Our vision for the future of the Andrew Young School is to expand our contributions to policy conversations on all levels, whether community, state, regional, national or international. We envision our students, faculty and graduates contributing to a world where evidence-based policy analysis better meets the rapidly growing demand for public accountability in government at every level.

We want to bridge the worlds of public engagement and decision-making in the management of private, public and nonprofit organizations. We will graduate greater numbers of public, private and nonprofit leaders who can work to improve the design, financing, evaluation and the administration of socially and fiscally responsible programs.

We will continue to attract the most talented and deserving students from diverse backgrounds, as well as top-level faculty and research associates who will challenge our students to transform themselves and their communities.

Our alumni — both undergraduates and advanced — will find the knowledge they gain at Georgia State vital to strengthening communities in Atlanta, Georgia, our nation and across the globe.

And in achieving this vision, as our school becomes a model for creating and translating scholarly policy work into practical community action, we will rise to join the top five percent of the nation’s best public policy schools.

Economist Sally Wallace specializes in income taxation, sales taxation, tax burden analysis, distributional effects of taxation and the effects of demographic changes on tax bases. Her principal interests are federal, state, local and international taxation and analysis and intergovernmental fiscal relations.