Kelly LeRoux
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (PhD)
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research, Office of the Dean
Public Policy, Management, and Analytics
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About
Kelly LeRoux is a Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago. Professor LeRoux is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She has published three books and over fifty articles and books chapters on public and nonprofit management, contracting, local public service delivery, and intergovernmental collaboration. She is the author of Performance and Public Value in the Hollow State: Assessing Government-Nonprofit Partnerships by E-Elgar (with Nathaniel Wright) and Nonprofits Organizations and Civil Society in the U.S. by Routledge (with Mary Feeney), and Service Contracting: A Local Government Guide by ICMA Press. She holds MSW, MPA, and PhD in Political Science degrees from Wayne State University. Prior to beginning an academic career, she worked for twelve years in the mental health, child welfare, and housing policy arenas, within a fully government-funded nonprofit. Her current research projects use field experiments to examine nonprofits’ impact on increasing turnout among underrepresented groups, increasing voter turnout in municipal and primary elections, and nonprofits role in local service delivery. She is a member of the Networks & Governance Lab at UIC, and co-founder of the GOTVLab, a get-out-the-vote capacity-building initiative aimed at making democracy more inclusive through evidence-based mobilization strategies.