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Christopher King
Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer, Ray Marshall Center, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
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
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A commitment to rigorous learning and evaluation is fundamental to the implementation of a two-generation (2Gen) approach so that we’re me...
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This blog is part of Ascend’s Impact Series: stories and stats that illustrate the powerful, tangible impact a two-generation (2Gen) appro...
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Ascend Fellows are visionary leaders who come from a variety of backgrounds and bring expertise from different sectors and disciplines to the Fellowsh...
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Two Generations. One Future: An Anthology from the Ascend Fellowship: Edited by Dr. Christopher King, Dr. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, and Dr. Mario Sma...