PhD, University of California at Berkeley;
MA, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania;
BA, Political Science, Bryn Mawr College

• Gender, Development, and Finance
• Microedit and Microenterprises
• Policy Analysis
• Urban Economic Development
• Laboratory in Issue Analysis
• Readings in Community Development
• Urban Poverty Theory and Policy
• Community Development Studio
• Gender, Planning, and Public Policy

• “Microenterprise Development in the United States: Current Challenges and New Directions.”  To be published in Economic Development Quarterly, 2006.
• “Planning Towards Parity: Looking at the City through a Gendered Lens.  Edited by Susan Fainstein and Lisa J. Servon.  New  Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
• “Narrowing the Digital Divide: The Potential and Limits of the US Community Technology Movement.” Co-author Randal Pinkett.  In The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective.  Edited by Manuel Castells. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar. 2004.
• “Workforce Development and the Digital Divide: Training Disadvantaged Workers for IT Jobs.” In Communities and Workforce Development. Edited by Edwin Melendez. 2004.
• “By the Numbers: Measuring Community Development Capacity.”  Co-author Norman J. Glickman.  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Spring, 2003.
• “Social Capital, Identity Politics and Social Change.” In Social Capital and Social Change, edited by Marilyn Gittell and Sophie Body-Gendrot.  New York: Lexington Books, 2003.
• “Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy.”  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers: 2002.
• “Four Myths about the Digital Divide.”  Planning Theory and Practice (3): 221 –244, 2002.
• “Fulfilling the Potential of the US Microenterprise Strategy.”  In Replicating Microfinance in the United States, edited by James Carr and Zhong Yi Tong.  Washington, DC: Fannie Mae Foundation, 2002.
• “Community Technology Centers and the Urban Technology Gap.”  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, June, 2001.
• "Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor” Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press: 1999.

• “The role of community technology centers in youth skill-building and empowerment.” Co-authors Rebecca London, Manuel Pastor, Rachel Rosner, Antwuan Wallace.  Presented at APPAM Meetings, Washington, DC, November, 2005.
• “Beyond a Unified Model of CDCs: Reassessing the Role of housing in Community-Based Urban Development.” Co-author Edwin Melendez.  Presented at ACSP Meetings, Kansas City, October, 2005.
• "Rethinking the US Microenteprise Field.” Presented at the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Portland, OR, June, 2005.
• "Beyond the CDC Model: A Reassessment of the Role of Housing in Community-Based Urban Development.” Co-author Edwin Melendez. Presented at Urban Affairs Association conference, Salt Lake City, April, 2005.

• Fannie Mae Foundation prize for best conference paper, 1997 (co-author Norman Glickman)
• “Best of ACSP” Award for one of four best conference papers, 1995
• Chancellor’s Dissertation Award, alternate, 1994
• Voted Outstanding Doctoral Student, May 1993
• Robert Sheen Leadership Award, 1987 
• Andrew Mutch Scholarship to the University of Edinburgh, 1984-85