Operational practice
Experience in communications readiness, emergency coordination, documentation, and compliance across military and civilian settings.
Public administration · policy · research
Public problems deserve careful analysis.
I'm Tessa Rouse, a U.S. Army veteran and Master of Public Administration candidate at Arizona State University. My work connects experience in operations, compliance, and emergency coordination with graduate study in policy analysis and research.
Areas of focus
Experience and research, together.
Operational experience informs the public problems I study; graduate research helps me examine their causes, implementation challenges, and policy implications.
Policy & administration
Examining governance, organizational responsibility, policy implementation, and the administration of public services.
Graduate research
Using research design, evidence appraisal, and analytical writing to investigate questions in public administration.
Methods in practice
See the work behind the skills.
Selected graduate work shows how I frame public problems, assess evidence, and develop proposals for institutional improvement. These are academic analyses and designs, not claims of completed field implementations.
Research design
From research question to method
Graduate exercises in case-study observation, survey measures, quasi-experimental comparisons, and critical appraisal of evidence.
Explore methods projectPolicy implementation
Administrative capacity under policy change
A PACT Act analysis using managerial, legal, political, and performance perspectives to evaluate implementation tradeoffs.
Read policy analysisOrganizational change
Designing for better service delivery
A proposed VA care-navigation initiative mapping workflows, stakeholder input, pilot steps, and measures of success—not a deployed program.
Review intervention proposalSelected work
Selected work across policy, research, and public administration.
Community Resilience Assessment Plan
Wichita Community Resilience: An Assessment Framework
A graduate research plan for examining how severe-weather exposure, neighborhood vulnerability, infrastructure, economic concentration, and community capacity interact in Wichita, Kansas.
Applied Leadership Project
Preserving Equitable Access for Transgender Veterans
An adaptive leadership plan for VA care coordination that moves from organizational diagnosis to stakeholder engagement, pilot implementation, feedback systems, and measurable access outcomes.
Policy Analysis
Toxic Exposure, Veterans’ Benefits, and Administrative Capacity
A public administration analysis of the PACT Act examining how expanded veterans’ benefits reduce evidentiary burdens for claimants while increasing implementation demands on the Department of Veterans Affairs.