Date and Time
Friday Apr 5, 2019
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT
Friday, April 5, 2019
8:00AM - 9:30AM
Location
Auletto Caterers
1849 Cooper Street
Deptford, NJ 08096
Fees/Admission
$25 per person
Includes meeting and breakfast
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Contact Information
Jennifer Young
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Description
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SPEAKER
Dr. Benjamin Dworkin
Director of Rowan Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship
BIO
Dr. Benjamin Dworkin serves as the founding Director of the Rowan Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. He began at this position in January 2018.
Under Dworkin’s leadership, the Institute will offer programs and guest speakers focusing on both the practice of politics and citizen participation; support students through academic and career development, internship placement and scholarships; and connect faculty and students from across the University with public entities to facilitate public policy research.
Before entering academia Dr. Dworkin spent several years in the private sector. He served as President & CEO of Dworkin Strategic Communications, and prior to that as a Vice President at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery, a leading New York-based corporate public relations firm. His clients included several leading Fortune 500 companies, such as WebMD, Time-Warner, Texaco, Maidenform, and Hollywood Video. His primary areas were media relations, strategic communications, and crisis management.
Dr. Dworkin has also worked as Deputy Research Director for the New Jersey Assembly Minority office in Trenton. He helped oversee a staff of several other policy analysts and developed expertise in insurance, health care, public safety and veterans' issues. In this position, he wrote and edited legislation, policy analyses, floor speeches, talking points for use in debates and media interviews, as well as overall strategy.
He lives with his wife and three daughters in Cherry Hill, NJ.
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