Xiaojie Zhang is an associate professor and master’s as well as doctoral advisor of public policy and administration. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Kentucky between 2008 and 2009, and she received her PhD degree from Northeastern University in 2010. She has been affiliated with the Department of Public Administration in the School of Humanities and Law at Northeastern University since 2007. Her research interests include public participation, environmental governance and policy, and community governance. She is a member of the Chinese Society of Public Administration and has received a couple of provincial-level and university-level scientific research awards.