Senior Manager, Professional Development
Emily Phaup serves as Senior Manager of Professional Development at Campus Compact, where she designs, implements, and evaluates programs and initiatives that build capacity for community-engaged practitioners across higher education. She brings together thought leaders, member institutions, and aligned organizations through collaborative programming and strategic partnerships, always with an orientation toward systems-level solutions that create conditions for sustained impact.
Emily's path to this work began with a transformative year of AmeriCorps service, which first drew her into the civic engagement field. She went on to serve rural Oregon communities as an Extension Professional and later led the Northwest 5 Consortium for community-engaged learning from Whitman College before joining Campus Compact. She holds an M.A. in Sustainable Communities from Northern Arizona University and a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Free-Choice Learning from Oregon State University.
As a practitioner-scholar, Emily holds a foundational commitment to the idea that scholarly inquiry and applied practice are interconnected pursuits that, together, generate the knowledge and capacity necessary for lasting institutional change. These commitments extend to her scholarly work, which focuses on institutional support structures for community-engaged faculty and graduate education for community engagement.