Jonathan Durbin

FOIA and OMA Certification

FOIA and OMA are the two sunshine laws in the state of Illinois. These laws prescribe the minimum standard by which information must be collected, stored and shared as requested by the public. Further, they determine what is classified as a public document, meeting and other information pertaining to the

Zoning Map Demo

This map was made using village maintained zoning geometries, R, RStudio and several mapping packages such as leaflet and sf. Note: This is running as a tertiary process on my server, it will take time to load.

Accessibility and Access

Many public administrators miss the access "forest" for the accessibility "trees" and already shockingly few administrators make active efforts to enhance accessibility. The purpose of increased accessibility of public information is to promote the public's access to the government; however, government access itself is

Core Public Service Management Competencies

Leadership and Collaboration Ethical Decision-Making Policy Analysis Strategic Planning Equity and Inclusion Accountability and Performance Management

C.V.

Academic CVJonathan Durbin's CVJD-CV.pdf935 KBdownload-circle Skills: * Studied Mathematics and Political Science * Regression analysis * OLS, Logistic, Standard Effects, Low Probability Events (Zero-Inflation) * Descriptive Network Analysis * R and Tidyverse * Shiny Server development, deployment, and maintenance * Rmarkdown, Qmarkdown, LaTeX, and Pandocs * Codebook creation and documentation maintenance * Institutional Review Board (2023)

About Me

Background: I am a first year cohort member of the Northern Illinois University Master of Public Administration program serving as a Managerial Intern for the Village of Lake Villa. I graduated in 2025 from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences. I have presented original research at

Research Projects

While the NIU Master's of Public Administration is primarily an experience based master's program, comparative research is core to Public Administration both as a field of scientific inquiry and as an area of practice. While at my internship with the Village of Lake Villa, I regularly

Web Accessibility

We are a quarter of the way into the 21st century and in line with that many municipalities are acting on pressure to increase web accessibility. While this website is self-hosted, it is using a Content Management System not dissimilar to that of CivicPlus and other municipal website providers. One

Purpose of This Website:

This is a new professional website to serve as my primary professional online presence. This will be a repository for my CV, Resume, Professional Ethics Statements, Professional Portfolio, and other professional documents.