Dr. Tammy Beck
Department of Management
Dr. Bill Brandon
Department of Political Science
Dr. Joanne Carman 
Joanne G. Carman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches program evaluation and nonprofit management courses in the Master of Public Administration program. She also serves as the advisor and coordinator for the Graduate Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management. She received her Ph.D. in public administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at State University of New York at Albany in 2005. She began her career in evaluation, working as a data analyst for Philliber Research Associates. From there, she went to work as a Senior Research Associate for the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy think-tank affiliated with the State University of New York. She went on to work for the Center for Policy Research in Albany, New York, where she worked on a 5-year outcomes evaluation project funded by the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. In 2004, she became the Project Director for the OPTS Evaluation (Options for People Through Services) for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, where she was responsible for overseeing the design of more than 100 local evaluation projects being conducted by nonprofit agencies serving people with developmental disabilities. Her research focuses on the relationships between nonprofit organizations and funders, with a particular interest in program evaluation practice and organizational capacity building.
Dr. Beth Fischer
Belk College of Business
Beth Fischer is the Director of Principal Gifts for UNC Charlotte. In this capacity, she works with Vice Chancellor Niles Sorensen and Chancellor Dubois to engage the University’s key stakeholders. She joined UNC Charlotte in 2005 as the Director of Development for the Belk College of Business where she oversaw all alumni and development efforts for the College. Fischer earned a J.D. with a concentration in public law from Case Western Reserve University. She also holds a certificate of nonprofit management from the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Fischer received her undergraduate degree in business from Guilford College. Additionally, Fischer earned her Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) designation in 2008. Fischer was selected as a Charlotte Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award winner in 2009. A native of Winston-Salem, Fischer lives in Charlotte’s First Ward with her husband, AJ and son Eric. Fischer is currently the Past President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Charlotte Chapter and a past board member for the Friends School of Charlotte.
Dr. Loril Gossett
Department of Communication Studies
Dr. Mason Haber
Department of Psychology
Dr. Susan Harden
UNC Charlotte Crossroads Charlotte Coordinator
Susan B. Harden is the UNC Charlotte Crossroads Charlotte Coordinator. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching, with an emphasis in Social Justice Issues in Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As coordinator for UNC Charlotte’s Crossroads program, Dr. Harden is responsible for managing the programs four goals: To introduce themes of access, inclusion, and equity into the curriculum; To connect UNC Charlotte’s extensive research resources to address issues that expand social capital and civic engagement; To engage students and faculty in the civic life of Charlotte by creating service learning opportunities designed to reduce barriers to access, inclusion, and equity; To support diversity initiatives on campus. Dr. Harden’s research interests are focused on civic engagement, outreach, engagement evaluation, and service learning scholarship. Dr. Harden was recognized as the 2009 Civic Engagement Professional of the Year by the North Carolina Campus Compact.
Dr. Rebecca Nesbit
Department of Political Science
Rebecca Nesbit, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of nonprofit management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She teaches in the Master of Public Administration program and serves as the coordinator of the Arts Administration concentration in the MPA program. Dr. Nesbit received her Ph.D. in public affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University with a specialization in nonprofit management and Master of Public Administration degree from Brigham Young University. Dr. Nesbit’s research explores how institutions condition volunteering, volunteer management in nonprofit organizations, and internal processes in nonprofit organizations. Her work has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership and Public Administration Review.
Steven Rogelberg 
Department of Psychology
Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg is a Professor and Director of Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He was the founder and serves as Director of the Organizational Science Consulting and Research Unit. He has over 60 publications and nearly 50 invited addresses/colloquiums addressing issues such as team effectiveness, health and employee well-being, meetings at work, organizational research methods, and organizational development. He is the Editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology, the Talent Management Essentials book series. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2006) and the Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2002, 2004). He has served as Program Chair for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He has been a visiting scholar at The University of Sheffield (England), The University of Tel Aviv (Israel), Technion University (Israel), Concordia University (Canada) the University of Mannheim (Germany) and Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research has been profiled on Public Television, Radio (e.g., NPR, CBC, CBS), Newspapers (e.g., Chicago Tribune; LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post London Guardian) and Magazines (e.g., National Geographic, Scientific American Mind). Companies for whom he has provided consulting services include: IBM, Grace Cocoa, Vulcan Materials, National Society for Black Engineers, Proctor & Gamble, Brush Wellman, Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Center for Self-Directed Work Teams, Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority, Mid-American Information Services, and Marshall-Qualtec. Before completing his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Connecticut in 1994, he received his undergraduate B.Sc. degree from Tufts University in 1989.
Lisa Roshotte
Department of Psychology
Lisa Rashotte received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona in 1998. She joined the UNC Charlotte faculty as Assistant Professor of Sociology in 1998, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. She became Chair of the Sociology Department in 2008. She is a member of American Sociological Association’s sections on Social Psychology, Theory, Mathematical Sociology, and the Sociology of Emotions. Her research focuses on small group interaction, nonverbal behaviors, identity, emotions, gender, and expectations. Her work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, Social Forces, Sex Roles and several other journals. She has been PI or Co-PI on four NSF-funded projects. Recently, she has conducted projects on altering the status meaning of gender and, with Murray Webster, on the effect of behaviors on inequality structures in small groups. Her current laboratory project, also with Murray Webster, addresses how characteristics come to have status value.
David Swindell
Department of Political Science
David W. Swindell is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte. He is also director of UNC-Charlotte’s Ph.D. in Public Policy Degree Program. Dr. Swindell received his doctorate from Indiana University in Public Policy and his undergraduate education from the University of Texas at Arlington in Philosophy. Before joining UNC-Charlotte, Professor Swindell was with Clemson University as an associate professor and director of the Master of Public Administration program, and prior to that was at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio where he served as assistant professor Department of Urban Affairs and research associate in the Center for Urban and Public Affairs. Professor Swindell’s research and teaching interests focus on the role of nonprofit community and neighborhood organizations as mechanisms for service delivery, public financing of sports facilities, the contribution of sports facilities to the economic development of urban space, and citizen satisfaction and performance measurement standards for public management and decision making.
Dr. Lori Thomas
Department of Social Work
Brett Agypt
Organizational Science
Brett Agypt completed his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Business Administration at Butler University and completed his Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at UNC Charlotte. He is now in his final year of the Organizational Science PhD program at UNC Charlotte. Brett’s research interests include nonprofit strategic management, the individual predictors and theoretical implications of workplace philanthropy programs, and human resource management practices in religious organizations. Brett has served as a volunteer with many nonprofit organizations in Chicago, Indianapolis, and now Charlotte, and looks forward to continuing to ply his skills to further benefit nonprofit organizations through NVAC.
Daniel Bonilla
Organizational Science
Daniel is a doctoral student in the Organizational Science program at UNC Charlotte. His research focuses on volunteerism and volunteer motivation. He is also the lead on the Volunteer Program Assessment, a non-profit outreach program designed to help volunteer coordinators manage their volunteer base. Daniel also enjoys volunteering in the Charlotte community.
Tonya Frevert
Sabrina Jones Niggel
Sabrina “Bri” Niggel’s nonprofit management experience spans nearly two decades and includes diverse organizations, ranging from a grassroots, community-based nonprofit to a national healthcare agency. Bri most recently served as program officer for one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the state of South Carolina. Currently a Ph.D. student pursuing studies in health policy, Bri consults with public charities and private foundations while she completes her degree. Her current research focuses on nonprofit healthcare conversions. Bri graduated Furman University cum laude and received her Masters in Public Administration from UNCC.