Kayla Schwoerer

Dr. Kayla Schwoerer is an Assistant Professor at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research focuses on understanding and improving the ways that public and nonprofit organizations use data, design, and digital technologies to solve problems, deliver programs and services, and engage diverse communities. Before joining UAlbany in Fall 2023, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she continues to hold an affiliation with the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance (AIDG) Lab. She is also a Fellow at UAlbany’s Center for Technology and Government (CTG) and a faculty affiliate of the AI Plus Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute for cutting-edge AI research housed at UAlbany. Her research has received several awards including the APSA Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant (2024) and ASPA’s Section for Women in Public Administration’s Best Dissertation Award (2023). She serves on several editorial boards of notable journals in the field, including as an Assistant Editor for Public Administration and Associate Editor for Information Polity.