Zhao, Rong | MSW | PhD

Assistant Professor
Phone: (212) 396-7547
Office:
Email: rz715@hunter.cuny.edu
Room: 450

Areas of Expertise:
Nonprofit Human Services Organizations
Compensation, Work Conditions, and DEI Issues
Nonprofit Labor Organizing/Unionization
Gender and Racial Dynamics in Nonprofits
Government Service Contracting
Critical Volunteering Research

Education:
PhD, Columbia University
MSW, Columbia University
MA in Nonprofit Management, Beijing Normal University, China

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Scholarship

Zhao, R., Bies, A., & Kim, S. M. (2024). Employee Compensation of Nonprofit Child Welfare Agencies in New York: Crises and Strategies. Nonprofit Management & Leadership. DOI:http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21629.

Zhao, R., Welch, R., & Bies, A. (2024). Nonprofit Management’s Perceptions of Unions in Government-Funded Child Welfare Agencies: Can They Help Raise Wages in This Triangular Relationship? Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2024.2377080.

Anasti, T. & Zhao, R. (2024). Converging on Institutional Logics: The Expansion of Syringe Service Programs in a Midwest State. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2024.2377077.

Anasti, T. & Zhao, R. (In Press). Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy Among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers: The Case of Syringe Service Programs. Social Service Review.


Research

Dr. Zhao is currently conducting a qualitative study understanding how gender, race, and other identities shape Hunter College MSW management graduates’ career advancement experiences in human services organizations. In another project, she is examining the phenomenon of nonprofit human services worker unionization: issues motivating workers to organize; outcomes of unionization; and opportunities, challenges, and management responses to their organizing.