Floyd Johnson, Chairman of the Board of Directors, announced today, April 2, 2012, that Paula Gavin has resigned from her post as President of National Urban Fellows and will leave the organization by the end of July to pursue new endeavors. Johnson said, “We thank Paula for her dynamic leadership at a time in our country where public service leadership could not be more important. Under her watch, National Urban Fellows has increased our national impact and influence. Our organization has enjoyed its greatest period of programmatic and

NUF alum and vice-chair Tony Allen's distinguished career in public service is marked by being a recipient of the National Urban League's highest honor, the Whitney M. Young Award for Advancing Racial Equality.  After founding two nonprofits and working for then US Senator Joe Biden, he now works in the private sector as Communications Executive for Bank of America.  In the following excerpts from a recent speech delivered commemorating the 50th anniversary of University of Delaware's School of Public Policy &

Tamara Webb Scholarship Recipient Tamara S. Webb, a National Urban Fellow of the Class of 2008, was recently selected as the recipient of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr./MWH Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. Webb is currently in the third year of an EdD program in International Educational Development with a specialization in policy studies at Teachers College Columbia University. Webb’s dissertation research is focused on the cultural politics of foreign aid in education.