2024 Board Elections
ARNOVA Board Elections Results are in!
In 2024, the ARNOVA Board of Directors Elections featured 13 candidates for 6 open positions: a secretary (incumbent) and five (5) at-large positions (2 incumbents).
Our deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who voted, the Nominations Committee, and to Fredrik Andersson, Huafang Li, Kenneth Taylor, Sung-Ju Kim, Yongdong Shen, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, and Zeeshan Noor for their invaluable participation and dedication to ARNOVA in this year’s election.
Outgoing Board members:
The ARNOVA Board and staff extend their heartfelt appreciation to Cristina Balboa, Esi Ansah and Helen Liu, who will be completing their service as Members-at-Large this fall. We look forward to honoring their contributions to the board at our annual conference in Washington, D.C., this November.
Meet the new & re-elected board members
1. Secretary
Kelly LeRoux (Incumbent)
Kelly LeRoux is a Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She has published three books and over fifty articles and books chapters on public and nonprofit management, contracting, local public service delivery, intergovernmental collaboration, and nonprofits’ role in elections. She holds MSW, MPA, and PhD in Political Science degrees from Wayne State University. Prior to beginning an academic career, she worked for twelve years in the mental health, child welfare, and housing policy arenas, within a fully government-funded nonprofit.
I have been an active member of ARNOVA since 2004, and consider my "academic home." I have volunteered in a number of capacities within the association over the years, including serving on the leadership of the TIBs and Governance sections at different points. I have had the privilege of serving as secretary of the board the past two years, and have enjoyed the chance to give back to the association that has been so instrumental to my career, as well as the source of many new friendships, collaborations and professional ties. I hope to serve another two year term as secretary, for the chance help realize ARNOVA's vision for the future.
2. Member-at-large
Bok Jeong
Dr. Bok Gyo Jeong is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at Kean University and Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. He will serve as a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva (2024-2025). His research spans comparative civil society, global/transnational policy issues, nonprofit higher education, social enterprise, UN-NGO partnerships, and collaborative governance. Within ARNOVA, Bok has served as the representative of the Global Issues and Transnational Actors (GITA) group, a former representative of the Nonprofit Policy, Practice, and Partnerships (NP3) group, and is a member of the Diversity Committee. He has also volunteered on numerous ARNOVA conference and award committees.
Dear Fellow ARNOVAns, I am deeply honored to be nominated for ARNOVA's board. ARNOVA has been my professional home and community for the past 16 years. It would be a privilege to give back to the ARNOVA community.
My campaign for ARNOVA's board is driven by the following goals:
1) Global Advocacy: Continue advocating for ARNOVA’s commitment to global issues, transnational actors, and comparative research.
2) DEI Leadership: To champion DEI values within ARNOVA, especially critical in today’s politically polarized climate.
3) Global Partnerships: Expand ARNOVA’s global partnerships across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
4) Participatory Governance: Enhance ARNOVA’s governance by actively listening to members and incorporating their voices into our decision-making processes.
David Campbell (Incumbent)
I am Professor of Public Administration at Binghamton University, State University of New York. I have served on the ARNOVA board for the past three years. I have been conference co-chair for each of those years, and currently serve on the Executive Committee. I have published on a wide variety of topics related to nonprofit management and philanthropy, such as accountability and performance, social media, and others. Most recently, I co-edited a book Philanthropy in the Muslim World, and I am currently involved n a research project studying the role of community-based NGOs in addressing identity-based violence. I have served on the editorial board of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Journal of Public Affairs Education, and the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society.
I am honored to be a candidate for a second term as an at-large member of the ARNOVA
board. Over the past three years, I have served as conference co-chair each year; I also currently serve on the Executive Committee. During my time on the board, I have been most proud of my work organizing the opening plenary for the past two conferences, and my efforts to make the Orlando conference as welcoming as possible to those rightfully concerned about the conference location. I would welcome the opportunity to continue to serve on ARNOVA's board. After all, ARNOVA has been my primary professional home for nearly twenty years and I believe deeply in the role it plays in developing scholars throughout their careers. I hope I can use my board service to continue to support ARNOVA's mission.
Jennifer Madden
Jennifer R. Madden, Ph.D. is Dean, Professor of Management, and Paul Barber Chair in Design & Innovation for the School of Business at Linfield University. Dr. Madden is a strategist, researcher, teacher, facilitator, and design thinker. Dr. Madden holds a Ph.D. from the Weatherhead School of Management, a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management, and undergraduate degrees in Economics and American Studies, all from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Madden is a Nonprofit Management Research Fellow, a Fowler Sustainability Fellow and a Management Design Fellow. Her research is on designing effective cross-sector partnerships then leveraging those collaborations to build capacity for effective performance and social innovation.
I am deeply honored to be nominated to serve as a Board Member for ARNOVA. I am eager to contribute to ARNOVA’s vision and mission. My background as a practitioner scholar and leadership in higher education and within the nonprofit sector equips me with a unique perspective to support ARNOVA’s vibrant community of scholars, educators, and practitioners. I look forward to collaborating with fellow board members to further strengthen our collective efforts and drive impactful change in our field.
Paloma Raggo (Incumbent)
Paloma is an Assistant Professor of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on leadership and nonprofit governance, global philanthropy, and research methods. Her recent co-authored article “Leadership and Governance in Times of Crisis: A Balancing Act for Nonprofit Boards” published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly explores how nonprofit board adapts in turbulent environments and shift between their management and leadership activities.
Paloma is currently involved in several collaborations around research methods for the nonprofit sector, the effect of COVID-19 on Canadian foundations, online teaching strategies, and equity and diversity goals in nonprofit organizations. She is a co-editor of PANL Perspectives, a comprehensive Canadian web platform where she also publishes articles on governance issues in the charitable sector. In addition, she teaches courses on governance and leadership, research methods and experiential community-led projects, and global philanthropy. Paloma has won research and teaching excellence awards. She is actively engaged in community organizations in Canada and the US, such as the Association for Nonprofit Research and Social Economy, Whistleblowing Canada, and the Pittsburgh Toy Lending Library, amongst others. She has earned her Ph.D. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Tamaki Onishi
As a long-term active contributor within the ARNOVA community, Tamaki currently serves on three standing committees (Membership, Diversity, and Anti-Harassment) and the Theories, Issues, and Boundaries Section executive committee. She has served on many other committees, including the 2023 Gabriel Rudney Dissertation Award (chair) and local conference arrangement committees. As a fellow in the 2012 ARNOVA Diversity Leadership Program and a non-traditional, international academic with nonprofit and for-profit work experiences, Tamaki is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion. Her social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and comparative research likewise integrate diverse disciplinary and theoretical elements and appeared not only in premier nonprofit outlets (e.g., NVSQ, Voluntas), but was also recognized in other fields, including winning the 2018 Academy of Management Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper Award. Together with Chao Guo, Helen Liu, and the late Naoto Yamauchi, she co-founded the common interest group “ARCSPA” (Advancing Research on Civil Society and Philanthropy in Asia). Tamaki holds a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University.
I am extremely honored to accept the nomination for the At-large board member at ARNOVA, which I joined after being affected by the 9/11 attack and found the power of volunteering, to expand our diverse and inclusive scholarly community. I will be committed to using my unique, non-traditional academic and professional backgrounds, bringing cross-border (Asia/Japan/the West), cross-sectoral (nonprofit/business), and multidisciplinary research (nonprofit, arts, social investment/entrepreneurship) expertise and networks, as I have already begun in the ARNOVA membership committee and the ARCSPA common interest group that is expanding several new research initiatives and creating open communities thanks to dedicated members from ARNOVA and other associations and local Asian scholars.
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