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Deputy Director
(510) 642-1628
 Jeffrey M. Vincent is deputy director and cofounder of the Center for Cities & Schools. Jeff has a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in community and regional planning from the University of Nebraska. Prior to joining CC&S, he worked in city planning and community development related positions for more than ten years in addition to working for five years as a teacher at a Montessori farm school. Jeff's research interests lie at the intersection of land use planning, community development, and educational improvement, with a particular focus on how school facilities serve as educational and neighborhood assets. Jeff's work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, practitioner-oriented journals, books, and other outlets on a variety of issues, including school siting and design, housing redevelopment, state school construction policies, joint use of schools, youth engagement in redevelopment, refugee resettlement, and transit-oriented development aimed at families. He is also a researcher with Building Educational Success Together (BEST), a national collaborative providing research and resources to improve public school facilities.
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Deborah McKoy, PhD, MPA, Executive Director
Jeffrey M. Vincent, PhD, MCRP, Deputy Director
Susan S. Hartmann, MCP, Program and Operations Manager
Ariel H. Bierbaum, MCP, Senior Researcher
- Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation
- Graduate School of Education
- 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
- Nonprofit and Public Leadership
- Haas School of Business
- University of California, Berkeley
- College of Environmental Design
- University of California, Berkeley
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Mark acquired a Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis and practiced real estate litigation for several years before enrolling at the University of California. He is currently pursuing a masters degree at The Goldman School of Public Policy with a focus upon historic preservation policy and its impact upon urban redevelopment. Mark is also quite active in local LGBT rights issues, having recently worked as an analyst for Equality California. When he is not studying Mark enjoys camping and hiking in California's many state parks. He is also trying to learn to surf, without much success.
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- Leslie Stone Associates (LSA)
- Shirl Buss is a designer, educator and urban planner. For more than 25 years, Shirl has worked with children and adults on architectural, interpretive design and community development projects, with a specialty in consensus-based participation in the design process. Shirl holds an M.A. in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College, and an M. Arch. and Ph.D. from UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is an award-winning researcher and educator who has lectured in design and architecture at San Francisco State University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and California College of the Arts. As an educator and designer Shirl has directed programs, facilitated professional development workshops and taught K-college students in schools, museums and informal settings including SFMOMA, Headleands Center for the Arts, Zeum, Asian Art Museum, Museum of Children's Art and Headlands Center for the Arts. Shirl feels that projects focused on the built environment create a framework for powerful learning about self, about the physical and natural world, and about community. The processes encouraged in the best design and architectural studios - critical thinking, creative problem solving, teamwork and integrative learning - are those which are central to a high-quality educational experience.
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Paulo Pisco is an Architect and Teacher in Portugal. Currently, he is a PhD student in Territorial Engineering at the Center of Urban and Regional Systems (CESUR) at the Higher Technical Institute/Technical University of Lisbon.
Paulo also holds a master’s degree in Territorial Urban Planning and Management. His work looks at linking cities and schools through a new conceptual framework for “win-win strategies.” As Paulo notes, "We can’t solve the interrelated problems among school and communities if the two aren’t working together.” Paulo has had two stints as a visiting scholar at CC&S, in 2009 and 2011.
Currently he is looking at comparative policies on school environments in California, Portugal, and other countries. On August 22nd he will present on his research in Portugal, “School Urbanism a Win-Win Strategy to Cities and Schools in Portugal”.
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email: paulo.pisco@netcabo.pt
page: https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/homepage/ist45386
blog: http://www.memoriasdeadriano.blogspot.com
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RANU BASU is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Geography at York University. Her research and teaching interests relate to the geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power relations and governance of local communities; critical geographies of education; and spatial methodologies including GIS. Her projects which are funded by SSHRC, CERIS Ontario Metropolis, and Infrastructure Canada, explore the impacts of neoliberalization of educational restructuring in Ontario; multiculturalism in schools through questions of 'integration'; integrative multiplicity in suburbs; social sustainability and the meaning of public space as it relates to diversity; and the provision of infrastructure for marginal groups in suburban regions. In 2008, she was a John A. Sproul Fellow at the Center for Canadian Studies and a visiting scholar at the Center for Cities and Schools at the Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IURD), University of California, Berkeley. She also serves on the executive boards of the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York Centre for Education and Community (YCEC), and the City Institute at York (CITY). Her publications have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Professional Geographer; Education, Social Justice and Citizenship; Geoforum; Environment and Planning: C; Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
http://www.yorku.ca/laps/geog/profiles/r_basu.html
ranubasu@yorku.ca
- Pablo Montero is hosted in the Unit of Social and Environmental Education at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He holds a master's degree from the University of Barcelona, Spain, with a dissertation about Educational Policies, Community Services and Public Governance. Lateley, he has been driving research in Montreal, CA, and Oxford, UK. He joined CC&S as a Visiting Scholar with a fellowship from The Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain (2007-2011). At Present, he works linking education, territory and society mostly focusing on time use by children and families. pablo.montero.souto@gmail.com
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