Joaquin Gonzalez

For close to a decade, Dr. Jay Gonzalez was Commissioner of Immigrant Rights for the City and County of San Francisco and received special recognition of his public service from the U.S. Congress. Presently, Dr. Gonzalez is Technical Adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (Philippines) and Enabling Growth Through Investment and Enterprise (Tanzania) programs. He is also an on-demand pre-deployment trainer for U.S. Army combat teams being sent to the Asia Pacific through the U.S. Department of Defense-Naval Post Graduate School’s “Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace Program.”

A five-time Research Excellence and a four-time Teaching Excellence (GGU, NUS, USF) awardee, Dr. Gonzalez is the author of 20 public and urban affairs books and his policy research have accepted in top-ranked journals including Policy Studies Journal, Asia Journal of Public Administration, Asian Journal of Political Science, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, International Migration Review, and International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy . Dr. Gonzalez’ research is informed by his extensive professional experience working on public service reform projects and appointments with the International City/County Management Association, the World Bank, the Institute On Governance (Canada), the Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, State Department, the Asia Foundation, and the governments of Singapore, the Philippines, and China.

EDUCATION

• PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• MPA, University of the Philippines
• BA, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2000-Present: Professor, Golden Gate University
• 2000-present, Adjunct Professor, Politics Department, University of San Francisco
• 2005-present, Adjunct Professor, College of Extended Learning, San Francisco State University
• 1995-1999, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
• 2010-present, Pro-bono President and CEO, Pilipino Senior Resource Center, San Francisco, CA

COURSES TAUGHT

• PAD 197 Internship: Public Administration
  
• PAD 199 Directed Study in Public Administration
  
• EMPA 301 Research Methods and Analysis
  
• EMPA 396 Graduate Research Project in Public Administration
  
• EMPA 399 Directed Study in Public Administration
  

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Public management and urban affairs
• Political economy
• Qualitative data analysis
• Migration and immigration
• International business development
• Asian (China and the Philippines) and Asian/Ethnic American studies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Climate Change and Disaster Resilience (McFarland Academic, forthcoming, 2021)
• Cities and Homelessness (McFarland Academic, 2020)
• Veteran Care and Services (McFarland Academic, 2020)
• Legal Marijuana: Public Benefits, Risks and Policy Approaches (McFarland Academic, 2019)
• Immigration and America’s Cities (McFarland Academic, 2016)
• Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana (Duke University Press, 2009)
• Filipino American Faith in Action (New York University Press, 2009)