Kayla Schwoerer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. She earned her PhD at Rutgers University-Newark’s School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), her Master of Public Administration at Arizona State University, and her BA in Sociology from Texas Tech University. Dr. Schwoerer’s research focuses broadly on public and nonprofit management, with a particular focus on issues related to technology and citizen-state interactions from a behavioral science perspective. She leads the Governance & Digital Experience (GovDX) Lab, an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating how digital technologies are reshaping interactions between government institutions, nonprofits, and the public. Dr. Schwoerer is also a Fellow at UAlbany’s Center for Technology and Government (CTG), affiliated faculty at the AI Plus Institute, and a CLEAR Fellow at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Civic Leadership Education and Research (CLEAR) Initiative. Her research has received several awards including funding from the Minerva Center for High Impact Learning (2024), the American Political Science Association’s Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant (2024), and the American Society for Public Administration’s Section for Women in Public Administration’s Best Dissertation Award (2023). She serves on several editorial boards of notable journals in the field of public and nonprofit management, including as an Associate Editor for Information Polity.