Huddled around a kitchen table, Cali Curley, Jamie Levine Daniel and Marlene Walk discuss their latest research project. They’re focused on the innovative concept of competitive philanthropy. “We typically don’t talk about nonprofits in terms of competition, despite the fact that they are competing for resources,” Levine Daniel says. “While nonprofits often have a negative… Read more »
Entries by Leslie Wells
MURDER IN AMERICA Returns
Kenna Quinet has spent 35 years of her life studying homicide. “As long as there have been human beings, there have been homicides,” she says. She’s gathered data and case files for decades, worked on cold case investigations, and recently became a certified medicolegal death investigator. She and her co-authors literally just re-wrote the book… Read more »
SPEA alumna receives prestigious Maynard K. Hine Award
Kathy Koehler’s passion for SPEA is as contagious as her positive personality. Even her bright red Mini Cooper is branded with “SPEON,” the insider nickname SPEA alumni have given themselves. Yet Koehler’s commitment to SPEA runs much deeper than a personalized license plate or a unifying nickname. Her lasting link and service to SPEA has… Read more »
SPEA Lecturer Provides Insider Glimpse into Securing the Olympics
Most students walking the halls of SPEA weren’t alive when Eric Rudolph bombed the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. They may not have heard the news reports that falsely blamed security guard Richard Jewell for the fatal attack. Nor do they know what happened in the aftermath of the explosion. But Jim White does…. Read more »
Experience the Washington Leadership Program
“I thought I knew about government, but I certainly did not once it came down to it.” It’s 580 miles from the halls of SPEA Indy to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. On the surface, our nation’s capital seems vastly different than Nathan Saylors’ hometown. To Saylors, Washington, D.C. still felt like home…. Read more »
