Neeraja is the Director of University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center, a civic and community engagement center dedicated to cultivating equitable partnerships between communities and U-M to advance social change for the public good. Neeraja provides strategic leadership to the Ginsberg Center, ensures alignment between our values and work at the Center and across U-M, and works to reduce barriers and challenges to equitable partnerships between students, faculty, and community partners. She leads strategy and implementation for the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, published by the Center. Neeraja also serves on National Campus Compact’s leadership team for community engagement centers based at research universities. Neeraja has focused her professional career in higher education on supporting students and faculty to make their teaching and learning more student-centered, inclusive and equitable.