Featured Alumni
Anh Duong
Science Advisor, The Pentagon
MPA/SPA'05
Anh Duong is a graduate of the AU OPM Program, Class of 2006. When asked about her SPA experience, Anh was both enthusiastic and appreciative. "Aside from the nuts and bolts of public administration, which one would expect from any SPA program...[read more...]
|  | Jeffrey Daniel Stern
White House Fellow
MPA/SPA'99
Jeff Stern is a member of the Arlington County Fire Department and serves as Deputy Coordinator of Emergency Services in the Arlington County Office of Emergency Management. He has 18 years of experience as a firefighter, paramedic, instructor, spec...[read more...]
|  | James Brett
President and CEO, New England Council
BA/SPA'73
James "Jim" Brett launched his political career from his McDowell dorm room. He was only running for freshman class president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, but it helped him prepare for things to come.
"I real...[read more...]
| | Clarence Crawford
Chief Financial Officer, Office of Personnel Management
BS/SPA'77, MPA/SPA'79
The changes in the federal governement have been nothing less than dramatic, according to Clarence Crawford. A leading senior government executive, he should know because he has been with the government since 1979 when he joined the IRS as a Preside...[read more...]
| | Gwendolyn Sykes
Chief Financial Officer, NASA
Key Executive MPA/SPA'01
Gwendolyn Sykes' first paycheck from a part time job during junior high made an impression: "I knew how much I was being paid per hour, and then I discovered FICA and all the money that comes out of your paycheck," she recalls. "Numbe...[read more...]
|  | Thomas Dower
Legislative Director, Office of Senator Arlen Specter
SPA/BA'96
Hobbies and extra-curricular events have not gone the way of recess for Thomas Dower, SPA'96. Dower spends his days as the Legislative Director for Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), where has worked for more than a decade in several capaciti...[read more...]
|  | Tim Titus
Adjunct Professor, SPA and Strategic Enterprise Consultant, LexisNexis
BA/SPA'96
Tim Titus, BA/SPA'96, received the call from Government professor, Gregg Ivers, in 2000 that brought him back to AU. This time, Titus returned in a teaching role. Still working his regular job, Titus began his teaching career instructing a Communicat...[read more...]
|  | Eileen Mason
Senior Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
MPA/SPA'90
Do something you’re passionate about and you’ll be successful. These words of wisdom were shared by Eileen Mason, MPA/SPA'90, and have driven her throughout her 25- year career in public service. She is currently the Senior Deputy Chairma...[read more...]
|  | William F. Causey
Assistant General Counsel, American Red Cross
BA/SPA'71
In 1963, when Bill Causey was in the ninth grade in Baltimore, he saw The American University as an important place. Bill remembers when President John F. Kennedy spoke at AU’s spring commencement in 1963, calling on the Soviet Union to join t...[read more...]
|  | Erin Fuller
Executive Director, National Association of Women Business Owners
BA/SPA'93, MPA/SPA'94
March may be Women’s History month, but for Erin Fuller, executive director of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), it’s both a celebration of past accomplishments as well as a look to what the future holds for succe...[read more...]
|  | Rachel Voss Love
Attorney, Henrichsen Siegel
MPA/SPA'02
Rachel Voss Love, MPA/2002, is a young alumna who is ready to make her mark. Two years out of SPA’s Master’s of Public Administration program, she is working in a job she says challenges her everyday as a senior specialist in the Governme...[read more...]
|  | Pamela Deese
Partner, Dorsey and Whitney, LLP
BS/SPA'80, JD/WCL'83
For Pamela Deese, the ties that bind her to American University and the School of Public Affairs (SPA) are strong and deep.
Pam arrived at AU in the mid-1970s from Cresskill, New Jersey, where she had been a top scholar and student cou...[read more...]
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