{"600164":{"#nid":"600164","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Clark Named Inaugural Fellow of American Association of Geographers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Clark has been named to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), a non-profit scientific and educational society founded in 1904.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClark is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;where she is director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/urbaninnovation.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Urban Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and associate director for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/smartcities.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESmart Cities and Inclusive Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.aag.org\/2017\/12\/aag-announces-inaugural-class-of-aag-fellows\/\u0022\u003Ecitation for Clark\u003C\/a\u003E noted that she \u0026ldquo;is a prominent scholar of institutions and their contribution to regional innovation systems, focusing primarily in the United States but also working with collaborators in the United Kingdom and Europe. She is a key figure in the movement to integrate social and economic equity principles into the study of place-based innovation systems and firm networks. This integration is critically important for public policy and has implications for the future of economic development practice in advanced industrialized nations. Her writings, particularly on innovation policy, regularly inspire new rounds of scholarship in economic geography, regional studies and planning.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClark serves as the chair of the\u0026nbsp;AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group, which is one of the largest specialty groups, and as\u0026nbsp;the chair of the AAG Nominating Committee. Both are elected positions of the membership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Public Policy is a unit of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aag.org\/cs\/about_aag\u0022\u003ERead more about the AAG\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/3bb1699b-f85f-5617-b42a-cb42fe54005f\u0022\u003EDr. Clark\u0026rsquo;s Biography\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Clark has been named to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), a non-profit scientific and educational society founded in 1904.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jennifer Clark has been named to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), a non-profit scientific and educational society founded in 1904. "}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2017-12-20 23:06:53","changed_gmt":"2018-01-05 05:48:43","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583031":{"id":"583031","type":"image","title":"Jennifer Clark","body":null,"created":"1477348569","gmt_created":"2016-10-24 22:36:09","changed":"1477348569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-24 22:36:09","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222255","name":"Jennifer Jan 2016.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jennifer%20Jan%202016.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jennifer%20Jan%202016.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":395184,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jennifer%20Jan%202016.jpg?itok=-hjiAf6d"}}},"media_ids":["583031"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Public Policy"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11646","name":"Jennifer Clark"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"},{"id":"173247","name":"American Association of Geographers"},{"id":"2697","name":"fellow"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}