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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today hosted its 13th Muni Finance Day in partnership with the Municipal Forum of New York’s Urban Leadership Fellows (ULF) Program for New York City students interested in careers in public finance.

An incoming Master of Global Policy Studies student at the LBJ School, MacLeod is eager to begin her graduate school journey just blocks away from the Texas Capitol, a place that helped shape her path long before grad school. Last summer, she interned with the Governor’s Public Safety Office on the Child Sex Trafficking Team, an experience that reinforced her commitment to public service and ignited a deeper interest in transnational policy issues.

This summer, Emma Niewald (MGPS ’26) is putting her global policy training into action over 6,000 miles from Austin, while interning in Skopje, North Macedonia.   Through the Texas Global Embedded Scholars program in the Balkans, she is working with the National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) Parliamentary Support Program (PSP), a long-standing initiative focused on enhancing the efficiency of North Macedonia’s legislature and strengthening public trust in democratic institutions.  

The LBJ School of Public Affairs is proud to welcome the newest cohort of Executive Master of Public Leadership (EMPL) students. Learn more about the unique stories, backgrounds, motivations and aspirations of some of the new students.

The LBJ School, in partnership with Polissia National University of Ukraine and the Ukraine Facility Platform, recently cohosted the international workshop A Policy Blueprint for Ukraine’s European Union Integration Workshop: Co-Creating Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Agriculture Sector.

For Noah Mata, being a part of the first undergraduate cohort at the LBJ School is more than a milestone, it’s a personal mission. A proud San Antonio native, he’s long been interested in how city government shapes communities and sees public service as the path to help his hometown thrive. 

The Lone Star State has attracted hundreds of corporations with its low-tax, high-touch approach, but the strains are starting to show

Master of Public Affairs student Devarier “Dee” Smith (MPAff ’26) is spending his summer more than 5,000 miles away from the LBJ School in Dakar, Senegal. He is part of the inaugural LBJ Senegal Experience, a new Texas Global program that brought 14 LBJ students to Dakar for internships, language study and cross-cultural exchange. 

This study estimates that historical, future, and hypothetical sequestration-related subsidy losses for Build America Bonds sold by entities in the State of Texas and City of Chicago may amount to hundreds of millions of dollars just for these governments. Public Administration Review Journal Article

For native Texan and proud Longhorn Megan Ramos (MPAff ’28), public policy is a way to strengthen communities and make sure they work for the people who live in them.