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NON-RESIDENT RESEARCH FELLOWS

Lyusyena
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow

LYUSYENA KIRAKOSYAN (CV) 

Research Interests:

  • Inclusive entrepreneurship
  • Disability rights
  • Critical disability theory
  • Social in/exclusion 
  • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 
  • Democratic citizenship 
  • Paraolympics 
  • Community change 
  • Human rights
Yugasha Bakshi
Non-Resident Research Fellow

YUGASHA BAKSHI 

Research interests: 

  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Water
  • Sanitation
  • Hygiene
Vanessa Guerra
Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia's School of Architecture

VANESSA GUERRA (CV) 

Research Interests:

  • Urban informality
  • Urban resilience
  • Spatial justice
  • Co-production
  • Cognitive urbanism
  • Latin American cities

NEDA MOAYERIAN (CV)

Research Areas:

  • Culture, Tourism and Community Development
  • Globalization and Identity
  • Participatory Governance
  • Education and Empowerment
Carmen Monico
Associate Professor/ Joint Programs in Social Work Program Co-Director, Faculty Affiliate Center of Excellence for Integrative Health Disparities and Equity Research (CIHDER), Social Work and Sociology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

CARMEN MONICO (CV)

Research Interests:

  • Social Work Practice
  • Social Justice
  • Family Programs
  • Community Engaged Research
Ariel Otruba
Non-Resident Research Fellow, IPG

ARIEL OTRUBA (CV)

Research Interests: 

  • Political Violence 
  • Forced Displacement, Migration, and Border Conflict 
  • Human Rights, Peacebuilding, and International Development 
  • Political Ecology 
  • Infrastructure and Urban Planning
  • Feminist Research Methods

SENIOR FELLOWS

Bryce Hoflund
Senior Fellow, IPG

BRYCE HOFLUND (CV)

Research Interests:

  • Food Policy
  • Food Safety Regulation
  • Health Care Regulation
  • Health Care Policy
  • Network Organizations
  • Network Management and Leadership
Bob Leonard

BOB LEONARD, Professor, School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech

Andy Morikawa

ANDY MORIKAWA, Executive Director Emeritus of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley (Virginia)

AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

Stephanie Davis
Affiliated Faculty Member, Collegiate Associate Professor in the Center for Public Administration and Policy and School of Public and International Affairs

STEPHANIE DAVIS (CV)

Research Interests:

  • Local government public finance and capacity building
Kim Horn
Research Professor

KIMBERLY HORN (CV)

Research Interests:

  • Public Health
  • Community Engagement and Collaboration
  • Opioid Epidemic
Cana Itchuaqiyaq
Founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Engagement in the Arctic and Associate Professor, English, Virginia Tech

CANA ITCHUAQIYAQ (CV)

Research Interests:

  • Empowering marginalized communities to pursue community-driven and community-led research

 

Marcy Schnitzer
Non-Profit Consultant, Research Scientist

MARCY SCHNITZER

Research Interests:

  • Actually existing democracy
  • Community power
  • Community-based engagement
  • Environmental justice
  • Critical Geography

Kim Niewolny, Director of the Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation and Professor of Community Education and Development, Virginia Tech

Katy Powell,  Senior Research Fellow, Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, Virginia Tech

Yannis Stivachtis, Director of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies and Jean Monnet Chair, Professor of European Studies in the Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech

Laura Zanotti, Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech