Norman B. Rice

Norman B. Rice
Distinguished Practitioner-In-Residence
MPA, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, 1974

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 228
normrice@u.washington.edu
206.221.3893

Norman B. Rice, the former mayor of Seattle from 1989-97, joined the Evans School as a distinguished practitioner-in-residence in 2006 after retiring as the CEO and president of Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. His appointment at the Evans School is to oversee the Civic Engagement for the 21st Century Project, aimed at designing a new model for civic engagement through seminars, workshops, and research.

Rice, an Evans School alum and current Visiting Committee member, entered the political arena in 1978 when elected to the Seattle City Council through a special election. He served three consecutive terms on the city council until being elected mayor in 1989, becoming the first African American and first city council member in 25 years to serve as mayor of Seattle. During his two terms in office, Rice also became the first Seattle mayor to serve as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Much of his work with the Civic Engagement for the 21st Century project draws on the successes he had with several major projects while serving as mayor, including:

• Revitalizing Seattle’s dying downtown area into Washington state’s epicenter of art, music, sports, and shopping by securing federal, state, and local funding for public-private partnerships in redevelopment efforts.

• Leading a comprehensive growth management effort in neighborhood planning that engaged Seattle residents in a meaningful dialogue and gave them ownership in decisions affecting their communities. These strong neighborhood collaborations continue in Seattle today.

• Strengthening the Seattle’s public schools through a citywide education summit attended by 2,500 people at 32 different meetings, which eventually helped pass a $69 million levy for the Seattle Public School District.

• Championing crime prevention efforts that helped Seattle’s crime rate drop to a 16-year low.

• Addressing Seattle’s growing number of homeless residents through a working partnership between city officials and social workers to find private funding for services.

Rice has also led instrumental change outside of politics in his role as the CEO and president of Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, a company recognized nationally for its innovations in housing and community development finance. In his six years at the bank, Rice helped develop a new mortgage purchase product line and created innovative homeownership programs and funding strategies to help low- and moderate- income families and neighborhoods.

Prior to his work in public service, Rice served as the governmental affairs director for the Puget Sound Council of Governments and manager of corporate contributions and social policy for Rainer National Bank, which is now part of Bank of America.

Rice continues his commitment to fostering the development of vibrant, diverse, self-sustaining communities through the many boards and committees he serves on, including: the Brookings Institution’s Advisory Committee for Sustainable Communities, Enterprise Foundation and the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the YMCA, and the Seattle Urban League.

His work has been recognized through many professional and community awards, including:

• Municipal League of King County’s James. R. Ellis Regional Leadership Award (with John Stanton)
• The American Jewish Federation’s Human Relations Award (with wife Constance Rice)
• National Neighborhood Coalition’s National Award for Leadership on Behalf of Neighborhoods
• King County Chapter of the YWCA’s Isabel Coleman Pierce Award
• Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Mark F. Cooper Leadership Award
• American Association of Community College Students’ Outstanding Alumni Award

Rice holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Evans School at the University of Washington (UW), which he attended when it was still known as the Graduate School of Public Affairs. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the UW, and honorary doctorate degrees from Seattle University, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College.

Tanja Srebotnjak

Tanja Srebotnjak
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Ph.D., Yale University, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 408
tanjas@u.washington.edu
206.685.7303

Areas of Specialization:
Development of Composite Indicators; Methods for Missing Data; and Performance Measurement and Evaluation in Environmental, Health and Social Policy

Tanja Srebotnjak joined the Evans School in 2006 as a consultant and has worked as a part-time lecturer and post doctoral research associate since 2007. Her research and teaching interests include the development of composite indicators, methods for missing data, and performance measurement and evaluation in environmental, health and social policy.

Prior to coming to the Evans School, Srebotnjak worked as a statistician from 2006-07 for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and project director from 2003-06 for the Environmental Performance Measurement Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She has also served as a teaching assistant at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Dortmund University in Germany.

Srebotnjak is the recipient of several awards and fellowships and fellowships from the Martin Schmeisser Foundation in Dortmund, Germany, and the Deutsche Studienstiftung in Bonn, Germany.

Outside of academics, Srebotnjak worked as a statistician from 2000-03 for the United Nations Statistics Division in New York.

She is a member of The International Environmetrics Society and American Statistical Assocation, Section on the Environment.

Srebotnjak holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, a MA from Yale University, a MS in statistics from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and a Diploma in statistics from Dortmund University in Germany.

Publications

2008 Environmental Performance Index with Daniel C. Esty, Marc A. Levy, Christine H. Kim, Alexander de Sherbinin, and Valentina Mara. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2008

“Environmental Performance Index” edited by E. Melnick and B. Everett for the Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, Wiley New York, Oxford, in press.

“Biofuels: Silver Bullet or Pipedream” for Environment: Yale Magazine, Fall 2007

“Understanding the North-South Knowledge Divide and Its Implications for Policy: A Quantitative Analysis of the Generation of Scientific Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences” with Sylvia Karlsson and Patricia Gonzales for the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 10:668-684; 2007

“The Role of Environmental Statisticians in Environmental Policy: The Case of Performance Measurement” for the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 10:405-418; 2007

Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index with Daniel C. Esty, Marc A. Levy, and Alexander de Sherbinin. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, 2006

The Performance of the ASEAN Member State in the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI): A Synthesis of Findings for the 3rd ASEAN State of the Environment Report, 2005

“Pushing the Frontier of Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship” with Daniel C. Esty for the Yale Journal for International Affairs, 1(1): 156-168; 2005

“A Critical Analysis of the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index as a Tool for Environmental Policymaking” for the Proceedings of the Eminent Environmental Economist Symposium at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia, Seoul, South Korea, March 24-25, 2005

2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship with Daniel C. Esty, Marc Levy, and Alexander de Sherbinin. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2005

“Young Environmetricians Profile” for The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) Newsletter, 10 (2): 10-11; 2004

Deriving a Model for Missing Date in the 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index for the Proceedings of the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, New York, 2002

“Environmental Sustainability Indicators – Developing Measures for Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Sustainability” for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change Newsletter, UPDATE 2: 14, 2002

“Imputing Missing Values” with Kobi A. Abayomi and Andrew Gelman for the 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2002

Daniel Carlson

Daniel Carlson
Senior Lecturer of Public Affairs
MA, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, 1972

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 411
kareli@u.washington.edu
206.616.8785

Areas of Specialization:
Community and Economic Development, Transportation, Land Use, Public Service Clinics

Daniel Carlson is a senior lecturer and director of the Public Service Clinics at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. The Public Service Clinics enable second year MPA students to conduct a major research project with a non profit or public agency.

Dan's work focuses in the areas of community and economic development and transportation and land use. He is the co-author (with the late Cy Ulberg and Lisa Wormser) of At Road's End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities (Island Press, 1995), a book that examines present transportation paradigms and case studies from around the country which model change toward holistic transportation planning. Dan is the author of Reusing America's Schools (Preservation Press, 1991) which highlights adaptive use of closed schools for community development. His study, with Evans School grad Don Billen, Transportation Corridor Management: Are We Linking Transportation and Land Use Yet? (1996) focuses specifically on innovations and lessons learned from transportation corridor management in regions across the country. Dan has recently co-authored several studies at the regional and state level in Washington State on transportation concurrency: Options For Making Concurrency More Multimodal, The Eastside Transportation Concurrency Project, transportation demand management: WSDOT'S Role In Transportation Demand Management, and commute trip reduction performance grants: The CTR Performance Grant Program: Strengthening The Program's Structure and Market, and on special transportation programs: Homeless Student Transportation Project Evaluation.

Dan and Evans School colleagues have provided advice, assistance, and evaluation to the City of Seattle's Enterprise Community program and the community development corporations working in the city's most distressed neighborhoods. He has also developed Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies for the International, Central, Southeast, Delridge, and Pioneer Square communities that were adopted by the City Council.

On the regional/metropolitan level, Dan and Paul Sommers have prepared two studies for the Brookings Institution, Ten Steps to a High Tech Future: The New Economy in Metropolitan Seattle and What the IT Revolution means for Regional Economic Development. The studies provide new understanding about the high tech sector, its urban/suburban location preferences, and the role public officials can play in attracting and benefiting from high tech firms. Dan and Shishir Mathur authored a chapter "Does Growth Management Aid or Thwart the Provision of Affordable Housing?" in the book Growth Management and Affordable Housing: Do they Conflict? (Brookings Institution, 2004). Dan's research on Turning Regional Visions Into Regional Results led to a collaboration with the Wallace Stegner Center on Land Resources and the Environment and a February 2001 symposium on the topic.

A skilled facilitator, Dan led a Transportation Pricing Working Group of elected officials and stakeholders from the developer, environment, labor, and business communities as a joint project of the Puget Sound Regional Council and The Forum at the Evans School. He facilitated a regional fare integration forum for the Regional Transit Authority which successfully reached agreement amongst the five transit operating agencies in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Dan is an experienced focus group leader, recently employing this qualitative research method to learn about housing needs in the university community, residents' experiences at the New Holly Hope VI development, and to learn from truck drivers who work in dense urban areas.

In his consulting practice, Dan provides services to public and nonprofit agencies involved in community development activities. He works with community development corporations and their intermediaries to develop strategic and business plans. He has developed an economic element for the City of Bainbridge Island's comprehensive plan, and developed Tacoma School District's Facilities Plan.

Dan draws on thirty-five years' experience in the public and non profit sectors as a big city mayoral aide, foundation executive director, county planner, educator, applied researcher and small businessperson. Dan is a board member of the White Center Community Development Association.

Curriculum Vitae (20KB PDF)

Publications & Links

• Options For Making Concurrency More Multimodal (599KB PDF) December 2006
• Homeless Student Transportation Project Evaluation (606KB PDF) December 2006
• WSDOT'S Role In Transportation Demand Management: Strategic Interest, Structure, And Responsibilities (394KB PDF) 2005
• The CTR Performance Grant Program: Strengthening The Program's Structure and Market (520KB PDF) 2005
• What the IT Revolution Means for Regional Economic Development, February 2003
• The Possibilities of Transportation Concurrency, October 2003
• Turning Regional Visions Into Real Results, with Ellen Schroer, February 2001
• THE NEW ECONOMY IN METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: High Tech Firm Location Decisions Within the Metropolitan Landscape, with Paul Sommers, September 2000
• Linking Transportation and Land Use by Fostering Inter-Jurisdictional Cooperation: Enabling Legislation in Eight States (755KB PDF) May 1998
• LEARNING FROM TRUCKERS: Moving Goods in Compact, Livable Urban Areas with Gary Pivo, June 1997
• TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT: Are We Linking Transportation and Land Use Yet? with Don Billen, October 1996

David S. Harrison

David S. Harrison
Lecturer of Public Affairs
MPA, Harvard University, 1979

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 412
dsharr@u.washington.edu
206.221.4601

Areas of Specialization:
Nonprofit Organizations, Regional Economic Development, Growth Management

David S. Harrison is a lecturer at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He currently teaches policy analysis and new program design in the Evans School's Masters in Public Administration program, and is faculty coordinator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program.

Harrison's career has been devoted to creating bridges between the policymaking community, policy researchers, and citizens. He came to the Northwest in 1986 to found and direct the Northwest Policy Center, which for many years provided policy assistance on economic vitality issues to governmental leaders throughout the region. In that position, Harrison devised a number of new tools to help policymakers shape new strategies, including a policy "mock trial" that has been utilized by nearly 100 organizations and agencies of government. He is an experienced and skilled facilitator of public meetings and governmental strategic planning processes. His clients have included King County, the City of Seattle, the Washington Department of Licensing, Seattle Public Library, and the Puget Sound Regional Council. He carries out his consulting practice through Triangle Associates of Seattle.

In 2003, Washington Governor Gary Locke named him chair of the Washington Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. He was reappointed by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2005. The WTECB brings together business, labor, education and government to devise, implement and evaluate workforce training strategies for the state of Washington. In 2005, Harrison also served as Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Welfare Reform.

In 2006, Harrison initiated Strategies to Eliminate Poverty under the auspices of the Seattle Foundation. Made possible by a five year commitment from the Northwest Area Foundation, this new program will assist researchers in developing new governmental policies to combat poverty.

Harrison holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the founder and former director of the Forum at the Evans School. He served as senior policy advisor to Senator Maria Cantwell from 2001-2003 and as a member of the Bainbridge Island School Board from 1993-1997. He and his wife Cynthia have lived on Bainbridge Island since 1986.

Jane Cover

Jane Cover
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007

Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 408
206.685.7303
janec@u.washington.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Demography; Residential Segregation; Ethnic and Socioeconomic Stratification; Urban Sociology; Poverty and Community Development

Jane Cover joined the Evans School in March 2007 as research manager for the Community Vitality Project and has worked as a post doctoral research associate since December 2007. Her research interests included demography, residential segregation, ethnic and socioeconomic stratification, urban sociology, and poverty and community development.

Prior to pursuing her doctoral degree, Cover worked as a research and policy analyst at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C. She is also a member of the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association.

Cover holds a Ph.D. of Sociology from the University of Washington, a Master in Public Health from Tulane University, and a BA in psychology from Whitman College.

Curriculum Vitae (97.5 KB PDF)

Publications

“Heterogeneity and Harmony: Neighboring Relationships among Whites in Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods in Seattle” with Pete Guest and Charis Kubrin for Urban Studies; Vol. 45(3), 501-526; 2008

“Health Services Utilization by Low-Income Limited English Proficient Adults” with Elinor Graham, Troy Jacobs and Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett for the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2007

“Neighborhood Context and Neighboring Ties” with Pete Guest, Charis Kubrin and Ross Matsueda for City and Community; Vol. 5 (4), 363-385; 2006