PROGRAM

On November 2, 2011, Roosevelt House Public Policy program presented “Paths in Public Service with Genevieve Quist.”

About the Speaker:

Genevieve Quist attended Cornell University, where she graduated as Salutatorian with a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and a concentration in Inequality Studies. As a student at Cornell, Genevieve assisted in fieldwork for a university study of rural poverty and environmental stress factors among children, and she was recognized as a Merrill Presidential Scholar. After graduating in 2005, Genevieve joined Teach For America and served as a sixth grade English and Social Studies teacher at a low-income middle school in South Los Angeles. She led her students to significant academic gains and was a nominee for the national Sue Lehman Award for Excellence in Teaching. Genevieve was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 2007, and completed her Master’s Degree in Comparative Social Policy and her Doctorate in Social Policy at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Her doctoral dissertation focused on social capital activation and school choice among families living in a mixed-income housing development in Portland, Oregon. Genevieve currently serves as the Massachusetts Policy Director for Stand for Children, a non-profit political advocacy organization dedicated to securing education funding and reform in public school districts.

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