Senior Associate Editor


Tina is the Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration and the Director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Her research focuses on public participation, collaborative governance, conflict resolution, and challenges in public administration.


Tina has published numerous articles as well as several books, including Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), with John Gastil, G. Michael Weiksner, and Matt Leighninger; Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015), with Matt Leighninger; and Collaborative Governance Regimes (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015), with Kirk Emerson.

Tina was instrumental in the design and delivery of the World Bank Massive Open Online Course, “Citizen Engagement: A Game Changer for Development,” and was a central member on the civil society team that assessed progress on the Obama Administration’s implementation of the public participation commitments in the Open Government National Action Plans.