Chabad Grad Wine Pairing
March 5, 2010 - with Professor Ester Fuchs
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Please join us in our newly renovated and expanded Chabad House for a special Wine Pairing Shabbos dinner on March 5th. Each dish will be paired with fantastic kosher wine hand selected by our sommelier-in-residence. Menu to be posted soon.
Kiddush is at 7pm
$25 per student. Faculty Price - $45
2 IDs to drink.
This event is open to Columbia Grad Students faculty and their guests exclusively. All others who would like to join should contact Rabbi Blum to inquire about sponsorship opportunities.
Professor Fuchs's main research interests are in the areas of urban politics and policy, including fiscal policy, New York City politics, work force development and community building, youth development and social welfare policy, American government and policy, political parties and elections, and statistical analysis.
Professor Fuchs received a BA from Queens College, an MA from Brown University, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She has also taught at Barnard College and the University of Notre Dame. She was Founding Director of Columbia University Center for Urban Research and Policy and Chair of the Barnard Columbia College Urban Studies Program.
From January 2002-January 2006 Professor served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning in the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of the City of New York. As Special Advisor, she was responsible for developing and implementing reform initiatives for City agencies as well as advising on new, innovative and efficient ways to deliver public services. While at City Hall, Dr. Fuchs coordinated three significant mayoral initiatives--restructuring the City's delivery of Out-of-School Time (OST) programs; the Integrated Human Services System Project to streamline the screening and eligibility determination processes, case management, and policy development and planning functions within and across the 13 human services agencies through the use of technology; and coordinated the merger of the Department of Employment with the Department of Small Business Services to better link the City's workforce development programs with the needs of City employers. She assisted the agency in restructuring and expanding its one-stop system and designing workforce development services that link the unemployed to sustainable jobs.
From August 2005 through November 2005 Dr. Fuchs took leave from her position at City Hall to join Mayor Bloomberg's reelection campaign as a policy advisor for the second term agenda.
In August 2004 Dr. Fuchs was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to serve as Chair of the Charter Revision Commission. Fuchs was the first woman to serve in this capacity. The Commission was charged with reviewing the entire Charter, soliciting public input, and in June 2005 issued a final report outlining findings and recommendations to amend and revise the Charter. New York City voters overwhelmingly approved 2 ballot questions put forth by the Commission in the November 2005 general election.
Professor Fuchs has been the recipient of a grant from the Wallace Foundation Learning in Communities Initiative in New York (with the Fund for the City of New York and Citizens Committee for Children) to plan a new Out of School Times System for the City of New York; Guggenheim Foundation grant (with Jameson Doig Princeton University) for summer public service internships; Principal Investigator for a Ford Foundation grant on Political Participation; and grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Professor Fuchs is a member of the New York City Commission on Economic Opportunity, New York City Work Force Investment Board, the Board of the Fund for the City of New York, the Advisory Board for NYC's Out of School Time Initiative; and the Hebrew University Rothenberg School Board. She was Faculty Editor of Metropolitics; former chair of the Center for Urban Research and Policy Urban Issues Workshop; a former member of the Urban Affairs Review Editorial Board, New York Foundation Board, Citizens Union Board, PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement) Board, Center for An Urban Future Board and a Director of the Transderm Corporation.
Professor Fuchs has written political commentary, and she appears as a political analyst on radio and television.
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