Fels Profiles
Photos of Marjorie Margolies with world leaders and dignitaries keep popping up on her computer screen, but she doesn’t care. Click, click, click.
Instead, she’s looking for a picture of a little girl. Senator Arlen Specter. The president of Finland. Valerie Biden Owens, the vice president’s...
"The story of their efforts to turn a public lemon into limoncello is a study in how even the most maligned government agency can be made to cater to citizens."
That's how a recent Governing magazine article described the successful efforts of Joe Conti, Fels faculty member and CEO of the PA Liquor...
When Fels faculty member Lee Nunery comes to work at Penn, his handiwork is literally in the bricks and mortar around him.
Currently he teaches Fels students about developing, managing and leading talent for nonprofit and governmental organizations. But just a few years ago he was putting those...
It’s getting late in the afternoon, but Jim Kenney is full of energy, bounding around the room.
“Here he is!” the five-term Philadelphia City Councilman exclaims as he seizes upon one of the pictures of “his kids” scattered about his third-floor City Hall office. “I caught him graffiti-ing a wall...
After finishing their undergraduate education, many folks will get a job or internship that they hope will lead to another job. Fels MGA student Jack Higgins started doing construction, and it led him to, of all places, the developing world.
“I thought I was going to take a year or two and learn...
Amanda Wagner '10 recently shared her vision for the future of Philadelphia on the NPR show Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. Amanda is one of the co-founders of Planning Collective, a planning and design firm she has started with other Penn students concerned with issues in post-industrial...
When Rachel Brooks moved back home after college, she got a fresh perspective on her little brother’s autism, and it spurred her to action. “I finally understood he would probably never go off to college or drive or marry or do any of the things that most of us take for granted,” says Brooks, 26,...
