Fulltime Faculty

Tom Angotti   1615 HW   CV   E-mail   Webpage
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University

Tom Angotti joined the Department in 2002 and directs the Hunter Center for Community Planning & Development where he started Sustainability Watch and numerous projects with community-based partners in New York City. An advocate of progressive community planning throughout his career, in 2008 he published New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, winner of the prestigious Davidoff Prize in 2009. He formerly chaired the Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, and was a senior planner in the New York City Department of City Planning and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He also taught at Columbia University, Harvard, and University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and recently served as a Fulbright Specialist in India, Italy and Vietnam.

Tom is the Land Use columnist for www.gothamgazette.com . He is an editor for Progressive Planning Magazine, Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. His other books are Metropolis 2000 and Housing in Italy and he has published numerous articles, essays and reviews on housing, community planning, urban policy, Latin American politics and development, environmental justice, and sustainability.

John Chin   1612A HW   CV   E-mail
Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University
M.S. in Urban Policy Analysis from the New School for Social Research

John Chin's research focuses on the role of community institutions in community planning and in the delivery of social and health services, particularly to under-served communities, such as immigrant communities and communities of color. He is also interested in how key community-based institutions in immigrant and minority communities shape community values and norms, particularly in relation to controversial or sensitive topics, like HIV. Another project in development examines the ability of small cities to cope with large and sudden influxes of immigrant populations.

Professor Chin is the Principal Investigator of a 5-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health on Asian immigrant religious institutions and their potential role in HIV prevention for Asian immigrant communities. Prior to coming to Hunter College, Professor Chin was a Senior Research Associate for 6 years at the New York Academy of Medicine. Previously, he was also an assistant professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at Columbia University (Mailman School of Public Health) and a visiting assistant research scientist at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to his academic/research career, Professor Chin was on staff for 8 years at the the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA), a NYC-based nonprofit organization, of which he was a co-founder and Deputy Executive Director. He also worked for the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the NYC Comptroller's Office.

Jill Simone Gross   1611A HW   CV  E-mail
Ph.D in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
MSc in the Politics and Government of the United Kingdom from the London School of Economic and Political Science

Jill Simone Gross is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the graduate program in Urban Affairs, with expertise in comparative urban governance, development and participation in West Europe and North America. In addition to her work on governance and participation, Jill has also done extensive research on the challenges of bringing development to blighted communities - focusing on business improvement districts, digital development and tourism. Her new book, Governing Cities in a Global Era: Urban Innovation, Competition and Democratic Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2007) (co-edited with Robin Hambleton), brings together scholars from eleven countries, in one of the first global books to provide a thorough examination of the urban challenges now facing cities on all continents. Professor Gross is one of the North American Editors for the peer reviewed journal Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.

Before pursuing her doctorate, Jill spent five years in London, studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science, working with the last chair of the Greater London Council and in the Constituency office of an East London Member of Parliament. She later returned to New York City and worked with the British Labour party to help organize British expatriate voters. Jill continues to travel widely. In recent years she has presented research on the challenges of political engaging urban migrants in West European and North American cities at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research in Pisa, at the Urban Affairs Association Conference in Seattle, at the World Planning Congress in Mexico City, and at the Halle Institute in Atlanta; and closer to home at the Roosevelt House Policy Center of Hunter College, and at Rutgers' Center for Global Studies.

As an advocate for experiential learning and community service, Professor Gross has served as the academic host for the Manhattan Borough President's Community Planning Fellowship Program, as a faculty advisor for the College Now: Model New York City Council Program, and one of the founding educators on the Model NYS Senate Session Project developed with New York State Assembly and Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force. She has previously taught at Barnard and Columbia University, New York University, Brooklyn and Queens College. At Hunter she teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the areas of applied urban research, comparative urban governance, international urban development, democratic theory and popular participation.

Peter Kwong   1616 HW   CV  E-mail
Ph.D. from Columbia University

Peter Kwong is Professor of Asian American Studies and Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, as well as Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is best known for his work on Chinese Americans and on modern Chinese politics. His latest books are Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community and Chinese Americans: An Immigrant Experience, co-authored with his wife, Chinese historian Dusanka Miscevic. His other books include Forbidden Workers: Chinese Illegal Immigrants and American Labor, The New Chinatown, and Chinatown, New York: Labor and Politics 1930-1950. Kwong has written extensively in both academic and popular journals. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the International Herald Tribune and writes a bi-weekly column on Asia syndicated worldwide by Agence Global. Kwong is also a documentary filmmaker, a recipient of a CINE Golden Eagle Award for co-producing a PBS program on immigration, and most recently a co-producer of Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province for HBO. He is a community activist who speaks regularly in the media on immigrant and labor issues. He sits on boards of directors of several organizations, including the Downtown Community TV and The New Press. Kwong was named “one of the 100 Most Influential Asian Americans of the Decade” by A Magazine. Finally, Kwong is recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship from Hunter College.

Peter Marcotullio   1046 HN   CV   E-mail
Ph.D. from Columbia University

Peter Marcotullio is Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York, where he teaches in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, the Department of Geography and in the Macaulay Honors College. He is also Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities.

Prior to coming to CUNY, Dr. Marcotullio was Adjunct Senior Fellow at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), working from the UNU’s Office at the UN, New York. From 2006-2008 he was Visiting Associate Professor, Urban Planning Program, Columbia University. Between 1999 and 2006, Dr. Marcotullio was also teaching full time, first as a Lecturer and then Professor, in the International Urban and Regional Planning lab, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo.

Dr. Marcotullio’s research interests include urban environmental transition theory, globalization and urban change, ecosystem approaches to urban and regional environmental planning and management and the impacts of urbanization on the environment. He has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. His edited volumes include Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back (2007), Earthscan, James & James, Pub, with Gordon McGranahan, Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American, and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions (2004), Ashgate Publishing Limited, with Andre Sorenson and Jill Grant, and Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region (2001) UNU Press, with Fu-chen Lo.

Lynn McCormick   1614 HW   CV   E-mail
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning with a concentration in
Regional Economic Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Before her doctorate, Lynn McCormick worked several years as a practicing planner in a variety of community and economic development agencies, such a Community Action Program in southern Wisconsin, the Chicago Housing Authority, and the Massachusetts Office of Communities and Development.  Her research focuses on community development in a global economic environment, most recently looking at workforce development intermediaries like business associations. She teaches courses on regional economic development and industrial policy, workforce development and employment policy, public policy analysis, and planning history.

Susan Turner Meiklejohn   1607 HW   CV   E-mail
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Susan Turner Meiklejohn is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. Before beginning her Ph.D., Professor Meiklejohn worked for over ten years as an urban planner addressing community planning, urban development, historic preservation, and urban design issues. Her research, for which she has won awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, focuses on the effects of geographic segregation and racial discrimination. Meiklejohn, a recent visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, is now writing a book about interethnic friendships in her own neighborhood: Sunnyside, Queens, where 60 percent of the population is comprised of newly-arrived immigrants from over 68 source countries. Meiklejohn fully enjoys teaching the history and theory of planning, neighborhood evolution and gentrification, immigration, and urban design. She also teaches for the Thomas Hunter Honors program.

William Milczarski, AICP   1612 HW   E-mail
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan

An expert in transportation planning and environmental policy, Professor Milczarski has done research and consulting in both areas.  As an advisor to the New York City Parks Council, he evaluated alternatives to the controversial West Side Highway replacement road.  He has analyzed bank lending practices in New York State and in many other American cities.

Stanley Moses   1609 HW   CV   E-mail
Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University

Stanley Moses has been at Hunter since 1971. His major research interests have been related to the goal of full employment, equality of educational opportunity, and the changing structure of urban and regional development. These interests have been related to service at the federal, state, and local levels of government in various consulting and staff roles. His areas of teaching have emphasized these concerns at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He co-authored, with Edwin Margolis, The Elusive Quest, The Struggle for Equality of Educational Opportunity and edited Enduring Visions, The Legacy of Bertram Gross. An article on "Urban Places" was published in the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.

Laxmi Ramasubramanian   1616A HW   CV  E-mail   Webpage
Ph.D (Architecture, Environment-Behavior Studies), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Master in City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Laxmi Ramasubramanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning. She is also a member of the doctoral faculty in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center, the doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York. In 2009, Anna University, Chennai, India appointed Dr. Ramasubramanian as a Visiting Professor (Overseas). This honorary appointment is intended to facilitate and strengthen collaboration between Anna University, Hunter College, and CUNY. Dr. Ramasubramanian has traveled widely, and has lived and worked in New Zealand and Australia and in many cities in the United States including Boston, Milwaukee, Washington DC, and Chicago before moving to New York in 2004.

Dr. Ramasubramanian received a Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch) degree from the Regional Engineering College in Tiruchirapalli, part of the last batch of students to graduate with a B. Arch degree from the University of Madras. In her final year she received the prized Sir. L.M. Chitale Gold Medal in Architecture for being the top-ranked student in that graduating class. She received her Master of Architecture (M. Arch) degree from the School of Architecture and Planning at Anna University. Laxmi moved to the United States in 1989, receiving a Master in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and eventually a PhD in Architecture (Environment-Behavior Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Dr. Ramasubramanian seeks to inform and transform planning practice in order to create a just and equitable society. Specifically her research examines how the use of digital technologies such as GIS can alter social and political processes, particularly the power of individuals and institutions to create and sustain social change. Her research agenda cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries. She works collaboratively with architects, environmental psychologists, geographers, engineers, computer scientists, and public health professionals. Dr. Ramasubramanian is an expert in the design, implementation and evaluation of participatory planning projects that use affordable and accessible digital technologies. She has recently completed a book Geographic Information Science and Public Participation, published by Springer-Verlag.

Dr. Ramasubramanian has received research funding from a range of public and nonprofit sources. Her current research is funded by the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Professor Ramasubramanian has been active in research and project management, serving as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of 18 research projects totaling over 2 million dollars over the past eight years. She currently serves on the board of directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), and is active in the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).

At Hunter College, Professor Ramasubramanian teaches graduate courses in planning theory and practice, urban design, participatory planning using GIS, and studio. She is very active within the Hunter College and CUNY community on issues related to the creation of sustainable cities and communities.

Sigmund C. Shipp   1608 HW   E-mail
Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning with a concentration in economic
and community development from Cornell University

Sigmund Shipp has completed research in a variety of areas that have this common theme: a concern for the poor and disadvantaged especially those in African-American communities. His planning research history began with a dissertation that examined locational patterns of black business ownership nationwide. Over time, his interests shifted to worker-ownership and its role in improving conditions in black communities.

Over the past several years, Sigmund's teaching has focused on two undergraduate courses (1. urban plans and policies and 2. methods of urban research and policy analysis) and two graduate courses (1. planning for economic development and 2. education plans and policies).

Currently Shipp is involved in research that pertains to black churches' and colleges' CDCs (community development corporations) and their revival of poor black communities. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, this national research project is the first to be a comparative study of black churches and college CDCs and the first to examine black college CDCs.

He has served for the past three years as Vice-chair for Policy for the Planning Black and the Community Division of the American Planning Association. In this capacity, he spearheaded the development of an undergraduate scholarship program for African-Americans in planning programs and of an effort to get criminal justices issues added to the national policy agenda of the APA.

Joseph P. Viteritti, Department Chair   1606 HW   E-mail Publications
Ph.D. in Political Science, City University of New York

Joseph P. Viteritti is the Blanche D. Blank Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Department Urban Affairs & Planning. He also serves as Director of the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House and has previously served as Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Affairs. Prior to coming to Hunter in 2004, he had taught at Princeton, NYU, Harvard, and SUNY, Albany.

Professor Viteritti specializes in education policy, state & local governance, and public law. His most recent of ten books are When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City (ed.) (Brookings Institution Press) and The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square (Princeton University Press). Other books include Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society (Brookings Institution Press); Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society (Yale University Press) (edited with Diane Ravitch); and Across the River: Politics and Education in the City (Holmes & Meier). His more than 100 essays have appeared in social science journals, law reviews, and popular media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Education Week. His legal research has been published in the Yale Law & Policy Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Southern California Law Review, Fordham Urban Law Journal, and Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class.

Professor Viteritti has an extensive record of public service. He is presently on the Steering Committee of the National Campaign for Civic Education in Schools (Justice Sandra Day O’Connor & Governor Roy Romer, Honorary Co-chairs). He was recently Executive Director of the Commission on School Governance appointed by NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. He has been a special assistant to the Chancellor of Schools (Frank Macchiarola) in New York City and a senior advisor to the superintendents of schools in Boston (Robert Spillane) and San Francisco (Bill Rojas). He was a member of the State Attorney General’s Advisory Panel on Nonpublic Schools (appointed by Eliot Spitzer), Executive Director of the State Charter Commission for Staten Island (appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo), Executive Director of the State Temporary Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Compensation (appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo), and Executive Director of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Police Management and Personnel Policy (appointed by Edward Koch). He was also an advisor to the Charter Commission that wrote the present New York City Charter and to the Districting Commission that drew the current district boundaries for the City Council.

He received his Ph.D. in political science from the City University of New York and is a proud graduate of Hunter College.

Elaine W. Walsh, CSW   1613 HW   E-mail
Ph.D. from Fordham University

Elaine Walsh teaches in the areas of management and strategic planning for non-profit organizations, and social policy and planning. She currently teaches the urban affairs capstone seminar and internship. She has taught Non Profit Management; Strategic Planning, and the core Urban Development Workshops in the Graduate Program in Urban Affairs. She also teaches courses at the undergraduate level including seminars in the Public Service Scholar Program. Her research interests are in the areas of child and family services, school linked school services, leadership development, civic participation, program development, and non-profit organizations. Her publications include articles on children's services; Social Policy and Legislative Change , Services for Children, and Should Adoption Records Be Opened, No ! , Hunter College Liberty Partnership Program , and monographs on the NYC Administration for Children's Services Network/Spa systems .

Her current research and writing focuses on university/school-linked services, collaboration in service delivery and the impact of the public service scholar program on its participants. She is principal investigator of a New York State Education Department grant designed to develop strategies to reduce the school dropout rate.

 

Adjunct Faculty (partial list)

Albert F. Appleton (Al Appleton) is an international consultant with interlocking expertise in water resource and water utility management, infrastructure and public finance, land use and landscape preservation, and promoting sustainable development through innovative financial strategies such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) and monetizing the cost savings from sustainable development. His most recent work includes developing a new system of financing environmental infrastructure for the City of Shanghai water and sewer system, creating a program to integrate biofuel development with the restoration of Tisza River floodplain in Hungary, creating a program to preserve the ecologically unique Maramures plateau in Romanian Transylvania by a combination of sustainable agriculture and ecotourism, assisting the implementation of payment for ecosystem service programs in the Northern Andes. He is also a member of the Katoomba Group (a worldwide network of experts on the use of market tools to address environmental problems), a special consultant to Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP), a new investment fund seeking to provide market rate investment returns while innovatively funding land preservation, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hunter College graduate program in Urban Affairs and Planning, where he teaches courses on Sustainability, its planning and its economics, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Reason Foundation, a Libertarian think tank.
 

Alice Blank is an architect and principal of a blank architect in New York City. She studied architecture at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Columbia University and received her Masters Degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1986. In addition to her design practice, Ms. Blank has taught architecture at the Catholic University of America, the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College.

For the past few years, Ms. Blank has researched the islands that comprise the city of New York. She worked on a team presenting a plan for the future development of Governors Island and launched the design competition Ideas Afloat to consider development ideas for the future of Davids Island for the city of New Rochelle.

Ms. Blank is particularly interested in the future of urban public space and believes strongly in the value of the public competition as a means to uncover the best solutions to the programming and design of these places.
 

Calvin T. Brown works as a city planner in the Manhattan Division of the Department of City Planning. He is the Community Liaison/Project Manager for Community District 10 in Central Harlem. He is also a graduate of the Hunter College Urban Affairs and Planning program.
 

Donovan Finn is a PhD candidate in Regional Planning at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), where he has worked predominantly in the areas of environmental justice and sustainable land use planning with communities in Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis. His areas of specialization are regional planning, sustainable development and participatory planning. He holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois.
 

Barry Hersh, AICP brings extensive experience in both city planning and development, especially of environmental projects, to the land use and other courses he teaches at Hunter. He is also Associate Director, Education for the Newman Real Estate Institute and teaches courses in real estate finance and development, urban economics, and sustainability at Baruch College. Mr. Hersh was Planning Director for Poughkeepsie, New York and Toledo, Ohio, and also teaches brownfield redevelopment for the US EPA.
 

Mitchell A. Korbey, Esq. is an urban planner and an attorney with Herrick, Feinstein LLP, a full service New York law firm with one of the City's largest and busiest real estate practices. Prior to joining Herrick, Professor Korbey served as a Commissioner on the City's Board of Standards and Appeals, having been appointed to a full 6-year term in 1998 by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani.  Before his appointment, Professor Korbey was Director of the New York City Planning Department's Brooklyn Borough Office. Professor Korbey has a graduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Mike Lamb is a doctoral candidate in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, with a particular interest in suburban development and trespass. He has presented his research to audiences ranging from geographers to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police--in such far-flung locales as Rome, Izmir, and Columbia, South Carolina. He received his B.A. from Occidental College in Los Angeles and has published articles in Urban Affairs Review, Arcade, Proliferation, Hit it or Quit It, and other journals. He also serves as Graduate Fellowship Advisor for the Macaulay Honors College. He lives in Manhattan with his lovely wife Lulu and two cats.
 

Scott Larson (Graduate Teaching Fellow) is working on a Ph.D in human geography in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests include critical and urban geography, and his dissertation research focuses on the relationship between the legacies of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses and contemporary discourse over development in New York City. He earned a Masters' Degree in geography from Hunter College in 2005.
 

Kathryne Leak's career as an Anthropologist and Social Worker has given her broad experience in social work administration and ethnography. She has provided direct counseling and training, and has evaluated programs, written grant proposals, and advocated for disadvantaged populations in her roles as project director, evaluation director, staff developer and adjunct professor. Kathryne currently serves as the Fourth Vice President on the Alumni Association of Hunter College, and a board member for the United States Selective Service System Local Board 123 for the State of New York. She holds a BA in sociology from Hunter College, a MSW from Columbia University in Social Work Administration, and received her CSW certification from the State of New York. In 2003, she received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University with a specialization in Applied Anthropology.
 

Lilliam Barrios Paoli is the President and CEO of Safe Space NYC a non-profit organization serving nearly 20,000 children and families in New York City. With an annual budget of more than $12 million, Safe Space works with homeless and run away youth, children in foster care, victims of domestic violence and youth infected with HIV/AIDS.

Before coming to Safe Space NYC, Inc. Ms. Barrios-Paoli was the Senior Vice President and Chief Executive for Agency Services of the United Way of New York City (UWNYC), a non-profit fundraising organization that distributes over $88 million annually to New York City nonprofits. While working at UWNYC, Ms. Barrios-Paoli, was instrumental in the establishment of the September 11th Fund, to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the victims and families of the September 11th tragedy. The fund distributed $528 millions.

She also served as the Executive Director of Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a teaching and tertiary medical center serving the South Bronx, and as a Commissioner of several public agencies in both the Giuliani and Koch Administrations:

• The New York City Human Resources Administration with a budget of $6 billion, the nation’s largest Public Welfare Agency;
• New York City Housing and Preservation Development;
• New York City Department of Personnel;
• New York City Department of Employment overseeing employment services to more than 85,000 City residents annually

Ms. Paoli also worked in the nonprofit sector serving as Vice President for Education with the New York City Partnership from 1990 to 1992 and as Executive Director of the Literacy Volunteers of NYC from 1992 to 1994.

In addition to a distinguished career, Ms. Paoli has a baccalaureate degree from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Masters and Ph.D. degree in Cultural and Urban Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She has taught at the Hunter College and the Bank Street College of Education in New York City and Rutgers University and Montclair University in New Jersey.
 

Phil Plotch is the Director of World Trade Center Redevelopment and Special Projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Previously, Phil was the Manager of Planning at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where he led numerous policy and planning initiatives. Phil is a proud 1992 graduate of Hunter's Urban Planning program.
 

Randall Quan has over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector in a variety of capacities. Currently, he is the Managing Director at Community Resource Exchange, an organization that provides management consulting and technical assistance to nonprofits in New York City. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Dartmouth College.
 

Robert C. Rosenberg, President of Rosenberg Housing Group Inc., has over forty years of experience in affordable housing and urban revitalization as a real estate developer, builder, former New York City public housing commissioner, policy maker, lawyer, and academic. In addition to overseeing the Rosenberg Housing Group Inc., Mr. Rosenberg is Judicial Administrator for Development of the Chester Housing Authority, in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he is credited with transforming the economically and socially despondent community of 36,000.

A recognized authority and industry leader, Mr. Rosenberg has lectured at Harvard University, the Beijing Institute of Design, the University of Nancy (France), Columbia University, and New York University. He has addressed The National League of Cities, been published on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times and authored numerous articles in industry trade journals. He is a member of the Inner City Committee by ULI and the Affordable Housing Forum by the ABA. Currently Mr. Rosenberg is an adjunct professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College where he teaches a graduate level seminar in real estate development and economics.

He holds a B.S from New York University (1955) and an LLB from Columbia Law school (1958). He was admitted to the NYS bar in 1959.
 

Joseph Salvo is director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning, where he was previously deputy director and senior demographer. His background includes a year at the U.S. Census Bureau in 1981-82. He has broad experience in immigration, the application of small-area data for policies and programs, and the uses of census data. A past president of the Association of Public Data Users, he has experience with the Census Bureau's Master Address File and TIGER geographic database, as well as the American Community Survey. A member of the Committee on National Statistics' Panel on Research on Future Census Methods (2010 Census panel), he chaired the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) working group jointly sponsored by that panel and the Panel to Review the 2000 Census. He is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning Department at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Dr. Salvo received M.A. and Ph.D degrees in sociology from Fordham University, is a recipient of the Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
 

Since 2002, Lisa Schreibman has worked in the Capital Programs area of the Department of Subways. There she assists with development of the 5- and 20-year plans and plays a project management role in many of the agency's technology projects. She worked as a community organizer on open space and greening issues from 1992-2002. She has been an adjunct at Hunter since 2000 and graduated from the Masters Program in Urban Planning in 1997. She earned her B.A. from NYU in 1992. From 2003 to 2006 she served as the School Liaison for the APA Metro Chapter.

Pablo Vengoechea E-mail
M.S.U.P. from Columbia University

Pablo Vengoechea is Vice Chairman of the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, having formerly been the Director of the New York City Department of City Planning's Staten Island Office. In October 2001, Vengoechea received an award for excellence from the Site Planning Fundamentals Program of the American Planning Association.

 

Emeriti Faculty

Steve Johnston, M. Arch., M.S.U.D., Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Columbia University. A registered architect, Professor Johnston uses his design background and computer expertise in his teaching and in a variety of research contexts. He has studied energy-conserving site and building design, as well as energy-sensitive state and local development ordinances. Johnston has worked in research related to mortgage banking practices including research grants from the NYS Division of Human Rights and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He studied home-buying experiences by Dominican and Korean immigrants in northern Queens, NYC. He has been part of a funded program that developed inter-disciplinary graduate courses available via the Internet to students from various CUNY campuses.

Hans Spiegel, Professor Emeritus, M.A., Ed.D. in Intergroup Relations, Columbia University/ Community Development, Citizen Participation. Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the United States Urban Renewal Administration and member of Presidential Task Forces on Poverty and Urban Problems. Editor of the three-volume Citizen Participation in Urban Development. A scholar of international rank, Spiegel has served as a visiting professor and research scholar in several countries, including the Philippines, India, Korea, Germany and Kenya. Since his retirement, he has continued teaching part time in the graduate program.

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