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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — No Place Like Home: Confronting America’s Housing Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nAaron Shkuda\nPrinceton Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities\, Lecturer in Architecture \nPanelists:      \nRalph Bennett ’61 *66\nProfessor Emeritus\, University of Maryland School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation; Founding Partner\, Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects \nLisa Soghor ’86\nAssistant City Manager\, City of Culver City \nTom Wright ’91\nPresident and CEO\, Regional Plan Association \nNicole White Forrest ’01\nPrincipal\, White Forrest LLC \nDana McKinney White ’11\nAssistant Professor of Urban Design\, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Co-Founder\, enFOLD Collective; Founder\, Studio KINN\n \n\nMODERATOR\nAaron Shkuda\nAaron Shkuda runs the Princeton Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities\, a program in the Princeton University School of Architecture that fosters collaboration between scholars and students studying urban life and the built environment. Shkuda received his Ph.D. in United States urban history from the University of Chicago and is the author of “The Lofts of Soho: Gentrification\, Art\, and Industry in New York\, 1950–1980” (Chicago\, 2016) and the upcoming “Financial Capitals\,” a book about the spatial impact of securities and commodities trading on central business districts in New York\, Chicago and New Jersey. He teaches courses in the Urban Studies minor at Princeton\, including Affordable Housing in the U.S. and Mapping Gentrification. Shkuda has published articles on subjects ranging from arts-focused retail districts to the architecture and planning behind Battery Park City. He previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford Universities. \n  \nPANELISTS\nRalph Bennett ’61 *66\nRalph Bennett graduated with an A.B. in architecture from Princeton in 1961. After two years in the Army\, he completed his M.F.A. in architecture at Princeton. He then worked in Boston for Kallmann and McKinnell and Jose Luis Sert before co-founding Massdesign Architects and Planners. He also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for five years. A project in Baltimore brought him to Maryland in 1977; he established Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects with two former students for residential work at all scales. He started teaching studio design\, theory and drawing at the University of Maryland School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation\, attaining the rank of professor\, and\, now\, professor emeritus. Bennett has taught two courses on sustainability since his retirement in 2008. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a charter signer of the Congress for the New Urbanism. \nLisa Soghor ’86\nLisa Soghor has over 30 years of leadership experience in local government. As assistant city manager in Culver City\, she blends ambitious policy goals with fiscal sustainability. She helped Culver City acquire and rehabilitate two motels for supportive housing for homeless individuals. In her prior role as assistant city manager in Malibu\, she was instrumental in organizing the rebuilding efforts after the 2018 Woolsey Fire. For the League of California Cities\, Soghor currently serves as president of the Fiscal Officers Group and sits on the Housing\, Community and Economic Development Policy Committee. An art history major at Princeton\, she completed her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. As the deputy executive officer of the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority from 1995 to 2016\, she was dedicated to the acquisition\, development and operation of parkland throughout Los Angeles County\, including innovative natural projects in underserved urban areas. \nTom Wright ’91\nAs president and CEO of Regional Plan Association (RPA)\, Tom Wrights leads a 100-year-old civic organization that develops and advocates long-range plans for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region. RPA priorities include charging drivers to enter the Manhattan Central Business District; cutting carbon emissions and scaling up renewable energy sources; creating healthy\, affordable housing; modernizing the New York City subways; and other infrastructure investments\, including a new commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River connected to a renovated and expanded Penn Station. A frequent public speaker and commentator on regional governance\, economic growth and development\, and transit investments\, Wright is the chair of the New Jersey State Planning Commission and has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Princeton. \nNicole White Forrest ’01\nNicole White Forrest is a real estate developer\, investor and educator whose career has spanned affordable\, middle-market and luxury housing across the private\, public and nonprofit sectors\, domestically and internationally. She has been responsible for the creation of thousands of homes and was an early pioneer in combining affordability and sustainability. She has structured public-private partnerships with transit authorities and government agencies and originated an international housing finance company. Forrest served as executive director of the San Diego Housing Fund\, a double-bottom-line private equity vehicle launched by a regional community foundation to address the local housing crisis\, and has contributed to task forces on affordability and homelessness. At the University of San Diego’s Knauss School of Business\, she teaches real estate development and finance\, housing innovation and emerging technologies. A politics major at Princeton\, she holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. \nDana McKinney White ’11\nDana McKinney White is a licensed architect and urban designer and is an outspoken advocate for social justice and equity through design. She contextualizes people and their broader communities throughout her work. Her academic and professional work integrates wellness\, progressive public policy and inclusive economics into innovative design solutions. She is the co-founder of enFOLD Collective\, an interdisciplinary architecture\, planning and design practice that positions community voices at the center of its projects\, and is the founder of Studio KINN\, a consulting practice advising on design and planning projects through a heightened commitment to vulnerable communities. An architecture major at Princeton\, McKinney White completed her Master of Architecture and Master in Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)\, where she now is assistant professor of urban design. As a student at the GSD\, she co-established the inaugural Black in Design Conference and the Design Nexus.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/no-place-like-home-confronting-americas-housing-crisis/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Governing Beyond the Headlines: A #PrincetonStar Forum
DESCRIPTION:Viral headlines and social media clips may dominate our news feeds\, but we should not mistake them for the actual work of governing. What does it mean to advance good policy in the face of short attention spans and public distrust? How can we better understand the signals amidst the noise? This panel will include timely insights from Dean Amaney Jamal and SPIA alums working at the United Nations and in various state government agencies. \nFeaturing Karthick Ramakrishnan *02\, Amaney Jamal\, Gizem Sucuoglu Keehn *22\, Julieta Cuellar *19\, and Gillian Morejon Gutierrez *06 \nSponsored by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) and the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/governing-beyond-the-headlines-a-princetonstar-forum/
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Shifting Global Powers: What Comes Next?
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University  \nModerator:\nJacob N. Shapiro\nVice Dean for Strategic Initiatives\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs \n  \nPanelists:      \nJim Timbie ’66\nAnnenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University \nLaurel E. Miller ’86\nPresident and CEO\, The Asia Foundation \nAsha Rangappa ’96\nSenior Lecturer\, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs \nCara Abercrombie *03\nSenior Adviser\, The Cohen Group \n  \n\nMODERATOR\nJacob N. Shapiro\nJacob N. Shapiro co-founded the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and leads Princeton’s Accelerator initiative to advance research on the information environment. Shapiro has published extensively on conflict\, economic development\, security and technology\, including “The Terrorist’s Dilemma” (2013) and “Small Wars\, Big Data” (2018). His fieldwork spans Afghanistan\, Colombia\, India and Pakistan. A recipient of the 2016 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association\, he has advised government agencies\, NGOs and tech companies on security policy and foreign influence. Shapiro holds a Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in economics from Stanford University\, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is also a U.S. Navy veteran and recently served in the U.S. government. \n  \nPANELISTS\nJim Timbie ’66\nAs a scientist and senior adviser at the State Department from 1971 to 2016\, Jim Timbie played a central role in negotiating the nuclear arms reductions agreements with the Soviet Union and Russia\, and the nuclear agreement with Iran. In 2016\, he retired from the State Department and joined the Hoover Institution to work with former Secretary of State George Shultz ’42\, and he now co-manages the Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) Initiative that continues to explore issues that mattered to Shultz. Timbie is also chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Track II dialogue with the Russian Academy. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. \nLaurel E. Miller ’86\nLaurel Miller is president is CEO of The Asia Foundation\, an international nonprofit that helps solve development and public policy challenges. She is also a congressionally appointed member of the bipartisan Afghanistan War Commission. Previously\, she directed the International Crisis Group’s Asia program and was a senior foreign policy expert at the RAND Corporation. Miller served in the U.S. State Department as acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; senior adviser to the assistant secretary for European Affairs; and deputy ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. She served as director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council. Miller practiced law with Covington & Burling in Washington\, D.C.\, and Brussels after serving as a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow. Laurel is a graduate of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and the University of Chicago Law School. \nAsha Rangappa ’96\nAsha Rangappa is a senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a former associate dean at Yale Law School. Prior to Yale\, Rangappa served as a special agent in the New York division of the FBI\, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. She is a frequent legal commentator for CNN\, MS NOW and other networks and is the author of a bestselling Substack\, The Freedom Academy. Her current book project\, “UNCOMPROMISED: Activating Your Moral Compass in an Age of Complicity\,” will be published by Bloomsbury in 2028. Rangappa graduated from what is now the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and received a Fulbright scholarship to Bogotá\, Colombia. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is an editor for Just Security\, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project. \nCara Abercrombie *03\nCara Abercrombie is a national security expert and senior adviser at a Washington\, D.C.-based strategic advisory firm. Previously\, she held numerous senior positions in the Pentagon and White House during a two-decade civil service career. During the Biden administration\, she served as acting deputy under secretary of defense for policy\, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary of defense for acquisition. From 2021 to 2023\, she served as deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for defense policy and arms control at the White House National Security Council. Throughout her time in government\, Abercrombie worked to advance U.S. relations with partners across the Indo-Pacific\, strengthening alliances and initiating groundbreaking defense cooperation with India. Abercrombie is a passionate advocate for epilepsy awareness and research. She is a member of CURE Epilepsy’s research committee and co-chair of the KPTN Alliance. \n 
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/shifting-global-powers-what-comes-next/
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