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Jeff Vincent

Jeff Vincent, PhD

CC+S Director of Public Infrastructure Initiatives


Jeff Vincent co-founded CC+S with Deborah McKoy and is currently the Center’s Director of Public Infrastructure Initiatives. In this role, he leads numerous research projects and facilitates many of the center’s research and policy partnerships in California and across the country.

Jeff is also the lead PI and director of the National Center on School Infrastructure (NCSI), funded by the U.S. Department of Education and housed in Berkeley’s Institute of Urban & Regional Development (IURD). NCSI is a national resource hub that supports states and school districts in the stewardship of America’s elementary and secondary public school facilities.

Jeff’s research has been published in peer-reviewed and practitioner-oriented journals, books, and other outlets in addition to CC+S publications. Jeff has written extensively on a variety of issues, including school infrastructure planning, school siting and design, sustainable communities, community development, educational economics, housing policy, state school construction policies, joint use of schools, youth engagement in redevelopment, refugee resettlement, and transportation policy. Jeff is also an instructor and graduate student mentor in our PLUS Fellows program.

Jeff holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2016, Jeff won the Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, Research in the Public Interest.

See more about Jeff’s work, including vitae and media mentions, here.

Contact: jvincent@berkeley.edu

Publications + Articles

21CSLA Leading for Justice Summit 2025: Y-PLAN Students as Co-Leaders
Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland, Deborah McKoy
July 3, 2025
PLUS Playbook for Homeless Education in California
Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland, Deborah McKoy
July 3, 2025
A Decade+ of Resilience: The TOMODACHI SoftBank Summer Leadership Program at UC Berkeley
Deborah L. McKoy, David Beiser
April 2, 2025
A Decade+ of Resilience: The TOMODACHI SoftBank Summer Leadership Program at UC Berkeley
Deborah L. McKoy, David Beiser
April 2, 2025
Housing California Educators: Insights from Nine Education Workforce Housing Developments
Sara Hinkley and Emmanuel Proussaloglou / Center for Cities + Schools and cityLAB-UCLA
April 1, 2025
Transforming loss into leadership: Empowering Japanese youth to rebuild after historic disaster
Deborah McKoy
March 10, 2025

News By Author

CC+S speaks at White House Summit on Sustainable and Healthy K-12 School Buildings and Grounds
Jeff Vincent
May 3, 2024
Join CC+S, Stanford, UndauntedK12, and Ten Strands for a virtual policy forum on climate resilient schools for California, April 21, 2023
Jeff Vincent
March 28, 2023
CC+S’s Jeff Vincent quoted in EdWeek article on community connected schools
Jeff Vincent
March 28, 2023
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