About
Biography
Shuyi Deng is a PhD candidate from Humphrey School of PublicAffairs, University of Minnesota with a specialization on racial equity, public policy, and nonprofit studies. Her research focuses on the racial dynamics in the nonprofit sector and the distributional consequences of nonprofits and philanthropy along the line of race. Her work has appeared in Public AdministrativeReview, Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, and TheEncyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance, among others. Her dissertation examines racial disparities in nonprofit funding, with an analytical focus on nonprofits of color.
Education
MPP (University of Maryland, 2014)
BA in International Politics (Renmin University of China, 2012)
Recent Publications
Cheng, Y., Yang, L. & Deng, S. (2022). Nonprofit Densityand Distributional Equity in Public Service Provision: Exploring Racial/EthnicDisparities in Public Park Access across U.S. Cities. Public AdministrationReview, 82 (3), 473-486.
Deng, S., Lai, Y., Myers, S. L., & Xu, M. (2020). Foundation Giving and Economics Research Productivity at HBCUs: EmpiricalEvidence from the Koch Foundation. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy,1-22.
Cheng, Y. and Deng, S. (2022). Retrenchment Strategies. Forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance edited by Kevin Kearns and Wen Jiun Wang.