Sandra Hodge

Sandra Hodge is an extension associate professor and state public policy specialist in the Community Development Department at the University of Missouri and directs the Community Deliberation Program, which concentrates on building community capacity to address public issues using deliberative processes and conflict resolution. She is a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri Law School and is an affiliated faculty member at the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on factors that impact the use of deliberative processes in communities. Hodge consults on issues related to participatory governance, citizen engagement, and deliberative democracy. Most recently, she has worked in Thailand as a consultant to a World Bank training project on participatory governance and has served as a visiting scholar at both Thammasat University and King Prajadhipok Institute in Bangkok, as well as a visiting lecturer for the U.S. Department of State on deliberative democracy and public participation. She is a former Fulbright scholar to Brazil in 1994. Her PhD was awarded from Michigan State in 1993.