The hurdles that black public administrators face




Federal Drive with Tom Temin show

Summary: At the county, city and town levels, governments often employ professional administrators hired by elected boards. Black public administrators sometimes face special challenges. For what those might be, and how the federal government can help, the Federal Drive turned to the executive director of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, and the fifth in our series of recent inductees into the National Academy of Public Administration, Marcia Conner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices