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Staff | Affiliated Faculty | Graduate Students | Visiting Scholars
STAFF
DEBORAH MCKOY, PhD, MPA, Executive Director
JEFFREY M. VINCENT, PhD, MCRP, Deputy Director
ARIEL H. BIERBAUM, MCP, Program Director
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
- Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
- University of California, Berkeley
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- University of California, Berkeley
- Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation
- Graduate School of Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Language and Literacy & Society and Culture
- Graduate School of Education
- University of California, Berkeley
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GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
- Ary Amerikaner
- Goldman School of Public Policy
- Ary Amerikaner is the Emeryville PLUS Fellow and a first year MPP student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Before coming to graduate school she worked as a legislative assistant for U.S. Representative Mazie Hirono. She handled welfare, health, and social security portfolios, though her primary focus was on the Congresswoman’s education committee work. Ary also worked on two congressional campaigns and as a research assistant in the Education Policy Center of the Urban Institute, a policy think tank in Washington, DC. She grew up in Huntington, WV and went to Oberlin College, where she played varsity tennis for four years and majored in politics.
- Allison Cohen
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Dylan de Kervor
- Boalt School of Law
- Dylan de Kervor, born and raised in the Bay Area, has been working on youth issues for many years. After receiving her B.A. in Urban Studies and Planning from the University of California at San Diego, she worked for three years at the National League of Cities working on issues relating to municipal support for young people in the local context. Since starting at Boalt Hall, Dylan has worked for a number of youth-related agencies, and has directed the Juvenile Hall Outreach program. She is dedicated to increasing access to quality education for urban youth, as well as addressing the disproportionate representation of youth of color in juvenile correction facilities. She will receive a joint degree in Law and Social Welfare in May 2009.
- Stephanie Dock
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Stephanie Dock is a first year in the Master of City Planning program, focusing on transportation policy and planning. She brings her interest in transit oriented development to CC&S' work to connect TOD with public education. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she spent two years at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, a non-profit in Chicago where she helped with economic development efforts in older south Chicago suburbs. Stephanie holds a BA in History from the University of Chicago.
- Kristen Ferris
- Goldman School of Public Policy
- Jason Hirschorn
- Haas School of Business
- Jordan Klein
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Jordan Klein is pursuing a Master's degree in the Department of City and Regional Planning; he is interested in studying how the built environment supports and hinders social and economic justice. At CC&S, he is working on the development of a policy for joint use of public school facilities in San Francisco. Jordan formerly worked as a Program Officer and Director of Disaster Preparedness at United Way of the Bay Area; in these roles, he collaborated with nonprofits, local governments, and other community stakeholders to improve human services in the region. Since 2005, Jordan has served on San Francisco's Citizens Committee for Community Development, an advisory group that oversees some of the city's investments in infrastructure, public services, and economic development. Jordan loves living in the Bay Area, and when he's not studying or working on city planning projects, he's usually riding his bike or playing his banjo. Jordan has a B.A. in history from Northwestern University.
- Mara Larsen-Fleming
- Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Public Health
- April Suwalsky
- Department of City and Regional Planning
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VISITING SCHOLARS
- Paulo Pisco
- MBA, Urban and Territorial Management, Lisbon, Portugal
- Paulo Pisco is hosted by CESUR, the Center of Urban and Regional Systems from IST/UTL at the Center of Higher Technical Institute/Technical University of Lisbon. His dissertation, The School as a Factor of Urban Space Organizer – The Context of the District Capitals tries to understand how the public high school is inter-related with the city.
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- Paulo is presently working towards his PhD in Territorial Engineering with his thesis on School Urbanism in Portugal, which tries to put urban and school systems into new perspectives. His work concentrates on linking cities and schools, because, he says, 'we can’t solve the gaps between them if we don’t see them functioning together.' paulo.pisco@netcabo.pt
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ARIEL BIERBAUM
Program Director of Collaborative Practice
(510) 642-7155
arielb@berkeley.edu |
| Ariel H. Bierbaum is the Program Director of Collaborative Practice at the Center for Cities & Schools. Ariel serves as liaison to key national, regional, and local government agencies; school district; and university partners. At CC&S, she oversees the graduate student fellows program for the PLUS (Planning and Learning United for Systems-change) Leadership Initiative, working with 6 cities and their school districts in the inner Bay Area on a range of collaborative projects. Ariel works on CC&S' research efforts with regional partners, local city agencies and districts, and the California Department of Education on issues of school siting, cross-jurisdictional collaboration, and other educational impacts of regional and local planning policies. She also coordinates the Youth, Schools, and Planning Initiative, which examines expanding stakeholder participation in public planning practice to include youth, families, and schools. Ariel brings over eight years of academic and professional experience in city and regional planning, city government, strategic planning and communications, community engagement, and university-community relations. Ariel holds a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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