Alumni News
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Clay Adiele (M.P.A., ’91) is director of operations for Johnson, Bassin & Shaw, Inc., a private consulting firm in Washington, D.C., where he oversees the firm’s contracts with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Joe Allen (M.P.A., ’92) is director of external affairs for the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce.

David Bowes (Ph.D. in economics, ’99) is assistant professor of economics at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.

Dagney Faulk (Ph.D. in economics, ’99), assistant professor of economics at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Ind., was awarded “The 2002 Distinguished Research Award for Junior Faculty at Indiana University Southeast.”

Tony Griffin (M.P.A., ’02) was hired in May as the city manager of Holly Springs, Ga., after interning for the city for several months.

Lynn Jones (M.P.A., ’96) is attending Temple Law School in Philadelphia, Penn.

Janet Rice Keene (M.P.A., ’95) recently joined the staff of the Southern Education Foundation. She is also president of KeeneTeam, a staffing resource she founded to offer virtual (home-based) assistants for small and mid-sized businesses as an alternative to hiring permanent employees.

After a 33-year career in Florida government, Marshall E. Kelley (M.G.A., ’79) is a principal with Health Management Associates, Inc., an operator of non-urban acute care hospitals with markets in the southeastern and southwestern United States.

Yang-taek Lin (Ph.D. in economics, ’78) is dean of the School of Economics and Finance at Hanyang University, where he was recently awarded the BaekNam academic award.

Selma Moore (M.A. in economics, ’01) is an economist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Charleston, S.C., where she conducts benefit-cost analyses on water resource projects (navigation).

James Murphy (M.A., ’96 and Ph.D. in economics, ’00) is an assistant professor of economics at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C.

W. Gray Newman (M.P.A., ’93), a civil designer and land use planner with Lucas-Forman, Inc., won a seat on the Mecklenburg County, N.C., Soil and Water Conservation Board in the fall election.

B. Andrew Plant (M.P.A., ’92) in June was named editor-at-large for A&U (Art and Understanding) magazine, a national feature-oriented publication for people affected by HIV. He also was recently named a columnist for Hepatitis Magazine. In March, Drew was named individual Community Service Contributor of the year by the Greater Atlanta Business Coalition.

Margaret Thompson (Ph.D. in H.R.D., ’00) is assistant professor of management in the Michael C. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University.

William Voorhees (M.P.A., ’95) is assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University in Tempe. William.

D. Christian Young (B.S. in Urban Policy Studies, ’01) was in Caux, Switzerland this summer at the peace-building conference, “Human Security in a Changing World,” as an intern with Agenda for Reconciliation (AfR), a London-based global trust-building network. He is working on a masters degree in adult education and organizational learning at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.

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