National Advisory Board

Judy Pryor-Ramirez is a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, where she teaches courses in the advocacy and management specializations and leads the Executive MPA program. She also contributes to the university as a member of the Community-Engaged Scholarship Task Force, the steering committee for the Women’s Leadership Forum, and the faculty advisory council for The Latinx Project.

As a member of the Imagining America network since 2011, Judy returns to the National Advisory Board for a second term, having previously served from 2018 to 2021. Before joining NYU, she spent over a decade leading civic engagement centers and initiatives at current and former IA member institutions, including Emerson College, The New School, University of Richmond, and Drew University.

Judy’s scholarly contributions include writings on feminism and pedagogy in Intervenxions, the Journal of Public Affairs Education, The New Historia, and Public Seminar. Recent work explores a participatory action research method inspired by the story circle practice, as published in an edited book by Manchester University Press. Her expertise in community-engaged and participatory action research has been sought for peer review in academic outlets such as Evidence & Policy and Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

During the 2024-25 academic year, she was a Senior Fellow at the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond. Judy graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University, with an M.A. in Sociology and Education. She calls The Bronx home, where she resides with her college-going son and her artist-educator husband.