Rate My Professor Jesus Valero

Jesus Valero is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Utah, having joined the university as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. He earned his PhD in Public Administration with an emphasis on nonprofit organizations and management from the University of North Texas in 2016, an MPA in Public Administration from the University of Texas-Pan American in 2011, and a BA from the University of Texas-San Antonio. Before entering academia, Valero worked in the nonprofit sector as a youth programs coordinator for a church ministry, case manager for a faith-based foster care agency, and program supervisor for the local mental health authority. He held a fellowship funded by the University of Michigan’s Population Fellows Program at Family Care International in New York City, providing technical support to adolescent sexual and reproductive health education programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Additionally, he served as an Emerging Scholar and Associate Researcher at the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy in Washington, D.C.

Valero's research interests center on public service leadership, cross-sector collaboration, and technology adoption in public and nonprofit sectors, particularly homeless service networks and public-nonprofit partnerships. He co-authored the book Public-Nonprofit Collaboration and Policy in Homeless Services: Management, Measurement, and Impact (Springer, 2023) with Hee Soun Jang. Notable publications include 'The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Network Performance: A Study of Continuum of Care Homeless Networks' (2020), 'Public–Nonprofit Collaboration in Homeless Services: Are Nonprofit-Led Networks More Effective in Winning Federal Funding?' (2021), and 'Strategic Planning in Practice: The Case of Utah's Statewide Strategic Plan on Homelessness' (2020, with Karin Svedin). Valero co-authored Utah’s first statewide strategic plan on homelessness in 2020 with Karin Svedin and graduate research assistants. His contributions include the UNP Community Scholar in Residence Award and serving as co-principal investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant examining cross-sectoral health and social services for the homeless. He teaches public administration courses such as PADMN 6550 and PADMN 6570, supporting nonprofit capacity building.