Editorial director, Metropolitics. Recently published: "Food Deserts and Real Estate-Led Social Policy." (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research); "Who Works in a Working Region? Inclusive Innovation in the New Manufacturing Economy" (Regional Studies, with Nichola Lowe). Three-city study of maker economies available at urbanmakereconomy.org (funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's research program on metropolitan entrepreneurship). Book project, From Promise Zone to Innovation District, on neighborhood change and social mobilization in West Philadelphia.

My goal is to make practical and creative contributions to academic and public conversations about how planning can increase opportunity and equity in cities. My research focuses on community and neighborhood revitalization (urban redevelopment policy, community benefits agreements, the history and politics of community development) and on jobs and employment (local labor markets, human capital policy, and the jobs impact of local economic development strategies). My work explores the challenges of planning for neighborhood revitalization under conditions of structural social inequality, and offers insights into how urban politics are mediated through policies governing the built environment. It also considers how planners and civil society organizations influence urban policy. My articles have been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Environment and Planning A, Community Development Journal, Urban Studies, Planning Theory and Practice, and Economic Development Quarterly as well as in numerous edited volumes. I also have administrative and project management experience in higher education.