The 2019 National Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) was held in Baltimore, Maryland, March 5-7, 2019.
http://compaspanet.com/conference.html
The conference is an important academic event for minority scholars and practitioners in the field of public policy and JSU Dept of Public Policy & Administration (PPAD) has been playing important roles.
This year PPAD professors, and alumni, and current doctoral student attended the conference and played important roles in presenting reserach outputs and in administering the organization.
The conference program is available at http://users.neo.registeredsite.com/1/6/7/11285761/assets/Conference_Schedue_At_A_Glance.pdf
(Ffrom the left in pic: Dr. Debra Monro-Lax (Phd in 2018), Dr. Kristie Lewis (PPAD alumnus), Professor Sy Murray (Retired faculty), Dr. L. Frances P. Liddell (Retired faculty), Professor Gloria Billingsley (PPAD faculty), Dr. Elizabeth Overman (PPAD alumnus), and Mr. Julius E Green II (PPAD doctoral student). Dr. Debra Monro-Lax is a policy analyst at the Mississippi Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER), and is elected for the position of the COMPA Secretary during the conference. Dr. Kristie Lewis is a professor at Point University in Georgia, and the incoming COMPA president. Dr. Elizabeth Overman is a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. Professors Sy Murray, Frances Liddell, and Gloria Billingsley have served the COMPA as President, respectively.
(Mr. Julius E Green II , who is seen in the right, has received an award from the session of Student Policy Debate).
