
Senior Associate, North America
Arthur Shemitz is a Senior Associate with the North America team at Centre for Public Impact.
He joined CPI in 2023.
Arthur has a BA in Gender Studies from Whitman College and an MA in Public Affairs from Princeton University.
Arthur served for four years in the California state government, helping promote electric vehicle market development in Governor Brown’s Office of Business and Economic Development, and advocating to strengthen and secure pension funds for public school educators.
He has also served as a volunteer tax preparer since 2019 and filled in hundreds of tax returns for low-income taxpayers in California, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Arthur is passionate about CPI’s work to promote equity and legitimacy in government. He has worked on the Innovation Track for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, collaborating with city leaders and highly impacted residents across the US and Canada to develop innovative solutions to their city’s pressing challenges.
In his leisure time, Arthur enjoys crossword puzzles, public transit, and seeing his neighbourhood cats.