Academy Members
All members of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship were nominated and inducted because they have made significant contributions to advancing collaboration between higher education institutions and communities. Among them are leaders from higher education and communities, scholars, artists, and others who have made notable contributions to the theory and practice of working collaboratively to address societal challenges and advance knowledge, practice, and scholarship.
Theodore R. Alter
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Ted Alter is professor of agricultural, environmental, and regional economics in the Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education Department…
Pilar Aramburuzabala
Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain)
Pilar Aramburuzabala’s training in Education and her work experience have developed mainly in Spain and New York City, where she worked as a…
Angela Waters Austin
OneLoveGlobal
Angela Austin is Founder and President of OneLoveGlobal, a tax exempt non-profit organization that focuses on creating sustainable communities where…
Maria Avila
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California State University
Maria Avila’s community-engaged scholarship includes relational community organizing, research in action, and narrative inquiry. Avila was an…
Nancy Bales
Gray Family Foundation
Nancy Bales is the executive director of the Gray Family Foundation, a supporting organization of Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). In this role,…
Burton A. Bargerstock
Michigan State University
Burton A. Bargerstock is executive director of the Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship, director of Communication and Information…
Lynn White Blanchard
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lynn White Blanchard is the director of the Carolina Center for Public Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her…
Robert Gordon Bringle
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Dr. Bringle has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs directed at talented undergraduate…
Kwesi Brookins
Michigan State University
Kwesi Brookins is vice provost for University Outreach and Engagement and a professor of ecological-community psychology at Michigan State University…
Robert Brown
Michigan State University
Robert Brown is an associate director of the Center for Community and Economic Development at Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement,…
Julie Brown
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
Julie Brown serves as the vice president of advanced learning at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, VA, a position she has…
Robert H. Bruininks
University of Minnesota
Dr. Robert H. Bruininks’s academic career has focused on transformative public and civic leadership, the development of human capital from…
Karen S. Bruns
Ohio State University
Karen Bruns is a grounded servant leader of community engagement scholarship and is a major leader strengthening the movement. She consistently and…
Ann F. Cameron
Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc.
Ann Cameron is Head Start director of the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc., Head Start and Early Head Start Programs, where she is responsible…
Katy Campbell
University of Alberta (Canada)
Katy Campbell completed her doctorate in 1994; her dissertation was a narrative inquiry of an instructional design process, Collaborative…
Monica Canca
The Learning Trust
Monica Canca is a community engagement facilitator with two decades of experience in the development sector—contributing toward building local…
Nancy E. Cantor
Rutgers University-Newark
Dr. Cantor’s groundbreaking contributions on social intelligence include how people interpret their social worlds, set personal goals and…
Jeri Childers
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)
Dr. Jeri Childers teaches and coaches leaders in innovation and entrepreneurship. She launched and directed the University of Technology–Sydney…
Rena Cotsones
Northern Illinois University
Bringing people and organizations together for mutual benefit has been a lifelong passion for Rena Cotsones. As vice president and chief engagement…
Lynette Coulston
Victorian Blackberry Taskforce (Australia)
Lyn Coulston has long served as a community leader and public officer in local and state-wide community engagement programs in Australia. She founded…
Ellis B. Cowling
North Carolina State University
A forest biologist at North Carolina State University, Ellis became a world leader in environmental research. He was elected to membership in the…
David Cox
University of Memphis
Executive Assistant to the President, Professor. Dr. Cox holds the rank of Professor in the Division of Public Administration and serves as Executive…
Nancy Creamer
North Carolina State University
In 2003, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) found itself in the middle of a brewing crisis between conventional agriculture and the…
Benjamin J. Davenport
First Piedmont Company and Davenport Energy
In 1999-2000, Ben Davenport co-developed the Future of the Piedmont Foundation (FPF), a select group of business leaders committed to reversing the…
Lina D. Dostillo
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Lina Dostilio sets and advances the University of Pittsburgh's community engagement agenda and catalyzes community-facing efforts across the…
Amy Driscoll
California State University Monterey Bay
Amy Driscoll began her academic career with a focus on teaching and scholarship centered on children, family, and community. She consistently engaged…
Julie Ellison
University of Michigan
Julie Ellison has immeasurable impact on higher education, particuarly on the cultural disciplines, such as the humanities and the expressive…
Eugenia Eng
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eugenia Eng's community-based participatory research (CBPR) work is recognized nationally and internationally. Contributions include relevance…
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Michigan State University
Hiram E. Fitzgerald (Ph.D., University of Denver) is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University.…
Nancy Franklin
Franklin Solutions
Dr. Nancy Franklin, principal of Franklin Solutions, collaborates with leaders of higher education, government, and community to facilitate strategic…
Timothy V. Franklin
New Jersey Institute of Technology/New Jersey Innovation Institute
Tim Franklin, Ph.D., serves as principal at Franklin Solutions (FS), which he joined full-time following his recent retirement from a 25 (plus or…
Nancy K. Franz
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Dr. Nancy Franz, professor emerita, Iowa State University School of Education, retired after 33 years of service with the Cooperative Extension…
Andrew Furco
University of Minnesota
Prior to arriving at the University of Minnesota, Andrew Furco worked at the University of California-Berkeley (1994-1997) as a faculty member in the…
Melvin P. Garber
University of Georgia
Mel Garber spent 28 years in university and 13 years in private industry in teaching, research, extension, technology transfer, and…
Martin Garber-Conrad
Edmonton Community Foundation (Canada)
Martin Garber-Conrad is chief executive officer of Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF), the fourth largest community foundation in Canada which…
Daniela Gargantini
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas y Universidad Católica de Córdoba / National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and Catholic University of Córdoba
Daniela Gargantini, who holds a doctorate in architecture, is teacher-researcher at the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina) and…
Stephen Gavazzi
Ohio State University
Stephen Gavazzi is director of CHRR and a professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. As director, he is…
Sherril Gelmon
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
Sherril Gelmon is professor in the Oregon Health Sciences University–Portland State University School of Public Health and directs the Ph.D.…
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dwight Giles is professor emeritus of leadership in education in the College of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston.…
Lisa Goff
University of Virginia
Lisa Goff is an associate professor in the English and American Studies departments and affiliated faculty in the Architectural History Department at…
Paul Richard Golding
Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation
Paul Golding, Ph.D., is the president of the Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation, which sponsors the Early Origins of Male Violence Conference in…
Philip A. Greasley
University of Kentucky
Greasley, a UK administrator and English faculty member for 30 years, was formerly dean of University Extension, overseeing academic outreach…
Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová
Matej Bel University
Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University (MBU), in Banská…
Susan A. Gust
Community Development Consultant
Susan Gust, a community activist and small business owner, co-founded, along with a University of Minnesota physician, a ten-year community and…
Budd Hall
University of Victoria (Canada)
Budd Hall is co-chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and professor emeritus of…
Mona Hanna
Michigan State University
Mona Hanna (commonly known as Dr. Mona and formerly known as Dr. Mona Hanna Attisha), is the Associate Dean for Public Health and C.S. Mott Endowed…
Ira Harkavy
University of Pennsylvania
Ira Harkavy is associate vice president and founding director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of…
Angie Hart
University of Brighton / Boingboing Resilience CIC (United Kingdom)
Angie Hart is professor of Child, Family and Community Health and director of the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice ( www.brighton.ac.uk/crsj )…
Cornel Hart
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Cornel Hart is the Programme Coordinator for the Community Development (CD) Programme and the Evaluator for the Scholarship of Engagement at the…
Lyla E. Houglum
Oregon State University
Dr. Houglum served as Dean and Director of the Oregon State University Extension Service for almost 10 years, providing leadership for about 600…
Stanley E. Hyland
University of Memphis
Stanley Hyland is an exemplar of the concept of engaged scholarship. It is reflected in his 35 years of community partnership practice, the resulting…
Bojana Ćulum Ilić
University of Rijeka (Croatia)
Bojana Ćulum Ilić works as associate professor at the University of Rijeka (UNIRi), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of…
Iheoma Iruka
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Iheoma Iruka is an award-winning professor and the founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at the Frank Porter Graham Child…
Melvin Jackson
Strengthening the Black Family
Melvin Jackson has over 40 years’ experience in community engagement, public health research, and program coordination. Committed to the…
Audrey J. Jaeger
North Carolina State University
Dr. Audrey J. Jaeger is Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and executive director of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership, North…
Emily M. Janke
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Emily M. Janke, PhD, has served as the director of the Institute for Community & Economic Engagement since 2010, where she has supported UNC…
Catherine M. Jordan
University of Minnesota
Cathy Jordan, Ph.D., is associate director for leadership and education at the Institute on the Environment and professor of pediatrics at the…
Cheryl Kickett-Tucker
Curtin University
Cheryl Kickett-Tucker is a highly respected Wadjuk Noongar Traditional Owner, social scientist, community development practitioner, and accomplished…
Richard Kiely
Cornell University
Richard Kiely is a senior fellow in the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell University. He served as inaugural director of…
David Devraj Kumar
Florida Atlantic University
Dr. David Devraj Kumar is Professor of Science Education and the Founding Director of the STEM Education Laboratory at Florida Atlantic University in…
Mark Wiliam Labhart
Tillamook County, Tillamook, Oregon
Mark Labhart worked for the Oregon Department of Forestry for 35 years managing the largest State Forest in Oregon for the majority of that time.…
Nico Larco
University of Oregon
Nico Larco, a member of the American Institute of Architects, is an urban designer, architect, and professor. He leads ELEMENT/Urban Design, a design…
Gerald William Leach
Self employed (Australia)
Gerald Leach was raised on an irrigated horticulture property, but since age 17 has worked and operated a rain fed livestock and grain farm in a…
Mary Simon Leuci
University of Missouri
Mary Simon Leuci is the director of engaged scholarship with the University of Missouri Office of Extension and Engagement. In this capacity, she…
Darren Lortan
Durban University of Technology
Darren Lortan is an associate professor at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), where he has held several leadership positions (including…
Jeneile Luebke
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeneile Luebke is a registered nurse and assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Wisconsin. She holds…
Carol Hok Ka Ma
Singapore University of Social Sciences (Singapore)
Carol Ma is known among academia and the community sector as an active and passionate practitioner of Service-Learning (S-L) and aging in Asia. Carol…
Edina Malkic
International Association "Interactive Open Schools"
Edina Malkić has directed the International Association “Interactive open Schools” in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2008. Her…
Teresa Mangum
University of Iowa
Teresa Mangum is a professor in the departments of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies and English, and director of the Obermann Center for…
Michael V. Martin
Florida Gulf Coast University
Michael V. Martin serves as President of Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). The Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees unanimously…
Jennifer Martinez-Medina
Willamette University
Jennifer Martinez-Medina is an assistant professor at Willamette University in Salem, Oregan. As a scholar activist from the farmworker community of…
Ruth McCausland
University of New South Wales (Australia)
Ruth McCausland is an associate professor with the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Division of Societal Impact, Equity and Engagement,…
Lorraine Antoinette McIlrath
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (Ireland)
From 2004 through 2021, Dr. Lorraine McIlrath coordinated the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway.…
Tania D. Mitchell
University of Minnesota
Tania D. Mitchell is an associate professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota. Her teaching emphasizes college students and their…
Barbara Moely
Tulane University
Dr. Moely has consistently broken new ground in the study and development of service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) programming and is a…
Suzanne Morse Moomaw
University of Virginia
As a University of Alabama doctoral student, Moomaw was part of the General Motors-UA initiative to save a local plant. This experience launched a…
Wayne Moore
Moore Integrity Consulting
Dr. Wayne Moore, owner and lead consultant of Moore Integrity Consulting, previously completed 15 years with university Extension systems before…
Marisol Morales
American Council on Education
Marisol Morales is the executive director of the Carnegie Elective Classifications and assistant vice president at the American Council on Education.…
Ed Morrison
Strategic Doing Networks
Ed Morrison is a founder of the Strategic Doing Networks, senior research fellow of The Conference Board, and Director of the Agile Strategy Lab at…
Diana Natalicio
University of Texas at El Paso
Diana Natalicio has led the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to become a shining example of a university engaged in its community. Under her…
Philip Nyden
Loyola University
When Nyden founded the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) he could not have known how deeply his aspirations would be fulfilled. He…
KerryAnn O'Meara
University of Maryland
KerryAnn O'Meara is at the forefront of the movement to regard and embed community-engaged scholarship in academic reward systems, faculty…
Lynette Young Overby
University of Delaware
Lynnette Young Overby, PhD, is director of The Community Engagement Initiative and founding director of the Partnership for Arts & Culture,…
Ruben Parra-Cardona
University of Tennessee
Rubén Parra-Cardona, Ph.D., is the inaugural Roger and Carol Nooe Endowed Professor at the College of Social Work, The University of…
Joan T. Pennell
North Carolina State University
Joan Pennell, Ph.D., M.S.W., professor emerita of social work, was head of the Department of Social Work and founding director of the Center for…
Scott J. Peters
Cornell University
Situated in the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of “civic studies,” Peters centers his work as a scholar and educator on the…
William Marmaduke Plater
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
William M. Plater is IUPUI Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties Emeritus and Indiana University Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus…
Craig Pope
Polk County Oregon
Craig Pope, a member of the Polk County Board of Commissioners, has served the county and state of Oregon in several capacities over the past 40…
Samory Touré Pruitt
University of Alabama
Dr. Samory T. Pruitt has worked for the University of Alabama since 1986, and has served as Vice President for Community Affairs since the…
Judith A. Ramaley
Portland State University
Judith Ramaley has a global reputation for her contributions to the knowledge base that institutional leaders and community leaders can draw upon to…
Roger Nathan Reeb
University of Dayton
Roger N. Reeb is a professor of Psychology at the University of Dayton, where he also currently serves as faculty affiliate with the Hanley…
Scott Reed
Oregon State University
Arthur Scott Reed (Scott) is a career Extension educator trained as a forester and economist. He began working in the private sector where he…
Roger Rennekamp
Association of Public and Land Grant Universities/Cooperative Extension
Roger Rennekamp currently serves as health director for the Cooperative Extension section of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities,…
Susan Renoe
University of Missouri
Susan Renoe is associate vice chancellor for Research Development and Strategic Partnerships at the University of Missouri (MU). Renoe’s…
Sandi J. Rideout
Friends of the Children - Utah
Sandi Rideout is passionate about the power of access and mentorship and is grateful for the opportunity to work in this space. As the executive…
Michael Rios
University of California, Davis
Michael Rios serves as vice provost of public scholarship at the University of California – Davis, where he leads university-wide efforts to…
Tonya Roberson
Governor State University
Tonya S. Roberson is a community psychologist currently working as a university lecturer and director of Community Engagement, Program Development,…
Juvencio Rocha-Peralta, Jr.
Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, Inc. AMEXCAN
Juvencio Rocha Peralta, Jr., a native of Veracruz, Mexico, has lived in North Carolina since 1980 and has been a community advocate and leader in…
Kathryn Minette Rodden
Self employed
Kaye Rodden has played a critical leadership role with the Victorian Rabbit Action Network (VRAN) initiative, providing philosophical and conceptual…
Karen Rose
Ohio State University
Karen M. Rose is the dean and a professor at Ohio State University College of Nursing, where she leads a team of over 350 faculty and staff, with an…
Ana I. Ruiz
Alvernia University
Ana Ruiz is a professor of psychology and the Neag Co-Professor of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (2022-2024) at Alvernia University in Reading,…
Niels Rygaard
The Fairstart Foundation
Danish-American child psychologist and researcher Niels Rygaard is the CEO and co-founder of the nonprofit Fairstart Foundation. Fairstart designs…
John A. Saltmarsh
University of Massachusetts, Boston
John Saltmarsh is professor of higher education in the Department of Leadership in Education, College of Education and Human Development, at the…
Lorilee R. Sandmann
University of Georgia
Dr. Lorilee R. Sandmann’s research, publications, teaching, and leadership has had an intense and ongoing influence on the development of some…
Michelle Sarche
University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
Michelle Sarche is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the…
Marc Schlossberg
University of Oregon
Marc Schlossberg is a professor of city and regional planning and co-director of the Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI) at the University of Oregon.…
Theodore J. Settle
Virginia Tech University
Ted’s scholarly contributions include his ability to name previously unrecognized issues that congeal interest in community engagement…
Jeffrey Sherman-Duncan
Oregon State University Extension
Jeffrey Sherman-Duncan joined Oregon State University Extension Service as the inaugural associate vice provost of partnerships. Initially hired to…
Lindsey M. Shirley
Colorado State University
Dr. Lindsey Shirley serves as assistant vice president for engagement and extension and deputy director for CSU Extension. In this position, she…
Mary Evans Sias
Kentucky State University
In February 2004, Mary Evans Sias was named President of Kentucky State University after serving eight years as Senior Vice President for Student…
Lou Anna Simon
Michigan State University
President Simon’s significant contributions to the field of CES are twofold: institutionalization of community engagement and scholarship…
Patricia M. Sobrero
North Carolina State University
Patricia M. Sobrero is a retired professor, Agriculture and Extension Education, and former associate vice chancellor, Extension, Engagement and…
Louis E. Swanson, Jr.
Colorado State University
Lou Swanson is an emeritus vice president for engagement and emeritus professor of sociology at Colorado State University (CSU), where he spent the…
Rajesh Tandon
Participatory Research in Asia (India)
Rajesh Tandon’s professional education focused on engineering and management. He started as a lecturer in management, then moved to social…
María Nieves Tapia
CLAYSS, Latin American Center for Solidarity Service Learning (Argentina)
Nieves Tapia is founder and director of the Latin American Center for Service-learning (CLAYSS) NGO based in Buenos Aires. From 1997 to 2010 she…
Tia N. Turner
Wayne State University
Tia Turner is a doctoral student of psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she researches issues related to homelessness. She earned…
Chantal Jouannet Valderrama
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
Chantal Jouannet's work has focused on university-community engagement and achieving “quality with equality” in higher education. She…
Andrea Vargiu
Università di Sassari (Italy)
Andrea Vargiu is associate professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Sassari (Italy) where he…
Beth Velde
East Carolina University
Beth Velde's scholarship in engagement has taken the form of books, chapters, journal articles, and presentations, including insights from…
Reneé V. Wallace
FoodPLUS Detroit
Reneé Wallace has the privilege of leading two entrepreneurial entities, Doers Edge (CEO) and FoodPLUS Detroit (Executive Director). She…
Lucille Holcomb Webb
Strengthening the Black Family
Lucille Webb has advanced a community-driven and community-centered model of community-engaged scholarship that has had an impact on communities and…
Craig D. Weidemann
Pennsylvania Sate University
Craig Weidemann served as Penn State University's Vice President for Outreach, 2003-2016. In this position he oversaw the University's…
Maria Whitford
Friends with Dignity (Australia)
After immigrating to Australia in 2010 with her family, Maria Manuela Whitford secured a job as a clinical nurse with Queensland Health within the…
Lesley Wood
North-West University (South Africa)
Lesley Wood is a research professor in the Faculty of Education at North-West University and founder and director of a research entity,…
James K. Woodell
Venn Collaborative
James (Jim) Woodell is founder, principal, and CEO of Venn Collaborative, a firm focused on impact at the intersections of talent, innovation, and…
E. Linwood Wright
City of Danville, VA
Linwood Wright is a retired senior vice-president of Dan River Inc., a major textile producer headquartered in Danville, VA, where his primary…
Nancy Zimpher
State University of New York
Nancy Zimpher has led three public universities and has made university engagement with the community a central theme at each. At the University of…
James Zuiches
North Carolina State University
Dr. Zuiches has worked primarily for and on behalf of non-profit organizations and am committed to support efforts to establish sustainable…