Faculty & Staff

John C. Ronquillo is the inaugural director of the Institute for Public Leadership and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.

• Leadership and ethics; public and nonprofit management; social equity; indigenous governance and leadership

Cullen C. Merritt is an associate professor and research director of the Institute for Public Leadership in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park. He studies the implications of an organization's publicness on its management strategy and performance.

James Stillwell is an associate clinical professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and faculty director of the Do Good Campus at the Do Good Institute.

Ebonie Johnson Cooper leads the development and expansion of nonprofit executive education and training, including as the academic director of the graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

• Nonprofit DEI; African American donor engagement; church ministry; partnership development; fundraising strategies

Joshua Shifrinson is an associate professor with the School of Public Policy. An expert on contemporary international security, his research engages broad issues of great power politics, U.S. foreign policy, and diplomatic history.