PA Theory 2023: Portland!

Schedule Highlights
Keynote Conversation with Dr. Brandi Blessett
Associate Professor - Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota (Biography)
Plenary Conversation 2023:Oregon COVID-19 Farmworker Study: Centering Farmworkers Knowledge in Community-Engaged Research
This panel will convene farmworkers, promotoras, farmworker-serving organizations, and researchers who launched the Oregon COVID-19 Farmworker Study (OR COFS). This community-engaged research led to the first comprehensive grasp of the diversity of Oregon’s farmworkers, including increasing numbers of Campesinas, ethnic, and linguistic diversity that subvert a monolithic frame of labor, Latinidad, and Indigeneity. The provocative discussion will be arranged around how this transformative methodology inspired by rural and Indigenous campesinx/o knowledge systems based on trust and reciprocity can improve direct service and policy change efforts.
PA Theory Network Conference Team

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration,
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Management
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Assistant Professor L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Virginia Commonwealth University

David P. Carter Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Director, Programs of Public Affairs
University of Utah

Associate Professor of Public Administration Hatfield School of Government Portland State University

Assistant Professor
University of Nevada, Reno