Allen
Hance is a senior policy analyst responsible for the Northeast-Midwest
Institute's work on agricultural policy, the Upper Mississippi
River basin, and the mid-Atlantic river basins (Delaware,
Potomac, and Susquehanna). He comes to the Institute
from Representative Ron Kind's office, where as a Sea Grant
Fellow he coordinated the activities of the 25-member bipartisan
Upper Mississippi River Task Force.
After
receiving his BA in philosophy from Dartmouth College, Allen
worked for a political campaign manager in San Francisco on
a series of state-wide and congressional races. He attended
graduate school at Boston College and was a Fulbright fellow
at the University of Tuebingen in (West) Germany. Earning
his PhD in philosophy in 1990, he joined the faculty of the
University of Illinois (Urbana), where he researched and taught
in several fields, including environmental ethics and ethics
and public policy. A desire to work more directly on public
policy issues connected with water resources led Allen back
to graduate school at the University of Michigan (School of
Natural Resources and Environment), where he completed an
MS in environmental policy in May 2000.
