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the state.   Before joining OSHE, she was the project manager for research and special initiatives at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Karen holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies from Howard University. She earned a Master’s in Education from the University of West Georgia and a Bachelor of Science in marketing from South Carolina State University.

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Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, which was the finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and received the 2018 Frederick Douglas Book Award, and She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman, which underscores many of the lesser-known aspects of Harriet's life and illustrates how her activism still resonates today. Professor Dunbar will present the story of Ona Judge on Monday, August 15 at 12:30, p.m. Photo credit: Whitney Thomas

the Executive Producer & Host of Reality Check, a daily public affairs program on WURD (96.1FM / 900AM in Philadelphia). Ellison will join the Council on Communities of Color panels Race in the Statehouse: Equitable governance on Sunday, August 14 at 2:30 p.m.

on April 12, 2018. In 2020, he also became a board member of N.J. Transit. At the time of his BPU nomination, he had served more than 14 years in the state legislature — ten of those in the Senate, where he attained the positions of Majority Conference Leader and Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. Gordon is the author of Governing New Jersey, a 300-page book describing the skill requirements of key executive branch positions. He earned his undergraduate degree in political economy and environmental studies from Williams College and also has a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA in finance and health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Gordon resides in Fair Lawn with his wife Gail, an attorney.

works to advance AASHTO’s federal legislative and policy efforts and serves as a key liaison between AASHTO and Congress, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other national organizations. Susan previously held the position of Program Director for Transportation Finance and Program Manager for Freight at AASHTO. Ms. Howard speaks Monday, August 15 at 2:30 p.m. at the session titled Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: What it Means for the States.

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and the U.S. Canadian-Border: Putting the pieces back together post-COVID at the Canada - U.S. Relations committee meeting on Tuesday, August 16 at 8:00 a.m. After graduating from high school, Assemblymember Jones ran his family’s dairy farm and in 1996 started work as a corrections officer with the New York State Department of Corrections. He served as mayor of Chateaugay from 2009 to 2013 and as a Franklin County legislator starting in 2010, becoming chair in 2013. During his tenure, Billy successfully reformed ethics laws to make government more transparent. Assemblymember Jones is active with various organizations throughout the North Country, including the Chateaugay Rotary Club; he is also a board member of the United Way of the Adirondack Region. He was a member of the North Country Economic Development Council, where he supported numerous projects that help local businesses grow the region’s economy. Assemblymember Jones remains very engaged with issues facing the Canada-U.S. border and was named the honorary co-chair of the Quebec-New York Corridor Coalition, as was recently appointed as co-chair of the Council of State Governments Eastern region’s Canada-U.S. Relations Committee. In the Assembly, Jones is a member of several committees including Aging, Agriculture, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, and Veterans’ Affairs. He is also chair of the subcommittee on Agriculture Economic Development and Farmland Protection. During his tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly, Jones has introduced and passed multiple pieces of legislation that benefit the North Country. Assemblyman Billy Jones is the proud father of a daughter, Ella Liberty Jones, born on July 4th.  

of the organization’s growth story ever since, growing into leadership roles overseeing student experience, then leading the online organization, and now as Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Amelia is tasked with ensuring that the organization delivers upon both its vision and mission, but her passion continues to be on creating experiences that lead to increased student success and a supportive culture for all students and employees. Her team oversees most aspects of the university’s day-to-day work, including academics, student experience, analytics, planning, and global operations. Amelia has a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont and a Master’s degree from University of New Hampshire.

funding mechanisms, including distance-based road charging. Prior to joining CDM Smith, Andrew served for eight years as a legislator in the Maine House of Representatives, during which he was Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Transportation for six years. There, he gained a national reputation as a leading transportation policy expert, working to build bipartisan support for revenue-generating initiatives for transportation projects and new and innovative ways to reform states’ transportation funding models. He also served as Chair of the Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and as Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Public Policy Committee of the Council of State Governments (CSG). In these national leadership positions, he worked with some of the nation’s top lawmakers and industry stakeholders to develop creative funding mechanisms and new technologies to help build a modern and sustainable transportation system. Andrew lives in Portland, Maine, is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law, and is a practicing attorney and former law clerk for the Maine Superior Court. He will speak on Monday, August 15 at 2:30 p.m. at the session titled Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act:  What it Means for the States.

Studies (SAIS). He regularly gives testimony to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, is a widely quoted source on Canada, and has published extensively over a career of more than 25 years in Washington think tanks. Sands will join the panel Bilateral Relations and the U.S. Canadian-Border: Putting the pieces back together post-COVID at the Canada - U.S. Relations committee meeting on Tuesday, August 16 at 8:00 a.m.

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focused on energy and climate policy. In these roles, he engaged collaboratively with large energy users, utilities and other stakeholders to develop and implement state and regional programs supporting energy efficiency, offshore wind, clean energy transmission, energy storage and market-based climate policy. Mr. Shattuck received a B.A. in History from Yale University and a MSc. in Environmental Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He will speak on Tuesday, August 16 at 8 a.m. at the Energy and Environment committee meeting titled Advancing Offshore Wind in the Northeast.

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