Dr. Thomas Bryer is a Pegasus Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida, where he has been on the faculty since 2007. In that time, he served as director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management, director of community-engaged scholarship at UCF Downtown, director of the public administration track of the interdisciplinary public affairs PhD program, and director of the Master of Nonprofit Management program. He currently serves as founding co-chair of the Center for Social and Civic Prosperity. 

Dr. Bryer is author or editor of ten books, and PI or co-PI on grants valued at more than $4million. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Lithuania from 2015-2017 and a Fulbright Specialist in Russia in 2018. In 2024-2025, he worked as an embedded scholar/volunteer with the National Park Service. See his website: https://professorvolunteercollaborator.org/