Nani A. Coloretti is the senior vice president for financial and business strategy at the Urban Institute. She has over 20 years of experience leading and supporting organizations and people to achieve outstanding results. She served the Obama administration for almost eight years, most recently as deputy secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As the second-most senior official at HUD, she managed the department's day-to-day operations and cross-cutting program initiatives, including a $45 billion annual…

Carol Wilkins has distinguished herself in promoting the interests of low income people for many years in her roles as consultant on the State of California Assembly Ways & Means Committee, as Finance Director for the City and County of San Francisco, Finance Director for the San Francisco Housing Authority, and in leadership roles at the Corporation of Supportive Housing (CSH). At CSH, she envisioned and guided implementation of cross-sector partnerships to align health care, housing assistance, and…

Joy Bonaguro has spent her career working at the nexus of data, technology, design and policy. Ms. Bonaguro was recently appointed as Chief Data Officer of the State of California with a mandate to improve government use of data. Prior to her state role, she was responsible for scaling internal systems, data, and information security at Corelight, a high-growth cybersecurity startup funded by Accel and General Catalyst. Prior to Corelight, she served as the first Chief Data Officer for…

Elizabeth Hill commenced a career in state government in 1976, joining the California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) as a program analyst. Following specializations in various policy areas, she was appointed the California Legislative Analyst by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in 1986. She is the first woman to hold this position. After more than three decades of state service, she retired in 2008. As Legislative Analyst, she served as a nonpartisan fiscal advisor to both houses of the California…

The Goldman School of Public Policy announces the appointment of three new faculty members: Ellora Derenoncourt, Shelley Liu, and Gabriel Zucman Ellora Derenoncout is an economist with a PhD from Harvard who studies economic history using modern statistical and historical methods. She has written on the historical origins of global inequality, Atlantic slavery’s impact on European and British economic development, the economic consequences of the Great Migration from the South to the north by African Americans, and the…

When Blaine Jones, Assistant Director of Student Services and PPIA Program Director, realized the Public Policy International Affairs Junior Summer Institute would have to go online due to the coronavirus, he was apprehensive. The Junior Summer Institute brings together a cohort of talented and public-service minded undergraduates for a summer intensive designed to prepare them for graduate programs in public policy and law. It is an academically intense, highly bonding experience. Would it translate to an online format? Thanks to…

by Chetan Choudhury, government advisor, United Arab Emriates  Early on a bright and sunny Friday morning in the latter half of February, sixteen leaders from the public and private sectors came together at the Alumni House in Berkeley, California, to engage in a closed-door dialogue on government services as part of the second government services forum. Designing and implementing a successful digital service doesn’t depend on technology alone. It is a heady mix of multiple…

Sheida Elmi (MPP '12) co-authored an article about how cash transfers now and beyond COVID-19 can support household financial security. The article reviews the decades-long history of cash transfer programs that demonstrates its effectiveness. Read: Cash Transfers in the U.S. are Exploding: Here’s How to Make them Effective, During COVID-19 and Beyond

Transit-weighted Opportunity Mapping: A Novel Tool to Bring Equity and Climate Goals into Balance is a study commissioned by the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and prepared as a Master's thesis in partial fulfillment of the Goldman School of Public Policy's degree requirements. As part of the study, Eddie Sun (MPP '20) developed a quantitative tool for evaluating the socio-economic as well as transportation resources of every census tract in the State of California. This…

Rob Moore (MPP '17), principal at Scioto Analysis, co-authored a cost-benefit analysis on school closures for COVID-19 in the state of Ohio. The analysis projects that an additional four-month closing of schools in the fall of 2020 would likely save 100-210 lives but would come at a significant cost to K-12 students in the form of future earnings. Read more about the report.