Vikram Krishnamurthy, Executive Director of the Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH), speaks with Madison Matera (MPA ‘22), Public Administration Fellow at the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about DCH’s Branches to Chances program, which is a horticulture job training program for unemployed, underemployed, and/or previously incarcerated individuals. 

This episode is presented as part of the "Delaware's Green Infrastructure Landscape" series developed by IPA Public Administration Fellows and members of the University of Delaware's International City/County Management Associations (ICMA) Student Chapter. This series of interviews seeks to shed light on the innovative ways green infrastructure is and could be implemented in Delaware.

This interview was recorded on March 10, 2021. To learn more about the Delaware Center for Horticulture, visit thedch.org. Learn more about IPA at ipa.udel.edu.

Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0 License.

Green Infrastructure Training and Skill Development

Joseph Kane,  Senior Research Associate and Associate Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, speaks with  Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about his research on the nation's infrastructure workforce and IPA's ongoing study of workforce development needs and opportunities associated with infrastructure in Delaware. 

For more information on the Brookings Institution, visit brookings.edu. Mr. Kane's research related to infrastructure and workforce development needs can be reviewed here: https://www.brookings.edu/author/joseph-kane/?type=research.

This episode was recorded on June  4, 2020. For more information about the Institute for Public administration visit www.bidenschool.udel.edu/ipa.

Workforce Development for Infrastructure

Information, perspectives, and analysis for public policy, management, and community and economic development in Delaware.

Presented by the Institute for Public Administration (IPA), a research and public service center in the University of Delaware's Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration.

Green Infrastructure Training and Skill Development

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