Lavea Brachman is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings and has been the chief architect in Ohio of the Brookings/Greater Ohio “Restoring Prosperity to Ohio Initiative,” which she continues to direct and manage. | View Full Bio
Experience
Current Positions
- Brachman is co-director and a founder of the Greater Ohio Policy Center in Columbus, Ohio, a think-tank and grassroots organization focusing on state policy reform around land use, economic redevelopment and smart growth issues.
Past Positions
- Brachman previously practiced environmental law, taught as an adjunct professor in the urban studies and planning programs at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University and was a practitioner in the area of community and economic development. Before returning to Ohio, Brachman was a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Education
- Brachman graduated from Harvard College and The University of Chicago Law School, and received a master’s in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.