EVANS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean for Students
Job Titles:
- Member of Committee
- Professor
- Professor / PAR 240E
Craig Thomas joined the Evans School in 2006, after serving on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for nine years. He teaches courses in policy processes and public management, environmental and natural resource policy, and qualitative methods. His research analyzes collaboration among public, private, and nonprofit partners, with a particular focus on how science is used in collaborative decision making. He also studies a variety of environmental topics, including habitat conservation planning and watershed management, along with air pollution, forestry, and marine policy. He is the author of Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (MIT Press, 2003) and co-author of Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? (RFF Press, 2004).
Professor Thomas has served in a variety of capacities, including as Editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2009-2013) and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Evans School (2016-2018). He was also a commissioner on NASPAA's accrediting body, the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (2016-2019), and a member of the Board of Directors for the Public Management Research Association (2019-2023).
Professor Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an MPP from the University of California at Berkeley, along with a BA in International Studies from the University of Washington. He received the American Political Science Association's Leonard D. White Award, which recognizes the best dissertation in the field of public administration. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he was an administrative analyst for the University of California, a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, and worked in staff positions for environmental nonprofits in Washington, D.C.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Chairman, Daniel J. Evans Associates / Governor, State of Washington ( 1965 - 1977 )
- Endowed Professor of Social Policy
- Professor of Social Policy
Job Titles:
- Member in a Number of University of Washington
Formerly a professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Dean Sandfort is building upon a foundation of similar initiatives. She was the founder of the Future Services Institute that supported government redesign of programs and services through citizen engagement and leadership development. She founded and was academic director of the Hubert Project, a global community focused on improving public policy education through development and sharing of multimedia learning materials, such as e-cases and video briefs. Dr. Sandfort powered that work - and much of the new activities at the Evans School - from her engagement in the international Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter community of practice.
Dean Sandfort is an active member in a number of University of Washington collaborative initiatives including Earth Lab, Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and the Board of Dean's University Initiatives Committee. Originally from Wisconsin, she is now living in Seattle with her husband. She is the mother of two young men of whom she is exceedingly proud and loves gardening, skiing, and scuba diving.
Sandra O. Archibald served as dean of the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington from 2003-2019.
Under Dean Archibald's leadership, the Evans School ascended 20 spots to become a U.S. News & World Report top-five institution and is now nationally recognized for excellence in research and learning. Additionally, Dean Archibald established the Evans School's Executive MPA, PhD, and Global MPA programs, and led the renovation of the School's historic facility, Parrington Hall.
Dr. Archibald has made significant contributions to policy making and civic engagement in the United States and abroad. Dr. Archibald's research interests focus on the intersection of economics, institutions, and public policy. She is the co-author and author of more than 100 research publications.
Currently, she is a Professor and Dean Emerita at the Evans School.
Dr. Sandra O. Archibald served as dean of the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington from 2003-2019. Under Dean Archibald's leadership, the Evans School ascended 20 spots to become a U.S. News & World Report top-five institution and is now nationally recognized for excellence in research and learning. In addition to growing its respected MPA program, Dean Archibald established the Evans School's Executive MPA, PhD, and Global MPA programs, raised $100M+ in private support for School priorities, and led the renovation of the School's historic facility, Parrington Hall. More than 2,600 Evans School students graduated during Archibald's tenure as Dean.
She is the past president of the Association of Public Policy and Management, the top national research organization in her field, and has held numerous leadership positions with the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the American Society for Public Administration. In 2009, she was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration, involved in the most important and complex public governance issues that public administrators face. She has held academic appointments at-the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University, and with national advisory committees including the Academe, Policy, and Research Senior Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and the Educators' Advisory Panel to the U.S. Comptroller General and the Government Accountability Office. She holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis, and a master's degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Archibald has made significant contributions to policy making and civic engagement in the United States and abroad. She was director of economic analysis for Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, served in the Office of Research and Development in the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe designing environmental curriculum and academic programs for higher education. She has also worked with several United Nations agencies on questions of sustainable development.
Dr. Archibald has served on numerous National Research Council committees for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine focusing on a variety of environmental policy issues. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Interior, and numerous other state, national, and international organizations. In June 2010, Governor Christine Gregoire named Dr. Archibald as one of three dozen leaders to serve on the Committee on Transforming Washington's Budget.
Dr. Archibald's research interests focus on the intersection of economics, institutions, and public policy. She is the co-author and author of more than 100 research publications. She has won several teaching and research awards, including the Public Administration Educator of the Year award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2009. Archibald is also the recipient of numerous research grants, most recently from the Northwest Area Foundation. She teaches economics for policy analysis, environmental and natural resource policy, and advanced policy analysis.
Dr. Archibald chaired the University of Washington Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee, served as a member of the University of Washington's Leadership Council and the President's Council on Enterprise Risk Management Policy, and served as Chair of the Board of Deans.
Job Titles:
- Associate Teaching Professor / Executive MPA Program Director
- Director of Development & Communications at NPower
Erica Barnhart is a proud Husky. She earned her MPA from the Evans School in 2001 and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in honors French and Political Science. She also holds a Certificat d'Études Politique from L'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
Barnhart is known for her work on using language to increase organizational and individual impact. Her Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Good mission. Bad statement: why the social sector should worry about words, was one of SSIR's top 10 articles of 2016. As a consultant, she has worked with and trained hundreds of organizations, including Art with Heart, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cloud Mountain Farm Center, Mission Aviation Fellowship, PATH, Splash, Thrive Washington, and the UN Foundation.
Immediately out of undergrad, Barnhart founded a contract paralegal company that supported lawyers focused on immigration and refugee law. Upon returning to her hometown of Vancouver, BC, she left the legal field behind and transitioned to higher education, serving as the Associate Director of Commerce Undergraduate Programs at the University of British Columbia, the largest undergraduate commerce program in Canada. She returned to Seattle to pursue her MPA and had the honor of working with Professors Andy and Margot Gordon on the evaluation of the Gates Foundation's libraries program.
After graduate school, Barnhart became the Director of Development & Communications at NPower, a social enterprise that put technology know-how into the hands of nonprofits. In her time there, the organization grew from a local organization to a national network with twelve affiliates across the country. (NPower has subsequently become part of 501 Commons.)
Barnhart began teaching in the University of Washington's Certificate in Nonprofit Management in 2008 and in 2012, she added an MPA class, Marketing for Mission-Driven Organizations, to her teaching docket. She has taught marketing in Seattle University's MNPL program, and guest lectured on branding and social innovation at the University of Chicago.
In addition to her teaching, Barnhart co-directs the Evans School's Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy with Professor Mary Kay Gugerty. The Center focuses on elevating the social sector-nonprofits, foundations and social enterprise-through research and leadership development.
Job Titles:
- Associate Teaching Professor
Job Titles:
- Professor and Director of the PhD Program
Heather D. Hill is a Professor and Director of the PhD Program in Public Policy and Management at the Evans School. Her research examines how public and workplace policies influence family economic circumstances and child wellbeing in low-income families. She brings an inter-disciplinary lens to these topics, integrating theoretical and methodological insights from developmental psychology, economics, and sociology. Hill's recent research projects include:
The implications for children of growing inequality in income and wealth. In multiple projects alone and in collaboration, Hill has studied how income level and variability, and family wealth inequality affect children.
Evaluation of the Washington State Paid Family and Medical Leave program: Hill has led multiple studies related to the WA Paid Leave program, funded by the Perigee Fund and the Washington Department of Health and the Washington Employment Security Department. A recently completed study surveyed and interviewed parents in Washington who had used the program for medical leave (own health) or family care leave (a family member's health). An ongoing study is using administrative records and interviews to examine how eligibility for job protection affects worker take-up of the paid leave benefits.
Hill is a faculty affiliate of the West Coast Poverty Center , the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, and the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences at the University of Washington and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Hubert Gaylord Locke was a longtime professor and administrator at the University of Washington, where he served for five years as dean of the School of Public Affairs.
Locke was a moral leader, an author, a Holocaust scholar, and an authority on police and urban affairs. He was described as "a sort of civic-wise-man-in-residence, counseling patience and understanding in politicians and offering a voice of reason on contentious issues from race relations to growth management" (The Seattle Times, July 9, 1995).
As dean of the School of Public Affairs he was praised by University of Washington President William Gerberding for serving through financially perilous times while maintaining excellence for the program.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean of Finance & Administration
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor, UW School of Social Work
- Member of Committee
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean for Advancement & Innovation
Biography
Marc Lindenberg's long career of public service culminated in his tenure as dean of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington from 1998 to 2002. Prior to joining the school, which had been called the Graduate School of Public Affairs when he was named dean, Dr. Lindenberg served as senior vice president of international development at the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, (CARE USA). There, Lindenberg oversaw more than $400 million in relief and development programs in 36 countries.
Marc Lindenberg first learned about helping others at age 2, when he and his family moved to the Pittsburgh's historic African-American community, the Hill District (the setting of The Pittsburgh Cycle, a 10-play series by August Wilson, another Pittsburgh transplant who called Seattle home). Lindenberg's father, Sidney J. Lindenberg, became the executive director position at the Irene Kaufman Settlement, an agency that coordinated services between city, social, and religious organizations; his son felt the imprint for the rest of his life, becoming known for his commitment to humanitarian causes and international relief efforts.
Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Laureate and a former president of Costa Rica, praised the dean as "the epitome of a global citizen" shortly before Lindenberg passed away at age 56, in 2002. The same year, the Evans School dedicated the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Aid, International Development, & Global Citizenship, where his legacy continues. He was survived by his wife, Cathy Strachan Lindenberg, their son and daughter, his sister Sue McClelland, and their mother, Ruth Ellen Zittel Lindenberg, a social work pioneer in her own right who died in 2004.
Lindenberg, who was born in Chicago in 1945, divided his career between international development organizations and the academic world. In addition to his time at the UW, he taught and researched at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and served as dean of the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), a Harvard-affiliated business school in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He also served on the boards of Oxfam America and the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, advised U.S. President Jimmy Carter and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and planned strategy for the Gates Foundation and World Bank. His final book, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs (2001), was nominated for numerous awards and prizes.
Marc Lindenberg's long career of public service culminated in his tenure as dean of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington from 1998 to 2002.
Prior to joining the school, which had been called the Graduate School of Public Affairs when he was named dean, Dr. Lindenberg served as senior vice president of international development at the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, (CARE USA).
Lindenberg, divided his career between international development organizations and the academic world. His final book, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs (2001), was nominated for numerous awards and prizes.
Job Titles:
- Administrator
- School Dean
A groundbreaking scholar and accomplished administrator, Margo Gordon, was recruited to the University of Washington, where she became the first female Dean of the Graduate School of Public Affairs (now known as the Evans School) in 1988.
In her own pioneering research, Gordon focused on women's attitudes toward rape and their adaptive behaviors. At the Evans School, she taught news media and public policy, as well as race, ethnicity, and public policy. Gordon's research focused on the public's declining trust in government, the news media and public policy, and women's fear and self-protective behaviors.
She stepped down as dean in 1998 to continue her research and teaching.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning
- Lead Editor of Voluntary Regulation of Nonprofit
Mary Kay Gugerty is the Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Nonprofit Management & Philanthropy, the Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning and the Principal Investigator for the International Program on Public Health Leadership (IPPHL). Her research focuses on three areas: evaluation and impact measurement in the social sector; advocacy, accountability and voluntary regulation programs among nonprofit and NGOs; and agricultural and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an adjunct faculty in Political Science at the University of Washington and is a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology (CSDE) at the University of Washington, as well as at the Center for the Evaluation of Global Action (CEGA) at University of California, Berkeley, and at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).
Gugerty's most recent book, The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Sized Evaluation and Monitoring for Social Sector Organizations (2018) is co-authored with Dean Karlan and published by Oxford University Press.
Gugerty is also the lead editor of Voluntary Regulation of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations: An Accountability Club Framework, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and co-edited with Aseem Prakash and co-editor of Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action, also with Aseem Prakash and published by Cambridge University Press. Gugerty's research on nonprofits and NGOs has been published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Regulation and Governance, Public Administration and Development, and Policy Sciences.
Gugerty's research also explores issues in rural development and community development institutions in Africa. Current work examines agricultural household decision-making, women's participation in agricultural supply chains, and the determinants of smallholder agricultural productivity. Earlier work examines the impact of NGO funding on indigenous self-help groups, the impact of ethnic diversity on collective action, and the role of rotating savings and credit associations (roscas) in promoting rural savings. This research has been published in American Journal of Political Science, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and the Journal of Public Economics, among others.
Gugerty teaches courses on nonprofit and public management, program evaluation & performance measurement, international development management, NGOs in Development, and African development. She is the recipient of the 2005 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service.
Gugerty holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University and a MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She also holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from Georgetown University.
Otten, Jennifer J., Katherine Getts, Anne Althauser, James Buszkiewicz, Ekaterina Jardim, Heather D. Hill, Jennifer Romich, and Scott W. Allard. 2018. "Responding to an Increased Minimum Wage: A Mixed Methods Study of Child Care Businesses during the Implementation of Seattle's Minimum Wage Ordinance." Social Work and Society, 16(1): 1-22.
The Evans School resides in historic Parrington Hall, which, built in 1902, is the second oldest academic building on campus. Its iconic silhouette is almost as old as the University of Washington itself and its foundation reminds us of the powerful legacy that both purpose and commitment can leave behind.
In 2020, we reimagined that legacy by renovating the building so that it reflects our commitment to serving the public good and our belief that public systems can be used to make this world more equitable and just. The reimagined Parrington Hall is an efficient, flexible, and inspiring learning environment for our current and future public service leaders.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor / PAR 260E
- Member of Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Academic Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Research & Engagement
Scott W. Allard joined the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington as a professor of public policy and governance in 2014. At UW, Allard is an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) and of the West Coast Poverty Center. Allard is a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served on the National Advisory Board from 2018-2020. He also served as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program from 2010 to 2020. He previously held faculty positions at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (2000-03), the Department of Political Science at Brown University (2003-08), and in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago (2008-14).
His primary areas of research expertise are urban poverty, employment among low-skill workers, food security, safety net utilization, and the spatial accessibility of governmental and nongovernmental safety net programs. He is author of Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State (2009, Yale University Press), which examines the contemporary social service safety net through survey interviews with almost 1,500 government, for-profit, and nonprofit social service organizations. In 2017, he published a book entitled Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty, which focuses upon the rise in poverty in America's suburban areas and the stubborn persistence of poverty in urban areas. He is working with the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study-a panel survey of households in metropolitan Detroit-to examine how working poor families are coping in a persistently sluggish regional economy. He also is a co-investigator with the Seattle Minimum Wage Study, which is a multi-faceted evaluation of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance. In addition to these projects, he has published several articles on the geography of contemporary social welfare policy and on social service delivery in the post-welfare reform era that have appeared in a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Journal of Politics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Journal, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Social Science Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review. He served as a Managing Editor at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM)from 2018 to 2021.
Allard has received research grants supporting his work on social welfare policy from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Russell Sage Foundation, The Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, The New York Community Trust, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR), the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), and the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI). From 2013-19, he served as co-primary investigator of the Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center at the University of Chicago.
Roth, Benjamin and Scott W. Allard. 2015. "Getting By Rather than Getting Ahead: The Response of the Nonprofit Safety Net to Rising Suburban Poverty." in Analyzing Suburbs with 2010 Census Data: Places of Change, Katrin B. Anacker (ed.), Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Yulan Kim started the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy & Management in 2017. Prior to joining the program, she worked as a Research Associate at the Center for International Development at the Korea Development Institute (KDI). She earned a Master of Science in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Yulan also holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.
Yulan is interested in modes of public service delivery that employ cross-sector collaboration. In her dissertation, she investigates how governments serve as collaborative platforms to lead the co-production of regional social security services. She studies the impact of governments leading collaborative governance on citizen trust and participation, and how this shapes policy processes and the broader policyscape.
Education
M.S. in Public Policy and Management, University of Washington, 2020
M.Sc. in Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2011
B.A. in International Studies, Ewha Womans University, 2010