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Policy Advisory Council
The Policy Advisory Council advises the research agenda and administration of the Program On Public Life. The Council assists in identifying two types of issues to guide the Program’s work – those that are in immediate need of attention to help inform decision-making, and those that are just over the horizon, soon-to-be critical policy areas that will benefit from research anticipating their arrival.
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Penny Abernathy
Professor, Department of Journalism/Mass Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill
Richard ‘Pete’ Andrews
Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Public Policy
Oscar Barbarin
Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Social Work
Andrea Bazan
President
Triangle Community Foundation
Terry Bellamy
Mayor
Asheville, North Carolina
Leslie Bevacqua Coman
Executive Vice-President, Government Relations
Capstrat
Tom Darden
CEO
Cherokee Investment Partners
Jean Elia
Associate Dean
Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Linda Garrou
Senator (D-NC) District 32
North Carolina General Assembly
Dan Gerlach
President
North Carolina Golden LEAF Foundation
Fletcher Hartsell
Senator (R-NC) District 36
North Carolina General Assembly
Norma Houston
Executive Director, UNC Tomorrow, UNC-Chapel Hill
Faculty, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government
Michele Hoyman
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Adjunct Faculty, MPA program, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government
Carolyn Justice
Representative (R-NC) District 16
North Carolina General Assembly
Tom Lambeth
Senior Fellow
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
Peter Leosis
Deputy Director
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Henry ‘Mickey’ Michaux, Jr.
Representative (D-NC) District 31
North Carolina General Assembly
Mai Nguyen
Assistant Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill
Gene Nichol
Director
Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, UNC-Chapel Hill
Senator Tony Rand
Senator (D-NC) District 19
North Carolina General Assembly
Jennifer Watson Roberts
At-Large Member
Mecklenberg County Board of Commissioners
Dana Simpson
Attorney
Smith Anderson, LLP
Mike Smith
Dean, School of Government
UNC-Chapel Hill
Richard Stevens
Senator (R-NC) District 17
North Carolina General Assembly
Kristen Weeks
Community Relations Manager
Cisco Systems Research
Jesse White, Jr.
Director, Office of Business and Economic Development
UNC-Chapel Hill
Richard ‘Stick’ Williams
Vice-President
Business Operations Services
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