Faculty & Practitioner Biographies 2014-2015

Faculty & Practitioner Biographies 2014-2015

David S. Birdsell, Ph.D., Dean

Office:135 East 22nd Street, Room 914
Phone:646 660-6700
Fax: 646 660-6721
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David Birdsell, Dean of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs and Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Effectiveness, has centered his academic work on the nexus of communication, media, and information technology in politics, government and nonprofit administration. An expert on political debating and widely published on communication theory and practice, David is a regular guest commentator on debates and other aspects of political communication for local, national, and international television and print media. His work has been supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the IBM Endowment for the Study of Business and Government, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the JPMorganChase Foundation, the United Way of New York City, the Markle Foundation, and other funders. David serves on the New York City Broadband Advisory Committee and on the Executive Council of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He chairs the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group-Governance Matters and serves on the board of the New York Census Research Data Center and the Advisory Board of the Human Services Council.

He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Public Communication from the University of Maryland.

Gregg Bishop,Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Small Business Services

PAF 9132 Governing NYC, Year 2

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As Deputy Commissioner of the Business Development Division at the NYC Department of Small Business Services, Gregg is responsible for NYC Business Solutions, Business Incentives, the Business Outreach Team, the Corporate Alliance Program, and the SBS Customer Service Center.

Gregg has also served as the Senior Manager of Workforce Development at NPower, where he was responsible for doubling the capacity of Technology Service Corps, a nationally recognized technology training program for young adults 18-25. Gregg also served as Vice President of Technology Operations at TheStreet.com, where he helped build and maintain the company's internal and external technology infrastructure.

Gregg received his B.S. in Business Administration from Florida A&M University and Masters in Integrated Marketing and Management Communication from The Florida State University.

Mark L. Bodden,VP and Program Director, Rudin Foundations/Rudin Management Company, Inc.

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Mark Bodden is currently the Vice President/Program Director at the Rudin Foundations. In that capacity, he directs the philanthropic activities of the three family foundations based and operating primarily in New York City.

Prior to his current position, Mark was the Managing Director of Binder and Binder, a national law firm handling Social Security Disability. He led the corporate giving program at Philip Morris Companies (presently known as Altria) and has over twenty years of public policy experience, having worked in Washington, D.C. and in Albany, New York. An informal consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations, he has been a presenter at national and regional grant making conferences, including the Council on Foundations and was a past Chair of the Board of Philanthropy New York and served on the Board of the Edwin Gould Academy, and serves on the Dean’s Council at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at NYU and on the Board of Overseers at the Rockefeller Institute. He served on the adjunct faculty at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New YorkUniversity and is currently a member of the adjunct faculty at BaruchCollege.

He is a graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and attended the National Law Center at George Washington University.

Laurel Brown, J.D., Executive Director of Operations + Administration for Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

PAF 9136 Urban Economic Development, Year 2

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Laurel currently serves as the Executive Director of Operations + Administration for Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) -- a nonprofit local development corporation -- and its three affiliated business improvement districts. Overseeing a collective budget of $7.1 million, Laurel is charged with managing, activating, and beautifying approximately 1.5 million sf of public space, implementing innovative "green tech" initiatives, steering capital investment projects, and overseeing the general financial and administrative needs of the four organizations.

Prior to joining DBP, Laurel served as the Executive Director of the Jamaica Center Business Improvement District – a bustling central business district in the borough of Queens. Her success as a revitalization expert included the launch of a comprehensive retail attraction program, the creation of an innovative destination marketing campaign, and the production of a marquee fashion event -- all of which ultimately earned her a 2013 BID Leadership/Neighborhood Achievement Award and recognition from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Laurel, a former Wall Street attorney, practiced real estate law and financial restructuring. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Computer Science from New York University, where she graduated magna cum laude.

John Casey, Ph.D., Associate Professor

PAF 9120 Public and Non Profit Management, Year 1

Office: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 1000

Phone: 646 660-6858 Fax:646 660-6701

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John Casey has published extensively and given numerous presentations in the fields of government-nongovernment relations, immigration policy, policing, and university teaching.

From 1999 to 2007, he was a Senior Lecturer in management, leadership and governance at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Charles Stuart University in Sydney. He was also a visiting lecturer in criminal justice at the University of Maine at Augusta and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and an adjunct lecturer in community management at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Before his academic career, Dr. Casey worked as a public sector and nonprofit manager. From 1992 to 1998, he was the Executive Officer of the Masters in Public Management program at a three university consortium in Barcelona, Spain and a consultant to the European Union working on public sector development in Eastern Europe. Previously, he had been the Director of the Mayor's Office of Adult Literacy for the City of New York, USA and a social services manager in Sydney, Australia.

He received his B.A. from the University of Sydney, B.S.W. from the University of Sydney, M.P.A. from Baruch College, and Ph.D. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Political Science.

Sanders D. Korenman,Ph.D.,Professor

PAF 9130 Economic Analysis and Public Policy, Year 2

Office: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 615

Phone: 646 660-6782Fax:646 660-6770

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Sanders Korenman, an economist, has been a member of the SPA faculty since 1996. He served as Senior Economist for labor, welfare, and education for President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and was a member of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His recent research includes studies of the measurement of child care quality and analyses of the USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program. He has completed reports with SPA MPA graduates Shannon Fales (in 2011) and Rick Hoffman (in 2010) for the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He teaches courses in the economic analysis of public policy, public finance, poverty and social welfare policy, and research methods.

He received his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in Economics.

James A. Krauskopf, Ph.D.,Distinguished Lecturer

PAF 9190 Capstone Seminar, Year 2

Office:135 east 22 Street, Room 1013Phone: 646 660-6724Fax:646 660-6701Email:

James (Jack) Krauskopf is Director of the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College (City University of New York). He was previously Chief Program Officer for the 9/11 United Services Group, which was formed in 2001 to coordinate the social services organizations assisting people affected by the September 11 World Trade Center attack. During nearly 15 years at The New School (formerly New School for Social Research), he was Dean of the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance, and faculty member in urban policy.

Mr. Krauskopf has held several public sector positions, including Administrator/Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration under Mayor Koch, Deputy Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services (including Chairman of the Parole Board), Deputy and Acting Director of the Cleveland Department of Human Resources and Economic Development during the administration of Mayor Carl Stokes, and Director of a Rutgers University-based staff office to the Mayor of Newark. He served previously as President of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, and has also been a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute in New York working on human services policy issues.

He has a B.A. in Government from Harvard and a M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.

Tiffany Lewis, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor

PAF9103 Communication in Public Settings, Year 1

Office:135 East 22nd Street, Room 917a
Phone: 646 660-6742Fax:646 660-6701

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Tiffany Lewis studies the connection between women’s rights and rhetoric in the context of women’s suffrage. She has also written extensively on women’s suffrage and the westward expansion of the United States. Her experience includes teaching communication, public speaking, and discourse at the University of Maryland and the University of Montana.

She holds a B.A. from the University of Washington, M.A. from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in Communications Studies from the University of Maryland.

John Liu,Part-Time Faculty

PAF 9140 Budgeting and Financial Analysis I, Year 1

Office: 135 East 22nd Street, Room

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John Liu previously served as the NYC Comptroller (2010-2013) and as a City Council member (2002-2009) representing Flushing and parts of northeast Queens. In 2013, Liu ran for NYC Mayor.

As Comptroller, Liu was the chief financial officer for 8.4 million residents and oversaw New York City’s $70B+ budget; he was also responsible for investing what became under his watch a public pension fund worth more than $150B. He was the first Asian-American elected to any New York State legislative body and the first Asian-American elected to City-wide office.

Prior to being elected to office, John worked in the private sector for 14 years as a professional actuary, most recently as a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He holds a B.S. in Mathematical Physics from Binghamton University.

Nicole P. Marwell, Ph.D., Associate Professor

PAF 9100 Introduction to Public Affairs, Year 1

Office:135 East 22nd Street, Room 1004b Phone: 646 660-6764 Fax:646 660-6770Email:

Nicole Marwell’s research sits at the intersection of three sociological subfields – urban, organizational, and political sociology – with a substantive focus on nonprofit organizations, local and state politics, and Latina/o communities. Prior to beginning her academic career, she worked in the field of nonprofits and philanthropy, first at New York City’s Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, and then at the AT&T Foundation, the Levi Strauss Foundation, and Nike. She has published articles in the American Sociological Review, City and Community, Qualitative Sociology, and the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of Contemporary Sociology. Her 2007 book, Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City (University of Chicago Press), examines the varying roles of Latino community-based organizations in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick. Her current research on government contracting to nonprofit organizations is supported by the National Science Foundation. She is also working on a new book about the Latino middle class. Dr. Marwell previously taught at Columbia University and is a member of sociology faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She received her B.A. from Columbia University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago.

Jerry Mitchell, Ph.D., Associate Dean & Professor

Office: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 415
Phone: 646 660-6856 Fax: 646 660-6831

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Jerry Mitchell teaches courses in American government, program evaluation, and urban economic development. His research focuses on urban affairs, public authorities, business improvement districts, and parks conservancies. He is the author of Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities, published by the State University of New York Press. His research has appeared in such journals as Public Administration Review, the Policy Studies Journal, and the International Review of Administrative Sciences. Elected to the governing council of the Policy Studies Organization in 1998, he is also a member of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration, and Urban Affairs Association.

He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kansas.

Gregorio Morales, Director of Field Operations for the Parks Opportunity Program

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Gregorio Morales is the Director of Field Operations for the Parks Opportunity Program – an innovative welfare-to-work program that couples seasonal employment at NYC Parks with support services – where he leads his organization’s business process improvement efforts, strengthens their data collection capacity, and further integrates New York City’s largest transitional employment program into NYC Parks.

He joined NYC government as the Deputy Director for Policy Analysis and Fiscal Management of the Parks Opportunity Program in 2009.

He is a native of Texas, and has an M.P.A. from the School of Public Affairs at the City University of New York’s Baruch College and a B.A. from Florida State University.

Denise Patrick, Adjunct Lecturer

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Denise Patrick has more than 20 years of experience as a project manager, instructor, and corporate trainer with a focus on communication, leadership and diversity & inclusion. Blending her corporate experience in banking and management consulting for companies like Chancellor Capital Management, JP Morgan and Booz Allen Hamilton, with her academic knowledge of rhetoric and corporate communication, she now works as a business and performance consultant. She partners with businesses to improve business performance through holistic learning and development strategies. As a personal talent development consultant, she works with individuals to help them strengthen their skills and confidence in communication and leadership.

Denise Patrick is a lecturer at the City University of New York, Baruch College. She is also on faculty with the American Management Association. Prior to joining the faculty at Baruch, she taught at Temple University and the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

She holds a B.A. in Corporate Communication from CUNY Baruch College and a M.A. in Rhetoric & Communication from Temple University.

Amar Rajwani, Director of Pre-Kindergarten Admissions for the New York City Department of Education

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Amar Rajwani is a proud graduate of the Executive MPA program at Baruch. A lifelong resident of New York City and graduate of NYC public schools, Amar has dedicated his career to working in education.

After early experiences working in diverse classroom settings, he went on to hold operational leadership positions in public, private, and non-profit education organizations. He is an accomplished senior manager with expert focus in strategic planning, marketing & communications, and customer service & sales for growing organizations, especially in the field of education. Currently, Amar serves as a Director of Pre-Kindergarten Admissions for the New York City Department of Education, focusing on enrollment policy and strategy for the City's Pre-Kindergarten expansion initiative.

Amar will be serving as thepractitionerfor PAF9170 (Research and Analysis) for the second time in the fall of 2014. He is excited to meet and work with the incoming group of dynamic students that will make up XMPA Cohort 31.

Dahlia Remler, Ph.D., Professor

PAF 9170 & 9172 Research Analysis I & II, Year 1

Office:135 East 22nd Street, Room 916
Phone: 646 660-6725Fax:646 660-6701
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Dahlia Remler is widely published in many areas of health economics, including health savings accounts, cost-sharing, managed care, health insurance and health care markets, and cigarette tax regressivity. Her current research involves incorporating health insurance needs into poverty measurement, as well as higher education policy and teaching. She is co-author (with Gregg Van Ryzin) of Research Methods in Practice: Strategies for Description and Causation, now in its second edition. The book emphasizes the critical interpretation and practical application of research findings throughout, focusing on causation and real-life data and is currently in use by SPA students. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and holds an appointment in economics at CUNY’s Graduate Center.

She holds a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, D.Phil. from Oxford University, and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

E.S. Savas, Ph.D., Presidential Professor
PAF 9160 Public and Non Profit Management, Year 2

Office: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 814
Phone: 646 660-6780Fax:646 660-6701
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E.S. Savas is the author of fifteen books and over 130 articles; his books have been published in 23 foreign editions. He is an internationally known pioneer in, and authority on, privatization.

He served as First Deputy City Administrator of New York and as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He also served as a councilman in his suburban town. He was a professor of public management at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and taught in Baruch’s Department of Management, where he also served for eight years as chairman.

He has B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Chicago, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Piraeus, Greece.

Martha Stark, J.D., Distinguished Lecturer