NASPAA Honors Professor Ester Fuchs

SIPA faculty member Ester Fuchs, a professor of public affairs and political science, has been honored with a NASPAA Spotlight Award for “outstanding contributions toward solving public-sector problems.” The award reflects Fuchs’s work since 2012 to develop and promote the Who’s On the Ballot voter-information website.

NASPAA—the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration—announced the inaugural 10 award recipients on November 5 at its annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earlier this year, the organization had invited its nearly 300 member schools, including SIPA, to to nominate faculty or alumni working in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

Fuchs was not the only member of the SIPA community honored. The organization also recognized Todd Miner MPA-ESP ’11, who as a director at Friends of Rockaway helped lead recovery efforts in one of the New York City neighborhoods hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

“The 10 nominees have made great contributions to their communities and demonstrate the ideals of public service,” said George Dougherty, Jr., a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs who chaired the awards subcommittee. “It is a pleasure for us to highlight their contributions.”