Margaret Stout

Margaret Stout is a Professor of Public Administration at West Virginia University, having joined the faculty in 2009 after receiving her Ph.D. in Public Administration in 2007 from Arizona State University. Prior to her appointment, she taught at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts and enjoyed a career in community development and nonprofit management spanning over twenty years (some of which was under the married name, Tchida).

Specializing in community building and strategic planning, Margaret organized her own neighborhood and then led a group of nine adjacent neighborhoods in organizing for social, economic, and environmental improvement through a community-based organization called the Northwest Tempe Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation, or NewTowN CDC. Its mission was to create a sustainable urban village in the heart of the Phoenix metropolitan area, doing so through resident advocacy, neighborhood and transportation planning, historic preservation, affordable housing, and necessary goods and service businesses.

During her doctoral studies, Margaret consulted with other nonprofits in community and youth development. Her services included community planning, organizational development, program and project design and evaluation (logic model approach), resource development, and contract management.

Dr. Stout continues to pursue her passion for community building and development through service-learning and action research projects as a faculty member. Her research explores the role of public and nonprofit practitioners in achieving democratic social, economic, and environmental justice. As shown in her body of published work, she has a particularly strong interest in the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of these issues and the importance of linking theory to practice.

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