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Writing to Influence: How to Translate Research into Policy with Tara Dawson-McGuinness
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Tara McGuinness is the founder of the New Practice Lab where she leads a team of designers, researchers and project managers working to improve family economic security and well being. She has spent her career in public service: nonprofits, congressional offices, think-tanks and in the federal government, including the White House. She led the domestic policy team for the Biden Transition and served as a senior advisor to President Obama where she was responsible for leading the effort to sign up millions of Americans for free and low-cost health insurance through Obamacare. Having a front-row seat in both politics and research, Tara knows first-hand how to translate academia into effective policy – and how to make sure that important findings are not ignored or overlooked by politicians. Join her for this workshop where she will explain how to write research that will be heard, understood, and applied by those with the power to effect national change.
Pre Reading:
Introduction to the speaker and the Government Technology (podcast from ‘The Future in Context’)
In close collaboration with Princeton University Press, Princeton Writes, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, and other partners, this GradFUTURES Learning Cohort will help you hone writing (and other communication) skills in order to connect your ideas with audiences that need to hear them. We’ll cover how to keep your writing clear, interesting, and relevant.
The series will feature online presentations and in-person, hands-on workshops. You’ll hear from nationally-recognized voices in a series of Zoom Lunch & Learns with Princeton University Press authors like Christopher Paul Harris, Jelani Favors, Marybeth Gasman, Joseph C. Ewoodzie, and Tara Dawson-McGuinness, and you’ll also connect with people and resources that will help you move from theory to practice. In the Spring, you’ll have the chance to earn a badge in public writing—while producing public-facing work of your own in a supportive, mentored environment.