MPA Faculty
Diane Brown
Phone: (707) 664-2179
Email: diane.brown@sonoma.edu
MPA, Sonoma State University, teaches graduate courses in nonprofit governance and legal issues, planning, resource development/fundraising, nonprofit dynamics, and the comprehensive exam tutorial.
Donald Dixon
Phone: (707) 664-2179
Email: sra@sonic.net
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, teaches graduate courses in planning, implementation, evaluation, public policy, and research methods. He teaches prerequisite courses in state and local government, California politics, and urban politics.
David McCuan
Phone: (707) 664-3309
Email: david.mccuan@sonoma.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, teaches graduate courses in the administrative state, public policy, and personnel. He teaches prerequisite courses in federalism and intergovernmental relations, as well as state and local government.
Andy Merrifield
Phone: (707) 664-2179
Email: andy.merrifield@sonoma.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, teaches budgeting, public policy, ethics, and organizational theory. He teaches prerequisite courses in federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state and local government.
Catherine Nelson
Phone: (707) 664-3963
Email: catherine.nelson@sonoma.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, teaches graduate courses in ethics and personnel.
Emily Ray (MPA Coordinator)
Phone: (707) 664-2731
Email: emily.ray@sonoma.edu
Ph.D., Virginia Tech. Her expertise is in environmental politics and environmental political theory with a particular interest in land-use conflicts, social movements, public policy, and eithics in public administration. Her research centers on natural resource disputes, the political economy of resource use, and how to build a theory of collective environmental responsibility.
Willie Gin
Phone: (707) 664-2278
Email: ginwi@sonoma.edu