News & Highlights
News & Highlights
PAM’s DEI Working Group is offering honoraria for guest speakers in our classes who will add to our course content on race and racial inequality and/or contribute to the diversity of backgrounds and voices that we present to our students.
To apply, please submit a brief request to Kelly Musick with “Spring 2021 Class Speaker Fund” in the subject line and the following information: 1) proposed speaker, course, and topic of guest lecture; 2) how the guest lecture fits into the central learning goals of your course and contributes to diversity in course content and/or backgrounds and voices; 3) whether you will open the guest lecture to students or community members outside your class and why/why not.
We will continue accepting proposals into the Spring, contingent on funding availability.
Following the guest lecture, we will ask you to share a brief survey with your students to assess contributions to the course. We will also ask for any feedback from you on improving this program in the future.
*Only PAM faculty are eligible to request this fund for speakers in their course
An initiative from the DE&I Working Group that addresses the needs of students by providing a supportive community of peers, upper-class students, faculty members, and alumni for PAM and HCP majors.
Mentors:
If you are interested in becoming a mentor please fill out this online application. Applicants must be currently enrolled and have completed at least one year of their degree program. For questions or more information about the application process email us at pam-mentoring@cornell.edu.
Mentees:
PAM Freshmen, Sophomores and all PAM Transfer Students are eligible to apply. Mentee applications open at the start of each semester. For more information please email us at pam-mentoring@cornell.edu.
Peer-Mentorship Programs
On February, 12th the PAM Peer-Mentorship program hosted an informal coffee chat with PAM alum, Elizabeth Abunaw ’02, Founder Owner and Operator of Forty Acres Fresh Market; Grenger Charles ’04, Head of Government Relations and ESG Strategy at Amherst Holdings; and Yetunde Ekunwe ’01, Global Banking and Markets Regulatory Data Strategy PMO at Bank of America. PAM students were able to learn, network and ask questions to three of our recent grads.
PAM Conversations on Race and Racism with Mario Small 4/2/21
Join us on Friday, April 2nd from 1:15-2:15pm for a conversation with Mario Small, Grafstein Family Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Our discussion, Bridging Sociological and Economic Perspectives on Racial Discrimination, will be based on his JEP article with Devah Pager.
Mario L. Small, Ph.D., is Grafstein Family Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Small has published award-winning articles, edited volumes, and books on topics such as urban poverty, personal networks, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods. His books include Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio and Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, both of which received the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book. His latest book, Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice, examines how people decide whom in their network to turn to when seeking a confidant. Small is currently studying the relationship between networks and decision-making, the ability of large-scale data to answer critical questions about poverty, and the role qualitative inquiry in cumulative social science.
Email nmk64@cornell.edu for zoom details
PAM Conversations on Race and Racism with Maria Cancian 4/23/21
Join us on Friday, April 23rd from 1:15-2:15pm for a conversation with Maria Cancian, Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Our discussion, Reflections on Who Counts and Why it Matters, will be based on her APPAM Presidential Address.
Maria Cancian is Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Her research considers the dynamic between public policies and family wellbeing—both how policies shape choices and outcomes for families, and how family change creates new challenges and opportunities for public policy. Ongoing projects analyze the interactions of the incarceration, child welfare and child support systems, as well as the implications of multiple partner fertility for family organization and policy.
Cancian is the former President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), and was elected as the 2018 John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Prior to joining Georgetown University Cancian was a Kellett Professor, and served as Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Fiscal Initiatives, and as Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy for the HHS Administration for Children and Families, in the Obama Administration, as a Casey Family Programs Senior Fellow, a W. T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow in residence at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Email nmk64@cornell.edu for zoom details
Past Events
How To Be An Antiracist Book Discussions 11/6/20 & 12/11/20
PAM students, staff, and faculty gathered virtually to engage in reflection on how Ibram X. Kendi’s ideas intersect with our department dynamics, practices, and policies. The discussions were centered around Ibram’s book How to Be An Antiracist and were held on November 6th and December 11th.