CURRICULUM VITAE
LEONARD
J. SCHOPPA, JR.
Woodrow
Wilson Department of Politics
Box 400787,
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville,
VA 22904-4787
tel (434)
924-3192; fax (434) 924-3359
e-mail: schoppa@virginia.edu
EDUCATION
- D. Phil in Politics - Oxford
University, Oxford, United Kingdom
(January 1989) -- Dissertation: "The Limits of Change in Japanese
Policymaking: the Case of Education Reform, 1967-1987."
- BS - Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C. (May 1984) -- School
of Foreign Service.
Major: International Economics. Certificate in Asian Studies.
ACADEMIC
CAREER
- The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
(1990 - present) –Professor of Politics, beginning 2006; Associate Professor,
1996-2006; Assistant Professor, 1990-96.
- University of Tokyo and International Christian University, Tokyo,
Japan (2000-2001) -- Visiting Fulbright Research Fellow at the University
of Tokyo Institute of Social Science and the ICU Institute of Asian
Cultural Studies.
- Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
(1993 - 1994) -- Visiting Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Policy
Management.
ADMINISTRATIVE
POSITIONS
- The University of Virginia – Undergraduate Director (2006-present)
– I oversee programs for students majoring in gGovernmenth and gForeign
Affairsh, which graduated over 400 students in recent years.
- Semester at Sea (a UVa Study Abroad Program) – Academic
Dean (for Fall 2008 Voyage) – I hired 29 faculty members, approved 80
syllabi, and monitored the planning for about 150 field trips ahead of
departure and then supervised these faculty members and oversaw the
academic program during the 108-day voyage around the world.
- The University of Virginia - Director of the East Asia
Center (1997
- 2000) – I oversaw an interdisciplinary unit with an annual other than
personnel budget of over $30,000, managed an MA program in Asian Studies,
ran a speakers series, and did limited fund-raising.
- The University of Virginia - Director of the Department
of Politics Midcareer Executive Program (1999 - 2000) – I managed a program that offered
mid-career public servants the opportunity to take graduate courses in
politics and public policy. The position involved supervision of one
part-time staff assistant and budget responsibility.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Articles
gGaiatsu, Learning, and Japanfs
Emerging Economic Liberalism,h in Masaru Kohno and Frances Rosenbluth,
eds., Japan and the World (New Haven: Yale CEAS Occasional
Publications, 2008), pp. 71-99.
gDemographics and the State,h in
Florian Coulmas, et al, eds., The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook
about Japan (Leiden:
Brill, 2008), pp. 639-652.
gYoufre (Not) Having My Baby:
Fertility and Feminism,h Current History 105: 689 (March 2006), pp.
112-120.
- gRace to the Bottom? Japanese
Multinational Firms and the Future of the Lifetime Employment System,h
Japan Focus (on-line journal), February 21, 2006.
gNeoliberal Economic Policy
Preferences of the eNew Leftf: Home-Grown or Anglo-American Import?h in
Rikki Kersten and David Williams, eds., The Left in the Shaping of
Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin (London: Routledge,
2006), pp. 117-139.
gInteraction Effects in
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: Theory and Evidence from Germany, Japan,
and Italy,h
Comparative Political Studies 35:10 (December 2002), pp. 1027-1053
(with Karen Cox) .
gDomestic Politics,h in Steven K.
Vogel, ed., U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World (Washington, D.C.:
Brookings, 2002), pp. 94-124.
gGlobalization and the Squeeze on the
Middle Class: Does Any Version of the Postwar Social Contract Meet the
Challenge?h in Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari, eds.,
Social Contracts Under Stress: the Middle Classes of America, Europe,
and Japan at the Turn of the Century (New York: Russell Sage, 2002),
pp. 319-344.
gLocating the LDP and Koizumi in
Policy Space: A Party System Ripe for Realignment,h Social Science Japan
22 (December 2001), pp. 9-15.
gJapan, The Reluctant
Reformer,h Foreign Affairs (September/October 2001), pp. 76-90.
gThe Social Context in Coercive International
Bargaining," International Organization 53:2 (Spring 1999),
pp. 307-342.
gTwo Level Games and Bargaining
Outcomes: Why Gaiatsu Succeeds in Japan in Some Cases and Not
Others,h International Organization 47:3 (Summer 1993), pp.
353-386.
gZoku Power and L.D.P. Power: A Case
Study of the Zoku Role in Education Policy,h Journal of Japanese
Studies 17:1 (Winter 1991), pp. 79-106.
gEducation Reform in Japan: Goals and Results of
the Recent Initiative,h in Edward Beauchamp, ed., Windows on Japanese
Education (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), pp. 51-75.
Reviews
·
Book Review of One
World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective, by Gregory J. Kasza, in
Japan Forum 20:3 (2008), pp. 447-449.
·
Book Review of Shirahase
Sawako, Shoshi Korei Shakai no Mienai
Kakusa (Invisible Inequalities in an Aging, Low Fertility Society) in the Social Science Japan Journal 11:1
(Summer 2008), pp. 178-180.
Film Review of Campaign
(Senkyo) in Asian Educational Media Service News and Reviews, Winter 2008,
pp. 7-8.
Book Review
of Aurelia George Mulgan, Japanfs Interventionist State: The Role of
the MAFF in the Journal of
Japanese Studies 32:2 (Summer 2006), pp. 442-445.
Book Review of Harold Fuess, Divorce
in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000 in the Law and Politics Book Review
14:10 (October 2004), pp. 776-779.
Book Review
of Christina Davis, Food Fights over Free Trade: How International
Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization in International Studies Review 6:3
(September 2004), pp. 457-459.
Book Review
of S. Javed Maswood, Japan in Crisis in the Journal of Japanese Studies 30:2 (Summer 2004),
pp. 571-573.
Book Review of Robert Aspinall, Teachersf
Unions and the Politics of Education in Japan in the Journal of Japanese Studies
29:1 (2003), pp. 113-116.
Book Review of Tachibanaki Toshiaki,
Nihon no Keizai Kakusa: Shotoku to Shisan kara Kangaeru in Social
Science Japan Journal 4:1 (April 2001), pp. 143-146.
Book Review of Frank Schwartz, Advice
and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan in the Journal of Japanese Studies
26:1 (Winter 2000), pp. 279-283.
Book Review of Gerald Curtis, The
Logic of Japanese Politics; and T.J. Pempel, Regime Shift in
the American Political Science
Review 94:3 (September 2000), pp. 735-737.
Book Review of Richard Katz, Japan:
The System That Soured in Japan Quarterly (January-March 1999),
pp. 90-92.
Book Review of Masaaki Kotabe and
Kent Wheiler, Anticompetitive Practices in Japan in The Journal
of Asian Studies 57:4 (November 1998).
Book Review of Masaru Kohno, Japan's
Postwar Party Politics in the Canadian Journal of Political Science
(1998).
Long Book Review of Scott Callon, Divided
Sun; Brian Woodall, Japan Under Construction; and Mark Tilton, Restrained
Trade in the Journal of Politics (August 1997).
Book Review of Henry Bienen, ed., Power,
Economics, and Security: The United States and Japan in Focus in the Journal of Asian Studies
52:2 (May 1993).
Opinion and
Analysis for a General Audience
gA Campaign Memoir: Why Now?h The Oriental Economist, September
2009, pp. 6-7.
gJapanh entry for the Encyclopedia Britannica 2009 Book of
the Year, pp. 419-421.
"Kono kiki o eriyo shitef rodo
shijo o kaikaku seyo,h Asahi Shimbun,
April 6, 2009, p. G-6.
"Japanfs Declining Population:
The Perspective of Japanese Women on the gProblemh and gSolutions,h Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Program Special Report,
July 2008, pp. 6-10.
"Engaging China and India: An
Economic Agenda for Japan and the United States (A Binational Study Group
Report)—I served as primary author of this document which grew out of a
series of two conferences organized by the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs, The Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Japan
Economic Foundation, released in October 2006.
"Testimony before the House
Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia
and the Pacific,h April 20, 2005.
"Long-term Strategy Needed for
Mounting Issues: A Labor Market Big Bang," Daily Yomiuri,
April 6, 2004.
(Version of this article that
appeared in Japanese in the Yomiuri Shimbun on April 3, 2004).
gCar Fixation Shouldnft Determine
Plans,h Daily Progress (Charlottesville),
July 30, 2003, p. B8.
gInterview/Leonard Schoppa:
Economically Weak Japan Still Has Role to Play,h asahi.com, April
22, 2002.
(Version of this article that
appeared in Japanese in the Asahi Shimbun on April 4, 2002).
gIgnite Japan's Service Sector,h Japan
Times, August 5, 2001 (with Herman Schwartz).
gVoters Face Complex Choices at
Polls,h Daily Yomiuri, July 27, 2001.
g'GI Bill' Needed for Corporate
Japan,h Daily Yomiuri, July 14, 2001.
gOn a Collision Course With Japan,h
Chicago
Tribune, June 2, 1995 (with Herman Schwartz).
- gViews from the Inside: Mansfield
Fellows Evaluate Popular Commentary on Japanese Politics,h Asia Perspectives 1:2 (December 1998),
pp. 4-20.
- gTestimony Before the House Committee on International
Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the
Pacific,h October 30, 1995.
In Progress
gPath Dependence and the Evolution of the Party System
Since 1993,h a paper presented at the meeting of the International
Political Science Association in Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006. This paper serves as the basis for
two introductory chapters to a volume I am editing, tentatively titled
gThe Evolution of Party Politics in Japanh (manuscript in progress).
gExit, Voice, and Womenfs Movements in an Era of Low
Fertility,h a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association in Washington, DC, on September 1-4,
2005. An updated version of
this paper is being prepared for a special edited volume of the Journal
of European Social Policy.
FELLOWSHIPS
- Center for Global
Partnership Book Project Grant (2004-2005), administered by the
Japan Foundation and providing support for three months writing time in
the summer of 2004 and a conference in October on the topic of my Race for the Exits book
project.
- Japan Foundation Short-term Research
Grant (2002), administered
by the Japan Foundation and providing support for three weeks of research
in Tokyo.
- Fulbright Research Fellowship (2000-01), administered and funded by the
Japan-U.S. Educational Commission and the Council for International
Educational Exchange and providing full support for an academic year to
allow focused work on research and writing.
- Abe Fellowship (1993-94), administered by the Social Science
Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies and funded
by the Japan
Foundation Center
for Global Partnership and providing full support for an academic year to
allow focused work on research and writing.
- Reischauer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1989-90), awarded by the Reischauer
Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University and providing full
support for an academic year to allow a concentrated post-doctoral year to
work on research and writing.
- Rhodes Scholarship (1985-88), awarded by the Rhodes Trust,
Oxford University, and providing full support for three years of graduate
study and travel funds for fieldwork in Japan.
- University of Virginia
Summer Research Grant (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998,
2002, 2003, 2005, 2006),
awarded by the University
of Virginia in
support of summer research projects.
- Sesquicentennial Fellowship (1994, 2000, 2007), awarded by the University of Virginia
and providing a semester off from teaching to allow focused work on
research.
- Northeast Asian Council Short-term Travel Grant (1992,
1999), awarded by
the Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asian Council.
- Weedon Foundation Travel Grant (1992, 1996, 2007), awarded by the Weedon Fund based
at the University
of Virginia.
- Bankard Fund for Political Economy Grant (1999), awarded by the Bankard Fund based
at the University
of Virginia.
MANUSCRIPT
REVIEWS FOR:
International Organization, Comparative Politics, Comparative
Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics,
Perspectives on Politics, Review of International Political Economy,
Polity, Asian Survey, Journal of Gender Studies, Japanese
Journal of Political Science, Cornell University Press, Columbia University
Press, Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, University of
Michigan Press, University of Hawaii Press, Lynne Reiner, Congressional
Quarterly Press, and Routledge.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (in chronological order / since 2001)
- gThe Consequences of eSticky Votingf in Mixed-Member Electoral
Systems,h revised version of 1998 APSA paper (co-authored with Karen Cox)
presented at the University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science in
February 2001.
- gDomestic Politics,h a paper presented at a book
conference on U.S.-Japan
Relations in a Changing World (looking back at the 50 years since the
signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty) organized by Steve Vogel in Berkeley, January
2001.
- gJapan's Response to its Declining Fertility Problem: the
Role of Exit and Voice,h a talk presented at the International Christian
University in Mitaka and the Univeristy of Tokyo Komaba Campus, both in
May 2001, and again at Sophia University in Tokyo in December 2002.
- gJapanese Trade Policy in Reaction to U.S. Pressure:
the Long-term Effects of Efforts to Deflect Bilateral Demands,h paper
prepared for the a symposium on gJapan and the Transformation of the
International Order,h organized by Nobuhiro Hiwatari of the University of
Tokyo in March 2001 and again at a second meeting of the symposium group
in Tokyo in December 2002.
- Speaker on a Panel on Domestic Politics at the
conference in San Francisco commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, September 2001.
- gInternational Cooperation Despite Domestic Conflict:
Japanese Politics and the San Francisco Treaties,h paper presented at the
International Studies Association annual meeting in New Orleans, March 2002.
- gJapanfs
Domestic Politics and Its National Identity,h talk presented at a
conference organized by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the
Department of State, April 2002.
- gJapanese Politics and Economic Reform: Why Havenft
Politicians Taken a Lead in Fixing Such Dire Problems,h talk at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, May 2002.
- gTensions in the Japanese Party System: How Will They
Affect Bilateral Economic and Security Relations,h talk organized by the
Japan Information Access Project in Washington,
May 2002.
- gA Tale of Two Identity Crises: Why Japanfs Approach to International Affairs
Isnft Changing (While Americafs
Is),h talk at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, October 2002.
- gExit, Voice, and Family Policy: Explaining the Uneven
Pace of Reform,h talks presented at the University of Pennsylvania in
October 2002, at Columbia University in April 2003, and at the University
of Michigan in September 2003.
- gJapanfs
Demographic Challenge: Can It Remain a Great Power?h talk at the Keizai Koho
Center in Washington, January 2003.
- gNeoliberal Economic Policy Preferences of the eNew
Leftf: Home-Grown or Anglo-American Import?h paper presented at a
Festschrift book conference in honor of Prof. Arthur Stockwin (Oxford),
organized by Rikki Kersten and David Williams and held in Leiden, the
Netherlands in June 2003.
- gThe Heisei Generation: Voters and Political Elites
Between Ages 30 and 50,h talk presented at a conference organized by the
Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State, August
2003.
- gExit, Voice, and Family Policy: Japanfs Efforts to Convince Women to Work
and Have Children Too,h talks presented at Harvard University
and MIT in October 2003 and again to the Washington and Southeast Regional
Japan Seminar in April 2004.
- gExit, Voice, and Economic Reform: Why We Havenft Seen
a Concerted Reform Movement Despite the Prolonged Period of Economic
Stagnation,h talk at the International Monetary Fund, October 2003.
- gA Long Term Strategy for Coping with an Aging Society:
Calling for a Labor Market eBig Bang,fh invited lecture in Tokyo as part of a
symposium organized by the Yomiuri newspaper company, March 24, 2004.
- gPolitical Implication of Public Debt Crisis
Scenarios,h talk presented at a State Department-organized conference in Washington, DC,
September 13, 2004.
- gJapanese Politics and Policy in an Era of Fiscal
Stress,h talk presented at Columbia
University, October
14, 2004.
- gExit, Voice, and Family Policy,h talk presented at the
University
of Illinois, March
4, 2005.
- gTaking Exit and Voice Seriously: Explaining the
Pattern of Japanfs Economic and Social Policy Reforms,h talk presented at Cornell University, March 8, 2005.
- gCan Japan Continue Expanding its Defense Role through
Salami-Slice Tactics?h talk presented at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington,
DC, June 10, 2005.
- gExit, Voice, and Womenfs Movements in an Era of Low
Fertility,h paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association in Washington,
DC, September 1-4, 2005.
- gThe Trajectory of Japanese Politics after the 9/11
Election,h lecture delivered at the Woodrow
Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, DC,
October 2005.
- gThe Rise of National Sentiments in Japan,h talk presented at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC,
November 3, 2005.
- gExit, Voice, and Reform of Male Breadwinner Social
Structures: Low Fertility Equilibrium in Japan and Italy,h paper delivered
at the University of Delaware, March 6, 2006; at the University of Washington,
November 13, 2006; and again at the University of Pittsburgh, October 8,
2007.
- gJapanfs
Grand Strategy: Still Relying on the US After All of These Years,h lecture
for Seminar XXI: US National Security Policy (short course for US
government personnel), organized by Bob Art at Airlie House, VA,
April 28-30, 2006.
- gThe Koizumi Succession in Historical Context,h paper
presented at the Center for Strategic and International Studiesf Panel on
Considering a Post-Koizumi Japan in Washington,
DC, May 31, 2006.
- gPath Dependence and the Evolution of Japanfs Party
System Since 1993,h paper presented at the tri-annual meeting of the
International Political Science Association in Fukuoka, Japan,
July 11, 2006.
- gJapan:
The State Of Politics and Prospects for
Economic Policy,h comments prepared for a seminar at the State Department
in Washington, DC, on the incoming Abe cabinet,
September 12, 2006.
- gRace for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japanfs System of
Social Protection,h book promotion talk at Oxford University as part of
the Nissan Institute 25th Anniversary Celebration, September
22, 2006.
- gAfter Koizumi: Where Will Prime Minister Abe Lead
Japan,h lecture for the Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth in Dallas, November 17,
2006.
- gJapan:
The Abe Administrationh comments prepared for a State Department
conference on this topic, November 20, 2006.
- gJapanese Nationalist Resurgence or Populist Politics?h
comments on a panel on changes in regional political relations at the 4th
Annual Meeting of the US-Asia Pacific Council, organized by the East-West Center
in Washington, DC, November 30, 2006.
- gThe Japanese Economy before and after the Lost
Decade,h lecture delivered to Robin Whitefs class at the State Department
Foreign Service Institute, February 15, 2007.
- gGaiatsu, Learning, and Japanfs
Emerging Economic Liberalism,h paper presented at the Yale University
Conference on Japan
and the World, March 9-10, 2007.
- Delivered prepared comments for the Yomiuri
International Symposium on gJapanfs
Decision: Social Security and Public Financeh in Tokyo, September 14, 2007.
- gExit, Voice, and Reform of Male Breadwinner Social
Structures: Low Fertility Equilibrium in Japan
and Italy,h paper
delivered at the University of Pittsburgh,
October 8, 2007.
- gThe Nationalistsf Dilemma,h paper presented at a
conference on gJapanfs
New Nationalism: How Japanfs National Identity is Changing at Home and
Abroad,h organized by Thomas Berger and Jim Hollifield and hosted at
Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
February 1, 2008.
- gThe Japanese Economy before and after the Lost
Decade,h lecture delivered to Robin Whitefs class at the State Department
Foreign Service Institute, March 6, 2008.
- Discussant on panel gWhatfs Left? Whatfs Right? Social Movements and Politics in
Contemporary Japanh at
the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Atlanta, April 5,
2008.
- Panelist for a Symposium on gJapanfs
Declining Population: Clearly a Problem, but Whatfs the Solution,h
organized by the Woodrow
Wilson International
Center for Scholars
Asia Program, April 24, 2008.
·
gGreener
Grass and Local Civic Engagement: The Effects of Housing Market Structures on
Politics in the United States and Japan,h lecture delivered at Harvard
University for their Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group, February 6,
2009.
·
gThe
Japanese Economy before and after the Lost Decade,h lecture delivered to Robin
Whitefs class at the State Department Foreign Service Institute, March 5, 2009.
·
Discussant
on panel gThe Politics of Shoushikah at the Annual Meeting of the Association
for Asian Studies in Chicago, March 27, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Japan Foundation American Advisory
Committee member, 2004-present.
- Head of the Japan Political Studies
Group (2002-2007)—JPSG is a group of approximately 300 political
scientists with an interest in Japanese politics that sponsors panels at
Association for Asian Studies and American Political Science Association
Meetings and maintains JP-Central, a website with information on Japanese
politics (jpcentral.virginia.edu).
- Chair of the American Fulbright
selection committee for Japan
/ Korea
Research Grants in Fall 2006; Served as a member of this committee in 2004
and 2005 as well.
- Japanese Fulbright interview and
selection committee, October 1993 and December 2000.
- Faculty Mentor for the Social Science Research
Councilfs Japanese Studies Dissertation Workshops held over five-day
periods in 2002 and 2003.
- Screener for the Social Science
Research Council's International Fieldwork Dissertation Fellowships,
1997-98, '98-99, and '99-2000.
- Nitobe Fellowship interview and
selection committee, December 1993.
- Member of the Routledge Nissan
Institute Japan
Series Editorial Board (1993- ).
- Member of the Editorial Board for
the mediated e-mail discussion group "SSJ-Forum," organized by
the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social
Science.
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE
- Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Department
of Politics (2006-present)
- Academic Dean for Semester at Sea, Fall 2008 Voyage
(2007-2008)
- University Transportation and Parking Committee
(2002-present)
- Comparative Politics Search Committee Chair (2006)
- University Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy
(2002-2007; chair from 2005-2007)
- Politics Department Graduate Admissions and Financial
Aid Committee (2003-2006)
- University Library Committee (2001-2002)
- Asian Studies MA Program Admissions Committee Chair
(1996-97; 2001-03)
- Director of the East Asia Center
(1997-2000)
- Director of the Department of Politics Midcareer
Executive Program (1999-2000)
- Chair of the UVA Rhodes Scholarship Nominating
Committee (1996-2000)
- Member of the University Commission on
Internationalization (1999-2000)
- Member of the Building Committee for the Conversion of
Gildersleeve into an Asian Language House (1998-1999)
- Politics Department Undergraduate Curriculum Reform
Committee Chair (1996-97)
- Politics Department Undergraduate Committee
- Politics Department Graduate Committee
- Politics Department Scheduling Committee
- Politics Department Personnel Committee
- Comparative Politics--China Search (1991-1992)
- Comparative Politics--Western
Europe Search (1992-1993)
- International Relations--Diplomat in Residence Search
(1997-1998)
- Politics Department Self-Study Group on Comparative
Politics
- Politics Department Self-Study Group on International
Relations
- Faculty Advisor for Non-Major Students
- Asian Studies Speakers' Committee Chair (1995)
- Advisor to Pi Sigma Alpha
- Stevenson Prize Committee
COURSES TAUGHT
COMMUNITY SERVICE
·
President
of the Board, Alliance for
Community Choice in Transportation (2006-present) – ACCT is a Charlottesville local
non-profit that promotes alternative modes of transportation: biking, walking,
and transit. We help establish
gSafe Routes to Schoolh programs at local schools and promote infrastructure
investments to make walking to school a safer and more popular choice. We pressure local governments to invest
in bike lanes, bike paths, sidewalks, and transit and promote these modes
through educational and outreach activities. I have served on the board since 2001.
·
Chair
of the Climate Protection Subcommittee of the Charlottesville Committee for
Environmental Sustainability (2007-2008) – We advised the mayor and city
council on steps needed to meet Charlottesvillefs commitments to bring carbon
emissions down to 1990 levels by 2012 under the U.S. Mayorfs Climate Protection
Agreement.
·
Member
of the Charlottesville
Strategic Planning Task Force (2005-2006).
·
Meet
Director and Parent Leader of the City Swim Team
(2002-2007).