My research and teaching interests lie in civil society, especially grassroots and
social movement organizations; participatory democracy and civic engagement, especially
in local politics; and the politics of health and education policy.

Books

Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education (with Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderso, and Jeanne Theoharis) (2009)
 

Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (2009)