September 2024 - Present | Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Black Life, University of Massachusetts Boston | |
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August 2022 - Present | Director, Master of Public Administration Program, University of Massachusetts Boston ‐ Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs | |
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2007 - Present | Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston ‐ Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs | |
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March 2023 - December 2023 | Interim Director, University of Massachusetts Boston ‐ Trotter Institute | |
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January 2022 - December 2022 | Visiting Scholar, Yale University ‐ Yale School of Management | |
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January 2014 - May 2014 | Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‐ Department of Urban Studies and Planning | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2024 - Present | Improving the Understanding of Substance Use Disorder Effects in Communities of Color Across Massachusetts |
Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services | |
Role: Co-Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Fabián Torres-Ardila (Gastón Institute), Carolyn Wong (Institute for Asian-American Studies), Sung Park (Trotter Institute) | |
$2,000,000 | |
2023 - Present | Planning: CRISES: The Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience Center |
National Science Foundation - 2334216 | |
Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES) | |
Role: Co-principal investigator | |
Colleague(s): Rosalyn Negron | |
$100,000 | |
2022 - 2023 | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Operations Research and Analytics University Programs |
INFORMS Diversity Ambassadors Program | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Tayo Fabusuyi, University of Michigan | |
$2,500 | |
2021 - 2022 | Building an Approach to DEI‐Informed Research in OR/Analytics |
INFORMS Diversity Ambassadors Program | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Tayo Fabusuyi, University of Michigan | |
$2,500 | |
2020 - 2020 | Climate Housing Crisis Research Structuring |
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | |
Role: Co-Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Rebecca Herst, Sustainable Solutions Lab. | |
$25,000 | |
2015 - 2015 | Community Development Analytics: From Data to Decisions for Boston Main Streets |
Boston Main Streets Foundation | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Sandeep Jani | |
$4,465 | |
2010 - 2014 | Collaborative Proposal: Decision Models for Foreclosed Housing Acquisition and Redevelopment |
National Science Foundation - 1024968 | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
Colleague(s): Jeffrey Keisler (UMass Boston); Senay Solak (UMass Amherst); David Turcotte (UMass Lowell) | |
$374,718 | |
2013 - 2013 | Decision Modeling Tool for Vacant Structure Demolition and Redevelopment |
The Abell Foundation | |
Role: UMB subcontract | |
Colleague(s): Justin Hollander, Tufts University; Jill Lemke, City of Baltimore Department of Planning (PI) | |
$50,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2016 - Present | Member and founding chair, INFORMS Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2016 - Present | Chair and founding member, URBAN.Boston Planning Team, Urban Research-Based Action Network, Boston Node | 2015 - Present | President, NFBPA-Boston, National Forum for Black Public Administrators, Boston chapter | 2014 - Present | Founding member, INFORMS Pro Bono Analytics committee, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
Honors and Awards
- 2020 Citation for Outstanding Performance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, February 10, 2021.
- 2019 Academic Award, Massachusetts chapter of the American Society for Public Administration
- Honorable mention, Online Innovation Teaching Award, University Conference on Teaching, Learning and Technology, University of Massachusetts Boston, April 25, 2018.
Courses
- UPCD 620 Quantitative Analytic Methods for Urban Planning and Community Development (to be offered Fall 2021)
- PPOL-G 741 Urban Housing Policy
- PPOL-G 891 Dissertation Workshop
- PPOL-G 716 Pro-seminar
- PPOL-G 630 Research Methods I
- PPOL-G 631 Research Methods II (taught Spring 2021)
- PPOL-G 746 GIS for Public Policy
- PPOL-G 780/781 Practicum I/II
- Independent Study: Community-Based Operations Research
- PUBADM 620 Analytic Methods I
- Master's Capstone Advising
1993 - 1997 | PhD, Northwestern University ‐ Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences | |
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1989 - 1990 | M.S., University of California Berkeley ‐ Industrial Engineering and Operations Research | |
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1986 - 1987 | M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology ‐ Electrical Engineering | |
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1982 - 1987 | B.S., Morehouse College ‐ Mathematics | |
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Links
Contact Information
Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
McCormack Hall 3-428A
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
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