Mark A. Brennan is the UNESCO Chair for Community, Leadership, and Youth Development and professor of leadership and community development at the Pennsylvania State University. His teaching, research, writing, and program development concentrate on the role of community and leadership development in the youth, community, and rural development process. All research outputs have been translated into teaching and outreach curriculum to facilitate the transfer of knowledge to a wider international audience. His work has been published in more than two hundred peer-reviewed journals and publications. He is coeditor of Theory, Practice, and Community Development and Creating Caring Communities to Overcome Times of Crisis; author of Community Leadership Development: A Compendium of Theory, Research, and Application; and coauthor of Culture, Community, and Development.