The 2023 – 2024 Fettuccine Forum, “Let’s Talk about Boise” is a four-event series featuring speakers offering perspectives on the lives and histories of Indigenous women, Boise’s immigrant populations, the environmental factors that shape Boise’s growth and development, and the historic and changing meaning of home in our community. The Boise City Department of Arts & History is excited to host the 20th anniversary season of the Fettuccine Forum at a new location, Trailhead, in downtown Boise.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Originally from Boise, Karl Brooks teaches graduate and undergraduate Public Administration and Law and Society (SPPA) courses at the University of Kansas. He joined the SPAA faculty in 2022 after five years in senior staff positions with the New Mexico Judiciary, and seven years as a senior political appointee in the Obama Administration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), first as the Heartland Regional Administrator based in Kansas City, and then as national operations manager at EPA headquarters in Washington, DC. Karl practiced trial and appellate law for a decade (1983-1993) in his hometown of Boise, Idaho. He helped found the Boise Hawks minor league baseball team in 1987. Between 1993 and 1996, he directed the Idaho Conservation League and managed its legislative program. He served three terms in the Idaho State Senate (1986-1992), representing Southeast Boise and the Central Bench, before moving to Lawrence to earn his History Ph.D. with honors from the University of Kansas in 2000. From 2000 to 2010, Karl was an associate professor of history and environmental studies and a courtesy professor of law at KU. After a Supreme Court Fellowship in 2001-02, he authored and edited books and articles for both scholars and the public on environmental law, administrative law, and postwar environmental history.
ABOUT THE FETTUCCINE FORUM
The Fettuccine Forum is produced by the Boise City Department of Arts & History. Support from the Office of the Mayor, Boise State Public Radio, and the Department of History at Boise State University all make the Forum possible. Lively and informal, the Fettuccine Forum invites the public to interact with politicians, artists, historians, activists, advocates, and professionals to promote good citizenship and responsible growth through education.
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