The National Academy of Public Administration Announces 2023 Class of Academy Fellows

Post Date: October 02, 2023

The National Academy of Public Administration today announced that 60 leaders in the field of public administration have been selected for the 2023 Class of Academy Fellows.

“We are pleased to announce the 2023 class of distinguished Academy Fellows – it is our largest Fellows class to date, and all are nationally recognized and respected for their expertise in the field of public administration,” said Terry Gerton, President and CEO of the Academy. “We welcome these outstanding new Fellows and invite them to help us advance the Academy vision - a just, fair, and inclusive government that strengthens communities and protects democracy.”

Induction of the new Fellows will occur during the annual Academy Fall Meeting, which will take place in-person November 1-3 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., with a focus on “Grand Challenges in Public Administration.”

Selection of the Academy’s new Fellows follows a rigorous review of the individual’s contributions to the field of public administration and policy. A Fellows Nominating Committee, selected by the Academy’s Board Chair, makes its recommendations to the full Fellowship, which then votes on those individuals nominated to be a Fellow. The Committee was co-chaired by Academy Fellows Margie Graves and Richard Callahan.

The 2023 class joins nearly 1,000 Academy Fellows – including former cabinet officers, members of Congress, governors, mayors and state legislators, as well as prominent scholars, business executives, nonprofit leaders, and public administrators. Below is the list of new Academy Fellows:

BYRON ADKINS
Director, Interior Business Center, U.S. Department of the Interior

RICARDO AGUILERA
Chief Financial Officer and Director of Financial Management Division, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

MATTHEW AUER
Dean and Arch Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia

CLAUDIA AVELLANEDA
Paul H. O’Neill Professor and Fischer Faculty Fellow, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

CATHY BERNARDINO BAILEY
Executive Director, Greater Cincinnati Water Works

JOE BARELA
Executive Director, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

DOMONIC BEARFIELD
Deputy Director and Professor, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University

ALEXIS BONNELL
CIO & Director of Digital Capabilities Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

DAVID BRAY
Principal & CEO, LeadDoAdapt Ventures; Distinguished Fellow and Co-Chair, Loomis Innovation Council, The Stimson Center

DEANGELA BURNS-WALLACE
President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

CARY COGLIANESE
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania

PATRICIA COGSWELL
Partner, Guidehouse

LISA COLEMAN
Senior Vice President, Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation, New York University

J. MICHAEL DANIEL
President & CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance

VICTORIA DEFRANCESCO SOTO
Dean, Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas

ALAN ESTEVEZ
Under Secretary of Commerce, Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce

JOEL GURIN
President and Founder, Center for Open Data Enterprise

KATHLEEN HALE
Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Election Administration, Auburn University

KAREN HARDY, Ed.D
Former Chief Risk Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce & Founder Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

G.L.A. HARRIS
Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University

RODERICK HICKMAN
Secretary California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Retired) and Founder Roderick Q. Hickman and Associates

CAROLYN HILL
Senior Fellow, MDRC

MARCUS HILL
President, Senior Executives Association

ALFRED TAT-KEI HO
Professor and Department Head, Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong

WILLOW JACOBSON
Bradshaw Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Government, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Director, MPA Program, School of Government at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CLARK KELSO
Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific

SHELBY KERNS
Executive Director, National Association of State Budget Officers

MARK KIM
CEO, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)

ROBERT KNISELY
Co-founder, the Forum on democracy

CHRISTOPHER KOLIBA
Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas

DAVID KONISKY
Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University

JULIA LANE
Professor, New York University

JAY N. LERNER
Former Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

CHRISTINE MARTELL
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor, University of Colorado Denver

RAKESH MOHAN
Director, Office of Performance Evaluations, Idaho State Legislature

SUSAN D. PAGE
Director, Weiser Diplomacy Center and Professor of Practice of International Diplomacy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School

DUGAN PETTY
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

SHANNON PORTILLO
Director and Professor, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University

ASEEM PRAKASH
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts & Sciences; Director, Center for Environmental Politics, University of Washington, Seattle

SUE RAMANATHAN
Specialist Executive, Deloitte & Touche LLP

KRISTIE ROBERTS-LEWIS
Senior Program Manager, United Negro College Fund- Institute for Capacity Building UNCF/ICB

DOROTHY ROBYN
Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University

MINDY ROMERO
Founder and Director, Center for Inclusive Democracy, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

GAIL M. ROPER
CIO and Director, Department of Technology and Business Enterprise Solutions, Montgomery County Government

ANDREW RUDALEVIGE
Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, Department of Government and Legal Studies, Bowdoin College, and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

MEGHNA SABHARWAL
Professor, Public and Nonprofit Management Program, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and Associate Provost of Faculty Success, The University of Texas at Dallas

ABDUL-AKEEM SADIQ
Professor and Director of Master of Public Policy, School of Public Administration,
University of Central Florida

EDELLA SCHLAGER
The Melody S. Robidoux Foundation Fund Leadership Chair, Professor and Director, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

ELIZABETH A. SHANAHAN
Associate President for Research Development and Professor, Montana State University

CAROL SILVA
Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships, and Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor of Political Science, University of Oklahoma

JOEL SPANGENBERG
Director of Selective Service (acting), Selective Service System

JOANNE SPEERS
Principal, S2 Ethics Strategies

RICHARD SPIRES
Principal, Richard A. Spires Consulting

JANICE UNDERWOOD
Director, Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

GARY VANLANDINGHAM
Director, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University

SUZANNE VARES-LUM
President, East-West Center

ROBERT WESTBROOKS
Former Executive Director, Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

DAVID WILSON
Dean, Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, and Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

VALERIE WILSON
Director, Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute

JONATHAN WOMER
Director, Department of Administration, State of Rhode Island

About the National Academy of Public Administration:
Chartered by Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice, the Academy is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established in 1967 to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations. Learn more at www.napawash.org and follow the Academy on Twitter (@napawash), LinkedIn and Facebook.

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