Board of Directors
Members and Officers of ARNOVA's Board of Director are elected directly by the membership in annual elections. A slate of candidates to fill positions and seats is offered by the Board to the membership. Nominations are sought in the spring of each year, and a slate prepared by the end of June. Balloting is conducted electronically (via the web) in August. Results are publicized in September.
In accordance with Board Membership Policy Changes adopted by ARNOVA membership in 2023, each new At-Large Board Member will serve a single, four-year term and the Secretary position will remain a two-year term. The President begins as a President-elect, followed by two years as President, and then one more year as Past-President.
President
Chao Guo
University of Pennsylvania
Emily is a Professor of Sociology, as well as Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost of Graduate Education, at Loyola University Chicago. Previously, She was a sociology professor at Boston University and also served as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
She has a long-standing record of obtaining external funding, including grants from the American Sociological Association, the Aspen Institute, the Boston Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
President-Elect
Lindsey McDougle
Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Dr. Lindsey McDougle is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark and director of the Rutgers Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Development. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of voluntarism, philanthropy, nonprofit management, and social inequality. Currently, Dr. McDougle's work focuses on how student participation in a specific form of service-learning, referred to as experiential philanthropy, relates to several outcomes such as the development of students' philanthropic identities, the expansion of foundation philanthropy, the fulfillment of higher education's civic mission, and ultimately the strengthening of our communities. She is former editor-in-chief of Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs (JPNA) and president-elect for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Dr. McDougle's work has been published in a number of scholarly outlets, including but not limited to Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Social Indicators Research, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. She received SPAA's 2024 Faculty Service Award for outstanding service to our students, faculty, and the greater SPAA community.
Secretary
Kelly LeRoux
University of Illinois Chicago
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. Her research on nonprofits, contracting, local public service delivery, and intergovernmental collaboration has been widely published in the nonprofit, public administration, policy, and urban/local government journals. She is the author of Performance and Public Value in the Hollow State: Assessing Government-Nonprofit Partnerships by E-Elgar (with Nathaniel Wright) and Nonprofits Organizations and Civil Society in the U.S. by Routledge (with Mary Feeney), and Service Contracting: A Local Government Guide by ICMA Press. 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 large government-funded nonprofit. Practitioner experience includes both clinical social work practice with children, adults, and families, and several administrative leadership roles. She has served on several boards of nonprofit human service organizations, as well as professional association boards.
Treasurer
Alicia Schatteman
Northern Illinois University, USA
Alicia Schatteman is currently the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and a professor in the Department of Public Administration. She received her Ph.D. in public administration from Rutgers University-Newark and a master’s degree in communications management from Syracuse University. She also consults and conducts research in nonprofit strategic planning and performance measurement. Prior to returning to school for her Ph.D., she worked for 10 years in the public and nonprofit sectors as a communications specialist and then as an executive director.
Board Members at Large
David Campbell
Binghampton University
David Campbell has devoted his career to studying, working and volunteering in nonprofit organizations in the United States and around the world. His research interests include a range of topics involving nonprofit organizations and philanthropy. In recent years, through his involvement with Binghamton University's Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, he has studied the role of civil society organizations in addressing the threat of identity-based violence, in places like South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Kosovo, among others. In addition, he has collaborated with scholars at Koç University in Turkey to study philanthropy and giving in that country and is co-editor of the recent (2023) book Philanthropy in the Muslim World(opens in a new window). His research has also considered performance measurement and the role social media plays in nonprofit organizations in the United States. He regularly publishes articles about his research in The Conversation US(opens in a new window). Campbell is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Public Affairs Education(opens in a new window), and the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society(opens in a new window). He has held senior management positions in major nonprofit organizations in New York City and Cleveland. Campbell founded the Philanthropy Incubator, which uses an experiential teaching model to encourage students to incorporate giving as a regular part of their lives, a topic about which he has also published research. It has received funding from the Learning by Giving Foundation(opens in a new window), Campus Compact(opens in a new window), and the Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation(opens in a new window) (where he serves on the board). The program educates and encourages giving among undergraduate and graduate students. Since 2010, students in Philanthropy Incubator classes have distributed more than $250,000 to local organizations. In addition to the Klee Foundation, he serves on two other boards: ARNOVA(opens in a new window), the professional association for scholars of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, and the Preferra Risk Retention Group(opens in a new window), which provides professional liability insurance to clinical social workers.
Jason Coupet
Georgia State University
Jason Coupet is an Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School for Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Jason’s Ph.D. is in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. He is on the Executive Board of ARNOVA, the APPAM Policy Council, and on the board of the Public Management Research Association. His research interests include strategic management, efficiency, performance measurement, organizational economics, management science applications in the public sector, and the political economy of organizations. His research has appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Business Strategy the Environment, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Nonprofit Management Leadership, among others. His work has been funded by the Sloan Foundation, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation. His work has been covered by The Washington Post, The Conversation, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, and the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs.
Bok Gyo Jeong
Kean University
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.
Jennifer Madden
University of the Redlands
Jennifer Madden, H. Jess and Donna Colton Senecal Endowed Dean of the School of Business & Society Dr. Jennifer Madden is a nationally recognized academic leader with a strong record of innovation and a deep commitment to socially responsible business education. She most recently served as the inaugural Dean of the School of Business and Paul S. Barber Chair of Design and Innovation at Linfield University. There, she led the creation and accreditation of leading-edge graduate programs such as Design and Innovation and Sport Leadership, including a distinctive international consulting capstone. She brings a strong academic foundation, having held faculty appointments at Carthage College, Case Western Reserve University, and Cleveland State University. Her book, Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design, is in the Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Series. Throughout her career, she has championed community engagement, innovation, and collaborative solution-finding in both her teaching and scholarship. Dr. Madden holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics and American Studies from Case Western Reserve University, where she also earned a Master of Nonprofit Organizations and later, a Ph.D. in Management.
Michael Meyer
University of Vienna
Michael Meyer’s research and teaching is about nonprofit-management and governance, the third sector and civil society, the diffusion of management thinking into NPOs, and entrepreneurial ways of solving societal problems, e.g. social entrepreneurship and social innovation. At WU Vienna, he teaches undergraduates, graduates, PhDs, and Executives. Beyond nonprofit management, he also offers courses on leadership, teambuilding, organizational behavior, and organization theory.
Together with many collaborators and friends, he has published more than 20 books, amongst them two textbooks on Discourse Analysis translated into Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Russian, and Japanese. He has published more than 120 scholarly articles in academic journals and edited volumes. Currently, Michael and others from the institute are engaged in an international project on civil society in urban regions, comparing six metropolitan regions on four continents (https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/research/civic-life-of-cities-lab/). Michael’s research is also on the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe (https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/publication/) and on managerialism in nonprofits. With the Social Entrepreneurship Center (https://www.wu.ac.at/en/sec/), Michael is also in the forefront of applied research on social innovation and contributes to capacity building for civil society in CEE.
Michael Meyer has been the head of the Institute for Nonprofit-Management at WU Vienna (University of Economics and Business) since 2005. He is one of the academic directors of WU’s Professional Master in Social Innovation and Management, and an academic director of WU’s Competence Center for NPOs and Social Entrepreneurship. Michael also contributes to the editorial board of NVSQ and NML, the two most impactful academic journals of the field.
Alisa Moldavanova
University of Delaware
Alisa Moldavanova is a nonprofit management scholar and an Associate Professor and MPA program director at The Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. She previously served as Associate Professor and coordinator of the graduate certificate in nonprofit management at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan). Alisa’s first engagement with ARNOVA was her participation as a fellow in the Diversity Leadership Program in 2012, and since then she has been an active contributor and leader within ARNOVA community, and a champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our field. She has served on multiple award committees, 2017 local arrangements committee as part of the conference organizing team, and chaired one of ARNOVA’s largest sections – Theories, Issues, and Boundaries Section. Several of Alisa’s graduate and undergraduate students participated in ARNOVA’s diversity leadership initiatives, and she herself served as an early scholar mentor in 2021. She is currently chairing Gabriel Rudney Memorial Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit & Voluntary Action Research Prize. Originally from Odesa, Ukraine, Alisa completed her graduate degrees (MPA, 2009 and PhD, 2013) at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas.
Tamaki Onishi
UNC Greensboro
Tamaki Onishi is an Associate professor and teaches courses in the Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Program including Nonprofit Management and Leadership and Philanthropy and Resource Development. She also advises our nonprofit management certificate students. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her current research involves entrepreneurial and institutional theories on social entrepreneurship and investment. She also conducted comparative research on fundraising and launched international projects promoting philanthropy in Japan in conjunction with Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and major nonprofits, such as United Ways. With funding form the Association of Fundraising Professionals, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Japan Foundation and other funders, she published her work in peer-reviewed journals and national studies on philanthropy, including International Journal of Educational Advancement and Giving USA. Prior to her academic career, she worked for both nonprofits and for-profit firms, such as WNET in New York and Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan, for over a decade.
Paloma Raggo
Carleton University
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.
Shariq Siddiqui
Indiana University Indianapolis
Shariq Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Shariq has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philanthropic Studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a JD from the McKinney School of Law at Indiana University and holds a B.A. in History from the University of Indianapolis.
Shariq authors research on Muslim philanthropy and the Muslim nonprofit sector. He has done national surveys on Muslims in the United States, Turkiye, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Jordan and Kuwait. He has done research focus groups and done trainings across five continents. This research and experience have resulted in a number of peer-reviewed articles in important journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Voluntary Sector Review, Journal on Philanthropy and Marketing, Journal on Public Administration and Education, and Nonprofit Policy Forum. He has also co-authored four books: Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions; Understanding Muslim Philanthropy; Poverty and the Monotheistic Traditions; and Nonprofit Collaborations in Diverse Communities. He also co-edited the book Philanthropy in the Muslim World.
Shariq serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society and Muslim Humanitarianism Review and served as the founding co-editor of Journal on Education in Muslim Societies and Series Editor of the Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society Book Series. All of which are published by Indiana University Press.
Previously, Shariq served as the Executive Director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). ARNOVA is a leading international association that connects scholars, teachers, and practice leaders in research on nonprofit organizations, voluntary action, philanthropy, and civil society.
Joannie Tremblay-Boire
Carleton University
Joannie Tremblay-Boire is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy & Administration. Her research agenda can be organized into three broad streams, all focusing on how resource providers (governments, philanthropic foundations, and individuals) and nonprofits/charities/NGOs affect each other. In one stream, she focuses on individual donors, how they decide which nonprofits to support, and what strategies nonprofits adopt to signal their trustworthiness (for example, self-regulation clubs). In a second stream, she focuses on philanthropic foundations and their impact on nonprofits. In the third stream, she focuses on government-nonprofit relationships, through both legislation and funding. Through these three streams of research, she aims to better understand the power dynamics and interdependence between nonprofits and their resource providers. Prior to joining the School of Public Policy and Administration, Joannie was a faculty member at the University of Maryland and at Georgia State University.
Nathaniel Wright
Rutgers University - Camden
Dr. Nathaniel S. Wright, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives at Texas Tech University, received his B.A. and Master of Public Administration from Binghamton University (2005, 2006) and Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Kansas (2014). Dr. Wright is a recognized expert in grant writing, board and leadership development, and strategic planning whose work has appeared in leading nonprofit and urban policy journals. Currently, Dr. Wright’s research centers on the role that social advocacy organizations play in creating sustainable neighborhoods, and more generally on issues related to nonprofit performance and accountability. He has received external grants with other researchers from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati, and has published work in Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, American Review of Public Administration, Psychiatric Services and Sustainability. His new book, entitled Performance and Public Value in the Hollow State: Assessing Government–Nonprofit Partnerships, identifies challenges nonprofits encounter in their roles as government partners, and challenges that government organizations face in holding them to account for outcomes.
NVSQ Editors
Joanne Carman
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Joanne Carman, PhD is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) where she teaches in the Master of Public Administration program. She is currently the Senior Fellow for Faculty Engagement for the Office of Urban Research and Community Engagement at UNC Charlotte and the advisor and coordinator for students in the Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management program.
Joanne’s research focuses on organizational capacity building, program evaluation, leadership, and governance. In 2020, Joanne was awarded UNC Charlotte’s Bonnie E. Cone Professorship in Civic Engagement, an award given to faculty whose teaching and research embody the university’s commitment to civic involvement. She is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Jaclyn Piatak
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jaclyn Piatak, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and teaches courses in the Gerald G. Fox Master of Public Administration Program. Her research centers on nonprofit and public management, volunteering, and public policy. More specifically, she examines how to manage human capital in nonprofit organizations from sector differences in employment to managing volunteers to advancing inclusion.
She previously served as Associate Editor for the Review of Public Personnel Administration and as Associate Editor for the New Voices section of the open access Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs. She currently serves on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, Public Personnel Management, and Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance. She is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Publishers. Previously, Chao was on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of Georgia, and Arizona State University.