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As Executive Director of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Engage, Roudy (he/him/his) works with staff and Faculty Co-Directors to chart and implement the larger strategic vision of the center. In the School of Education, he is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice program and directs the Leadership and Community Engagement Major. Prior to his arrival at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ in 2015, heÌýserved as Associate Professor and Distinguished Teacher of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he also co-directed the Center for Service-Learning and Volunteerism.ÌýHe is co-author ofÌýBecoming Citizens: Deepening the Craft of Youth Civic EngagementÌý(Routledge, 2009) and co-editor of Civic Youth Work: Co-creating Democratic Youth Spaces (Lyceum 2012).ÌýRoudy has also published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on topics areas such as higher education, community-based pedagogy, democratic theory, the political philosophy of John Dewey, youth civic engagement, and qualitative research.