Evans School News Evans School Faculty, Staff, and Students: See your internal news items by logging into the Community Hub. Finding Purpose Across Borders: Xinying Zeng, MPA ’16 Reducing Child Marriage Through Community Intervention Summer Policy Academy 2026 Year One of Our Public Service and Policy Major Look for the Helpers: Kate Sykes, MPA ’17 From City Hall to the State House: Zach Hall, MPA ’24 Building a Public Service Swiss Army Knife: Roy Plaeger-Brocker, MPA ’86 Keeping the Promise: Abel Lee Pacheco, MPA ’12 Building Connections and Giving Back: Nathan Woo, MPA ’24 Evans in Government Network Taps Into Community at Summer Happy Hour Celebrating Community: Evans Alumni and Students Come Together Downtown Strategic transactions of Colorado River rights could help conserve water and restore fish habitat Creating Sustainable Change: Isaac Sederbaum, Ph.D. ’25, MPA ’14 Change is Still Happening: Megan Utemei, EMPA ’25 Not Just Adapting, Leading: Josie Jackson, MPA ’25 From Insights to Impact: Taylor Linke and Amy Dobbins, LPI ’25 Faculty Farewell: Celebrating Alison Cullen’s Career Celebrating a 2025 Husky 100 Honoree NextGen Summer Policy Academy Launch Supporting the Next Generation of Public Leaders Remembering Putnam Barber We have a Major announcement Redesigning Hiring with Heart and Impact, Arzu Jamilova LPI ’24 Olympia Alumni and Friends Reception 2025 2024 IPPHL Impact Report Spotlight on Bachelor’s Degree Affordability Building Bridges, Inspiring Hope: The Washington Collaborative Elected Leaders Institute (WA-CELI) Love in Parrington: A conversation with Erin Murphy MPA ’11 and Jon Hickey MPA ’08 Remembering Professor Pat Dobel 2025 State of School Address