The American Marketing Association is pleased to announce that Melissa Bublitz and Stacey Finkelstein have been chosen to be the next Joint Editors in Chief of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.
Melissa Bublitz is the Liz Kramer Professor of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on understanding and influencing behavior to promote the well-being of individuals and the communities where they live and work. Investigating topics such as food and nutrition security, sustainability, and grassroots social change, her research is characterized by a strong commitment to creating real-world impact and is often conducted in partnership with community organizations. She was part of a research team whose paper won the 2022 Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public Policy & Marketing Award. She has been an associate editor at the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing since 2019 and at the Journal of Consumer Psychology since 2021.

University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stacey Finkelstein is Professor of Marketing at the College of Business, Stony Brook University. She earned her PhD and MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her research explores factors impacting food choices, health care access and utilization, and vaccine hesitancy. In her ongoing projects, she identifies areas of opportunity and challenges for the use of emerging technologies in health care settings, centering patient needs, preferences, and concerns. In recognition of her research, she received the AMA Marketing and Society Special Interest Group (MASSIG) early career award in 2019 and a best paper award from the Journal of Consumer Affairs in 2021. She has served as the chair of MASSIG from 2023–2025 and as an associate editor at the Journal of Business Research and Journal of Consumer Affairs.

Stony Brook University
The current editorial team, Jeremy Kees and Beth Vallen, are working with the new team to enable a smooth transition. Bublitz and Finkelstein will begin processing new submissions on April 1, 2026. Kees and Vallen will continue to handle submissions sent out for review or invited for revision prior to April 1.
–JPP&M Editor Selection Committee (Roland Rust [chair], Ron Hill, Linda Alkire, Kelly Martin, Joshua Dorsey, Jeff Inman, and Marilyn Stone)
- Journal of Public Policy & Marketing | Associate Editors
- Journal of Public Policy & Marketing | Editorial Review Board