Davia Cox Downey

Lansing, Michigan Area United States

MPA Coordinator and Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University

Government / Military

Experience in grant writing, fundraising for non-profit and local government organizations, and in program development. Publications on emergency management, public policy and urban politics can be found in: Canadian Public Administration, the Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity, and the American Review of Public Administration. In 2015, the book Cities and Disasters (an edited volume), will be published by CRC Press. Major areas of expertise/interest are in local government management, disaster relief studies, civic culture, bureaucracy, minority politics, urban studies, public administration and public policy, and economic development policy studies.