Lori A. Brainard

Professor Lori Brainard’s focus is communication. The bulk of her work focuses on how ordinary people, nonprofit and grassroots advocacy organizations, and government agencies use the internet to activate and mobilize for change and to disseminate information, conduct transactions, and engage in community building and collaboration. In addition, she looks at how we regulation communication technologies, such as television and social media. Professor Brainard is on the editorial boards of Administration & Society, Administrative Theory & Praxis, and American Review of Public Administration. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts/Boston and her Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University. She currently teaches Introduction to Public Administration (MPA) and Service, Perspectives on Public Values (MPA & MPP), Literature of Public (Ph.D.)

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