EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4-5:30 p.m., Jan. 14, 2015

EVENT: Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will discuss politics in the context of public service, and the imperative for talented people to choose to enter political service in our country.

Her speech is part of the Policy Talks @ The Ford School series. It is free and open to the public.

Napolitano, currently president of the University of California, served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009-13 and governor of Arizona from 2003-09. She was the first woman to chair the National Governors Association and was named one of the nation’s top five governors by Time magazine.

Napolitano earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1979 from Santa Clara University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, a Truman Scholar, and the university’s first female valedictorian. She received her law degree in 1983 from the University of Virginia.

WEB: For those who cannot attend, the event will be live webstreamed at www.fordschool.umich.edu. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks

PLACE: Power Center, 121 N. Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor

SPONSOR: Ford School of Public Policy and the Education Policy Initiative

CONTACT: Laura Lee, (734) 764-8593, [email protected]