Michelle Shumate is the founding director of Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact (NNSI) at Northwestern University. She is also the Delaney Family University Research Professor in Communication Studies and Associate Faculty at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on how to design interorganizational networks to make the most social impact. Most relevent to this session, she is an author of Collaborative Networks: The Next Frontier in Data Driven Management published by the IBM Center of the Business of Government.
The National Science Foundation recognized her research with a CAREER award. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Army Research Office. She is the author of the Networks for Social Impact (2022, Oxford University Press). Nonprofit Quarterly, Stanford Social Innovation, and the Conference board have featured her work. She offers workshops, consulting, and coaching through Social Impact Network Consulting. Professor Shumate holds a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.