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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Sonia M. Ospina, Ph.D, is a professor in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of the Research Center for Leadership in Action at NYU. She teaches Leadership and Social Transformation, Foundations of Non-profit Management, Public-Private Collaborations for Collective Problem-Solving and a doctoral seminar on Qualitative Research Methods.
A sociologist by training, she has developed her interest in governance through three areas of scholarship: leadership and social transformation; change in public
management systems; and the craft of qualitative research. Professor Ospina is the author of Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality (1996), and numerous referred journals and book chapters on these areas. Over the past decade, she directed a Ford Foundation-sponsored multi-year, national research project, partnering with 90 social change organizations in the United States to produce new knowledge about their leadership practices and their contributions to deepening democracy. This research, which includes both traditional and action research streams, has yielded ultiple practitioner booklets and pedagogical materials, as well as a series of peer-reviewed articles—and will culminate with the writing of a co-authored book on social change leadership in the nonprofit sector and a co-edited book on the nature of relational leadership, both in process. Ospina also explores governance and accountability issues associated with public management reform in Latin America, using comparative research methods. Among the resulting publications are the co-authored book, Strengthening of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems in Latin America: Analysis of 12 countries (in Spanish, 2008, translated to Portuguese, 2009) and two coedited books, Outcome Evaluation for a Modern and Democratic Public Management: Latin American Experiences (2003) and Managing Intergovernmental Relationships: Latin American Experiences (2002), both in Spanish.
Professor Ospina is co-editor of the "Journal of Public Administration Research and
Theory" (JPART), co-editor of the book review section of "Public Administration Review" (PAR), and member of the editorial board of several other academic journals, including four in Latin America. She has been the President of the Inter-American Network of Public Administration Education (INPAE), and a member of the executive councils of the Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Public Policy and Management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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