Now on #PATimes: Bedtime Stories for Public Servants: The Algorithm That Blinked By S. Mohsen Fatemi

📢 Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board (ESAB) is advancing a proposed rental energy benchmarking ordinance — a practical, affordable approach to help renters and landlords save money, cut energy waste, and move our community toward its climate goals.

#PATimes - Thanks, @mohsenfatemi.bsky.social for writing it for us!

📢 The latest installment of my "Bedtime Stories for Public Servants" series with PA TIMES Online: "Just-Ish and Reasonable" 🌐 Link: patimes.org/bedtime-stor...

🥰 I’m honored to share that my article has been selected for the 🎊 JPAE Spotlight Paper Award 🎊 by the Journal of Public Affairs Education.

🚨 New Issue Alert! This article addresses that gap in doctoral education programs, exploring how bottom-up, student-led experiential learning (BUSLEL) can serve as a pathway to activate social equity (ASE) in public administration education. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thank you, @lawrencekstimes.com, for covering this important initiative!

🌱🏠 We are pushing forward at the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board to make Lawrence a more affordable and sustainable city. Read in the Lawrence Times: lawrencekstimes.com #LawrenceKS #EnergyEquity #EnergyJustice #LocalGovernment #ClimateAction #PublicPolicy #HousingAffordability

This piece I wrote for ICMA, “Building Climate Resilience Starts with Local Government,” reflects on ideas developed together with my co-authors in our recent climate policy article. Read it here 👉 icma.org/blog-posts/b...

🥰 Grateful for Two Incredible Years of PMRA Service 🥰 🙂 On August 15th, my two-year term as Co-Director of the Secretariat at the Public Management Research Association (@pmra-1991.bsky.social) came to a close.

Now on #PATimes: Bedtime Stories for Public Servants By Mohsen Fatemi PS: Thanks, Mohsen, for bringing this fun new series to #PATimes!

Many thanks to the Eisenhower Institute Institute for supporting my dissertation research on institutional and regulatory environments shaping utility behavior and their energy justice implications through the Eisenhower/Roberts Fellowship. www.gettysburg.edu/eisenhower-i...

🥰 I am honored to be selected as a 2025 APPAM Equity & Inclusion Student Fellow by @appam.bsky.social 😍 I look forward to reconnecting with friends and colleagues at APPAM in Seattle this November and presenting my research on Electric Utilities and Energy Justice.

✨ Excited to share my latest piece with PA Times Online: “Bedtime Stories for Public Servants: The Algorithm That Blinked.” 📖 Read it here: patimes.org/bedtime-stor...

Thank you for promoting my article, JPAE! 😍

Thank you to the Lawrence Journal-World for highlighting this important initiative by the City of Lawrence Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board to tackle the challenge of high energy costs—an issue that disproportionately affects renters, who make up more than half of the city's population.

🔍❓Energy justice and policy professionals — I’d love your take. Should city governments require landlords to disclose annual, building-level energy consumption data through a city-run benchmarking platform?

😇 Excited to head to #2025APPAM in Seattle this November to reconnect with friends 😍, colleagues 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 , and fellow energy policy nerds 🦸! I'll be presenting two pieces of my dissertation research 📚.

🆕 New Series Published in PA TIMES Online 🧑‍💼👩‍💼"Bedtime Stories for Public Servants" – by S. Mohsen Fatemi

Thank you to the National Academy of Public Administration (@napawash.bsky.social) for supporting my participation at the Social Equity Leadership Conference (SELC) with a travel stipend.

Thank you for the promotion of our research! 🥰

🥰 Honored to have been awarded the 2025–2026 Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship by the Eisenhower Institute.

Thank you, @pmra-1991.bsky.social for the recognition at #PMRC2025, in Seoul, South Korea! It’s been an incredible honor and a true privilege to serve as Co-Director of the Secretariat. Grateful to be part of such a vibrant and dedicated community advancing public management research.

Be on the look out for my new column, “Bedtime Stories for Public Servants.” 🤓

Touched down at the Irving Institute at Dartmouth College and had an incredible first day—met inspiring panelists and connected with brilliant, kind new friends.

Heading to Hanover, NH,to attend the Irving Institutes’s New Energy Summer Summit at Dartmouth College, as a member of the 2025 cohort of early-stage energy and climate researchers.

⭕ Interview with Lawrence Journal-World ➡️ As energy gets more expensive in Lawrence, a KU researcher wants new ways to make tenants more aware of the costs 🌐 Link: www2.ljworld.com/news/2025/ju...

I recently spoke with the Lawrence Journal-World about a proposal currently under consideration by the City of Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board (ESAB) that would make energy costs more transparent for renters.

I recently spoke with the Lawrence Journal-World about a proposal currently under consideration by the City of Lawrence’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board (ESAB) that would make energy costs more transparent for renters.

Heading back home from the 2025 Social Equity Leadership Conference #2025SELC. Presented my paper and reconnected with wonderful friends, colleagues, and role models. Grateful for such a caring community. 🌐 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @napawash.bsky.social

📣 Take a look at our recent publication!

I had the opportunity today to speak with Bremen Keasey of the Lawrence Journal-World about a "utility bill disclosure policy" currently under consideration by the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board (ESAB) in the City of Lawrence, KS.

Here’s a link to access 50 free downloads of the article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G7VM5...

📢 New Publication! 📢 My first lead-author article has just been published in @climate-policy.bsky.social! 🥳 🎉 Congratulations to my phenomenal co-authors, Dr. Rachel Krause, Dr. Le Anh Nguyen Long, Dr. Gwen Arnold, and Sara Ludwick!

As the academic year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on what a privilege it was to serve as a mentor in the EPAP/ESM Mentorship Program—part of the ESP 198 course in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis.

Congratulations to my phenomenal co-authors, Drs. Krause, Arnold, and Nguyen Long, and Sara Ludwick, on the acceptance of our article “Do Cities with Greater Transformative Governance Capacity Pursue More Ambitious Policies?” in @climate-policy.bsky.social! Grateful for this collaboration—more soon!

What a joy to return as an alum to the Applied Humanities Boot Camp at the Hall Center for the Humanities (University of Kansas) and speak on a panel about career paths beyond academia!

I’m genuinely excited to be part of the 2025 New Energy Summer Summit at Dartmouth College’s Irving Institute next month! ⚡🌍 Grateful to be part of this dynamic community—and counting down the days! 💡🌱 🌐 2025 Summer Summit Cohort: irving.dartmouth.edu/research/new...

Excited to not only be a 2025 PATNet Fellow but also to present my research at the 2025 PATNet Conference!

😍 Excited to share my research at the 2025 NASPAA Global Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona, co-hosted by Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, and the University of Arizona from October 8-10, 2025. @jpaejournal.bsky.social 🌐 Paper Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excited to be selected as a 2025 Public Administration Theory Network Fellow! Grateful to join a cohort of scholars advancing critical research on government, governance, and public administration. @patheorynetwork.bsky.social

I love you, Reviewer 3 😍 : "The authors adequately addressed my previous comments and questions, I think the paper is strong and ready to be published."

After more than two years of sustained effort, it is immensely gratifying to see the problem of rental energy burden gain traction on the policy agenda.

What a wonderful surprise to receive a minor revision decision on our Climate Policy submission just before my doctoral prospectus defense!

Great news for hiring committees: the wait is over. As of today, Mohsen Fatemi has officially advanced from PhD student to PhD candidate 😅—and and will be on the academic job market in Fall 2025, seeking a faculty position beginning in Fall 2026.

Just submitted the final draft of my dissertation prospectus, "Toward a Causal Theory of Energy Justice: Exploring Regulatory Typologies, Uncovering Plausible Pathways, and the Conditional Role of Ownership in U.S. Utilities." Taking a deep breath before the defense on April 23!

😍 Excited to have been awarded a University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) from the University of Kansas for Fall 2025! 🥳

Excited to attend the Social Equity Leadership Conference 2025 in June to present my paper, "A pathway toward activating social equity in public administration education from the bottom up: The case of the Energy and Environmental Justice Educational and Advocacy Program." #SocialEquity #2025SELC

😍🥳 Excited to have been selected to attend the 2025 New Energy Summer Summit, hosted by The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth! 🥰 Grateful for this opportunity and excited to learn, connect, and contribute. 🎊

Heading home and still reflecting on what a wonderful experience #ASPA2025 was. One of the true joys of academic life is connecting with such thoughtful, talented, and kind colleagues—something I deeply value and never take for granted.