Sawyer Rogers

MPP, Hertie School of Governance (Berlin, Germany)

MPA, Syracuse University

BA in Political Science & BA in History, University of New Hampshire

AA in Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University

Sawyer is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research broadly focuses on comparing how communities incorporate citizen decision making and engagement into their governments and policy making processes. He has focused on the New England Town Meeting (a form of direct democracy) and co-production, has explored various citizen decision making and engagement systems in Europe (particularly Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium), and seeks to learn more about systems around the world. Some current projects Sawyer is working on include citizen decision making and engagement in digitalization of democracy and energy policy.

Sawyer teaches leadership as a faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy in the summers, is knowledgeable about disability policy and statistics from his work at the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability, and is familiar with various qualitative data and methods from his work at the Qualitative Data Repository.