Profile

Yinglin Ma is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida, joining in 2024.​​ Her research examines the individual, managerial, and contextual factors that influence volunteer learning and self-efficacy development, particularly in public and nonprofit community-service volunteering programs. She also studies nonprofits' strategy, mission, and change. Her research has been published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, and Governance. She received her Ph.D. from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University and her MPA from Indiana University Bloomington.

• Community-Service Volunteer Learning
• Nonprofit Mission, Strategy, and Change
• Immigrant-Serving Nonprofit Organizations

• Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management, The Ohio State University
• M.P.A in Public and Nonprofit Management, Indiana University Bloomington
• Bachelor of Arts in Finance, Accounting, and Management, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

• 2023 Early Scholars Fellowship, Nonprofit Management and Leadership Journal and American University
• 2022 ARNOVA Emerging Scholars Fund, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

• PAD 5145 Volunteerism in Nonprofit Management
• PAD 6237 Ethics and Governance in Nonprofit Management