Students & Fellows
AFFILIATED STUDENTS

Research Interests:
- Trust
- Racialization of Space
- Nonprofit Management and Leadership
- Municipal/Local Government
- Equitable Community Development
- Social Science Education

Research Interests:
- Political Accountability
- Regional collective security in West Africa
- Community Change

Research Interests:
- Social Ecology
- Community Cultural Development
- Self-Identity and Place
- Sustainable City Development
- Green Planning and Community Health
- Equitable Resource Planning


C. MERANDA FLACHS-SURMANEK (CV)
Research Interests:
- Theatre as a Tool in Conflict Management and Peace Building
- Community Cultural Development
- Creative Placemaking and Placekeeping
- Asset-Based Community Development
- Verbatim, Devised, and Ensemble Theatre
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Methodologies in Research-Creation
FELLOWS
Wafa Al-Daily, Associate Director for Global Initiatives, Virginia Tech Outreach and International Affairs (OIA)
SENIOR FELLOWS
Don Back, Director of the Language and Culture Institute, Virginia Tech
Andy Morikawa, Executive Director Emeritus of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley (Virginia)
Robert Leonard, Professor, School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech
Minnis Ridenour, Senior Fellow for Resource Development, Virginia Tech
Edward Weisband, Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, Virginia Tech
AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS
Rachel Christensen, Project Research Associate, IPG, Virginia Tech
Lyusyena Kirakosyan, Senior Project Associate, IPG, Virginia Tech
Gary Kirk, Associate Provost & Executive Director at Dickinson College
Katy Powell, Director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies and Professor of English, Virginia Tech
Marcy Schnitzer, Assistant Provost for Diversity and Strategic Planning, Virginia Tech
Nancy White, Principal, One Robin, LLI
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