Paula D. Gordon, Ph.D. is based in Washington, D.C. Her Ph.D. in Public Administration is from American University; her M.A. in Public Administration and her B.A. in Rhetoric are both from the University of California at Berkeley. Her areas of specialization include Public Administration, Public Policy, Management and Organizational Behavior, Ethics, Leadership, and Change, Organization Theory and Behavior, Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Diffusion, Homeland Security and Emergency Management Policy, and a range of national and global health policy-related concerns, including Drug Abuse Prevention, a Unitary Theory of Cancer, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Dr. Gordon is an educator, writer, and consultant. She has developed and taught courses, as an Adjunct, Visiting Professor, or Independent Contractor role at a wide range of universities, including The George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, the California State University System, and since 2006, Auburn University. She has served as a staff officer, policy analyst, special projects director, or consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health, the Federal Energy Office and Federal Energy Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Governmental Relations. She also ran for Congress in Contra Costa County in the Bay Area in California. She has an extensive background in a variety of domestic policy arenas, including drug abuse prevention, emergency management, homeland security, and other public health concerns, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and a unitary theory of cancer.