Mary Alice HADDAD is the John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Director of the Office for Faculty and Career Development, and Professor of East Asian and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. She has published four books, Environmental Politics in East Asia (2023), Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists (2021), Building Democracy in Japan (2012), Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (2007), and co-edited two more: Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (2020), and NIMBY is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation Around the World (2015). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Urban Affairs Review, Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Journal of Asian Studies, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She has received numerous grants and fellowships from organizations such as the Institute of International Education (Fulbright), the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Korea Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the East Asian Institute. She is a member of the CULCON working group on subnational diplomacy and U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. Her current research focuses on city diplomacy and the ways that local governments can work together across national boundaries to solve major global problems.