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Executive Council
Crystal
Calarusse
(202-628-8965 ext. 103)
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Chief Accreditation Officer
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As the Chief Accreditation Officer, Crystal has responsibility for academic quality and development. She directs accreditation efforts with the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA), a specialized accrediting body dedicated to quality assurance in professional graduate education in public affairs and public policy.
Crystal received her Master of Public Policy degree (with an environmental specialty) from the University of Maryland College Park.
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Stacy
Drudy
(202-628-8965
ext. 104) |
Data Center Director
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Stacy is responsible
for managing NASPAA's new Public Affairs Education Data Center,
which houses the authoritative source of data in public affairs education.
Stacy transitioned into this new position in late 2012, after spending
four years on NASPAA's accreditation team.
Stacy began her tenure at NASPAA as a summer intern while working on her MPA at James Madison University.
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Peter
Green
(202-628-8965
ext. 107) |
Director of Finance
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Peter is responsible
for the financial, budgetary, and human resources functions at NASPAA. He is also
the staff liaison to NASPAA's Nonprofit Section and provides support
for the Finance committee.
Peter earned a Master's in Public Affairs and Administration at
the University of
Wisconsin.
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Heather
Gregory
(202-628-8965
ext. 109) |
Accreditation Associate
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Heather joined NASPAA
in November 2012, with responsibility for supporting the accreditation
process and implementation of NASPAA’s Accreditation Standards.
She completed a Master’s in Public
Service and Administration at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M
University.
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Stuart
Heiser
(202-628-8965
ext. 106) |
Director of Communications & Public
Affairs
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Stuart is responsible for keeping
NASPAA's membership updated on the association's activities, and
manages
outreach to students and alumni, prospective member schools, policymakers, the media,
and partner organizations. He is liaison to the active
communities of professional staff at member schools, and manages
NASPAA's social media networks.
Stuart also works with
federal agencies and congressional staff to create connections
between agencies and member schools, and to improve federal
hiring of students.
He is an MPP graduate of the
University of Michigan's Ford School of Public
Policy.
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Laurel McFarland
(202-628-8965 ext. 105) |
Executive Director |
Laurel McFarland has served as Executive Director of
NASPAA since 2005. She brings a wide
portfolio of previous experience: management of accreditation and quality assurance; professional experience in the economics of higher education and the strategic positioning of institutions in higher education; academic work in economic policy history; and active involvement in local government and nonprofit ventures.
She holds degrees in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton
University and in graduate economics from Oxford University. At NASPAA, she has been responsible for:
- Directing NASPAA’s accreditation and quality assurance efforts, including a once-a-decade standards revision in 2007-09, and an implementation effort launched 2010-11.
- Promoting the MPA and MPP in a crowded graduate marketplace through extensive research and marketing efforts;
- Supporting the development and enhanced electronic dissemination of NASPAA’s academic journal on teaching and learning, the
Journal of Public Affairs Education.
- Advancing public service through partnerships with other organizations, including projects to reform the Presidential Management Fellowship and contributing to the annual Public Service Recognition Week.
- Enhancing NASPAA’s leadership position in international public affairs education, through such efforts as the Conference on International Quality in Public Affairs Education, held in Dubai and Sharjah in 2007.
- Spearheading an advocacy effort to reform the federal hiring of graduate students.
- Overhauling data collection and establishing a data warehouse effort in public affairs education in order to enhance understanding and competitiveness of the sector.
Above all, Laurel possesses a great respect and enthusiasm for public service and the role schools of public affairs can play in changing the country and the
world.
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Etai Mizrav
(202-628-8965
ext. 110) |
Project Assistant |
Etai Mizrav is an MPP student at
Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He plans to graduate at May
2014 with a concentration on education policy. He will be
working to help develop quality assurance in public service
education by establishing measureable outcomes for professional
public service degrees, analyzing current practices in measuring
outcomes and developing communications and policies regarding
best practices for diversity planning.
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Emily Reineke
(202-628-8965
ext. 112) |
Conference and Strategic Projects Manager
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Emily joined NASPAA in early 2013 to organize and rethink our Annual Conference and to help direct NASPAA's three other regular meetings: Career
Directors, Admissions Directors, and Doctoral Programs. She also will manage short-term strategic projects that support organizational priorities, including developing international partnerships and becoming the authoritative source of data in public affairs education.
Emily is a graduate of Marywood University and earned a master’s in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech.
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Monchaya Wanna
(202-628-8965
ext. 100) |
Director of Web Services
and Office Manager
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Monchaya is responsible for managing the NASPAA office, directing all inquiries, and maintaining online information for the NASPAA website. As Director of Web Services, she
is leading the redesign of the NASPAA website.
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