Rich Callahan
Rich Callahan’s research, consulting, publications and teaching focuses on leadership behaviors, strategy and performance management practices that are effective in complex and dynamic environments in the public sector. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco, with a joint appointment in the School of Management and the School of Nursing and Health Professions. He is also an elected fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration and the current editor of the International Journal of Public Leadership. He was a visiting researcher at Oxford University, 2016, the Visiting Scholar 2018 for the Center for California Studies and a Fulbright Specialist award in 2011 for lectures on public institutions at Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has been published in journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Government Finance Officers Review and The National Civic Review.
Marilyn Rubin
Marilyn Marks Rubin is a
distinguished research fellow at the School of Public Affairs and
Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers—Newark. She is also professor emerita
of public administration and economics and former director of the MPA
Program at John Jay College of the City University of New York (CUNY).
She has had more than 35 years of experience working as a consultant and
advisor to high-level government officials in the United States and
abroad on projects related to fiscal policy, economic development and
strategic planning and has been a member of economic advisory boards to
elected officials at the federal, state and local levels. She is an
elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
and has been a member of editorial boards for Public Administration
Review and Public Budgeting and Finance. She has edited books and book
chapters and published several articles in many professional journals,
as well as serving as a visiting professor at universities outside the
United States including Xiamen University, Jiangxi University and Sun
Yat Sen University in China. She also has been a Fulbright senior
specialist program advisor in Ecuador and Brazil.
Wendy Haynes
Wendy Haynes serves as special assistant to the vice president for university advancement at Bridgewater State University. A tenured full professor and former director of the NASPAA-accredited MPA program, Haynes brings a rich background of public service leadership, as well as scholarship, teaching and consulting, to her new role. She is a seasoned “pracademic,” having served in a variety of state and local government leadership roles across the United States. Intrigued by systems for ensuring institutional accountability and smart strategic planning, she served for 13 years in the Massachusetts Office of Inspector General, most recently as first assistant IG for megaproject oversight. She is an ASPA past president, a NAPA fellow and deeply engaged in the State Department’s Young African Leader Initiative and Mandela Washington Fellowship. Haynes lives on Cape Cod with her husband and contends that being a grandmother is the best job ever.
John Kirlin
Distinguished professor of public policy John Kirlin is the founding director of McGeorge’s Public Policy Program, offering two degrees: Master’s of Public Policy and Master’s of Public Administration. He is the author of more than 100 articles, chapters and monographs and 13 books. His is a National Academy of Public Administration fellow and has served as a consultant to the State of California on matters ranging from species protection to oversight of local government debt and the interface of energy and environmental policies. He served as executive director of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative as well, making recommendations to the California Fish and Game Commission for protection of marine life along the California coast, and as executive director of Delta Vision, reframing state water policies and ecosystem vitality in the Delta, foundational work for a major package of legislation enacted in 2009.
Judy England-Joseph
Judy England-Joseph is a strategic advisor and former director of research with the Partnership for Public Service; an employee engagement consultant with CPSHR; and an adjunct professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. She formerly was a senior executive with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and now works in its Center for Audit Excellence. Her work covers a wide range of organizational performance assessment, strategic planning, enterprise risk management, leadership and human capital management issues. She also develops and delivers training on the design and conduct of performance auditing for federal Inspectors General, State Auditors and Supreme Audit Institutions (GAO Office equivalents) around the world. While an executive at GAO, she led GAO’s work in the housing, community and economic development, small business, emergency management, telecommunications and energy areas. She oversaw more than 600 congressionally requested reviews of federal programs, many of which resulted in legislative actions, budgetary savings and improved government performance. She represented GAO by testifying in more than 100 congressional hearings, on national television, in the press and at national conferences. She is a National Academy of Public Administration fellow and a member of its Board of Directors, and President of ASPA’s National Capital Area Chapter. She is a graduate of American University.
Judy England-Joseph
Judy England-Joseph
is a strategic advisor and former director of research with the
Partnership for Public Service; an employee engagement consultant with
CPSHR; and an adjunct professor at the Schar School of Policy and
Government, George Mason University. She formerly was a senior executive
with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and now works in
its Center for Audit Excellence. Her work covers a wide range of
organizational performance assessment, strategic planning, enterprise
risk management, leadership and human capital management issues. She
also develops and delivers training on the design and conduct of
performance auditing for federal Inspectors General, State Auditors and
Supreme Audit Institutions (GAO Office equivalents) around the world.
While an executive at GAO, she led GAO’s work in the housing, community
and economic development, small business, emergency management,
telecommunications and energy areas. She oversaw more than 600
congressionally requested reviews of federal programs, many of which
resulted in legislative actions, budgetary savings and improved
government performance. She represented GAO by testifying in more than
100 congressional hearings, on national television, in the press and at
national conferences. She is a National Academy of Public Administration
fellow and a member of its Board of Directors, and President of ASPA’s
National Capital Area Chapter. She is a graduate of American University.
Susan Gooden
Susan T. Gooden is interim dean and professor of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is na internationally recognized social equity expert, a National Academy of Public Administration fellow and ASPA past president. Her research has been funded by several organizations including the Russell Sage Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, MDRC and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Gooden was appointed to the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation, the accrediting arm of the Network of Associated Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). She previously has served as an elected member to the national policy council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 2016, she was appointed to the Virginia Community College System board by Governor Terence McAuliffe. Gooden earned her MA from Virginia Tech and her doctorate from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Charles E. Menifield
Charles E. Menifield is
the dean in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers
University—Newark. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of
budgeting and financial management, public health and welfare, and
policing. Other areas include public management information systems,
education finance and public administration education. He has two books
on minority politics and two books on public budgeting and financial
management. His most recent articles have appeared in Public
Administration Review, the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and
Financial Management, International Journal of Public Administration and
State and Local Government Review. His current research examines the
impact of the CHIP program on reducing the number of uninsured children,
changes in gun laws, and police killings in the United States. He
previously served as the associate dean in the School of Public Affairs
at the University of Missouri—Columbia and the director of the public
administration program at the University of Memphis.