PPIA Is Expanding Its Influence


PPIA’s momentum is becoming visible across the country as Executive Director Josh Diosomito represents PPIA in the rooms where public service leadership, partnerships, and future pipelines are being shaped.

Influence Shapes Opportunity

PPIA'S MOMENTUM IS BECOMING VISIBLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Building national visibility

PPIA’s momentum is becoming visible across the country.

This spring, Josh Diosomito, PPIA’s Executive Director, represented PPIA at major national conferences, leadership convenings, and institutional planning sessions focused on the future of public service, policy, and civic leadership.


For Students

Earlier exposure to elite global leadership pathways, mentorship, and international fellowship preparation

For Alumni

A stronger national network with expanded opportunities for mentorship, storytelling, and engagement.

For Consortium

Increased visibility and association with a globally recognized leadership brand

For PPIA

A major signal that PPIA is building momentum and expanding its global and national influence

Schwarzman Scholars saw a national network filled with ambitious students already thinking seriously about public leadership. Students with academic strength. Students with policy ambition. Students who want to lead in government, diplomacy, nonprofit leadership, business, technology, and international affairs.


In many ways, the partnership validates what PPIA has spent nearly fifty years building: one of the country’s most important pipelines into public service leadership.


For students, the partnership creates proximity to opportunities that often feel distant or inaccessible.


Through workshops, digital storytelling, alumni engagement, and year-round leadership initiatives, the partnership will introduce PPIA students to Schwarzman Scholars and the global leadership pathways shaping the next generation of public service leaders.


That exposure matters. Many students arrive at PPIA with strong public service ambitions but limited visibility into the international pathways surrounding leadership today. Schwarzman Scholars introduces a wider lens. One shaped by global policy, diplomacy, strategic leadership, and cross-cultural engagement.


For alumni, the partnership raises the profile of the entire PPIA network.


Prestigious organizations protect their brand carefully. Schwarzman Scholars’ investment sends a signal to universities, employers, foundations, and students that the PPIA pipeline is producing talent worth watching.


The partnership also creates new opportunities for alumni engagement through mentorship, storytelling, panel discussions, application guidance, and leadership conversations with students considering global fellowships and careers.

Schwarzman Scholars and PPIA share a belief that the next generation of public leaders must be prepared to lead in a global world

Josh Diosomito

Josh Diosomito

PPIA Executive Director

For Consortium Members, the collaboration strengthens the strategic value of participating in the PPIA Consortium.


Schools are increasingly competing on more than curriculum alone. Visibility, networks, student outcomes, and national positioning all matter.


This partnership gives Consortium Members stronger association with a globally recognized leadership organization while creating more opportunities for recruitment storytelling, student engagement, and thought leadership across PPIA’s national platform.

For PPIA itself, the partnership represents momentum.


It reflects an organization expanding beyond traditional models and building a broader leadership network centered on access, opportunity, influence, and global readiness. It also reinforces that public service leadership is evolving rapidly, and the organizations shaping the future will be the ones willing to prepare students for a far more interconnected world.


Throughout 2026, PPIA and Schwarzman Scholars will bring the partnership to life through digital campaigns, workshops, alumni conversations, leadership programming, and student engagement, with the Future Leaders Summit serving as one key moment in a broader year-round effort.


Stakeholders across the PPIA network should expect to see this partnership come to life throughout the year.


And for students exploring what global public leadership can look like in practice, this partnership may represent the beginning of a much larger journey.

PPIA Is Expanding Its Influence
PPIA Momentum

PPIA Is Expanding Its Influence

PPIA’s momentum is becoming visible across the country as Josh Diosomito represents PPIA in the rooms where public service leadership, partnerships, and future pipelines are being shaped.

Access

More than 50 Fellows will attend the 2026 Junior Summer Institutes at Harvard, Princeton, and Michigan.

Advancement

Students are gaining stronger pathways into policy, government, international affairs, advocacy, and public service.

Influence

PPIA is showing up nationally in the conversations that shape leadership pipelines and institutional partnerships.

Momentum

New leadership, growing partnerships, alumni engagement, and institutional growth are moving PPIA forward.

Building national visibility

PPIA’s momentum is becoming visible across the country.

This spring, Josh Diosomito, PPIA’s Executive Director, represented PPIA at major national conferences, leadership convenings, and institutional planning sessions focused on the future of public service, policy, and civic leadership.

Why does that matter? Because influence shapes opportunity. The organizations helping lead national conversations today are the organizations students, universities, employers, and partners pay attention to tomorrow.

For PPIA, Influence is one of the organization’s core pillars alongside Access and Advancement. It means ensuring PPIA has a voice in the rooms where decisions, partnerships, and leadership pipelines are being shaped. It also means creating greater visibility for PPIA students, alumni, Consortium members, and mission-driven partners across the country.

Influence means PPIA has a voice in the rooms where leadership pipelines are being shaped.

Access. Advancement. Influence.

Josh represented PPIA in national public service conversations.

At the National Forum for Black Public Administrators Annual Forum in Philadelphia, Josh participated as a speaker and connected with more than 1,000 public service leaders from across federal, state, and local government. The conference theme, “Grounded in Greatness,” focused on strengthening leadership and developing the next generation of public servants. Josh also engaged with participants in NFBPA’s leadership and mentoring programs while sharing PPIA’s commitment to expanding pathways into public service.

At the American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference in California, Josh joined a national panel discussion on the future of the public service workforce alongside a Dean, nonprofit CEO, and senior federal official from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The conversations centered on leadership development, workforce readiness, and the growing importance of investing earlier in emerging talent. Josh was also featured on “Voices from ASPA,” where he reflected on his own journey into public service and the responsibility leaders have to create opportunities for future generations.

New partnerships are creating new pathways.

In Phoenix, Josh participated in a two-day retreat with Arizona State University’s Next Generation Service Corps Center to explore collaboration opportunities and strengthen leadership pathways for students from first-generation, low-income, and historically overlooked backgrounds. The discussions resulted in Arizona State University joining the 2026 PPIA Consortium and expanding opportunities for engagement through ASU’s national NextGen Service student network.

Josh also attended the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Alumni & Community Leaders Reception in Los Angeles to strengthen relationships and explore future partnerships focused on developing the next generation of Latino public service leaders.

Alumni continue helping drive momentum from the ground up.

In Los Angeles, alumni and Board members gathered for a networking luncheon at Grand Central Market to reconnect, share career journeys, reflect on their JSI experiences, and discuss how to continue opening doors for future students. Those conversations matter because alumni remain one of PPIA’s greatest strengths. They carry the mission into government agencies, nonprofits, universities, advocacy organizations, and communities across the country.

The momentum extends beyond partnerships and events.

This year, PPIA announced more than 50 Fellows selected to attend the 2026 Junior Summer Institutes at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Michigan. These students represent the next generation of leaders preparing for careers in policy, government, international affairs, advocacy, and public service.

That is the broader story unfolding across PPIA right now.

New leadership. Growing partnerships. National visibility. Alumni engagement. Institutional growth. And students stepping into opportunities that can shape the trajectory of their lives and careers.

PPIA is strengthening its national presence, building meaningful partnerships, and ensuring the next generation of public service leaders has access to opportunity, mentorship, and influence.