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Gregory Lebel
Director, Semester in Washington Program, Assistant Professor - Elections; Campaign Organization (PMGT 101, 242)
Director, Semester in Washington Program - GWU
Gregory G. Lebel is Assistant Professor of Political Management and Director of the Semester in Washington Program at The George Washington University. Semester in Washington offers academic training in American politics and practical experience in Washington internships to undergraduate students from around the country and abroad.
Mr. Lebel has over twenty years of experience in management of public and non-profit organizations, as well as ten years of teaching experience at the graduate school level. He has established substantial credentials as an ethicist, activist, lobbyist, grassroots organizer, and political campaign expert. He is a member of the Takoma Park, Maryland Ethics Commission, and served on the ethics committee of the American Association of Political Consultants. He has taught courses on ethics, relilgion and politics, and campaign organization at The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University in Washington, DC where he served as Assistant Dean from 1991 until 1994.
Lebel served as Director of Public Policy, Director of Political and Field Operations, and Interim Executive Director of The Interfaith Alliance (TIA) in Washington, DC. TIA is a national grassroots organization of clergy and people of faith promoting the positive role of religion in public life and presenting an alternative religious voice to that of the Christian Coalition and other extreme religious right groups. He has previously worked in progressive public interest organizations dealing with environmental and women's issues, including the League of Conservation Voters and Catholics for a Free Choice. His electoral campaign experience includes the presidential campaigns of former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, Vice President Al Gore, Jr. and Governor Howard Dean as well as numerous state, local, and congressional campaigns
Mr. Lebel holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Arts in political science from the University of Maryland at College Park where he did doctoral work in American politics.
His writing and publications include a series of case studies on ethics in politics under a grant from the United States Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Claiming A Voice, a history of the Women Legislators of Maryland, Sustainable Development: A Guide to Our Common Future, which has subsequently been published in four languages, The Advance Manual, covering the basics of electoral campaign advance work, and a chapter titled “Managing Volunteers: Times Have Changed – Or Have They?” in the Handbook of Political Marketing (Sage Publications: 1999).
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