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Yi-jung Wu

Yi-jung Wu
Yi-jung has been working on her Ph.D. since 2001. While she started out with a focus on public administration, in 2003 Yi-jung decided to transfer to the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. She is exploring changes in the welfare system since the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.

What did you do prior to coming to the Center for Technology in Government?
I completed my Bachelors degree in Public Administration at National Taipei University in Taiwan. As a child, I wanted to be a journalist, but changed my focus to research while I was an undergrad. I came to the Rockefeller College of Public Administration and Policy to work on my Masters Degree. One of my first internships included work on a welfare reform study at the Rockefeller Institute.

What brought you to CTG?
In the final semesters of completing my Masters Degree I decided that I wanted to pursue my Ph.D., and I had heard from other students CTG was a good place to build my research skills.

What are some of the major projects that you have worked on at CTG?
When I came to CTG in 2001, the organization was in the final stages of completing a study about information sharing between different organizations and networks of people. Since the completion of that project, I have been working on a study of information sharing in the criminal justice and public health fields. I have worked on data collection and analysis, and conducted interviews. Currently I am co-writing a paper on how government structures and leadership influence the decision-making process in the justice community.

What are your plans for the future?
Eventually I would like to return to Taiwan to teach and conduct research. Whether I end up there or here in the United States, I believe my education and experience makes me qualified to teach in either the education or the public administration field.

How can CTG help you with your plans?
I believe that the skills I am picking up at CTG are invaluable to my future. This is really the place that showed me how to do research. They let students become involved in the projects and teach the skills required for being a good researcher.

What have you learned?
Technology can only get you so far; people working together have to do the rest.

What is one little known or interesting fact about you?
I love classical music; my favorite composer is Bach.

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