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Amy Larrabee Cotz
CCPS Fellow
Associate Editor, The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Project
alarrabeecotz@american.edu
Amy Larrabee Cotz joinedÌýCCPS as anÌýassociate editor of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore and CCPS fellow in May 2021. A historian and a documentary editor, Amy spent the past nine years at the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, an award-winning project at the University of Virginia. Before that she researched the lives of enslaved Black Â鶹´«Ã½s at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation.
Mark Tenenbaum
Managing Editor, Congress & the Presidency Journal
mt2082a@american.edu
MEET MARK TENENBAUM
Mark Tenenbaum assumed the role of Managing Editor for Congress & the Presidency journal in Fall 2024.ÌýMark is a PhD student at Â鶹´«Ã½ and his research agenda centers on Â鶹´«Ã½ political behavior, with particular interests in religion and politics and racial and ethnic politics. He is also the Director of Research at Kitces, one of the leading sources of information and research on financial planning in the financial services industry. Mark has a BA in economics and politics from the University of Rhode IslandÌýand worked for nearly a decade as a financial advisor for a Rhode Island-based investment advisory firm.
Kaitlyn Parks
Assistant Director, Campaign Management Institute
Kaitlyn Parks is the Assistant Director of the Campaign Management Institute (CMI). In this role she aids the Director in organizing online course administration, managing coordination of guest speakers, and working with SPA to manage and execute CMI. She has also attended CMI as a student in January 2023. Kaitlyn has experience working on campaigns and interning at the Massachusetts State House and Capitol Hill and is currently working at 314 Action. Kaitlyn is pursuing an MA in Political Communication and graduated with her BA in Political Science, concentrating in Â鶹´«Ã½ Government, from Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2022.
Hannah Purkey
Program Coordinator, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
Hannah serves as the Program Coordinator for the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at the School of Public Affairs.ÌýIn this role, she is responsible for the administrative and operative functions required to carry out the research, events management, financial management and administrative and staff support for CCPS. Hannah hasÌýworked for Â鶹´«Ã½ since April 2017, holding positions atÌýthe Washington College of Law'sÌýProgram on Law and Government and at the Office of Development. Hannah is from Pittsburgh originally and holds a B.A. in Communication and Rhetoric from theÌýUniversity of Pittsburgh and an M.Ed in Education Policy and Leadership fromÌýÂ鶹´«Ã½.