Welcome

Welcome to my webpage. I hold a PhD in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. My research and teaching interests include collaborative policy formation, the nonprofit sector, and local politics.

My scholarship is influenced by prior experience as a coalition organizer and manager for networks of faith-based organizations, for get out the vote campaigns, for healthcare reform, and for public employees. Please access via this website my recent publications that investigate policy-oriented participation – for instance factors that enhance competition in Kazakhstan’s local elections, and barriers to nonprofit engagement in trade associations.

While serving on the faculty of Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), I revamped the Master of Public Administration capstone project and redesigned its prerequisite methods course. In graduate school, I trained research teams to investigate social innovation in distressed neighborhoods of New York City.  And through the National Urban Fellowship, I researched interdisciplinary communication errors at The Bellevue Hospital Center.

Thanks very much for visiting.