COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Nigeria
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Imoleayo is interested in understanding philanthropic foundations and their use of power to promote equity, representation and justice. Imoleayo has interest in the intersection of philanthropy and health, and inclusive philanthropy within the African context.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Nigeria
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Flourishing. Human Resources. Nonprofit Sector.
Cathie Carrigan is a doctoral candidate at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, where she also serves full time as the managing director of international programs. Her research interests include the role of philanthropy in university technology transfer and innovation in international research and exchange. Before joining the school, she served as communications manager for the IU Indianapolis Office of International Affairs and as Research Associate in University College at IU Indianapolis. She has a BA in anthropology and an MA in Applied Communication Studies.
Dana R.H. Doan is a Ph.D. student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She has over 20 years work experience leading, advising, and conducting research with nonprofit and community-based organizations in the U.S., Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Her research interests include community philanthropy, equity in the helping relationship, and evaluation. Dana is passionate about bridging research and practice and has published in both academic and practitioner-oriented publications.
Christina Eggenberger is a Ph.D. student with research interests in global service learning and the civic outcomes of philanthropic education and action. Prior to starting the doctoral program at Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, she worked for over a decade directing the community engagement efforts at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Christina has a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in higher education administration.
Megan Hillier-Geisler holds an MPA from the University of Utah and a BA in Folklore and Religious Studies from Indiana University (Bloomington). Her research interests include the application of folkloric archetypes to modern fundraising, philanthropy in public administration, and sports philanthropy. She plans to study the use of personal narrative in online, peer to peer fundraising. She was previously the Director of Innovation for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Yue Ming is a doctoral candidate at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her research interests include community philanthropy, donor-advised funds, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is currently working on her dissertation to examine the effects of the staff diversity and inclusive decision-making process on grantmaking in community foundations. Yue holds a B.A. in economics and an M.A. in applied economics from Beihang University in China.
Afshan Paarlberg is a doctoral student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, where she also serves as a visiting assistant professor with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative. She is engaged in mixed-methods research with special attention on forced migration, third-sector organizations, and governance. Afshan has a JD from the University of Houston Law Center and a BBA and BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She recently completed a fellowship with the Zakat Foundation Institute on Muslim Philanthropic and Humanitarian Studies. Prior to joining the school, her legal career focused on immigration law, nonprofit governance-risk-compliance, and access to justice initiatives.
Shinyoung Park is a doctoral student at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her major is in philanthropic studies, and her minor is in economics. Her research focuses on the effect of racial bias on charitable giving and civic engagement. She is also passionate about teaching data literacy to nonprofit professionals for evidence-based practices.
Before joining the school, she received a Master of Social Work from Ewha Womans University in 2015 and a Master in Public Administration, with a concentration in nonprofit management, from Grand Valley State University in 2016. She has over seven years of experience in consulting, policy analysis, program evaluation, and grant management in both South Korean and U.S. governments and nonprofit organizations.
Ronnie is a doctoral candidate studying lived philanthropy with intersections in religion, spirituality, and morality. He returned to academia after 15 years serving as a director of development for UChicago & UC Berkeley. He holds a BA in Psychology from Wheaton College (IL) and a MA in religious studies from the University of Dayton. He also earned his CFRM from The Fund Raising School. He is a Lake Enright Fellow and instructs both undergraduate and graduate courses. When he isn’t researching or teaching, you might find him running marathons, traveling the world, advising nonprofits, or mentoring first-generation college students.
Andy Williams obtained his BA at Furman University and has master’s degrees in theology from Gordon-Conwell and Harvard. In addition, he has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, most recently in religious international humanitarianism in Rwanda and the Dominican Republic. He is currently in the dissertation phase of the Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies program with a minor in global studies. His research interests center around the intersection of humanitarianism and religions. His current research focuses on the development of the notion of human rights in the lead-up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Kidist Yasin is a doctoral student in philanthropy at IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Kidist is originally from Ethiopia, and she received her B.A. and master’s degrees in economics from Dire Dawa University and Addis Ababa University, respectively, both located in Ethiopia. She served in a lecturer position for two years in one of the well-known universities in Ethiopia, Adama Science and Technology University. She also won the VLIR-UOS scholarship to obtain an advanced master’s degree in Development and Globalization from the University of Antwerp in Belgium before joining the Ph.D. program in philanthropy. Her research interest is in understanding variations in the motivations for giving across countries and the influences of demographics, socioeconomics, culture, and political and legal environments on giving.
Wenpei You is a doctoral student at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her research interests are in social enterprises, collaborative governance, organizational efficiency, and women empowerment. She is currently working on two research projects. One is a qualitative study on organizational imprinting, taking Grameen China as a case; the other one is quantitative research on the forms and the corresponding determinants of decoupling, with the case of local United Way affiliates. Before joining the school, she served as a research assistant at Center for Civil Society Studies in Peking University, doing research on social enterprises legitimacy, social enterprises certification indicator, as well as case study on rural aging problem. She holds a BA in Politics and Administration and an MA in Public Administration.
