Maxwell alumni\, friends and students are i nvited to join us for an alumni evening in Washington\, D.C. In our panel conversation\, \;Shana Gadarian\, author of "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" and chair and professor of political science\, \;Pam Fessler ’80 M.P.A.< /strong>\,\n author of "Carville’s Cure: Leprosy\, Stigma\, and the Fight for Justice" and former NPR correspondent\, and \;Dean David M . Van Slyke \;will explore the wide-reaching implications of misunderstanding\, misinformation\n and politicization during the COVID -19 pandemic.
Event details
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Thursday\, February 2\, 2023
5:30-8:00 p.m. ET
6:
00–7:00 p.m. Panel discussion
7:00–8:00 p.m. Reception
Center for Strategic and
International Studies
1616 Rhode Island Ave.\, N.W.
W
ashington\, D.C. 20036
Online registration requested by Thursday\, J anuary 26\, at \;cc.syr.edu/maxwell-dc-feb-2023. \;For questions about this event\, contact \;Jessica Murray\, director of Alumni Relations.
The program wi ll feature:
Pam Fessler ’80 MPA<
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Pam Fessler was an editor and corresponde nt at NPR News for more than 28 years. \;As a correspondent on the Na tional Desk\, she covered voting issues\, poverty\, and philanthropy.
< p>For much of her time at NPR\, Fessler reported on elections and voting\, including efforts to make voting more accessible\, accurate\, and secure. She did countless stories on everything from the debate over state voter laws to Russian hacking attempts and the impact of misinformation.F essler also covered homelessness\, hunger\, affordable housing\, and incom e inequality. She reported on efforts by non-profit groups\, the governmen t\, and others to reduce poverty and how those programs worked. Her povert y reporting was recognized with a 2011 First Place National Headliner Awar d.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks\, Fessler became NPR's first Homeland Security correspondent. For seven years\, she reported on effort s to tighten security at ports\, airports\, and borders. She also reported on the government's response to Hurricane Katrina\, the 9/11 Commission\, Social Security\, and the Census. Fessler was one of NPR's White House re porters during the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Before becoming a correspondent\, Fessler was the acting senior editor on the Washington Desk and NPR's chief elections editor. She coordinated all network coverag e of the presidential\, congressional\, and state elections in 1996 and 19 98. Fessler also spent time as deputy Washington Desk editor and Midwest N ational Desk editor.
Earlier in her career\, she was a senior writer
at \;Congressional Quarterly \;magazine. Fessler worked there for
13 years as both a reporter and editor\, covering tax\, budget\, and othe
r news. She spent one year as a budget specialist at the U.S. Office of Ma
nagement and Budget and was a reporter at \;The Record \;newspaper
in Hackensack\, New Jersey.
Fessler has a Master of Public Admi
nistration degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a bac
helor's degree from Douglass College at Rutgers University.
Her
first book\, "Carville’s Cure: Leprosy\, Stigma\, and the Fight for Justice\," was
published in 2020.
Professor Shana Kushner Gadarian
Shana Kushner Gadarian is a professor and the chair of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She is also a senior research associate in the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
Gadarian specializes in American politics\, political psychology\, political communication\, public opinion and experimental methods.
Gadarian was named a 2021 Carnegie Fellow for her quantitative research du ring the pandemic. Her recent book \;with co-authors Sara Wallace Good man and Thomas B. Pepinsky\, "Pandemic Politic s: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID\," is the culmi nation of that research and draws on a wealth of new data on public opinio n to show how pandemic politics has touched all aspects of Americans’ live s and puts the country’s COVID-19 response in global perspective.
Sh e is also the author of "Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World \," which was awarded the 2016 APSA Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology and explores how anxiety over policy issues like immi gration\, public health\, terrorism\, and climate change affects people.
David M. Van Slyk e is dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syrac use University and the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business-Government Policy . Prior to becoming dean on July 1\, 2016\, Van Slyke was associate dean a nd chair of Maxwell’s Department of Public Administration and Internationa l Affairs\, home to the country’s #1-ranked graduate degree in public affa irs. He is a tenured\, full professor of the Maxwell School and the Colleg e of Arts and Sciences and a two-time recipient of the Birkhead-Burkhead A ward and Professorship for Teaching Excellence.
Van Slyke is a leadi ng international expert on public-private partnerships\, public sector con tracting and contract management\, and policy implementation. He is direct or and fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration\, a co-edit or of the \;Journal of Public Administration Research and The ory \;and the \;Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation.& nbsp\;He also sits on the editorial boards of several top-ranked public af fairs journals. He has provided expert guidance to the Office of Managemen t and Budget\, the Government Accountability Office\, the U.S. Coast Guard \, and the World Bank. As part of his work and research he has worked exte nsively with senior leaders in government\, nonprofit and business organiz ations in China\, India\, Peru\, Singapore\, Thailand and many other count ries through the Maxwell School’s Executive Education program.
Van S lyke’s book\, "Complex Contracting: Government Purchasing in the Wake of t he U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program" (Cambridge University Press\, 201 3) is the recipient of the American Society for Public Administration Sect ion on Research Best Book Award for 2014 and honorable mention for the Pub lic and Nonprofit Section of the Academy of Management best book award for 2016. He is winner of the 2015 Distinguished Alumnus in Public Administra tion and Policy award from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and P olicy and the 2007 Beryl Radin Award for Best Article published in the&nbs p\;Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Van Slyke e
arned a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from the Rockefeller Col
lege of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany\, State Univ
ersity of New York. Prior to becoming an academic\, he worked in the priva
te\, public and nonprofit sectors.