Founders' Fellows Panels
Financial Management in the Public Sector
Saturday, March 10 | 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Granite A
Moderator
Trang Hoang
Doctoral Student, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
Unfunded Liabilities and Public Pension Reform
Presenters
Julius Nukpezah
Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
Response and Recovery from Financial Emergencies: Lessons from Michigan
Wen-Chi Shie
Doctoral Student, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Beyond Boundaries: Collaborative Governance Networks and Innovative Coproduction for Sustainable Community Capacity and Economic Development
Iuliia Shybalkina
Doctoral Student, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Participatory Budgeting: Is It a Solution to Unequal Political Participation and Influence?
Social Equity: A Pillar of Public Administration
Saturday, March 10 | 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Granite A
Moderator
Lyndsay Bates
Doctoral Student, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Developing Inequality: How Re-Development Decisions Contribute to Community Inequality
Presenters
Josephine Hazelton
Graduate Student, California State University—Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Designing Men: Gender Bias in Transportation Design and Infrastructure Standards
Nuri Heckler
Doctoral Student, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
Masculinity and Whiteness in Public Organizations: Managing Institutional Race and Gender in Federal Agencies
Maren Trochmann
Doctoral Student, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
Deliberative Democracy, Rulemaking and Social Equity: An Exploration of Formal Rulemaking as Green Tape
Engagement and Collaboration as a Tool for Public Service Delivery
Saturday, March 10 | 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Granite A
Moderator
Zehavit Levitats
Doctoral Student and Super Fellow, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Emotionally Engage Civil Servants: Toward a Multi-Level Theory and Multi-Source Analysis in Public Administration
Presenters
Saud Alotaibi
Doctoral Student, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
The Effect of Person-Organization Fit on Public Service Motivation to Determine Public Managers’ Outcomes
Sarah McGuire
Community Outreach Specialist, Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, Greensboro, NC
Building Collaborative Relationships: Citizen Engagement and Local Government
Sasha Zapata
Project Manager, Rhode Island Quality Institute, Providence, RI
Challenges We Face as Public Administrators
Public Policy Challenges
Sunday, March 11 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Granite A
Moderator
Cristina Stanica
Doctoral Student, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
New Public Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
Presenters
Neomi Frisch Aviram
Doctoral Student, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Policy Entrepreneurship Behavior: A Meta-Review
Monica Yamel Naime S. Henkel
Doctoral Student, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City, Mexico
When Public Administration Causes Wicked Problems: Challenges for Public Policy
Shilpa Viswanath
Doctoral Student, Rutgers University—Newark, Newark, NJ
Toward a Theory of Local Government Employees: Understanding Municipal Labor through Collective Bargaining Efforts During State Takeovers
Nicole Wesley
Graduate Student, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Skepticism of Scientific Evidence: The Implications of Human Behavior on Policymaking
Research on Emergency Management and Public Safety
Monday, March 12 | 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Centennial A
Moderator
Ian Adams
Ph.D. Student, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Police Body-Worn Cameras: Transparency and Exposure
Presenters
Jessica Alcorn
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Keeping the Lights on After a Hurricane: The Economics of Grid Resilience Infrastructure in Georgia’s Coastal Communities
Vaiva Kalesnikaite
Doctoral Student, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Explaining Horizontal Collaborative Activity for Sea Level Rise Preparedness in U.S. Cities
Blanca Rand
Research Assistant, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Influential Variables That impact Emergency Preparedness in the District—Cyclone Problems and Hurricane Solutions
Sustainability as a Conceptual Focus for Public Administration
Monday, March 12 | 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Centennial A
Moderator
Hannah Lebovits
Doctoral Student, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
The Suburban Struggle: Toward a Theory of Governance in Suburban Spaces
Presenters
Yuliya Harris
Graduate Student, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Social Sustainability and Public Values in the Context of Urban Public Transit: The Case of QLINE Rail in Detroit
Nathan Teklemariam
Doctoral Student, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Challenges of Rapid Urbanization and Housing in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Integrated Housing Development Program in Ethiopia
Chaitanya Yadav
Graduate Student, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
Content Design and Development for Early Education: Implications for Learning Outcomes in Rural India