Civic Engagement in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
The ICCE will co-sponsor the following session at the 2006 National
Conference of the American Society for Public Administration in Denver.
“Civic Engagement in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina”
Monday, April 3, 2005
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Hurricane Katrina and its ensuing flooding devastated areas along the United
States Gulf Coast and exposed to our nation’s collective consciousness
longstanding societal deficiencies. Did the failed reaction to Katrina tell us
something about ourselves as Americans? Are the predicaments and challenges
faced by New Orleans’ urban poor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina atypical
or do they mirror what is occurring in communities across the country? How can
we openly and fairly engage in civic discourse as we attempt to build bridges
between Americans of all races, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds? Join
us for a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion. Chris Gates, president of
the National Civic League, will serve as the featured speaker and will be joined
by two respondents. During a question and answer period, we will ask the
audience to consider possible implications for the field of public
administration and the future work of public administrators. The super session
is co-sponsored by Park University’s International Center for Civic Engagement
and the National Civic League.
Speaker Bio
Christopher T. Gates
 Chris Gates is President of the National Civic League, the nation’s oldest
organization advocating for the issues of community and democracy. NCL was
founded in 1894 by civic reformers including Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis.
Prior to being named President in 1995, Mr. Gates was Vice President of the
National Civic League for eight years. Gates speaks extensively around the
country, and around the world, on topics including the state of America’s
democracy, the interaction between citizens and government and innovations in
community problem solving. He has also regularly lectured in a variety of
academic institutions, including the University of Colorado’s Graduate School of
Public Affairs, and the State and Local Government Program at Harvard’s Kennedy
School of Government, and is a regular speaker in leadership training programs
across the country. Gates serves on a variety of other boards including
INDEPENDENT SECTOR, the Council for the Advancement of Citizenship, and the
California Center for Civic Renewal. He is also co-chair of the Civic Practices
Network and served as co-chair of the Saguaro Seminar, a Harvard University
project studying ‘social capital’. Gates has a Master in Public Administration
degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University,
where he studied the interaction between the public and private sectors, and an
honors degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was
also a visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England
where he studied political economics. He was also recently named a Fellow of the
National Academy of Public Administration.
Respondents
Jerzy Hauptmann
A native of Poland, Hauptmann was involved in the resistance to the Nazi
invasion of Poland, and during the Warsaw invasion of 1944, he served as one of
the "sewer rats." After having served time as a prisoner of war, he completed
his Ph.D. at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) when the war ended and
immigrated to the United States where he pursued post-doctoral studies at
Northwestern University for one year. He then joined the Park University faculty
in 1951 and remained for more than fifty years at the institution which he
loved. He served as the founding dean of its Graduate School of Public Affairs,
which was renamed the Hauptmann School for Public Affairs upon his retirement.
Hauptmann was the founding president of ASPA's Greater Kansas City Chapter and
served as a member of its National Council (a historical footnote - Hauptmann
was attending a National Council meeting in Chicago on November 22, 1963 - the
day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated).
Ronald Reed
Ronald Reed is employed with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and manages the
day-to-day operations of the Veterans Health Administration Placement Service
that was established under the authority of office of the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs in 1991. The VHA Placement Service is responsible for assisting VA
health care facilities in the recruitment of health care professionals. Reed is
also the administrator of the
www.vacareers.va.gov web site and was a member or
the initial design and implementation team for this project. An Honorably
discharged veteran of the U.S. Army, Reed was awarded numerous Army
Achievement and Army Commendation Medals for superior service. Reed's office is
located in New Orleans, and he was displaced by Hurricane Katrina. He is a New
Orleans native.
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