Opinion: Innovation isn’t yet a feature of the system in Memphis
Christian Man
Christian Man is a social scientist by training and lives in East Memphis with his wife and their three children.
“We have a profound, time-sensitive need for a bold group of public servants who can imagine and operationalize experiments — making creative, rigorous, coordinated policy innovation a permanent modus operandi in Memphis.”
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