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Jodi Sandfort is an Associate Professor at the Humphrey Institute where she helps students learn more about how organizations work and what can be done to make them work better. She has particular expertise in organizations focused on helping our most disadvantaged citizens, both nonprofits and government. Jodi has spent her career moving back and forth between professional practice and academia. Most recently, she directed the human service program at the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis. Her current research focuses on organizations and fields involved in social policy, such as human services, early childhood, and welfare. She is very interested in the structures established by public policy but also how people and groups can exert leadership to change and improve those structures. She believes that much can be learned from crossing boundaries and tries to do so daily.

Jodi’s favorite place to pubTalk – debate current issues and public affairs – around her dining room table, with a glass of wine, her husband, two young sons, friends and family (many of whom don’t agree with her!).