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Christopher King

Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer

Ray Marshall Center, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow Alumni 2012 Cohort 1

Austin, Texas

Chris King, PhD, is a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs and a senior research scientist at the Ray Marshall Center, which he directed from 1991 to 2014. He co-led a team that designed CareerAdvance®, Tulsa’s 2-Generation program, in 2008-2009 and has been evaluating the program with colleagues at Northwestern, NYU and Columbia since 2011. He co-chairs Austin’s 2-Generation Advisory Committee, is on the Casey Foundation’s Two-Generation Strategic Evidence-Building Advisory Group and leads the evaluation of the National Association of Workforce Boards’ 2-Generation Initiative for the Kellogg Foundation.

Stories Featuring Christopher King
March 10, 2022
From Proof Points to Building Evidence: Creating A Two-Generation (2Gen) Research Agenda
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November 20, 2019
Impact Series: Building 2Gen Proof Points with New Research on CAP Tulsa
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April 12, 2018
Ascend Fellows: A Diversity of 2Gen Expertise
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April 3, 2018
New Report: An Anthology from the 2012 Class of Ascend Fellows
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