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Renee Wallingford, MA '05Assistant Director |
About Renee
Renee Wallingford is the Assistant Director of the Center for Policy Research (CPR) at Rockefeller College, University at Albany. She earned an M.A. in political science from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2005 and was a 2006 Fellow on Public Policy at the Center for Women in Government in Civil Society (CWGCS). During her fellowship with CWGCS, she worked at the State of New York’s Bureau of Refugee and Immigrant Affairs. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Gibson Figueroa worked as a contract manager for the State of New York. She also worked on several federally funded projects that examined terrorist organization characteristics, behaviors, and network patterns. In her role as Assistant Director of CPR, Ms. Gibson Figueroa assists faculty members in identifying grants and outside funding sources for their work. She provides assistance with all aspects of the proposal writing process to individual faculty members within the College and to faculty members who are collaborating with outside faculty, businesses, and non-profit organizations.




