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Global shifts like AI and climate change

are upending old systems and the policy

solutions of the past are just no longer

serving us. Our driving question is how

can we create the policies that will

serve us in the future. We are a people

focused school grounded in finding

solutions to real world problems.

Growing up in South Florida, coming from

a diverse population and community, I

think I've seen the real world impacts

of policy and how it's had lasting

impacts um on generations. I found that

a lot of what the healthc care space was

and how those interactions existed was

through policy. My family has been

working now for three generations with

the congalles. I just saw how unfair the

water supply was there and I've really

seen how much of a divide there is

between the people that have access to

this resource and the people that don't.

I just really want to be a part of a

solution when it comes to making water

an equitable good.

I faced a lot of challenges. My family

faced a lot of challenges and we were

sort of compelled to migrate from one
part of the country to the other part of

the country and it was all because of a

bad policy and I thought to myself that

there would be people just like me just

like our family going through these

hardships that is what was at the heart

of my mission of serving the people.

Those experiences that I've had growing

up are still issues that are in the

communities now. I carry that with me in

the ways that I interact with policy and

understanding that I want to come in and

create change but how is that going to

be possible?

The students are very deeply engaged in

today's problems. Uh you know they they

they don't shy away from from trying to

solve big problems. They have all the

tools. They have all the information

that they have to solve these problems.

But at the end of the day, policy is

personal because it's about uh making

hard judgment. Technology and

information and data and you know AI

cannot tell us what to do. Uh we would

have to be the ones who make those uh

tough choices.

Something that Brooks has really taught

me is that policy is the basis behind

ideas so that you can take them out and

really create change. Well, I want to

take the tools that I've learned in the

Sloan program and health administration

and really apply them to the real world.

I sort of aspire to change those things,

go back and to change my society for the

better.

Sometimes our students think that policy

is the government's job. Policy is

personal. Policy graduates can move

seamlessly across the private and public

sectors to develop new policy solutions

to address the world's problems. And

we're looking for talented, passionate

students to help shape a better future.