Emily Joy Aiken ’25 (GSLC, PhD) recently published a practitioner report, Collaborative Capacity in Cross-Sector Workforce Coalitions. Drawing on multi-year research, the report explores how regional workforce partnerships can strengthen collaboration, navigate challenges, and build long-term resilience.
Aiken is a Senior Project Manager at the University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institute, where her research focuses on workforce development, stakeholder collaboration, and relational leadership. Her work builds on her Antioch doctoral research examining how supervisors foster dignity and belonging across social identity differences in the workplace.
Learn more about Aiken and read her dissertation, Experiences of Exemplary Supervisors Promoting Workplace Dignity Across Social Identity Differences, here.
