A public affairs scholar focused on how organizations finance public purpose

I am a public affairs scholar whose research focuses on how nonprofits and local governments respond to fiscal constraints, revenue pressures, institutional rules, and accountability demands. Across my work, I am interested in how mission-driven organizations make financial decisions while trying to preserve public value.

Before doctoral training, I earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Marketing Research and Analysis from Texas State University. That background gives me a distinct lens for studying nonprofit and public organizations as strategic, resource-dependent institutions. It also informs my interest in social enterprise, nonprofit commercialization, revenue diversification, and the tension between financial sustainability and public purpose.

I was born and raised in Bangladesh in a middle-class family. My father worked to support our family, and my mother, a homemaker, devoted her life to my education and success. Their sacrifices continue to shape how I understand opportunity, resilience, and public service, and I attribute much of what I have achieved to their commitment and belief in me.

As a PhD Candidate in Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Dallas, my dissertation examines how donative and commercial revenue reliance shapes nonprofit financial vulnerability, growth, and program decisions. My long-term goal is to build a tenure-track research and teaching career in nonprofit management, public finance, public management, or a related policy field.