Tami L. Moore is associate professor and program coordinator for the Higher Education and Student Affairs program in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Aviation. Her scholarly work examines various roles that universities – faculty, students, and universities as institutional actors – play in the communities they serve. From 2006 to 2010, she was the founding co-director of the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. She has been a regular participant in research exchanges with the Kettering Foundation, convening with community members and policy makers to explore questions about what it takes to make democracy work as it should and how universities contribute to this work. In this same vein, she led the research team working through the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg University to document 25 years of working across difference to solve public problems through Public Achievement, a youth empowerment philosophy implemented in 34 countries around the world. Her research interests include community-university engagement, health equity, teaching and learning in popular education movements, urban-serving universities, community-driven decision making, and democratic/deliberative dialogues. Dr. Moore earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Higher Education from Washington State University, and her M.S. and B.A. degrees from Oklahoma State University - Stillwater.