphasis on K-12 schools, including place-based anchor institution partnership development and how to assess their impact

Jessica LeClair

Clinical Instructor

Public health nurse with expertise in the health effects of climate change, climate justice, public health, public health nursing, health impact assessment, community engagement,

Thomas Tobin

Conference Programming Chair & Faculty Associate: Learning Design, Development, & Innovation

An internationally-recognized speaker and author on quality in technology-enhanced education, especially copyright, evaluation of teaching practice, academic integrity, and accessibility/universal design for learning.

David Fields

Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies

Expert on U.S.-Korean relations, U.S.-East Asian relations, and American foreign policy

Daniel Hummel

Postdoctoral Fellow in History

Expert on U.S.-Israel relations, American evangelicalism, and U.S. foreign policy.

Paula Inzeo

Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) Group Director

Paula’s areas of research and practice focus on topics of health equity and health equity capacity building, collective community action, power building, and health in