Teaching and Training

Diverse Public Involvement: Designed, developed, and taught day-long training program in “AffirmativeDesign -- Inclusive Public Participation in Diverse Communities” for the International Association for Public Participation.

Public Participation Design: Developed new structure and project content, and teach semester-long, required graduate course at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Taught as a professional development seminar, the course focuses on designing authentic and legitimate public involvement processes, and culminates in teams performing six-week design projects based on a current major public policy issues.

Fieldbook on Participatory Management and Public Involvement: Jointly researched, developed, co-taught, and produced comprehensive fieldbook for statewide program and graduate-level course on this topic with nationally known strategic planning author John Bryson. Includes strategies and approaches to legitimate and meaningful policy change within a complex and often highly political environment. Client: University of Minnesota Extension Service and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

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