Center On Wisconsin Strategy
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Center On Wisconsin Strategy
About COWS
COWS is a national policy center and field laboratory for high-road economic development — a competitive market economy of shared prosperity, environmental sustainability, and capable democratic government.
COWS' work is collaborative, experimental, and evidence-driven. Working with business, government, labor, and communities, we try out new ideas, test their effectiveness, and disseminate those with promise. We believe that the best way to predict the future is to start making it, particularly in our states and metro regions.
Some areas of COWS' program focus are:
- Economic and workforce development
- Sectoral strategies and career pathways
- Clean energy and energy efficiency
- Labor markets and job improvement
- Strategies for improving low-wage work
COWS is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, famous for the “Wisconsin Idea” that the University should help informed democratic experiment. Since its founding 18 years ago, COWS has often been called “the Wisconsin Idea in action.”
COWS is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, educational and charitable organization. Its budget comes from foundation and individual gifts and grants and technical assistance contracts.[1]
COWS staff
- Joel Rogers Director
- Laura Dresser Associate Director
- Breann Boggs Center for State Innovation - Policy Analyst
- Michelle Bright Administrative Program Specialist
- Matías Cociña Project Assistant
- Kari Dickinson Marketing and Communications Specialist
- Anthony Gad Center for State Innovation - Policy Director
- Becky Glass Senior Development Specialist
- Sam Harshner Center for State Innovation - Policy Analyst
- James Irwin Senior Associate
- Jessa Lewis Valentine Senior Research Specialist
- Emily Ley Center for State Innovation - Assistant
- Fratney Miller Center for State Innovation - Policy Analyst
- Sam Munger Center for State Innovation - Managing Director
- Edo Navot Project Assistant
- Alidz Oshagan Assistant
- Adrienne Pagac Project Assistant
- Sigrid Peterson Project Assistant
- Satya Rhodes-Conway Senior Associate
- Eric Sundquist Senior Associate and Policy Analyst
- Monica Wedgewood Center for State Innovation - Assistant
- Sarah White Senior Associate
- Matthew Wyndham Administrative Program Manager
- Ayca Zayim Project Assistant
- Jonathan Zeitlin Faculty Associate
