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Staff | Affiliated Faculty | Graduate Students
STAFF
- DEBORAH MCKOY, PhD, MPA, Executive Director
- (510) 643-3105
- debmckoy@berkeley.edu
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- JEFFREY M. VINCENT, PhD, MCRP, Deputy Director
- (510) 642-1628
- jvincent@berkeley.edu
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- ARIEL H. BIERBAUM, MCP, Program Manager
- (510) 642-1628
- arielb@berkeley.edu
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
- Institute of Urban & Regional Development
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- University of California, Berkeley
- College of Environmental Design
- University of California, Berkeley
- 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
- Haas School of Business
- Samir Bolar is a first year MBA student at the Haas School of Business. Prior to business school, Samir served as a Program Director for Teach for America in Los Angeles, where he managed the training, support, and development of secondary and special education teachers in public schools across South LA, Watts, and Lynwood. Samir has also spent time working as an IT consultant with Accenture, and analyst with the Broad Foundation, and as an Algebra teacher in the Compton Unified School District. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. in Plan II Liberal Arts.
- Department of City and Regional Planning
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
- Tamar Cooper is currently working towards a Masters in City Planning and a Masters in Landscape Architecture (Environmental Planning) at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. Prior to attending Cal she served as the Program Director for San Francisco Beautiful where she worked on a number of efforts that improved the City's quality of life including community based efforts to green schoolyards and legislation that curbed the proliferation of billboards in the City. In an effort to help local communities maximize the use of available open space in both urban and suburban settings, as a PLUS Fellow Tamar will develop a toolkit focusing on joint-use agreements between local jurisdictions and schools.
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Brad Goya is a second year masters student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Between his first and second years of graduate school Brad was a project intern for the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation in Bayview Hunter's Point. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the San Francisco Unified School District for three years as a teacher and community health outreach worker. His experiences working with youth in low-income communities in San Francisco influenced his decision to seek a city planning degree with an emphasis on community development and affordable housing. Brad also taught in the Japan Exchange and Teaching program in Oaska, Japan and has worked for Levi Strauss & Co. coordinating environmental sustainability projects. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2001 with a B.A. in Geography.
- Goldman School of Public Policy
- Laura Arocan Henry is a second year MPP student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She comes to the PLUS program with various experiences in education, ranging from teaching English as a Foreign Language to researching school infrastructures for promoting equity. She will be working with the Berkeley PLUS team on encouraging youth engagement.
- Gradute School of Education
- Greta Kirschenbaum is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education. She has a master’s degree in city planning and has spent many years working as a professional planner. Her current research looks at community organizing for new schools.
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Alissa Kronovet is currently a Master of City Planning candidate, focusing her studies on community development and urban design. A native New Yorker, Alissa moved to the Bay Area after three years as manager of the Urban Design department at the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. For the past year, she has served as Research Associate for the CC&S, focusing her work on the San Pablo Avenue Youth Engagement Program set forth by Assemblywoman Loni Hancock's Office. Alissa is particularly proud of recently co-founding the Young Planners Network (YPN), a national organization with chapters in several cities to support the work of young planners and their adult allies. She looks forward to the second YPN conference in New York this spring, and appreciates the Center's support and sponsorship of this endeavor! Her favorite things about living in the East Bay are the regional parks, biking everywhere, and visiting the local farmers market!
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Cherry Ordoñez is a graduate student in DCRP. She worked previously with BRIDGE Housing Corporation, and the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement on Hawaiian Homeland trust legislation. Her research interests are comparative international development, microfinancing, inclusionary housing, and public education.
- Department of City and Regional Planning
- Kristin Perkins is a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning with an interest in affordable housing and community development. Prior to coming to Berkeley she worked for Telesis Corporation, a national developer of affordable and mixed-income housing, in Washington, DC. As an assistant project manager, she supervised construction of a community center in southeast DC and facilitated community outreach for a neighborhood revitalization project in Baltimore. A native Munsonian, Kristin has an undergraduate degree in urban studies from Cornell University.
- Graduate School of Education
- Linn Posey is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education. She received her M.A. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education from UC Berkeley, and has a B.A. in Political Science from Macalester College. A former elementary school teacher, Linn is currently conducting her dissertation research on parent engagement in the context of school and neighborhood change. As a research associate for CC&S, Linn serves as coordinator for the PLUS (Planning and Learning United for Systems Change) Initiative, an initiative designed to prepare current and future civic, community, and educational leaders in the Bay Area to develop collaborative, mutually beneficial policies and practices.
- Graduate School of Education
- Erika Tate is currently pursuing her PhD in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. In her research, she investigates how to design science curriculum that helps high school students make informed decisions about community and environmental health issues that affect them. Outside school, Erika enjoys a variety of work that engages and supports residents, particularly youth, in advocacy around education and health concerns.
- Boalt School of Law
Goldman School of Public Policy
- Lynn Wu graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to teach at Elmhurst Middle School in the Oakland Unified School District, incorporating social justice and youth empowerment throughout her teaching instruction. While teaching, Lynn earned her M.A.T. from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco. There, she researched the correlation between youth involvement in school policy making and academic success. Currently, Lynn is a joint law and public policy student at the University of California, Berkeley. She continues to work with the Oakland Unified School District mentoring her former students, coaching new teachers, and conducting legal research and policy analysis to explore innovative district reform initiatives.
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DEBORAH MCKOY, PhD, MPA
Director
(510) 643-3105
debmckoy@berkeley.edu
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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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