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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

Walter Hood, Professor & Former Chair
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
University of California, Berkeley
Malo Hutson, Assistant Processor
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of California, Berkeley
David Stern, Professor
Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, Assistant Professor
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
 
 

VISITING SCHOLARS

Paulo Pisco
MBA, Urban and Territorial Management, Lisbon, PortugalPaulo Picaso
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.
 
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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DEBORAH MCKOY, PhD, MPA
Director
(510) 643-3105
debmckoy@berkeley.edu

Deb is the Director and Founder of the UC Berkeley Center for Cities and Schools at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. She has worked at the intersection of urban policy and education for fifteen years at national and international levels. Deborah’s research looks at the intersection of educational reform, community development and public policy.

Her recent publications include: "Understanding the Housing-Schools Nexus: Integrating housing and educational policy and practice to improve neighborhoods and schools", in the book A History of Housing Discrimination An Examination of Barriers and Efforts to Achieve an Inclusive Society, 2007, (National Fair Housing Alliance) and "Engaging Schools in Urban Revitalization: The Y-PLAN (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now!)" Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2007.

Previous professional positions include: Chief of Economic Development and Training at the NYC Housing Authority; Director of Refugee Services for a NYC non-profit organization, CAMBA; Consultant to the UN’s Education For All initiative, and Research Associate at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE). Deborah has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy from UC Berkeley.

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