Expertise
Cities; climate and energy economics; economic development; financial services; housing
Background
Current Positions
President, RW Ventures
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
Board of Directors, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
Chair, CNT-Energy
Board of Directors, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Member, Pattern Recognition Systems, LLC
Member, Leveler, LLC
Past Positions
Vice-President, Shorebank Corporation
Partner, Hartunian, Futterman & Howard, Chtd.
Acting Chairman, Executive Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, City Colleges of Chicago District No. 508
Visiting Committee, University of Chicago Law School
Expert Advisory Committee, Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors (Chicago)
Advisory Committees, Initiative For a Competitive Inner City
Organizer, past Director and President, Crossroads Fund
Organizer, Co-Chair, PROCAN (Progressive Chicago Area Network)
Boards of Directors, Odesta Corporation
Steering Committees, Productive Chicago; Altgeld Institute
Emergency Hearing Officer, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners
Public Affairs Committees, Council of Lawyers
Education
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1979
Yale University, B.A., 1976, Political Science