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Coping With the Cost of Health Care:
What Is The Public Voice?
Video Podcast
"We can improve the conversation and that directly impacts people's lives."
Martin Carcasson
DDEX
Ibtesam, Rhanda Slim
Mideast Network
"In our research, we look at what ideas community leaders have about the role of the public in deliberating issues and forming policy."
Alberto Olivas
"When I'm working with the different Pacific Island communities, I must make sure that their way of being is always respected and regarded."
Moerangi Falaoa
"You can't sustain an urban community without the voice of its citizens."
Louise Spiegel
"Students have more of a sense that 'maybe we can do that, too.'"
Katy Harriger
Podcasts
David Mathews discusses Education Research
Speaking of Politics Interview
Deborah Witte, Program Officer
Contact Deborah
Deborah Witte is a program officer at the Kettering Foundation. She is coeditor with David W. Brown of the
Higher Education Exchange
and the 2008 Kettering Press volume
Agent of Democracy: Higher Education and the HEX Journey
. Witte chairs the foundation’s
Philanthropy and Democracy
, Project Histories, and Records Management workgroups.
She prepares the foundation’s "Strategic Basis," or strategic plan, for the Kettering Foundation’s Board of Directors and, along with colleague Bob Mihalek, writes a regularly updated report analyzing the board’s formal discussions.
She is also responsible for library and research acquisitions, including electronic database resources. She works with contract and part-time abstractors who write for the foundation’s online abstract database, a resource of more than 5,000 abstracts of books, chapters, and articles of relevance to Kettering research.
Witte's service to the community includes serving on the Board of Trustees of the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, the Ohio Humanities Council, and the University of Dayton Library Advancement Association.
She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. Her dissertation will examine women’s informal leadership within philanthropy.