CU Denver School of Public Affairs was a co-host for the 2019 conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel from November 7 to 9. This year’s conference theme was “Rising to the Challenge: Engaging Diverse Perspectives on Issues and Evidence,” and more than 20 of the school’s faculty and students are participating. Below is a list of presentations by CU Denver School of Public Affairs.

• Roundtable: Alternative Environmental Governance Models in a Time of State Retrenchment – Prof. Chris Weible (speaker)
• Panel: Economic Development Pursuits: From Traditional Financial Tools to Alternative Economic Development Strategies – Dr. Geoff Propheter (discussant)
• Panel: Collaboration, Contracts and Conflict in Health, Crisis, Immigration and Transit Policy Areas – Dr. Danielle Varda (chair)
• Student Resources: Doing Collaborative Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects – PhD student Alex Osei-Kojo (moderator); Prof. Chris Weible (speaker); Prof. Tanya Heikkila (speaker); Dr. Sandy Zook (speaker)
• Roundtable: Exploring the Challenges of and Opportunities for Diversity and Representation in Collaborative Governance – Prof. Tanya Heikkila (organizer and moderator); Prof. Chris Weible (speaker)
• Equity and Inclusion Session: Discussions with the Future Leaders of Tomorrow – PhD student Alex Osei-Kojo (speaker)
• Panel: Citizen Involvement in Conservation and Land Management – PhD student Juniper Katz (paper author)
• Roundtable: Gentrification – National Trends and Denver Example. What Does Research Tell Us? – Dean Paul Teske (moderator)
• Panel: Policy Dynamics Governing the U.S. Energy Sector: New Insights from Comparative Research – Prof. Tanya Heikkila (organizer and paper co-author); Prof. Chris Weible (paper co-author)
• Panel: Bureaucratic Discrimination: An Audit Study Approach – Dr. Sebawit Bishu (chair); Dr. Anthony Starke (discussant)
• Panel: Structuring Environmental Policies and Programs to Improve Sustainability Outcomes – Dr. Serena Kim (moderator)
• Panel: Gender and the Future of Work – PhD student Sojeong Kim (paper author)
• Panel: Nonprofit Oversight and Sustainability: Critical Issues Facing the Nonprofit Sector – Dr. Sandy Zook (chair)
• Panel: Property Tax Relief and Resident Mobility – Dr. Geoff Propheter (paper author)
• Panel: Examining the Effects of and Policy Responses to the Opioid Epidemic – Dr. Will Swann (chair and paper co-author); Dr. Serena Kim (paper co-author); PhD student Sojeong Kim (paper co-author); PhD student Alex Osei-Kojo (paper co-author)
• Panel: Participation, Conflict, and Citizen Science – Prof. Tanya Heikkila (discussant); PhD student Jill Yordy (paper author)
• Panel: Native Americans, Economics, and Opportunity – Dr. John Ronquillo (discussant)
• Student Resources: Soft Skills for the Academic Job Market – PhD student Alex Osei-Kojo (moderator); Prof. Mary Guy (speaker)
• Panel: Race, Place, and Equitable Access – PhD student Stephanie Puello (paper author)
• Panel: Engaging Diverse Communities in Designing and Delivering Public Services – Dr. Anthony Starke (discussant); PhD student Stephanie Bultema (paper author)
• Panel: Policy, Politics, and Comparative Governance of Regional and Local Borrowing – Prof. Christine Martell (chair; paper co-author);
• Panel: New Challenges for Electricity Policy – PhD student Jongeun You (co-author); Prof. Chris Weible (co-author); Prof. Tanya Heikkila (co-author); PhD student K.D. Park (co-author); PhD student Jill Yordy (co-author); MPA student Duncan Gilchrist (co-author)
• Panel: Examining Communications, Preferences, and Causal Mechanisms of Policy Change – PhD student K.D. Park (paper author)
• Panel: Networks and Collaborative Environmental Governance – Prof. Chris Weible (discussant)
• Panel: Property Taxes and Local Government Finance – Dr. Geoff Propheter (discussant)

The school co-hosted a welcome breakfast on November 7 and organized a Denver neighborhood field trip on November 8. Participants of the gentrification-themed field trip, led by CU Denver Professor Tony Robinson, toured nearby neighborhoods and visited gentrified coffee bars, TIF-subsidized developments, public housing that has been gentrified, park spaces undergoing changes, schools shifting to serve different constituents, and homeless shelters.