Public Service
To articulate, apply, and advance a public service perspective
Administrative Ethics:
My Ethical Approach to Public Service
I am a leader deeply committed to my responsibility to serve the public with integrity, courage, and humility. I unwaveringly uphold the value of transparency and accountability as I work as a steward of justice for our Nation’s most vulnerable populations. At the fabric of my decision-making is a commitment to prudence, inclusion, and continual learning. Ultimately, at the foundation of my ethical stance lives a mission to earnestly work to establish and advance equitable public policies and community programs that ensure all people within our country can thrive.
Labor Relations:
Social Class is Real in the United States
In this op-ed, I argue that social class in the United States does exist, despite opponents who reject this reality. Here I present well documented disparities in employment benefits, health status, and food access between low-income and upper-income workers will support this view. The reader will discover the quality of these life necessities (benefits, health status, and food access) and experience depends on where a workers finds themselves along the social class ladder.
Administrative Ethics:
Engagement & Accountability
The following academic products reflect my commitment to holding our public administrators accountable, as I examine the ethical dimensions of policy decisions of the HUD's former administration and whether these policies align with the agency's missions to create inclusive communities and provide access to decent, affordable housing for all.
● Using the Cooper Design method, a framework for analyzing the alternatives and consequences of ethical decisions, this paper examines the former HUD Secretary Benjamin S. Carson Jr.’s regulatory actions against the LGTBQ community. This paper lays out the actions the Secretary the agency took under his administration and how it created an ethical dilemma directly contradicting the agency’s mission. The paper also scrutinizes the program against the virtue-based, intuition-based, and justice and fairness perspectives and provides alternative approaches through the eyes of these theories. Finally, this product includes a personal analysis of the ethical lessons I learned applying Cooper’s Deign method to the former Secretary’s actions.
● Using the Cooper Design method, a framework for analyzing the alternatives and consequences of ethical decisions, this paper examines the former HUD Secretary Benjamin S. Carson Jr.’s regulatory actions against the LGTBQ community. This paper lays out the actions the Secretary the agency took under his administration and how it created an ethical dilemma directly contradicting the agency’s mission. The paper also scrutinizes the program against the virtue-based, intuition-based, and justice and fairness perspectives and provides alternative approaches through the eyes of these theories. Finally, this product includes a personal analysis of the ethical lessons I learned applying Cooper’s Deign method to the former Secretary’s actions.
- Using the IRAC method, a framework for ethical analysis, this paper examines Opportunity Zones (OZ), a newly created Federal government tax credit program enacted under the Trump administration and promoted under former HUD Secretary Carson. This paper identifies the ethical dilemma at the core of the program and examines it against the view of a teleological deontological ethicist. The paper also scrutinizes the program against the virtue-based, intuition-based, justice and fairness, and altruism perspectives and provides alternative approaches through the eyes of these theories.
Photo by photographer Dante Lara of a sign on the property of Seth Boyden Middle School in Maplewood, NJ