I am excited to start a new position as the Academic Director of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for the 2017 cohort. The Mandela Washington Fellowship is a State Dept. funded program, part of the Young African Leadership Initiative, that will bring 25 Fellows to UC Davis for a Public Management Institute with an Energy focus. Here is a press release from UC Davis describing the project. We are excited to be the only University hosting a program with a specific Energy focus. We are working closely with Power Africa to develop the curriculum for the institute this summer.