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| Ken W FlippinSchool: University of Texas at Austin Member of: Contact info:
Policy interests: Disaster preparedness, Economic policy, Education, Energy, Environment, Government reform, Political strategy, Poverty and social justice, Public administration and management, Religion, Social policy, The media Ken Flippin is originally from San Angelo, Texas. He attended college at Angelo State University and received a double major in Communication and Government. Throughout high school and college he worked on political campaigns and competed successfully in speech and debate tournaments. During that same time he spent 7 years as a circuit preacher speaking at churches throughout west Texas. He later worked for four years in the Dallas area as a Recruitment Coordinator for Carter BloodCare and then as a Recruitment Manager for their local chapter of the National Marrow Donor Program in Dallas Texas. He left Carter BloodCare to join the Ron Kirk Senate Campaign in the position of statewide volunteer coordinator. He started at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in September 2003. He interned in the spring of 2004 with the Joint Select Committee on School Finance during the special session. He worked in the summer of 2004 at the Texas Education Agency as a management intern, advising department directors primarily on leadership, change management, and professional development. He worked in the spring 2005 with Campaigns for People on campaign finance reform primarily on advocacy, messaging, and community organizing. Ken has had two articles on education finance and inequality accepted by the LBJ Journal. Currently, he is a part time student at LBJ while working on progressive coalition building with several organizations including the Texas Table and Austin Moving Forward. Ken Flippin is originally from San Angelo, Texas. He attended college at Angelo State University and received a double major in Communication and Government. Throughout high school and college he worked on political campaigns and competed successfully in speech and debate tournaments. During that same time he spent 7 years as a circuit preacher speaking at churches throughout west Texas. He later worked for four years in the Dallas area as a Recruitment Coordinator for Carter BloodCare and then as a Recruitment Manager for their local chapter of the National Marrow Donor Program in Dallas Texas. He then joined the Ron Kirk Senate Campaign in the position of statewide volunteer coordinator. He started at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in September 2003. He interned in the spring of 2004 with the Joint Select Committee on School Finance during the special session. He worked in the summer of 2004 at the Texas Education Agency as a management intern, advising department directors primarily on leadership, change management, and professional development. He worked in the spring 2005 with Campaigns for People on campaign finance reform primarily on advocacy, messaging, and community organizing. Ken has had two articles on education finance and inequality accepted by the LBJ Journal. Currently, he is a part time student at LBJ while working on progressive coalition building with several organizations including the Texas Table and Austin Moving Forward.
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