Guest Contributor

Matthew Graham

Matt has been a research intern at DMI since April of 2007. He is also a project assistant at the Women of Color Policy Network, an organization working to end the invisibility of women of color in policy. He is part of the production of a forthcoming report on the status of young women, a qualitative study of workforce development programs, and a UNDP report applying the Human Development Index to the city’s neighborhoods.

Matt will graduate in May from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service with a Masters in Public Administration and a specialization in international public policy. His Capstone project is working with the burgeoning Near East Foundation on their participatory community development projects in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

After graduating from Pomona College in 2004, Matt lived in Minneapolis providing mental health services to children and families. Matt worked at the YWCA in their daycare as well as their Public Policy and Racial Justice department, where he was a part of coalition for fair, comprehensive immigration reform and another advocating for increased funding and access to childcare. Matt volunteered with the Minneapolis NAACP and Keith Ellison for Congress.