| Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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Robert Yoon

Lecturer, Ford School; Associate Director, Wallace House

Robert Yoon is an award-winning journalist, producer, and lecturer in public policy and journalism. He is an Elections and Democracy Reporter at the Associated Press covering his seventh presidential campaign cycle. He previously served as Director…

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$5M gift from Joan and Sanford Weill and Weill Family Foundation supports graduate student fellowships

Dec 14, 2021

A new $5 million gift from Joan and Sanford “Sandy” I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan will provide endowed support for three graduate fellowships in perpetuity. The...

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Letter from Dean Michael S. Barr

Dec 13, 2021

For 18 months, while the Diag was calm, Weill Hall stood mostly empty, and the Big House was quiet, our community was hard at work to address urgent societal challenges from the pandemic, racial injustice, assaults on democracy, climate change, and...

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Partnerships in focus: Learning and research collaborations that create better public policy

Dec 13, 2021

By Rebecca Cohen (MPP ‘09) Two-directional learning helps small businesses and students thrive Lily Hamburger (MBA ’16) supports economic mobility for entrepreneurs as the senior director of the pandemic-born Detroit Means Business, a...

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Of mutual benefit: Academic-community partnerships for better public policy

Dec 13, 2021

By Rebecca Cohen (MPP '09) An essential ingredient to developing good policy is understanding what people want and need, and how they experience their lives," says Elisabeth Gerber, Jack L. Walker, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and...

Photo of Poverty Solutions team members and Detroit community members for a land contracts session at a local park

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Changing the conversation around child poverty

Dec 13, 2021

How Kohn Professor Luke Shaefer and the pandemic paved the way for an expanded Child Tax Credit By Lauren Slagter The passage of the American Rescue Plan Act in March ushered in a "euphoric" couple of weeks for Luke Shaefer, the Hermann and...

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Celebrating 40 Years of PPIA

Dec 13, 2021

For 40 years, the Ford School's Public Policy & International Affairs Junior Summer Institute fellowship (PPIA JSI), previously known as the Sloan or Woodrow Wilson fellowship, has helped launch promising undergraduate students on a path toward...

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An evolving humanitarian crisis

Dec 13, 2021

By Rebecca Cohen (MPP '09) Thousands of Afghans holding pro-democracy values—some with ties to the U-M community—were left behind in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In August, Taliban forces rapidly took control and formed a new...

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes on racial justice and the promise of opportunity

Dec 13, 2021

By Olivia Bradish (BA ‘23) From childhood, sociologist and new associate dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes was interested in social justice. She says she is "grounded in an upbringing where she was acutely aware of the consequences of inequality and the...

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Morela Hernandez on leadership, diversity, and organizational change

Dec 13, 2021

By Olivia Bradish (BA ‘23) Armed with her BA from Rice University, Morela Hernandez entered the corporate finance world. In a setting where nobody looked like her, she pondered a question that was both practical and intellectual: as she puts it,...

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