In 2012, the Community Development department launched the Visiting Scholars program to broaden and enhance our research capacity by drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field who have demonstrated a profound impact on community development. Visiting Scholars engage with department staff to share experiences and best practices from the field, advise current and proposed initiatives, and share their research with community development stakeholders.

Current

Jackelyn Hwang
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University

Lola Loustaunau
Assistant Professor, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Alex Schafran
Fellow, Institute for Metropolitan Studies, San Jose State University

Past

Alan Berube
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program

Laura Callanan
Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab

Penelope Douglas
Chief of Strategy and Revenue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Jodi Halpern
Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley

Rucker C. Johnson
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley

Jesse M. Keenan
Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture, Tulane University

David L. Kirp
Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley

Deborah Freedman Lustig
Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California at Berkeley

Kirsten Moy
Senior Fellow, Aspen Institute

Ellen Seidman
Nonresident Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center, Urban Institute

S. Leonard Syme PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley