Adam Copeland

Adam Copeland is a lecturer in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. He brings nearly two decades of experience leading strategy, programs and fundraising across the nonprofit, healthcare and higher education sectors.

Also at Ohio State, Copeland is a manager at the Appalachian and Rural Center for Health (ARCH) at the Wexner Medical Center. Previously, he served at Mayo Clinic, where he directed enterprise-level strategy and innovation initiatives and held a faculty appointment in healthcare administration at its College of Medicine and Science.

Earlier, Copeland directed a national philanthropy leadership center at Luther Seminary, led the development of service-oriented programs on the faculty at Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) and co-founded a community-based nonprofit in Fargo, North Dakota.

Copeland has secured and managed foundation grants, including multiyear awards from the Lilly Endowment, and has served on several nonprofit and foundation boards. A writer across academic and popular outlets, he has edited two books and authored dozens of articles and book chapters on philanthropy, organizational leadership, digital innovation and healthcare ethics, with work in outlets from MIT Sloan Management Review to the Journal of Medical Humanities.

He holds a PhD in Rhetoric, Writing and Culture from North Dakota State University; an MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary; and a BA from St. Olaf College.