Advisory Council

Maggie Niu

Research Assistant

2015 - 2015

Political Science and Public Policy, 2017

Biography

Maggie Niu is a sophomore and a prospective Political Science + Public Policy major. Her primary interests are the politics behind policy-making, environmental policy, and international affairs. Maggie hopes to attend law school after graduation. She is excited to work on the project about water-rights and conservation in the Western states. On the weekends, Maggie enjoys doing yoga and discovering new hiking trails along the California coast.

Upcoming Events

Eccles Family Rural West Conference

Fourth Annual Conference – University of Montana in Missoula

This year’s conference will be focused on defining people and place in the rural American West, through panels addressing public health and access, housing and homelessness, natural resource use and allocation, and Indian policy.

The California Local Governance Summer Institute @ Stanford

Professional Seminar for Western Local Government Officials

This week-long summer institute at Stanford University is open to city managers, county executives, regional directors, and other senior local government officials from throughout the West. They will have the opportunity to exchange and acquire tools for improving local government performance and ways of enhancing prospective analytical capacity to innovate and anticipate societal change.