Our Team
The RCLA team consists of staff, faculty and graduate students from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as well as Fellows, consultants and scholars.
Members of our work team have experience in both the academic and practitioners' worlds and bring backgrounds in diverse disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, Management, Social Work, Public Administration, Education, International Development and Anthropology.
Team members also have extensive experience working with the public sector, the nonprofit sector, philanthropic institutions, community-oriented and other practitioner-based programs. The diversity represented in our team enriches our programs and supports our core values, mission and goals.
RCLA EXECUTIVE TEAM &
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Bethany Godsoe, Executive Director
Sonia M. Ospina, Faculty Director,
Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy
Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Deputy Director
David Elcott, The Henry and Marilyn Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and Leadership, NYU Wagner
Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Assiociate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management
Ellen Schall, Dean, NYU Wagner
Dennis Smith, Associate Professor of Public Policy, NYU Wagner
RCLA PROGRAM & ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Champa Chonzom, Finance Manager
Colleen SchwartzCoffey, Communications Manager and Director, Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service
Waad El Hadidy, Research Associate
Amanda Jones, Executive Assistant to Faculty Director Sonia Ospina
RCLA Student Research Staff
Florence Au, Assistant to the Finance Manager
Moschell Coffey, Program Manager, Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service
Jennifer Dodge, Research Associate
Daphne Emerson, Program Coordinator
Modhura Ghosh, Finance Administrative Assistant
Casey Heim, Project Assistant
Brianne Lute, Project Coordinator
Emily Matos, Project Coordinator
Evian Patterson, Program Assistant
Becky Rafter, Program Coordinator
Diana Trujillo, Research Assistant
RCLA FELLOWS, CONSULTANTS &
VISITING SCHOLARS
Lucia Alcantara, Consultant
Mary K. Blewitt, Visiting Fellow
Shifra Bronznick, Senior Fellow
Michael Edwards, Senior Visiting Scholar
Melinda Fine, RCLA Scholar
Sandra Hayes, Consultant
Theresa Holden, RCLA Fellow
Frances Kunreuther, Senior Fellow
Irshad Manji, RCLA Scholar; Director, Moral Courage Project
Joan Minieri, Consultant
Andrew Mott, Senior Fellow
Linda Powell Pruitt, Senior Fellow
Beth Rosenthal, Consultant
Celina Su, Visiting Scholar
Angela Hendrix Terry, Senior Fellow
Heather Weston, Senior Fellow
