Leadership in Public Affairs and Education
After leaving the Minnesota Legislature, DeCramer was the Minnesota Director of USDA Rural Development, which provides financial and technical assistance to the towns and eleven tribal communities in the state, and direct financing toward low-income housing, community facilities, rural water and wastewater infrastructure, distance learning and telemedicine infrastructure, rural business and cooperative services, and community development. He later served as principle planning analyst for Hennepin County's Office of Planning and Development, and as senior fellow in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs' State and Local Policy Program and the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies. He also served briefly as interim president of Southwest State University in Marshall. During this period, he earned a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of St. Thomas.
DeCramer served as the director of the Humphrey School's mid-career Master of Public Affairs program. He taught in that program and in the University of Minnesota's leadership minor. He was chair of the board for DARTS, a nonprofit serving seniors and families in Dakota County, and also served on the board for Project Harvest Hope, a national nonprofit dedicated to values-based community, economic and agricultural development in the villages of the Transylvanian region of Romania.
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