Table of Contents

 

1. MNLM grad channels history and creativity into a joyful future

2. Price grads provide Congress with insights into private-sector pensions

3. New PricePod: Closing the revolving door at HHS

4. What else is news

5. Meet the USC alums who run a high desert city

6. USC Price in the Media

 

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Lorne Green, who recently received a Master in Nonprofit Leadership & Management degree, spent his earliest years in Philadelphia, where many of his Jewish friends attended Hebrew school.

• Later, when he was 13 years old, Green moved with his family to Los Angeles and soon after discovered his love of acting.
  
  
• These two formative insights unite in Green’s vision for Sankofa Sukuu: The Black Heritage School, the non-profit he is preparing to launch after graduating in May 2025.

In his words: “‘Sankofa’ is a West African word that means to go back and get something you need,” Green said. “‘Sukuu’ means education. I want to create a place where Black kids can find confidence and meaning by learning about their heritage. And I want them to learn it in the most joyful way possible – with games, questions, stories, and art.”

 

Read more about Green’s post-graduation plans.

 

Four recent USC Price School graduates analyzed a large dataset on private-sector pensions, providing Congress with new insights into how Americans plan for retirement.

• Their findings are expected to help Congress track nationwide trends on private-sector pensions, which could help lawmakers create and evaluate policies to boost access to retirement funds or improve financial health of pension plans, among other goals
  
  
• The Master of Public Policy students – Drishti Baid, Caroline Ghanbary, Gerson Montes and Weihang Zhang – won the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation Recognition Award for Outstanding Performance in the MPP Practicum – the USC Price School’s top honor for practicum projects.
  

Congratulations to the winners!

 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to ban employees of regulated companies, including drug manufacturers, from serving on the agency’s advisory committees.

• The new policy is aimed at combating industry influence and conflicts of interest, but will it make a difference?
  
  
• In the latest PricePod, Associate Professor Genevieve Kanter discusses her research on conflicts of interest at the FDA as well as the “revolving door” of people moving between jobs in government and regulated industries.

Take a listen

 

🏆 Award-Winning Advocacy: Three Master of Public Administration students won an award for advising a nonprofit on how to advocate for families with disabilities. Congrats grads!

🏘️ Alum Named Board of Trustee: USC alumnus and real estate executive Wil Smith has been elected to the USC Board of Trustees. Read more

⚡ Power Outage Costs: Research Professor Adam Rose and colleagues developed a new research method to provide deeper insights into the cost of power outages. Read more

The city of Twentynine Palms, one of the entry points to Joshua Tree National Park, is led by two USC alums: Mayor Steven Bilderain and City Manager Stone James.

• James earned a Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development and a Doctor of Policy, Planning, and Development at the USC Price School. Bilderain earned his MBA at the USC Marshall School of Business.
  
  
• In his words: “It opened doors that were previously closed and also opened doors that I didn’t know existed,” James said of his Price degrees.

Read more about the USC alum-run city.

 

 

 

Reuters interviewed Genevieve Kanter for a story about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ouster of a national vaccine advisory board.

 

TIME published an op-ed from Shaun Harper about the Trump administration removing him and other education experts from the National Board for Education Sciences.

 

The Guardian quoted Michael Thom about why film tax incentives fail to stimulate enough economic activity to justify their cost.

 

Tennessee Lookout talked to Alexandra Graddy-Reed in a story about the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding at Tennessee universities. 

 

The Sacramento Bee, The Modesto Bee and others quoted Mindy Romero for a story about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shift to the political center.

 

The Sacramento Bee featured Paul Ginsburg discussing how the University of California Health system and Blue Shield of California are nearing a contract deadline.

 

Spectrum News 1 interviewed Christian Grose about President Trump’s latest poll numbers.

 

The Orange County Register featured Richard Green in a story about how immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles affect the California homebuilding industry.

 

Undark quoted Neeraj Sood for a profile story about Jay Bhattacharya, the new Director of the National Institutes of Health.

 

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