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Professor Karen Czarnecki
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Karen M. Czarnecki
Professor, Internship Seminar
Karen M. Czarnecki currently serves as the Chief of Staff to Rep. Mike Kelly. Previously she was a senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. She joined the Labor Department in June of 2001, and in June 2003 she was appointed Director of the Office of the 21st Century Workforce. In addition, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Intergovernmental Affairs, giving her responsibility for outreach to state and locally-elected officials.
Professor Czarnecki received her BA and juris doctorate degrees from Catholic University of America and is also an alumna of the ICPES program.
Patrick Roberts
Professor, Transformation of American Politics
Dr. Patrick Roberts is an assistant professor for the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He graduated with a B.A. in politics from the University of Dallas, an M.A. in political philosophy from Claremont Graduate University and received his Ph.D. in government from The University of Virginia. He spent the 2010-2011 academic year as a Ghaemian Scholar-in-Residence at the Heidelburg Center for American Studies in Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Roberts is a 1995 alumnus of TFAS' Institute on Political Journalism.
Benjamin Powell
Professor, Comparative Economic Systems
Benjamin Powell is an assistant professor of economics at Suffolk University, a senior economist with the Beacon Hill Institute, and a research fellow with the Independent Institute. He earned his B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.
Professor Powell is the editor of Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford University Press: 2008) and author of more than 30 scholarly articles and policy studies. His primary fields of research are economic development, Austrian economics, public choice, and housing economics. Dr. Powell’s research findings have been reported in more than 100 popular press outlets including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He also writes frequently for the popular press. His popular writing has appeared in the Investor’s Business Daily, the Financial Times ( London), the Christian Science Monitor, and many regional outlets. He has appeared on numerous regional and national radio and television shows including, CNN, MSNBC, Showtime, and National Public Radio.
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