Ivory Rose Chambeshi MPA, MPL ’14 is the founder of the community development consulting firm Urban Rising Group, which helps organizations cultivate healthy, prosperous and connected communities through strategic and land use planning, capacity-building, and community outreach. Chambeshi boasts over a decade of experience as a nonprofit leader, small business services professional, researcher, consultant and community advocate.
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The mayor of Coachella was among the USC Price School of Public Policy’s class of 2016. Steven Hernandez, who earned a Master of Public Administration in May, spoke to the Desert Sun newspaper about his inspirational path from farmworker to student to public servant.
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USC Price School of Public Policy alumnus Thomas Wong MPA ’13 thinks a lot about California’s drought. That’s because he’s the president of the Board of Directors of the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and a representative for his hometown of Monterey Park.
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After earning their MPA degrees from the USC Price School of Public Policy in 2012, Alana Hitchcock and Mark Weber quit their state government jobs, got married and moved to Thailand to inspire social change. Not long after, they founded Trade Monkey — a company dedicated to bridging the gap between disadvantaged artisans and consumers around the world.
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In 2011, Colleen Dilenschneider graduated from USC Price’s MPA program with a concentration in nonprofit management. Today, she is the Chief Market Engagement Officer for the marketing intelligence and consulting company IMPACTS, where she makes big data accessible to organizations and specializes in audience engagement initiatives and digital marketing.
In addition, Colleen also dedicates her time to helping advance the service sector through her popular website, Know Your Own Bone, a resource that offers creative online engagement strategies and best practices for nonprofit and cultural organizations including museums, zoos and aquariums
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MPA alumnus Ronald Arias retired this past December as the director of the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services — a post he’s held for the past 12 years. His career as a public servant spans 22 years with the City of Long Beach.
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