Economic & Workforce Dinner

Alfred State College recently
hosted Dr. Olivia Golden, NYS director of operations, who joined local college
officials and government representatives in a discussion on workforce and
economic development in Allegany
County.

Pictured here, l-r, Dr. Ronald R. Rosati, ASC
provost and officer in charge, welcomes Susan Goetschius, Alfred University
director of communications; Golden, John Margeson, Allegany County
administrator; Dr. William Hall, Allegany
County legislator; John
Foels, development director for Allegany
County; and Tom
Carpenter, Gov. Spitzer's regional representative to Western
New York.

Golden was a senior fellow and center director at the Urban
Institute in Washington, DC. Her career has combined senior positions
in government, the advocacy world, and academia. From 2001-04, she served as director
of the Child and Family Services Agency of the District of Columbia. From 1993-01, she was
appointed by President Clinton to positions within the US Department of Health
and Human Services, first as commissioner for Children, Youth, and Families and
then as assistant secretary for Children and Families. She has also served as director
of Programs and Policy at the Children's Defense Fund from 1991-93, lecturer in
public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University from 1987-91, and budget director
for the Executive Office of Human Services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
from 1983-85. Golden received her BA, master's degree in public policy and PhD
in public policy from Harvard
University.