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===<span style="font-size:large;">'''[[File:ShalinJyotishiShalin Jyotishi.jpgpng|thumb|right|400x300px|ShalinJyotishi.jpg]]'''Biography - Shalin Jyotishi</span>===
'''[https://www.shalinjyotishi.com/ Shalin Jyotishi]''' is a Senior Policy Analyst for Education and Labor at the think-tank [https://www.newamerica.org/ New America]. His mission-driven strategistis to understand, researcher, convenerdesign, and writer reveling at communicate strategies that can help unleash the disruptive intersection maximum benefits of quality higher education, workforce developmentdecent work, and technological innovation policy, and public interest technologyfor all.
He is currently was previously the Assistant Director for Economic Development and Community Engagement at the '''Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)''', North America’s oldest presidents-led higher education association. He oversees APLU’s signature economic development strategy development program for higher education institutions, the '''Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities program''' and serves as a core researcher in the areas of university workforce development, R&D innovation ecosystem, and public engagement.
Prior to joining APLU, Shalin held various science policy roles at the '''American Academy of Arts & Sciences''', the nation’s oldest learned society and policy research center, and held a research appointment at the '''University of Michigan''' where he contributed to the 2nd edition of the book, '''''Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the 21st Century'''''. Having a penchant for entrepreneurialism, Shalin has also served as a consultant with the '''American Association for the Advancement of Science''', '''Alfred P. Sloan Foundation''', '''Innovation Associates''', and the '''International Monetary Fund'''. Outside of his role at APLUNew America, Shalin also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the '''''Journal of Science Policy and Governance, Inc''''', an internationally-recognized non-profit organization and pee-reviewed publication dedicated to empowering students and early career researchers in the debate around science and technology policy.
Shalin serves served as an editor of the ''Journal of Economic Development in Higher Education'', as a University Innovation Fellow of and the '''Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University''', Education Policy and as a Bastiat Fellow at '''George Mason University'''Law Review. He previously served on the national advisory boards of APLU’s Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness & Economic Prosperity, and on governance committees of the University Economic Development Association.
Shalin is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia, '''the birthplace of American public higher education'''. While a student, he was active in local-level political campaigns and contributed to research at '''UGA’s Institute of Higher Education''', served as an editor of the ''Education Law & Policy Review'', as a writer for the ''Georgia Political Review'', and published book articles on regenerative medicine in ''The SAGE Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research''.
'''[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shalinjyotishi <span style="line-height: 1.5;"></span>]'''