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People Strategy Professional/Assistant Professor of Practice at The Busch School of Business
The Busch School of Business 3 yrs 6 mos
- [Assistant Professor Full-time
Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · On-site](https://www.linkedin.com/school/40745766/)
Business Faculty Member overseeing the People and Organizations specialization.
A big thank you to Jonathan Berry for a captivating talk last Thursday as part of our Busch School of Business HR Speaker Series, co-sponsored by Legatus. His talk on incorporating Catholic Social Teaching into policy was greatly mission-aligned with The Busch School and with my approach to teaching best practice in Human Resource Management.
Thank you Collin Kourtz and Ben Roat for your assistance with the event.
Our next talk is scheduled for Wednesday, April 17th at noon with Roger Severino.
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MEASLES 5 26
Under the guise of “freedom,” the DeSantis administration including Surgeon General Joe Ladapo has established policies that have directly contributed to the measles outbreak that has spread across the state.
Yet, despite the proliferation of this disease, which has placed Florida fourth in the United States with 152 confirmed cases in 2025-26 and 145 confirmed cases so far this year, state officials have acted as if “there’s nothing to see here.”
Collier County is the center of an outbreak that began in January at Ave Maria University. The number of reported cases out of Collier has remained steady at 106, with most cases affecting those aged 15 to 24. According to the Florida Department of Health, Florida is up to 150 cases this year as of the week ending May 2. Officials note that there is “a continuing slowdown in infections after outbreaks earlier this year.”
assistant Secretary Robert Destro, now a law professor at Catholic University confirms he met with Colorado podcast Joe Oltmann and Michigan lawyer Matt DePerno, now the GOP of MI AG on Jan. 6.
https://t.co/k9UzXAYpXM
On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol, a top Trump appointee at the U.S. State Department met with two activists who had been key to spreading the false narrative that the presidential election had been stolen. The meeting came as Trump’s allies were pressing theories that election machines had been hacked by foreign powers and were angling for Trump to employ the vast powers of the national security establishment to seize voting machines or even rerun the election.
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wiki state dept?!
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Robert A. Destro is an American attorney, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from September 2019 to January 2021.[1] In October 2020, he also became the United States Special Coordinator on Tibetan Issues.[2][3] He previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1983 to 1989 and as a professor of law at The Catholic University of America.[4][5]
Destro confirmed to the Washington Post that, during the 2021 United States Capitol attack, he met in the State Department with "Big Lie" supporters Joe Oltmann, a Colorado podcaster, and Matthew DePerno, lawyer and candidate in the 2022 Michigan Attorney General election. While Destro declined to disclose the substance of the meeting, Oltmann posted on social media that he had met with "the right people" in the State Department and that "they said, 'If this the false claims of irregularities in the [2020 US Presidential election ] is true, this is a coup.'"[10]
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Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawaii and 2020 presidential candidate, is an unconventional politician. While she is identified with the political left, her meetings with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Indian Prime Minister Modi, a brutal dictator and a Hindu nationalist respectively have drawn criticism.
Now Sludge, the investigative site, reports that Gabbard
is one of 12 advisors of a foreign policy center at the Washington, D.C.-based Catholic University of America. The Center for the Study of Statesmanship (CSS) was founded in 2017 with a $2.65 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation, which gives tens of millions of dollars to American colleges and universities each year, usually to fund ideological, free-market academic programs.
Sludge’s comment:
for a Democrat—especially a 2016 Bernie Sanders surrogate who has progressive views on campaign finance reform and single-payer health care—to accept a position at a think tank funded by Koch and staffed with several Koch-linked individuals is unusual.
A Gabbard Spokesman responded.
“As a soldier and veteran of two Middle East deployments, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been a leading voice for ending costly, counterproductive regime change wars, working to end the new Cold War and nuclear arms race, and taking the trillions of dollars being spent on these wars and using them to serve the needs of our people on things like healthcare, affordable housing, and infrastructure. The mission of CSS is aligned with the work that she has dedicated herself to, which is why she agreed to serve on their Council of Advisors.”
Source: Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Advises Koch-Funded University Center – Sludge
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