Seo studies collaboration, strategic management, leadership, and innovation in the public and nonprofit sectors, using qualitative and process-oriented research approaches.

Shaffer focuses on how stakeholders and rights holders in complex Arctic social-ecological systems engage in collective decision-making and resource stewardship in the face of rapid changes spurred by climate change.

Asher holds an MPP from ASU in 2018, they are an economist with the State of Arizona. They have over a decade of experience in the government, nonprofit, and higher education fields in multiple roles.

Mexican Sustainability PhD student focused on intermunicipal collaboration for sustainable metropolitan governance. Fulbright grantee. B.S. Mathematics, M.Sc. Environmental Economics. Former activist and public official.

Susila’s research interests revolve around the intersection of sustainability, emergency management, resilience, capacity building, and governance. Specifically, she is focusing on governance related to heat.

Kim is a public management scholar with interests in collaborative governance, local government, citizen-state interactions, and democracy and public administration.

Paul Bentley, Ph.D. serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor for the Arizona State University School of Public Affairs, and he is a member of the Next Generation Service Corps (NGSC) leadership team.

A 30-year veteran of higher ed, with 20 years of university senior leadership experience, Rosowsky is passionate about and deeply committed to promoting the power, potential and bold futures of great public universities.