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Sherry Newton Dillard “I’m passionate about turning our cities into great metropolitan areas,” Ms. Dillard said. “I like working within government, and that includes sometimes fighting it, particularly when you are trying to find fresh policy solutions and innovations that work.” Ms. Dillard’s commitment has paid off for the causes she has championed, during nearly 20 years in government and nonprofit work, and now on behalf of important likeminded clients at Van Scoyoc Associates, where she is an associate vice president. On Capitol Hill, Ms. Dillard handled legislative matters for three different members of Congress and a senior senator. She worked closely on both policy and appropriations matters concerning health care, housing, education, job training, and mass transportation. Because of the respect afforded her on both sides of the political aisle, Ms. Dillard accomplished much. She helped to codify an AIDS initiative to help minorities, secure funding for Detroit’s light-rail system, and write legislation in the Higher Education Act to authorize the Coalition of Urban Universities, a dynamic association of growing institutions in more than 35 cities. With her urban background, Ms. Dillard has a natural gift for creating coalitions and managing diverse groups for their mutual benefit. Before coming to Washington, she served six years as interim director of policy for the United Negro College Fund and manager of policy for the National Urban League. A high point at the Urban League was her work on a $25-million program to increase early childhood literacy. She worked with many different civic, social, professional, and faith-based groups to develop the program fully. Ms. Dillard is also a realist, by virtue of her work as an analyst for the New York City comptroller’s office. There, she investigated a wide range of public service problems within the comptroller’s office and elsewhere in the city. Ms. Dillard holds a bachelor of public administration degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, where she also did graduate work in public administration and was a recipient of the Patricia Roberts Harris Public Policy Graduate Fellowship. Copyright © 2004 by VAN SCOYOC ASSOCIATES,
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