"Rob saw Southern Nevada as a blank canvas where he could draw on his expertise to import best practices and lessons learned from around the country as he spearheaded public policy formation in our valley," … While his voice will be dearly missed as we face today’s enormous post-pandemic challenges, he left us a wonderful example of fearless advocacy and relentless courage to follow."
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Robert E. Lang
1959 – 2021
Robert E. Lang (1959-2021) was a fellow at the Brookings Mountain West think tank at UNLV, a professor at the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and the director of The Lincy Institute for public policy at UNLV.
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