Participating Faculty
Nonprofit Initiative Steering Committee
Lori A. Brainard
Lori Brainard is Assistant Professor of Public Administration.
She teaches and conducts research in the areas of interest groups
and nonprofit organizations, Internet advocacy and public policy
(especially communications policy). Her recent articles (with Patricia
Siplon), "Cyberspace Challenges to Mainstream Non-Profit Health
Organizations" and "The Internet and NGO-Government Relations: Injecting
Chaos into Order" appeared in Administration & Society and Public
Administration and Development respectively. Dr. Brainard's practitioner
experience includes several years of service at a major museum in
Boston where, among other roles, she was responsible for a staff
of up to 100 frontline employees (both paid and volunteer) at any
given time. Dr. Brainard holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis
University.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
Jennifer Brinkerhoff is Assistant Professor of Public Administration.
Her teaching and research interests include inter-organizational
relations, development management, non-governmental organizations,
and community development in the U.S. and internationally. Her research
appears in leading journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly. She has consulted extensively in Africa, China, Mongolia,
and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Brinkerhoff holds a Ph.D. in Public
Administration from the University of Southern California.
Walter Brown
Education Leadership (Higher Education Administration)
Walter A. Brown is Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator of the
Hampton Roads Center HEA cohort program. Former posts include Committee
on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives; finance faculty and
administrator at the University of DC and Bowie State University.
His research focuses on issues of finance, strategic planning in
colleges and universities, and senior level minority administrators.
Robert Burke
Health Services Management and Leadership
Robert Burke is the newly appointed Director of the Wertlieb Educational
Institute for Long Term Care Management at the School of Public
Health. Within the School of Public Health and Health Services,
he is an associate professor in the Departments of Health Service
Administration and Leadership and in the Department of Health Policy.
He is a medical sociologist with more than twenty-five years of
experience in the development, evaluation, and management of health
care policy. Prior to joining the Wertlieb Institute, Burke has
held senior research positions at the Institute of Medicine, the
GAO, and the Health and Retirement Funds of the United Mine Workers
and the Pepper Commission. For the past decade he worked with the
Health Care Financing Administration (now The Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services) directing the design of the new prospective
payments systems for post acute care. Burke has a Ph.D. in Medical
Sociology from the University of Florida.
Joseph J. Cordes
Economics/Public Policy
Joseph Cordes is Professor of Economics and Director of the Ph.D.
Program in Public Policy. Among his research interests is public
policy as it affects charitable giving and the nonprofit sector.
He was a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Tax Policy, US Treasury Department in 1980-81. From
1989-1991 he was Deputy Assistant Director for Tax Analysis at the
Congressional Budget Office. Professor Cordes currently is an Associate
Scholar at the Urban Institute. He also is a member of the Research
Advisory Council of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise.
He has published articles on tax policy, government regulation,
and government spending in leading academic journals and volumes.
Dr. Cordes received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
Ildiko DeAngelis
Museum Studies
Ildiko DeAngelis is Director of the graduate program in Museum Studies
at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Her area of specialization
is focused on the legal, ethical and policy issues involved in managing
museum collections. Previously, she served as legal advisor to the
Smithsonian Institution for more than ten years. Prof. DeAngelis
has also served for many years as faculty and member of the steering
committee of the American Law Institute/American Bar Association's
annual course of study: Legal Problems of Museum Administration.
She lectures widely at professional museum conferences and at workshops
around the country. Her publications include articles of special
interest to museums on subjects such as stolen art, unclaimed loans,
copyright and governance. Most recently, she was contributing author
of a section on copyright and content-related rights in the 1998-revised
edition of Marie C. Malaro's Legal Primer on Managing Museum
Collections (Smithsonian Press). Prof. DeAngelis teaches a
course on the legal and ethical issues in managing museum collections
and a seminar on international movement of cultural property. She
also supervises the Museum Studies internship program. Prof. DeAngelis
holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in art history and a J.D. from Washington
College of Law, American University.
Tyra Hilliard
Event and Meeting Management
Tyra Hilliard, J.D., CMP is an Assistant Professor of Tourism Administration
and Executive Director of the International Institute of Tourism
Studies. She teaches courses in event and meeting management and
manages the research and career education activities conducted by
the International Institute of Tourism Studies. Hilliard's recent
background includes a law practice representing non-profit organizations
and membership associations. She also has experience as an association
manager and meeting planner. She is the author of a bimonthly legal
feature in Association Meetings magazine titled "Clause and Effect."
Recent articles include "Trust Me: A Lesson in Antitrust Issues,"
and "Let the Music Play (Issues in Music Copyright), in Successful
Meetings magazine. Hilliard earned her J.D. at Georgia State University.
Bernard Horak
Health Services Management and Leadership
Bernard Horak is Associate Professor of Management. He teaches courses
in strategic planning, marketing, management science and total quality
management. Dr. Horak also is a consultant in the areas of strategic
planning, healthcare futures, performance improvement, team building,
physician and nurse retention, leadership development, customer
service, organizational design and MIS benefits realization. Board
certified in healthcare management, he is a Fellow of the American
College of Healthcare Executives.
Susan R. Jones
Susan R. Jones is a Professor of Clinical Law. Since 1988 she has
directed the law school’s small business clinic, which represents
small businesses, artists and nonprofit organizations. Her research
interests include community economic development, microenterprise,
social entrepreneurship, and social venture philanthropy. Prof.
Jones is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and is vice-chair
of the Community Economic Development Pro Bono Project, as well
as co-chair of the Community Economic Development Committee of the
American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section. She is the
author of A Legal Guide to Microenterprise Development: Battling
Poverty Through Self-Employment, ABA Commission on Homelessness
and Poverty (1998). Prof. Jones serves on the board of directors
of the National Center for Nonprofit Law and Washington Areas Lawyers
for the Arts where she also a Vice-President.
Sara E. Melendez
Nonprofit Management
Sara Melendez is Professor of Nonprofit Management. She served as
President and CEO of INDEPENDENT SECTOR from 1994 to 2002. In that
role, she served as a national spokesperson on philanthropy and
the nonprofit sector for various media and testified before Congress
on nonprofit issues. Before assuming the INDEPENDENT SECTOR presidency,
her experience included positions as president of the Center for
Applied Linguistics, vice provost and dean of arts and humanities
at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, and director of
special minority initiatives at the American Council on Education.
Dr. Melendez holds a bachelor's degree in English from Brooklyn
College and a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at
Harvard University. She has worked and written extensively on multicultural,
diversity, and language issues and the importance of education and
leadership opportunities for women and minorities in America.
Martha Morris
Museum Studies
Martha Morris is Associate Professor of Museum Studies. Her teaching
and research are in the areas of museum leadership and management
with a focus on strategic planning, project management and leading
change efforts. She has also done research and published in museum
journals and texts on managing collections and exhibitions as well
as staff development issues. She has 35 years of experience in museums
having most recently held the position of Deputy Director at the
Smithsonian�s Museum of American History. She has consulted museums
around the world and holds degrees in Art History, and Museology
from The George Washington University and an MBA from the University
of Maryland.
Kathryn E. Newcomer
Public Administration
Kathryn Newcomer is Director of the School of Public Policy and
Public Administration at The George Washington University. She teaches
public and nonprofit program evaluation, research design, and applied
statistics and she conducts research and training on performance
measurement and program evaluation for federal and local government
agencies and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Newcomer has published
three books, including Using Performance Measurement to Improve
Public and Nonprofit Programs (1997), and numerous articles in scholarly
journals. Dr. Newcomer has won two awards for her teaching; in 1996
she was awarded the Peter Vail Excellence in Education Award and
in May 2000 she received the George Washington Award. She is a Fellow
of the National Academy of Public Administration Dr. Newcomer earned
a bachelor�s degree in education and an master�s degree in Political
Science from the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. in political
science from the University of Iowa.
Mary Anne Saunders
Human Services Program
Mary Anne Plastino Saunders is Associate Professor of Sociology
and Human Services. She received her Ed.D. in Human Development
in 1990 from The George Washington University, studying under famed
professor Martha Rashid. Saunders also serves in the position of
Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students in the Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University.
Her research interests include developing leadership in the non-profit
sector; the role of the third sector (NGO's, PVO's, non-profits)
in human rights conflict resolution; and social gerontology. In
her most recent article, published by the Human Rights Conflict
Prevention Center at the University of Bihac, Republic of Bosnia,
she investigated the role of the non-profit, non-governmental and
private volunteer sector in reducing the likelihood of serious human
rights conflicts in disputed territories.
Carol Stapp
Museum Education
Carol Stapp is Associate Professor of Museum Education and Director
of the Museum Education Program. She received her Ph.D., American
Civilization, from The George Washington University. She was the
Editor and principal author of Writing for Professional Publications:
Advancing the Museum Profession through Self-Development (American
Association of Museums). She is a member of the Editorial Board
of Curator: The Museum Journal and previously served as Editor-in-Chief
and Review Editor of Journal of Museum Education. Previous
positions include Museum Teacher at the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Standards, Committee on Museum
Professional Training of the American Association of Museums; Advisory
Committee to the Octagon Museum, American Architectural Foundation;
National Advisory Committee on Education, American Association of
Museums; and Principal Investigator, "Ford's Theater Model Collaboration
Project: Updating Interpretive Practices and Staff Training" for
the National Park Service. Staap's research interests include the
museum's public service mission, museum literacy, American cultural
history and policy. She is a National Associate to the Board, American
Association of Museums Committee on Education.
Mark Starik
Strategic Management and Public Policy
Mark Starik is Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public
Policy in the School of Business and Public Management (SBPM). His
research and teaching interests are in the integrated areas of strategic
environmental management, international environmental policy, energy
sector sustainability and stakeholder management, and sustainable
tourism. He is the Director of the GW SBPM Environmental and Social
Sustainability Initiative, Program Director of the MBA and MPP Environmental
Policy and Management fields, Program Director of the MBA Nonprofit
Organization Management field, Faculty Advisor for the GW Graduate
Environmental and Social Professionals Association, and Coordinator
of the GW SBPM Environmental Values and Strategies university seminar.
He also is active in the Academy of Management Organizations and
the Natural Environment Interest Group and an officer in the Metropolitan
Washington Environmental Professionals and Sustainable DC.
Michael J. Worth
Public Administration/Nonprofit Management
Michael Worth has more than thirty years of experience in management
and philanthropic resource development. He served as Vice President
for Development and Alumni Affairs at The George Washington University
for eighteen years, where he planned and directed two major campaigns,
including the $500-million Centuries Campaign. Dr. Worth is the
author or editor of four books, including Educational Fund Raising:
Principles and Practice and New Strategies for Educational Fund
Raising. He is editor of the CASE International Journal of Educational
Advancement. His research and teaching interests include fund raising
and philanthropy, nonprofit enterprise, and the development and
management of nonprofit governing boards. Dr. Worth holds a Ph.D.
in Higher Education from the University of Maryland.
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