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Amy Cotz.

Amy Larrabee Cotz

CCPS Fellow
Associate Editor, The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Project

alarrabeecotz@american.edu

Amy Larrabee Cotz joinedÌýCCPS as anÌýassociate editor of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore and CCPS fellow in May 2021. A historian and a documentary editor, Amy spent the past nine years at the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, an award-winning project at the University of Virginia. Before that she researched the lives of enslaved Black Americans at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation.

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Mark Tenenbaum

Managing Editor, Congress & the Presidency Journal

mt2082a@american.edu
MEET MARK TENENBAUM

Mark Tenenbaum assumed the role of Managing Editor for Congress & the Presidency journal in Fall 2024.ÌýMark is a PhD student at American University and his research agenda centers on American political behavior, with particular interests in religion and politics and racial and ethnic politics. He is also the Director of Research at Kitces, one of the leading sources of information and research on financial planning in the financial services industry. Mark has a BA in economics and politics from the University of Rhode IslandÌýand worked for nearly a decade as a financial advisor for a Rhode Island-based investment advisory firm.

Kaitlyn Parks

Kaitlyn Parks

Assistant Director, Campaign Management Institute

Kaitlyn Parks is the Assistant Director of the Campaign Management Institute (CMI). In this role she aids the Director in organizing online course administration, managing coordination of guest speakers, and working with SPA to manage and execute CMI. She has also attended CMI as a student in January 2023. Kaitlyn has experience working on campaigns and interning at the Massachusetts State House and Capitol Hill and is currently working at 314 Action. Kaitlyn is pursuing an MA in Political Communication and graduated with her BA in Political Science, concentrating in American Government, from American University in 2022.

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Hannah Purkey

Program Coordinator, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies

Hannah serves as the Program Coordinator for the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at the School of Public Affairs.ÌýIn this role, she is responsible for the administrative and operative functions required to carry out the research, events management, financial management and administrative and staff support for CCPS. Hannah hasÌýworked for American University since April 2017, holding positions atÌýthe Washington College of Law'sÌýProgram on Law and Government and at the Office of Development. Hannah is from Pittsburgh originally and holds a B.A. in Communication and Rhetoric from theÌýUniversity of Pittsburgh and an M.Ed in Education Policy and Leadership fromÌýAmerican University.