URBAN Boston is hosted at UMASS Boston’s McCormack Graduate School, Department of Public Policy. For more information about URBAN Boston, please contact us:
University of Massachusetts Boston
McCormack Graduate School
Department of Public Policy
100 Morrissey Drive
Boston, MA 02125

Email URBAN.BOSTON at: urban.boston@umb.edu

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In 2012-2013, URBAN.Boston focused on defining its potential capabilities for increasing research collaborations between academics and community members by first engaging in public discussions and increasing our network capacity both online and in person.  We also encouraged unfettered brainstorming about URBAN.Boston’s possibilities.  We coordinated many public meetings over the past year:

• July 2012 – 1st exploratory meeting held at UMASS Boston, where over 40 community leaders and faculty members shared ideas of what URBAN.Boston could be

• October 2012 – 2nd meeting held in partnership with the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance with over 40 attendees who discussed the issues that typically arise in collaborative research

• December 2012 – 3rd public meeting held at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, convening over 60 participants engaging in conversation about how URBAN.Boston can help create a new kind of relationship between communities and academics

• February 2013 – 4th public meeting at Viet-AID where over 50 attendees had an opportunity to meet new people in their fields of interest and discuss current policy issues affecting local neighborhoods

• June 2013 – 5th public meeting with students, teachers, and others at the Boston Youth Organizing Project to discuss intersectional youth issues across the city including health, education, jobs, and safety and to identify existing data that may be relevant for collaborative research around these areas

Support for URBAN.Boston is provided by SAGE Publications, the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, and UMASS Boston.

There are currently over 200 participants in the URBAN.Boston network including members of local and statewide community groups, labor unions, think-tanks, academic institutions, government agencies, businesses, financial institutions, and other non-profits.

URBAN.Boston is led by a Planning Team comprised of diverse practitioners who are committed to building this emerging network. Current Planning Team members include:

Ina Anderson, Partnerships Director, Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance

Neenah Estrella-Luna, Faculty Member, Doctorate in Law and Policy Program, Northeastern University

Soo Hong, Assistant Professor of Education, Wellesley College

Chien-Chi Huang, Founder and President of Board, Asian Women for Health and Program Director, Asian Breast Cancer Project

Michael Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, Graduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts Boston

Patricia Krueger-Henney, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Univeristy of Massachusetts Boston

Patricia Molina-Costa (MIT)

John Saltmarsh, Director, New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Boston

Mark R. Warren, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, Graduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts Boston

John Wooding, Professor, Department of Political Science, UMass, Lowell at University of Massachusetts Lowell