Taught by Ali Webb, Founder and Principal, Ali Webb Strategies.
This course will introduce students to a range of communication strategies to move public policy forward in a host of issue areas from climate change to public education, health reform to anti-poverty efforts. For new public policy to emerge, policy experts must learn skills to translate their analytical content to the public audiences that ultimately decide the fate of reform. Students will develop policy advocacy campaigns which demonstrate the interplay between strategic, effective, targeted communications and achieving and sustaining policy change. Class members will examine policy reform from the perspective of the strategic communications including understanding their audiences, identifying