The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
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Professor Foldy is an Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She is affiliated faculty with the Research Center for Leadership in Action, based at Wagner, and with the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons School of Management in Boston.
Professor Foldy's research addresses the question: What enables and inhibits working and learning together across potential divisions like race and gender, profession or differences of opinion? She is interested in how cognitive processes, like framing and sensemaking, affect our ability to connect with others, and how leaders act as "sensegivers" to affect their constituents' capacity for joint work.
Professor Foldy is co-author, with Tamara Buckley, of the forthcoming book The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at Work, published by Russell Sage. She has published articles in a variety of journals and edited volumes, including Leadership Quarterly, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Handbook of Action Research. She also co-edited, with Robin Ely and Maureen Scully, the Reader in Gender, Work and Organization.
Prior to her Ph.D. program, Professor Foldy worked for 15 years with nonprofit organizations addressing foreign policy, women’s rights, and occupational health and safety. She has consulted on strategic planning and organization development to a wide range of nonprofit groups. She holds a BA from Harvard College and a PhD from Boston College and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School in 2002-03. During the 2007-08 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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