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; Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
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