Expertise
Economic competitiveness, metropolitan growth and development, state/regional/local policies, governance reforms, urban reinvestment, social equity
Background
Current Positions
Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley;Panel Advisor to the National Governors Associations' State Development and Housing Policy Initiative
Past Positions
Co-Founder and Deputy Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings;Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993-1996);U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs;U.S. Senate Banking;Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago
Education
B.S. in Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1993
"I think the real challenge is how do we move and accelerate the progress in the city of New Orleans. And there we see again some good signs, which is the fact that families are returning there, about 68% of the population has come back to the city of New Orleans, but we still have a lot more work to do."