Experience

• Northern Illinois University

  MPA Program Coordinator/ Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

  Advised students in graduate program in public administration. Placed and advised student interns in local governments and nonprofit organizations. Taught undergraduate courses in political science and public administration.

• University of Illinois at Chicago

  Adjunct Lecturer

  Adjunct Lecturer in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in public policy, strategic management, public management practices, leadership, grant writing, public finance and budgeting.

• University of Illinois Springfield

  Assistant Professor

  Taught graduate courses in public admnistration both on-line and on-ground, as well as worked on planning and evaluation studies in the City of Springfield, Sangamon County and for the Center for State Policy and Leadership. Also served as the President of the Central Illinois Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration for two years.

• Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development / DePaul University

  Assistant Director / Professor

  Worked with professionals in local government in planning development workshops and taught graduate courses in public services management, as well as an undergraduate course on the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Graduate coursework included five years of on-the-ground planning and development for the Tulane-Canal neighborhood in New Orleans and the Community Foundation of Acadiana in Southwestern Louisiana following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

• University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  Assistant Professor

  Primary responsibility for graduate budgeting and financial management courses in public administration, as well as courses in organizational theory, intro to public administration, urban planning and community development. Helped to design an undergraduate urban studies program and a graduate program in public services for the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library.