Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA)

Shaoming Cheng

CHAIR

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor

Department of Public Policy & Administration

Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs

Florida International University

scheng@fiu.edu

Susan Appe

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and MPA Program Director

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

University at Albany, SUNY

sappe@albany.edu

 

Trenton J. Davis

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies

Georgia Southern University

tjdavis@georgiasouthern.edu

 

 

 

Jayce Farmer

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

School Director and Associate Professor

School of Public Policy and Leadership

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Yuna Fontoura

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2027

Professor and Head of Accreditation and International Affairs 

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
 

Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro

yuna.fontoura@fgv.br 

Xiang Gao

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2029

Professor and MPA Program Director

School of Public Affairs

Zhejiang University

 

gaoxiang0327@zju.edu.cn

Alexander C. Henderson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Associate Professor of Public Administration

School of Management

Marist University

Alexander.Henderson@marist.edu

Willow S. Jacobson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Robert W. Bradshaw Jr. Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Government

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Director, MPA Program

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacobson@sog.unc.edu

 

Alison Jacknowitz

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2029

Dean and Professor

School of Public Affairs

American University

jacknowi@american.edu

Darlene Pierre-Louis

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2029

Founder & Senior Consultant

Consultants 4 Charities

consultants4charities@gmail.com

Brent S. Steel

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

University Distinguished Professor

School of Public Policy

Oregon State University

bsteel@oregonstate.edu

 

Kendra Stewart

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Professor of Political Science and Director of The Joseph P. Riley Jr. Center for Livable Communities

College of Charleston

stewartk@cofc.edu

Jinping Sun

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2028

Professor and Department Chair

Department of Public Policy and Administration

College of Business and Public Administration

California State University, Bakersfield

jsun2@csub.edu

Denise D P Thompson

MEMBER

Term Ends: August 2029

Deputy Chair and Associate Professor 

Department of Public Management

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

dthompson@jjay.cuny.edu