2024 Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner
Please join us for our 2024 ASPA NYMetro Chapter Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner!
ASPA New York Metro Chapter hosted our 2024 Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner on Wednesday, June 12, 5:30 p.m. at 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY. Dozens of public management professionals, academics and students joined us for dinner and networking with our members and friends.
Program included:
- Keynote: Dr Thomas J. Main, "A Neoprogressive Defense and Critique of the Deep State"
- Speaker: Dr. Gina Scutelnicu Todoran, "Managing Gender Inequity in Academia"
- Special guests may also include:
- Karen Garrett, Deputy Executive Director, ASPA,
- Dr. Hillary Knepper, National Council Representative, District 1, Associate Provost for Student Success & Professor of Public Administration, Pace University
- Dr. Rebecca Tekula, Chair, Pace University Public Administration Department
- Jennifer Joseph & Tiffany Nozil, Pace University MPA Student Association
- Marvin Krislov, President, Pace University
Purchase tickets here: Purchase Tickets
The standard ticket price is $30. Discounted tickets are available for ASPA NY Metropolitan Chapter members ($25), retired members ($20), student members ($10) and other students ($15). If you believe you are in one of these categories, please contact us at rkolenda@pace.edu for the appropriate promo code.
If you or your organization would like to sponsor the event through the purchase of tables, tickets for students, or anything else, please email event coordinator Ric Kolenda at rkolenda@pace.edu.
For more information about ASPA NY Metropolitan Chapter, see https://aspany.org
Hosted and co-sponsored by the Pace University MPA Student Association and Department of Public Administration.
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If you would like to help us plan the next Annual Meeting, please contact us at info@aspany.org.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thomas J. Main, Ph,D.
Topic: "A Neoprogressive Defense & Critique of the Deep State"
Biography:
Thomas J. Main is the author of The Rise of Illiberalism (Brookings, Fall 2021), The
Rise of the Alt-Right, (Brookings, 2018) and Homelessness in New York City:
Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio (NYU Press, 2016), and editor of the
anthology, Is the American Constitution Obsolete? (Carolina Academic Press, 2013).
His book on change in New York City’s welfare policies will be published by Cornell
University Press in the spring of 2025. He is a Professor in the Marxe School of
Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY. He holds a BA from the
University of Chicago, MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a
Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University
Stephen Rolandi
Topic: "Managing Gender Inequity in Academia"
Stephen Rolandi is the author of Managing Gender Inequity in Academia: A Guide for Faculty and Administrators in Public Affairs Programs (Routledge, 2024). She is a of Professor of Public Administration at Pace University where she has also served as department chair and MPA program director. She serves as Associate Editor for Public Integrity and is chair of the Northeastern Conference of Public Administration. Previously, she was a faculty member at Jackson State University, USA. She holds a PhD in Public Affairs from the Florida International University, Miami. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Public Affairs
Education, Public Integrity, Public Administration Review, and Teaching Public Administration.
Dr. Scutelnicu Todoran also was the recipient and the 2023 Outstanding Academic/Researcher Award and a former president of ASPA NY Metropolitan Chapter.
ASPA NY Metro 2024 Public Service Awards
Outstanding Practitioner: Patricia L. Gatling
Check back soon for an announcement on awards.
Outstanding Academic/Researcher: Thomas J. Main, Ph.D.
Check back soon for an announcement on awards.
Outstanding Student in PA: Marta Cristina Nicita
MPA Student, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), Department of Public Management & Victim Advocate/Paralegal, Levy Konigsberg
Outstanding Student in PA: Tiffany Nozil
MPA Student, Pace University, Department of Public Administration & Budget Specialist, City of Mount Vernon, NY
Photos from the 2024 Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner
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