Alumni Information Hub
Department of Public Policy alumni are 1,000+ strong. They are leaders of public, nonprofit, and corporate organizations in Connecticut, the U.S., and around the world.
Public Administration
Meet Anna Alzapiedi
MPA, 1988
Senior Human Resource Leader, GE Capital Operations and Information Technology
Meet Kory Mills
MPA, 2017
Management and Budget Analyst, City of Hartford
Public Policy
Meet Michael Izadi
MPP, 2017
Budget Analyst, Connecticut Office of Policy and Management
Meet Su-Teng Kuan
MPP, 2017
Associate Compliance Analyst, Global Independence, Deloitte Touche Tomatsu Limited (DTTL)
Survey Research
Meet Kenneth Pick
M.A. Survey Research, 2009
Survey Methodologist, National Agricultural Statistics Service
Meet Vanessa M.
M.A. Survey Research, 2013
Program Manager, Google
The goal is to help current and future DPP students see the wide variety of careers that our graduates embark on, and to help DPP alumni connect with their former classmates.
Learn more about the DPP Alumni Council.
The Department of Public Policy (DPP) is pleased to invite you to participate in the DPP Alumni-Student Mentoring Network. The program was developed in response to alumni and student feedback in favor of more engagement and professional opportunities. With a national network of over 1,000 alumni, MPA, MPP and MSR alumni represent a wealth of professional experience across the public, nonprofit and private sectors. Our current students will be lucky to have you as a mentor.
We receive constant appeals for our students and graduates to apply for jobs both locally and nationally. Please email dpp@uconn.edu to share career opportunities with the Department of Public Policy (DPP) and we will share them a couple different ways:
DPP Careers Listserv:
A listserv has been created for sharing job opportunities with anyone who is interested in joining: DPP_CAREERS-L@listserv.uconn.edu. To join, please follow the steps below:
- Create a new e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU
- Leave the subject blank
- Enter in the body of the e-mail this command, filled in with the respective information:
- To subscribe: SUB DPP_CAREERS-L Firstname Lastname
- To unsubscribe from a list: UNSUB DPP_CAREERS-L
- To turn on the Digest feature: SET DPP_CAREERS-L DIGEST
- To turn off the Digest feature: SET DPP_CAREERS-L MAIL
DPP LinkedIn:
For students and alumni, we will post job opportunities on the DPP’s LinkedIn site. Please request to join our private group: “University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy.”
Check here on the 15th of each month to hear about the professional experiences and adventures of DPP alumni!
Do you wonder about the value of your alumni engagement with the Department of Public Policy? Read about Daniel Ray's recent experience. He is a 2016 UConn Master of Public Health and Master of Public
Administration graduate. Congratulations, Daniel!
"As an upcoming MPH/MPA graduate, I was looking for possible contacts in hospital administration that might be able to help me get my foot in the door at a hospital here in Connecticut. I came across Amanda Miller on LinkedIn and noticed she was an MPA grad from UConn and completed a fellowship with UConn Health's John Dempsey Hospital. I drafted a LinkedIn message that night and I planned on sending it the next day.
Unbeknownst to me, Amanda was on the panel of a DPP sponsored seminar I was attending the next evening. I was shocked to see her there after just reading her profile online the previous evening. When the seminar ended I approached her and introduced myself. We talked about my career goals and she eventually convinced her bosses to hire me as an intern last summer, which then turned into a year‐long IPP internship through the DPP.
I was recently hired as an Administrative Fellow with UConn Health's John Dempsey Hospital for the next two years! I will be rotating through the administrative and leadership departments at John Dempsey Hospital getting exposure to the entire management team in each department.
I owe it all to Amanda for making my first internship with the hospital happen!"
If you are interested in writing a blog post about your professional journey, please email Candace Fitzpatrick, Alumni Relations and Development. We'd love to hear how your graduate degree influenced you professional path, as well as any other work‐related stories or advice you care to share.
Pi Pi Alpha Honors Society
Pi Pi Alpha is the honor society for graduate professional students in public administration and public policy.
The purpose of Pi Pi Alpha is to encourage and recognize outstanding achievement and to support graduate public service education. To be honored with membership, students are required to complete at least half of their coursework while achieving a grade point average of 3.7 or above.