Prof. Foldy is an Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. During the 2007-08 academic year, she is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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. Her research interests include framing and sensemaking processes, identity and diversity in organizations, and organizational learning and reflective practice.
Prof. Foldy has published articles in a variety of journals and edited volumes, including Leadership Quarterly and Public Administration Review. She also co-edited, with Robin Ely and Maureen Scully, the Reader in Gender, Work and Organization. Currently, she is a member of the research team, based at Wagner, of the Leadership for a Changing World program of the Ford Foundation. She is also conducting a multi-year study of culturally diverse learning teams in a large statewide social services agency.
Prior to her Ph.D. program, Prof. Foldyworked for 15 years with non-profit organizations working in the areas of foreign policy, women’s rights, and occupational health and safety. She has consulted on strategic planning and organization development to a wide range of non-profit groups. She holds a BA from Harvard College and a PhD from Boston College. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School in 2002-03.