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UEP Associate Professor Mary Davis's recently published book, Jobs, Health, and the Meaning of Work, was rated among the top 50 Business and Economics books coming out this fall by Publisher's Weekly. The book is also ranked #1 in Amazon's Hot New Releases in Labor & Industrial Economic Relations. Congrats, Mary!

UEP’s Racial Equity in Policy and Planning (REPP) program has just finished its second year, supporting five fellows in each cohort of UEP’s 2-year MA/MS degree and building the broader learning community of students, alumni, practitioners, and community partners. Our first cohort of five fellows graduated in May. The second cohort is doing a variety of internships this summer. We have recruited a third cohort who will start in the fall semester. Through REPP, UEP is attracting students who want to further develop themselves as racial justice change agents in policy and planning. To learn more, check out REPP’s Spring 2024 report. Find the full report on the Practical Visionaries blog here! https://lnkd.in/e2AmQYjV

Summer Course Opportunity: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution There's still room in Maya Townsend's  Negotiation and Conflict Resolution course in the second summer session, which starts on July 2! It should be a really valuable learning opportunity.  Please sign up if it interests you.  Here's her invitation: Conflict is a part of everyday life. We face it at work, in our communities, and in our families. Despite the prevalence of conflict, few people engage in formal education on how to transform conflict from something that destroys and separates to a force for learning and positive outcomes. This course merges scholarship with practice by engaging students in a semester-long exploration of conflict techniques. Students develop skills in negotiation, cross-cultural conflict fluency, constructive controversy, and other conflict-related techniques. This course is especially helpful for those responsible for helping diverse groups and those with divergent experiences, values, and priorities agree on satisfactory outcomes. Click here to view the syllabus. https://lnkd.in/eBifRBpu More about Maya:  Maya Townsend is the founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources LLC, a management consultancy that has worked with Fortune 500, government, university, and nonprofit organizations since 2004. Her practice focuses on developing human-centered organizations and conflict-positive cultures. She has supported partners in conflict about the future of their company, managers seeking to improve internal relationships, and community coalitions resolving tensions in order to work together more effectively. She is one of only three certified trainers in the United States in Deep Democracy, a unique conflict resolution methodology that emerged as apartheid was lifted in South Africa to help organizations grapple with their legacies of oppression and trauma. Maya is also certified in the Conflict Dynamics Profile. She is co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development from the OD Network (AMACOM, 11/2012) and has published in numerous outlets, including Humanistic Management Journal, Nonprofit Quarterly, strategy business, People & Strategy, and the OD Review. In her free time, Maya serves as a volunteer housing tester for Suffolk University.

A new report written by UEP Professor Penn Loh and MS student Paulina Casasola Mena, with support from Isabella Buford, Melissa Cepeda, Elisa Guerrero, and Melissa Velasquez of UEP and in partnership with five community research partners has been published. "Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Care" presents the findings of a community action research project studying how mutual aid efforts strengthened and emerged during the pandemic and how they have impacted civic infrastructure in East Boston. Read the full report here:

UEP professor Kristin Skrabut recently published "Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru." The book is based on over a decade of fieldwork with inhabitants of Lima’s largest and most recently founded “self help” housing settlement. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/ejXveXwZ

Ten UEP students were inducted into the Honos Civicus Society! Launched by Tisch College in 2009, the Honos Civicus Society selects and publicly recognizes graduating students who engaged in meaningful service and leadership activities or otherwise strengthened civic life on campus and beyond during their time at Tufts. Congratulations to Melissa C. AG24, Illustrious Amaewhule Ewhorlu AG24, Chelsey Gao AG24, Kristen Homeyer AG24, Laurel Mire AG24, Samantha Perlman AG24, Jenna Van Holten AG24, Rev. Vernon K. Walker AG24, Phoebe Whitwell AG24, and Joselyn Yrayta-Mart, AG24! https://lnkd.in/eS-XXh_T

Following a successful fall 2023 Gathering, the Racial Equity in Policy and Planning Fellowship Program (REPP) cordially invites you to the next in a series of conversations with colleagues in the fields of urban and Regional planning, public policy, and Urban Design to explore strategies and build our Learning Community to address and improve racial Equity outcomes inside and outside the sector. The Gathering Part II will take place on Thursday, May 16th, 2024, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Join us!

“Shelly was a beloved colleague, friend, and mentor to all of us at UEP. He was our ethical anchor, he never gave up the hope and dream of a better world, and Shelly was the consummate activist-advocate-scholar.” — Julian Agyeman, Professor of UEP, Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate Watch the full video to learn more about Dr. Sheldon (Shelly) Krimsky’s accomplishments and his new Fund established at Tufts University.  https://lnkd.in/eUaxED8B