Expertise
Economics, labor, urban and regional planning
Background
Current Positions
Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs of Cleveland State University;Member, Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Zoological Society;member, board of Cleveland's Westside Industrial Retention Network (WIRE-Net);secretary-treasurer, Board of Directors of the Urban Affairs Association;member, board of advisors of the Generation Foundation
Past Positions
Vice President and Operating Officer (1980-1984), Country Stores, Inc.;Lecturer (1984), University of Connecticut;Research Assistant and Fellow (1978-1981), MIT- Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies;Instructor (1975-1977), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education
Ph.D. (1981) and M.A. (1976), Massachusetts Institute of Technology;B.A., University of Pennsylvania, (1973)