For over 25 years, Nadinne Cruz has been a practitioner, leader, advocate, speaker, and author on the need for pedagogies of engagement in higher education.  Her early volunteer experiences with peasants in the Philippines inspired a commitment to integrate teaching with community partnership across diverse worlds of engagement for social change.  She is former Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford, where she founded and directed the Public Service Scholars Program.  As past executive director of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, Nadinne led 18 colleges and universities to develop community-based learning programs in the U.S. and abroad. 

Among her publications, Nadinne is coauthor of Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future(SF: Jossey-Bass, 1999) and Where’s the Community in Service-Learning Research? (Michigan Journal for Service-Learning, November 2000).Recognition for Nadinne’s work include the National Youth Leadership Council's Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award (’05), the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence in Leadership for Campus-Community Partnerships (’03), and an Honorary Doctorate Humanis Causa by Carleton College (’08). Now an Independent Consultant, Nadinne works nationwide with colleges and universities, and national and state Campus Compacts to strengthen civic education.