Lorenda A. Naylor
professor
School of Public and International Affairs
Additional Role:
director, B.A. in Policy, Politics and International Affairs program
Contact Information:
Phone: 410.837.6089
Email: lnaylor@ubalt.edu
Ph.D., American University
M.P.H., University of Kansas
B.S., M.P.A., Kansas State University
Lorenda A. Naylor's C.V.
Dr. Naylor is a professor at The University of Baltimore in the College of Public Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs where she has taught since 2004. She serves as the academic program director for the undergraduate degree in Politics, Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) program, and is a faculty fellow with the Schaefer Center for Public Policy Fellow where she conducts diversity training for the nationally accredited Maryland Certified Public Manager Program. Dr. Naylor is on the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Specialist roster and is an international scholar. She has traveled to six continents and to over 20 countries. She is a social equity researcher and utilizes a multi-disciplinary framework (public administration and public health), in her research and teaching. Her research focuses on ensuring democratic values are reflected in public policy outcomes. She has written on the following subjects: affirmative action, diversity, elections, gender, LGBTQ, and pedagogy.
She is the co-author of the newly released book, Social Equity in a Post-Roe America: Gender, Race, and the Rule of Law (Naylor & Wyatt-Nichol, 2024). Dr. Naylor is also the author of the book Social Equity and LGBTQ Rights: Dismantling Discrimination and Expanding Civil Rights (Naylor, 2021), which received the 2021 Best Book Award by the American Society for Public Administration, Section on LGBT Advocacy Alliance. She is also the recipient of the 2023 Best Chapter Award by the American Society for Public Administration, Section on LGBT Advocacy Alliance for her exemplary evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ community in the book edited by Wally Swan titled COVID-19, the LGBTQIA+ Community, and Public Policy (Swan, 2022). She was nominated for the 2024 President’s Faculty Award, and was nominated in 2021 for the University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Research Award. Dr. Naylor was nominated as a National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) fellow (2024, 2021) and has distinguished herself as one of the top ten scholars in public administration pedagogy. She has over 30 publications and delivered over 200 presentations and trainings. Her work has been published in Public Integrity, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Journal of Health and Human Services, Journal of Maternal Child Health, Clinical Therapeutics, Journal on Leadership and Development, and the Journal on Comparative Asian Development. Dr. Naylor serves as a reviewer for various journals and is an active member of the American Society for Public Administration and a regulator contributor to the National Academy of Public Administration’s Social Equity and Leadership Conference. She is a native of Kansas. Lorenda earned her Ph.D. in Public Administration from American University, Washington, D.C., Master of Public Health degree from the University of Kansas, Medical School, Kansas City, KS, and Master of Public Administration and Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. She completed a graduate fellowship at P.E. Technicon in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, which has since been renamed the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. Dr. Naylor lives in Maryland with her two teenagers and family pets.