On this episode of our college tour, I have the privilege of talking with Dr. Nisha Manikoth and Dr. Katie Robiadek about the Doctoral and Undergraduate Leadership programs at Hood College.

Dr. Nisha Manikoth is Director of the Doctoral Program in Organizational Leadership at Hood College, an independent liberal arts college in the Washington, DC-Baltimore area. The Doctoral Program in Organizational Leadership, designed with a vision of preparing leaders, transforming communities, is a cohort-based program for mid-to-senior-level professionals from diverse backgrounds including business, education, non-profit, military and government and is open to both domestic and international students.

Previously, Dr. Manikoth held faculty roles at George Washington University, University of Maryland Global Campus, and Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco, teaching courses in organization theory, organizational learning, and human resource management. She is founder and principal at Arivu Consulting, LLC, a boutique business consulting company focused on improving business performance by providing strategies for individual and organizational learning. 

Recent publication on Leadership during COVID-19 in Human Resource Development International:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhrd20/25/3?nav=tocList
Doctoral Program website: https://www.hood.edu/graduate/academics/programs/organizational-
leadership-dol

Katherine (Katie) Robiadek (pronounced: Row-By-Deck) is Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies at Hood College where she directs the campus Center for Civic and Community Engagement. Her work focuses on democratic theory and practice, especially in the nonprofit sector. Given her own background in nonprofit administration, part of her efforts now center on students as future nonprofit leaders through coordinating the college's minor in Nonprofit & Civic Engagement Studies. Relatedly, she has collaborated with Drs. Cherie (pronounced: Share-E) Strahan (pronounced: Strawn) and Elizabeth Bennion on research to assess students' democratic engagement through campus organization leadership. (See that research in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice here: https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2019.1648277.)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robiadek/

Recently co-authored piece on civic education in the Washington Post:
"Jan. 6 hearings show a democracy in crisis. Civic education can help.
Public education once trained young citizens to be part of dem

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