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Charis Varnum
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
clv15@columbia.edu
Biography:
Charis Varnum teaches gender and public policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and has taught at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, and the New School for Social Research in New York City. At SIPA, she teaches the capstone workshop in applied public management and policy analysis in the MPA program and the portfolio presentation workshop in the EMPA program. She also gives lectures and seminar presentations on gender and public policy issues, including the role of gender in politics.
She writes and consults on various public policy issues, with an emphasis on issues related to gender. Her clients include the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the People's Government of Guangdong Province (China), the Northern Ireland Peace Builders Program, the Columbia University/École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) Program, the Fire Officers Management Institute (FOMI/FDNY), the International Fellowship Program of the 92nd Street Y, and Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action.
Her publications include "Gender and Development" in SIPA News (May 2005); An Overdue Reform: The Need for Statewide Computerized Voter Registration Systems, with David Callahan (Demos December 2001); "A New Set of Concerns: Public Opinion and Quality of Life," in Quality of Life 2000: The New Politics of Work, Family, and Community (Demos August 2000); "Homemakers Face Meager Retirements" in Women's Feature Service (July 1995); and "New Poverty Data to Affect State Education Grant Allocations" in The Fiscal Letter (National Conference of State Legislatures January/February 1993). She has also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online and the Encyclopedia of Women in American History (M. E. Sharpe March 2002).
She received her BA in political science from the University of Florida in 1985 and her MPA, with a concentration in gender and public policy, from Columbia University in 1991.