Margaret Post, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice began her career as a community organizer in California’s Central Valley, and has been teaching, training, researching, and practicing organizing for over twenty-five years. As an engaged scholar, Margaret integrates organizing practices with participatory methods to facilitate shared learning and collective action. Her scholarship focuses on how grassroots nonprofit organizations influence social policy change. Dr. Post currently investigates the prevalence and efficacy of nonprofit political organizations in the United States in partnership with Elizabeth T. Boris at the Urban Institute. She also collaborates with the Center for Evaluation Innovation, Social Insights Research and Grassroots Solutions on evaluation research with foundations and community organizing groups. Dr. Post is a founding co-editor of the new journal Community Organizing.
Dr. Post holds a doctorate in social policy from Brandeis University and a master of public policy from the University of Minnesota.