Dennis L. Dresang
Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs
Director, Center on State, Local, and Tribal Governance
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dennis Dresang is professor of political science and public affairs and director of the Center on State, Local, and Tribal Governance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also founding director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Dennis' research focuses on state politics, public personnel management, and community issues. He has contributed to public service in a variety of ways: directing a research and public service seminar of La Follette School students examining community health issues and youth violence, chairing two major gubernatorial task forces, and serving on numerous tribal and local government commissions on human resource management issues. He is research director for a policy initiative of Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor to improve the status of women. For his research and public service on pay equity, he has received distinguished service awards from the Women's Political Caucus and the Wisconsin Equal Rights Council.

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Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Professor and Department Chair, Political Science
Beloit College

Georgia Duerst-Lahti joined the Beloit College faculty in 1986. She serves as department chair and has done duty as chair of the Women's Studies Program twice. She also served as associate dean of the college for four years.

Georgia's research falls in two areas, both of which relate to gender politics. Her current research project concerns masculinity in the 2004 presidential election, which combines the two main areas of interest. Her major research pursues gender as ideology in governing politics. Her secondary research area concerns women and campaigns. She has focused on candidate recruitment and on media campaigns. This interest coincided with her past leadership positions in the National Women's Political Caucus as state chair and as member of the national steering committee.

For more biographical information, visit http://www.beloit.edu/~polisci/faculty.htm#georgia.

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Alice Honeywell
Writing Consultant, former Publications Director, La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alice Honeywell is a writing consultant who leads workshops for UW-Extension and other groups. As the former publications director for the the La Follette School of Public Affairs, she applied her knowledge of writing and editing to the La Follette School’s publications. She especially enjoyed working with graduate students in the La Follette program to ensure their adherence to “plain English” when they moved into the world of government. She was trained in political science and journalism and worked for the University of Wisconsin Press.

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Susan Webb Yackee
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Susan Webb Yackee is an assistant professor of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She specializes in bureaucratic politics and the politics of the policymaking process. Dr. Yackee’s particular research expertise is on the writing of government regulations. Her research has been published in, among other outlets, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Management Review, Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science. Her work has received several “Emerging Scholar” awards and has been sponsored by a number of foundations.

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Terry Shelton
Outreach Director
La Follette School of Public Affairs

As outreach director, Terry Shelton is the La Follette School's staff person most responsible for promoting the Wisconsin Idea, the concept promulgated by Robert La Follette and others at the turn of the 20th century that the boundaries of the university are the boundaries of the state, nation and world. Terry came to La Follette in 1993 after five years as city editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. Terry combines his journalism background with his graduate education in public policy to support the school's efforts to establish links with policymakers at all levels of government.