Date: May 6, 2022
Featured Speaker(s)
Cristina Balboa is an associate professor at the Marxe School. Her research incorporates international relations, comparative policy, and organization theory to demonstrate the relationship between an organization’s internal characteristics (like structure, diversity) and its external accountability, legitimacy, and efficacy. Her book “The Paradox of Scale; How NGOs Build, Maintain, and Lose Authority in Environmental Governance” is available through The MIT Press. She has published in several scholarly journals including World Development and the Journal of Public Affairs Education. She is a board member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and also a founding administrator of the Global Issues/Transnational Actors interest group. Professor Balboa received her Ph.D. from Yale University in Environmental Policy and Governance, where her dissertation was awarded the 2010 Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from ARNOVA. Prior to her academic work, Cristina spent almost a decade working in nonprofits in Washington D.C. and Ecuador on environmental issues in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
Jenée Gerald is an MIA candidate at Marxe concentrating on Trade Policy and Economic Governance interested in research and policy development. She completed her undergraduate degree at Baruch in Business Communications. She is interested in sustainable development, climate change, and capacity building, currently working as a graduate assistant to Prof. Cristina Balboa.