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About Us
The Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement is a collaboration of university faculty, students and community development actors that seeks to enhance educational opportunities, facilitate innovative research, and build community development capacity.
What We Do
Education
The Center brings the university into the community and the community into the university through community based research and discussion. Each Spring, a faculty committee selects four to five Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service undergraduate fellows who work together with a community partner during the Fall semester. Students work with the Center on research projects throughout the year.
Research, Information, and Analysis
Center staff conduct research on urban and community issues in communities around the world. They pursue work that enables them to think creatively about what produces local problems and engages in local, national, and international conversations about these issues. Faculty and students work in collaboration with communities to conduct research, publish, and present research locally and at academic conferences.
Discussion, Networking, and Public Policy
The Center creates opportunities to discuss community development and urban challenges to enhance relationships, communication and to foster entrepreneurship.
Center Staff
Kathe Newman
Faculty Director
Nadia A. Mian
Senior Program Director
2023-2024 Ralph W. Voorhees Public Service Fellows
Janet Cazares
Hamza Choudhry
Aditi Rana
Marcelo Remond
Adeel Yaqoob
Adriana Zarza
Faculty Affiliates and Visiting Faculty
Bernadetter Baird-Zars
Hector Blanco
Yen-Tyng Chen
Cara Cuite
James DeFilippis
Shiloh Deitz
Post-doctoral Associate
Emily Parker
Will Payne
Ronald Quincy
Andrea Restrepo-Mieth
Jovanna Rosen
Mi Shih
Eric Seymour
Michael Smart
Emmy Tiderington
Dan Treglia
Nancy Wolff
Student Researchers
Lauren Nolan
Senior Research Associate
Former Researchers
Olubori Agboola
MCRP Candidate
Tiffany Ip
Research Associate