School of CED Faculty
Faculty members at the School of CED combine excellence in teaching and research, diverse expertise in the field, and concern for students and their communities. Their interests span a variety of topics and geographic regions across the globe. Our full-time faculty members are scholars and experienced practitioners, and our adjunct instructors are engaged in cutting-edge practice that further enhances the School’s expertise.
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Yoel Camayd-Freixas is Professor and Chair of the MA and PhD programs, and founding director of the Applied Research Center where he is principal investigator of sponsored research studies. Ph.D., M.A., Boston College. He is a director of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Laborers AGC union national worker training program, and elected to the SNHU Academic Senate. Prior to SNHU he ran a firm that restored distressed CDCs to performance, and consulted with businesses in the US and Latin America. He has served as gubernatorial appointee, commissioner, and executive with policy & management oversight ranging from CBOs to a municipal corporation with $4 billion in operations and 55,000 employees. He founded the Office of Research & Evaluation at Boston Schools, the Boston R&D Group, and trained at the Boston College Laboratory of Psychosocial Studies and the Social Epidemiology Research Group at Harvard School of Public Health. Former assistant professor of Urban Studies & Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Christina Clamp is a professor in the National and doctoral programs. Ph.D., M.A. Boston College. B.A. Friends World College. Currently she is chair of the board of directors of the ICA Group (Boston), vice president of the Allston/Brighton Community Development Corporation (Boston) and member of the Board of National Cooperative Business Association. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center in CED. Formerly, she was a member of the board of directors of Childspace Development and Training Institute, and a member of the Council of Overseers for the Friends World Program at Long Island University. She is a former associate of the Harvard University Program on Non-Violence Sanctions and Civilian Defense. She is a specialist in Cooperatives, Training of Trainers, Curriculum Development and Women's Economic Development. |
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Charles Hotchkiss is Professor in the doctoral and Masters programs, leads the MA in Nonprofit Management, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center, where he is involved in sponsored research projects. Master and Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. Chuck attributes his interest in CED to growing up around America's premier Rust Belt cities: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Youngstown. He was a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, a consultant at Argonne National Laboratory, and later a professor and department chair at California State Polytechnic University, where he taught quantitative methods and policy analysis to undergraduate and graduate students in Urban and Regional Planning. He took a leave to intern with the Industrial Areas Foundation, then relocated to New Hampshire, where he helped create Granite State Organizing Project, and served as Lead Organizer in Merrimack Valley until he joined the SCED faculty. |
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Gerald Karush is a professor of computer information systems in the School of Business, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center in CED, where he is involved in several research studies. Ph.D., B.A., University of Pennsylvania. M.A., Brown University. Principal areas of experience include computer technology, economic development, demography, market and evaluation research. Karush teaches quantitative analysis and DGIS courses in the doctoral program. |
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David Miller (Professor Emeritus), M.S.W., University of Michigan. M.A. Northeastern University. B.A. Brown University. Former Research Fellow at Brown University Watson Institute for International Relations(1990-2000). Past employment includes: deputy vice president for Programs, Save the Children Federation; Rural Development Officer, Near East Bureau within the United States Agency for International Development; acting country director, Peace Corps Tunisia; training officer, Peace Corps Afghanistan; Peace Corps Volunteer, Morocco; Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan; written extensively on local participation and scaling up strategies in the NGO sector. |
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Puneetha Palakurthi Ph.D, is a Professor who graduate level courses in Project management, Research and Evaluation of development projects. She specializes in participatory and qualitative approaches for assessments in designing and implementing development projects. She has expertise in providing the training and technical assistance to the Micro finance Institutions in Impact assessment, Poverty Assessment, and Market Development Services.
She received Ph.D. from Andhra Pradesh Agriculture University, Indiawhere she soon became an Asst. Professor and now has more than 14 years of experience in teaching, training and working with NGOs all over the world. She was a consultant to the Government of India for five years in evaluating the development projects of various nongovernmental organizations. She provided consultancy services to various Micro finance institutions in impact and institutional assessment studies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. She offers training workshops in Micro enterprise Development Institute, and also teaches at Tulane University. She has co-authored papers in HIV/ AIDS and youth, Service Learning for youth and YES Framework for Action to promote Youth Employment. |
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T. David Reese is Assistant Professor, Chair of the National Masters Program in CED, and Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center. Ph.D. and MS in CED, SNHU; B.A. in Engineering Science, Dartmouth College. He has consulted with the Ford Foundation, the US Department of the Treasury, other governmental, for-profit and nonprofit organizations on economic and business development. He spent over a decade on Wall Street at J. P. Morgan and as Vice President at Citicorp Investment Bank, where he worked with major corporations, investor groups and entrepreneurs to structure and finance leveraged buyouts. David is a former Director of the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, a $1.6 million community development venture capital fund to finance community businesses and create jobs for low-income persons. His primary research interests are Small Business Finance and African-American Entrepreneurship. |
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Catherine Rielly is associate professor and chair of the International M.S. in CED program and a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center in CED. Ph.D., MPA, Harvard University; B.A., Stanford University. A political economist, she has conducted research, training, and technical assistance on public policy, economics, democratization and governance, gender and HIV/AIDS for the following organizations: the Harvard Institute for International Development, UNIFEM, UNFPA, UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, the governments of Mali, Zambia, and Uganda, and the Kennedy School of Government. Rielly has conducted comparative research and written journal articles on policy processes in more than 20 countries. Her key research focuses on the economic empowerment of women as a mechanism for fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa. |
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Jolan C. Rivera is an Assistant Professor at the School of Community Economic Development (CED), Southern New Hampshire University. He teaches graduate-level courses in Project Design and Management, Principles and Practice of CED, Economics and CED, Development Economics, Organizational Analysis, and Research and Statistics. He shares his knowledge and experience in using the logic model as a framework for planning, monitoring and evaluation through formal classroom instruction, training of community organizations, and consulting work.His previous work experience includes teaching college-level Economics courses at the University of the Philippines - Baguio. He also worked with a number of national and international NGOs in the Philippines, undertaking tasks that include program/project design, grants writing and management, strategic planning, and program/project implementation, monitoring and evaluation, staff and community training, youth development, and consultancy.In the United States, he was an adjunct instructor/teaching assistant at the School of CED from 2002 to August 2006. He has recently conducted collaborative academic and action research, participatory planning, organizational analysis and program evaluation on topics that include cooperative housing, asset accumulation for people with disabilities, responsible parenthood, and community-based crime prevention. He was the Manager of the School of CED’s Applied Research Center from June to December 2005.He received his Bachelor of Arts in the Social Sciences (double-major in Economics and Psychology) from the University of the Philippines – Baguio in 1987. He received his Master of Science in International CED and Master of Arts in CED Policy in 2000 and 2005, respectively, both from the School of CED. He completed his Ph.D. in CED last May 2006. |
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Michael Swack is Dean of the School, professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center in CED. Ph.D. Columbia University; M.A. Harvard University. Currently, board member of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, board member of the Institute for Community Economics, and former chair of the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority. Dean Swack has extensive consulting and teaching experience in the area of financial institutions and development finance. Recent papers in development finance: Financing Social Housing in M. Stone (2001), Social Housing, Philadelphia: Temple University Press; Building Accountability with Equity: Measuring the Success of Community Development Corporations (1998), Raleigh, N.C.: The North Carolina Community Development Initiative. In addition, Dean Swack runs the Financial Innovations Roundtable that extends innovation to the financial institutions and instruments needed for community development across the United States. |
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Rebecca Adamson, M.S. in CED, SNHU. Adjunct instructor in indigenous economics. Founder and President of First Nations Development Institute, which advises indigenous people around the world. Founding member of Native Americans in Philanthropy and Funders Who Fund Native Americans. Serves on the President's Council on Sustainable Development/Sustainable Communities Task Force; Board of Directors of the Calvert Social Investment Fund; the Corporation for Enterprise Development; Independent Sector; the Ms. Foundation for Women; and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Ms. Foundation 1996 Woman of the Year. A Cherokee, Ms. Adamson has worked with grassroots tribal communities and as a national advocate of local tribal issues for over 25 years. |
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Tosun Aricanli is a professor with the International and doctoral programs. Ph.D., A.M., Harvard University. B.A., Claremont Men's College. Former Research Affiliate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. Previous employment: The World Bank, Harvard University, University of California (Berkeley), The Population Council, University of Gezira (Sudan), and Middle East Technical University (Turkey). |
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Christi Baker, B.A. Cornell University. Adjunct lecturer in homeowner education and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Principal, Chrysalis Consulting, Ithaca, N.Y., which provides training and technical assistance in pre- and post-purchase homebuyer education, money management, mortgage lending, marketing, special events planning and community development. Former deputy director for San Diego Neighborhood Housing Services. |
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Doris Barrell, M.A. Catholic University of America, B.A., University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa). Adjunct Instructor in real estate, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Independent real estate consultant and instructor. Formerly with JLB Realty LLC, and Mount Vernon Realty/Weichert Realtors. |
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Tim Edgar Bolding, M.A., B.A., MSU. Adjunct lecturer in construction, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Founding executive director, United Housing, Memphis, Tenn. He has more than 20 years of experience in affordable housing, serves on several local agency boards and at the national FHLB Advisory Council. |
| Susan Brace, M.S. in CED, SNHU. B.A., Smith College. Adjunct instructor in managerial accounting. Controller of the Neighborhood Development Corporation of Jamaica Plain, Mass. She has extensive experience in nonprofit accounting. She is former acting comptroller for Boston Legal Services, and former executive director for the Boston Oil Consumers Alliance. Her community and professional affiliations include having served as treasurer and past board president, Institute of Cooperative Community Development; board president of Boston Building Materials Cooperative; Treasurer and past co-chair of the Trotter School Parent Council. | |
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Jerry Carrier, B.A. University of Minnesota. Adjunct lecturer in nonprofit management and affordable housing, faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute and trainer at the Federal Reserve Bank, the Federal Credit Union Administration, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials and USHUD. Executive director, Jonathan Association, and advisor to the Urban Design Institute, University of Minnesota. Formerly city manager of two Minnesota cities and a Florida city, executive director of a county housing authority, regional director of the U.S. Economic Development Administration Program, and planner and economic development director for a city and a county. |
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Larry Checco, M.A. in journalism and public affairs, American University. B.A. in economics, Syracuse University. Adjunct instructor in communications and faculty at the NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Principal, Checco Communications. Clients include American National Red Cross, Volunteers of America, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidneys Diseases, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC, Community Development Corporation of Long Island, National Neighborhood Coalition, NeighborWorks® Campaign for HomeOwnership, NeighborWorks® Training Institute, National Housing Institute/Robert J. Milano Graduate School for Management & Urban Policy, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. |
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Michelle Coussens, works as a Business Manager for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago*. She has demonstrated expertise in business planning, project management, market analysis, and development. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an MBA from DePaul University, with a Marketing concentration. She is a non-profit group board member and has published two papers on financial literacy. Coussens owns Plan B Consulting. Current services span teaching how to prepare a business plan, to assisting in plan development, to business plan review. She publishes a monthly e-newsletter, Planning Possibilities which is distributed to more than 1,500 contacts nationwide. |
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Lisa Deller, master's in City Planning, Boston University, B.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook. Adjunct lecturer in asset management, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Program Officer, Organizational Development Initiative, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, New York. Land Use Committee chair, Community Planning Board 2, Queens, N.Y. She has more than 15 years of experience in the management of low- and moderate-income housing as well as providing technical assistance in the areas of asset and property management and resident initiatives. |
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David Dologite, Esq., J.D. University of Michigan Law School, B.A. Boston University. Adjunct instructor in law and community development. He is an affordable housing consultant working on several supportive housing projects in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Formerly an Associate with the law firm of Goulston & Storrs, PC, Boston. He is also a former project manager with the Allston Brighton CDC (Boston) with experience in affordable housing development, asset management, homeownership education and community organizing. |
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Rita Ferrall, B.A. Trinity College. Adjunct Lecturer in affordable housing, bank financing and the HOME Program, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President of Rita Ferrall Consultant, Inc. Formerly with national banks in Washington, D.C., and New York City. |
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Evelyn Friedman. Bio pending. Adjunct Lecturer in Community Development. Executive Director, Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, Dudley Street Neighborhood, Boston. Nuestra CDC, founded in 1981 by Dudley neighborhood residents to take control of the land and rebuild the community, runs initiatives in Real Estate Development, Property Management, Economic Development, Homeownership Services, Community Organizing and Youth Development. |
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David Fromm, MPA, State University of New York at Albany, B.A. Catholic University of America. Adjunct Instructor in accounting & real estate management, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Director, The Enterprise Foundation, in charge of property and asset management initiatives. Former director of management for ACTION Housing Inc. in Pittsburgh, where he was responsible for the management of more than 900 units of housing for persons with special needs. |
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Linda Gallagher. MBA New Hampshire College, B.A. McGill University. Adjunct Lecturer in financial management, and consultant to CDFI industry. She is on the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Fund of New England and serves as Loan Committee Chair. Formerly a loan officer for the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, and Vice President of First NH Banks. Linda has over 25 years experience as a commercial lender, credit officer, and account manager. She has provided funding and technical assistance to community projects in New England, Florida, and the Pacific Northwest, contracting her services in underwriting, feasibility assessment, and financial modeling to CDFIs. She has consulted for national intermediaries, supplying their clients with assistance in product development, organizational development, policy and project review, and project management. |
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Jack Geary, M.S. University of Massachusetts McCormack Institute for Public Management, B.A. University of Massachusetts; he is a graduate of the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Certified Property Manager, Institute of Real Estate Management; holds professional certifications in public housing management, nonprofit housing management and Low Income Housing Tax Credits. Adjunct Instructor in property & asset management, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and the Consortium for Housing and Asset Management. A former public housing resident, he has been a public housing manager and administrator for the Boston Housing Authority and the San Francisco Housing Authority, and is a former Director of Property Management at Urban Edge (Boston) with oversight of more than 1,000 units and property budgets exceeding $11 million. |
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Joe Gonzales, B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz. Adjunct Lecturer in leadership, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Staff Associate, CDR Associates, Boulder, CO. |
| Juan Gonzalez, M.S. University of Minnesota. Adjunct Instructor in community organizing and CED. Director of Community Organizing and Membership Development at Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation (Boston). He works in the areas of immigration, community development, housing, and leadership. In his country of origin, Guatemala, he worked for the Universidad de San Carlos and the United Nations Development Program, where he helped rural communities design economic projects, preserve their natural resources, and promote leadership. Juan moved to the US and joined Centro Presente as Director of Community Education & Organizing, working with Latino immigrants in need of legal assistance. He also worked as an organizer for the American Friends Service Committee, and a trainer for the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Community Leadership & Organizing Center, working with resident associations on tenants' rights, leadership, and economic literacy. | |
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Judi Hampton, M.Ed. Cambridge College (Boston, MA). B.S. Columbia University. Adjunct Instructor in marketing, publicity, and communications, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. She is President of her professional development firm which provides training and coaching, and also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and guest lecturer. She is President of the Board of Directors of Blackside, Inc., which produced “Eyes on the Prize” and other award-winning documentaries for public television. Formerly, President of Judi Hampton Public Relations, and Senior Public Affairs Officer, Spokesperson, and Director of Consumer Affairs for Mobil Corporation. Ms. Hampton has over thirty years of experience as a trainer, seminar leader, facilitator, university teacher and entrepreneur. Her clients include: Boston University Corporate Education Center, The Ford Foundation, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, The United Nations Treaty Department, Forest Labs, Common Ground Community, Mercedes-Benz, government agencies and others. | |
| Eric Hangen, AICP. M.P.P. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. A.B. Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa. Adjunct Instructor in planning and community development, and faculty at NeighborWorks Training Institute.
He is President of Community Development Consulting in Cranston, Rhode Island. Formerly a Management Consultant for Community Revitalization at Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, and Advisor to the Planning Director, Office of Planning and Permits, Caguas, Puerto Rico. | |
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Karl Hilgert, MSW St. Louis University School of Social Services. B.A. Wooster College. Adjunct Lecturer in community building, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Director of Community Organizing, Sacramento Mutual Housing Association. |
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Steven Holland, MBA in real estate and finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University; B.A. in accounting and finance, Morehouse College. Certified Housing Counselor, Licensed Real Estate & Mortgage Broker. Adjunct Instructor in real estate finance, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Partner in Multicultural Homeownership Marketing Consultants, a firm that advises mortgage lenders, housing nonprofits, and mortgage insurers. Formerly president of A-HOUSE Program Alliance, a mortgage and real estate company, and Senior Vice President/Community Reinvestment Act Officer of Mutual Federal Savings Bank of Atlanta. MBA in real estate and finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University; B.A. in accounting and finance, Morehouse College. Certified Housing Counselor, Licensed Real Estate & Mortgage Broker. Adjunct Instructor in real estate finance, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Partner in Multicultural Homeownership Marketing Consultants, a firm that advises mortgage lenders, housing nonprofits, and mortgage insurers. Formerly president of A-HOUSE Program Alliance, a mortgage and real estate company, and Senior Vice President/Community Reinvestment Act Officer of Mutual Federal Savings Bank of Atlanta. |
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Marta Howell, B.S. in Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture, Michigan State University. Adjunct Lecturer in neighborhood revitalization, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Community Development Consultant. Formerly, President & CEO, NeighborWorks® Incorporated of Battle Creek (MI). |
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William Huang, Masters in Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Bachelors of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture. Adjunct Lecturer in affordable housing design, construction management and historic preservation, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Manager of Housing Development, Community Development Commission, County of Los Angeles (CA). |
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Deborah A. Jackson, practices in the area of community and economic development which includes incorporations, business advice and development, obtaining tax exempt status for nonprofits, real estate transactions, contract and other types of negotiations. She is certified to do civil and general mediation in the State of Georgia. She is also an arbitrator with the Office of Dispute Resolution, National Association of Security Dealers. Deborah is a graduate of Princeton University. She obtained her J.D. degree from Rutgers State University-School of Law. She has a Masters degree in Political Science and International Affairs from Rutgers State University-Graduate School. She is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University. |
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Susan Jill Jackson, AICP, Masters of Environmental Planning, Arizona State University, B.A. (Architectural Studies) & B.A. (Environmental Studies, University of Kansas; registered planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners, and a Certified Main Street Manager, National Main Street Center. Adjunct Instructor in community planning, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Community Planner/Associate, RBF Consulting/Urban Design Studio, Irvine (CA). She is involved in developing innovative public-participation programs and working on downtown and neighborhood revitalization, and is co-authoring an APA Planners Advisory Service Report entitled Placemaking on A Budget. |
| Jay Jensen, B.A. University of Minnesotta. Adjunct Lecturer in affordable housing, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Vice President & Principal, Shelter Corporation, Minneapolis, a real estate development corporation that manages 5,700 rental units, a 256-bed nursing home, and has developed or acquired over $600 million in residential real estate. | |
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Eric Jacobs, M.A. in CED Policy, School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University. B.A. in Political Science and Urban Studies, Queens College. Manager, Applied Research Center, School of Community Economic Development, SNHU. Instructor, School of Professional and Continuing Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Adjunct Lecturer, LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York. Formerly, Executive Director, Jackson Heights Community Development Corporation, New York; Director of Housing, Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corporation, New York. Eric currently serves on the Hampstead Master Plan Advisory Committee, and served on various neighborhood preservation and development boards in New York City. Research Assistant, Applied Research Center, studies of homelessness in Manchester (NH), Women Rising Workforce development (NJ), and Weed & Seed national best practices. |
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Diane Johnson, Ph.D. Tufts University, Sloan Fellow, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University, B.A. University of Pennsylvania. Adjunct Instructor in organizational development and neighborhood revitalization, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President, MMAPEU Management Consulting, Greenfield (MA). She is the author of three books: Proud Sisters: The Wisdom and Wit of African-American Women; Mother Love; and The Cultural Diversity Fieldbook. |
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Cynthia Hernandez Kolski, Adjunct Lecturer in leadership, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President of Communication Education, Wheaton, Illinois. |
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John Lehner, is President of the NFR Corporation which provides hands-on instruction, field guidance, and motivation for municipalities and non-profit organizations working to resolve problems and overcome stagnation in planning, financing, marketing, implementing, and managing neighborhood redevelopment, and diversified housing and real estate development efforts. Mr. Lehner holds a B.A. in Urban Studies and certification in training, project development, and grant writing. He has over 30 years of government and non-profit management experience, with a specialty in developing social enterprise collaborations that have raised millions of dollars for neighborhood and real estate redevelopment. John holds brokers licenses in real estate and mortgage financing, and is a 2005 NeighborWorks Kenneth Jones Excellence in Training awardee. |
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Nelly Lejter, B.A. Sociology, Universidad Central de Venezuela; MA Judaic Studies, Brown University; Ph.D., Sociology, Brown University. Adjunct Assistant Professor in the PhD Program, and Research Fellow at the Applied Research Center with a focus on community development in the Middle East . Formerly, Associate Dean for Administration, School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University. |
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Matt Leighninger, MPA Columbia University, B.A. Haverford College. Adjunct Lecturer in democratic organizing, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Associate, Study Circles Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that helps communities use small group, democratic, discussions, known as study circles, to involve citizens in addressing vital public issues. |
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Woullard Lett is SCED's Alumni Coordinator. He is also a Research Associate at the Applied Research Center, and adjunct lecturer in faith-based development at the National CED Master's Program., a Ph.D. candidate at SNHU and holds an M.S. from SNHU and a B.A. Northeastern Illinois University. Previous employment includes: Director of the Community Recovery Project, Manager of Economic Development for Bethel New Life CDC and Environmental Program Associate for the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT). |
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Richard Liversidge, public finance, Wharton Graduate School, University of Pennsylvannia, B.A. Cornell University. Adjunct Lecturer in affordable housing, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Former development officer, Enterprise Social Investment Corporation, New York City. |
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William Maddocks, is the Director of SCED's Off-Site Programs including the Microenterprise Development Institute in Manchester and Ghana, and an Adjunct Lecturer in organizational management and microenterprise development. Maddocks holds an M.S. in CED from SNHU and a B.A. from Southeastern Massachusetts University. He is the past executive director and co-founder of the Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts; director of Development for People Acting in Community Endeavors; organizer, Massachusetts Fair Share; treasurer, Jobs With Peace New Bedford Chapter; chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Haymarket People's Fund; was once a hard rock miner, at Homestake Gold Mine and has been an activist in peace, civil rights, environmental justice, anti-war and labor movement struggles for more than 30 years. |
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Armand Magnelli, B.S. Pennsylvania State University. Adjunct Lecturer in construction management, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute, primarily in the Construction and Production Management Tract. Principal, Livable Housing Inc. and Community Development Software LLC. A 25 + year veteran in the affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization field including a12 year tenure with Enterprise Community Partners. Has managed production of a city-wide owner occupied housing rehab program, and housing development for two nonprofit housing development corporations, including 6 years as an ED of a neighborhood based CDC. Working directly with nonprofits and city governments provides training and technical assistance on several topics, including program operations and systems, housing production, project management, project feasibility, healthy/energy efficient/green housing, neighborhood planning and technology integration. Facilitates strategic planning, and administers organizational & program assessments for homeownership and rental programs. Developed the Housing Developer Pro®, and Neighborhood Survey Pro® software products and the Housing Developer Support System® Web site for Enterprise. The software products are now owned by Community Development Software LLC. A recipient of the NeighborWorks Kenneth Jones Excellence in Training Award. |
| Patricia Maher. MSW, City University of New York. B.A. Antioch College (Ohio). Adjunct Instructor in diversity. Executive Director, Haymarket People's Fund, Boston. Formerly, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York; Director, Pro Health, Massachusetts Opportunity Council; Program Coordinator, Office of Gay/Lesbian Health, New York City Department of Health. | |
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Nancy Anne McArdle, Masters of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, B.S. Carnegie-Mellon University. Adjunct Instructor in community analysis, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Researcher with the Civil Rights Project of Harvard University, studying immigration, racial change and segregation patterns in major U.S. metropolitan areas. For 14 years she was a Research Analyst at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and co-author of the widely cited report, The State of the Nation’s Housing, which documents trends in home-ownership attainment, owner and renter housing affordability, the stock of low-income housing and demographic changes as they affect the housing industry. Her major research focuses on the housing choices of recent immigrants. She is a member of the Population Association of America. |
| Tia Juana Malone. Master of Arts, Northeastern University, B.A. Albany State College University (Georgia), professional certificates and training from the People's Institute for Survival & Beyond (Undoing Racism), Northeastern University (nonprofit management), the Heller School at Brandeis University, and Lincoln Filene Center at Tufts University. Adjunct Instructor in diversity. Project Coordinator, Development Leadership Network, Success Measures Project. Tia Juana specializes in diversity training, and participatory evaluation for CED organizations. | |
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George Montgomery, M.S. in CED, SNHU, B.S. Boston University. Adjunct Instructor in home ownership & community lending, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Management Consultant, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, New England District. Works in the areas of single-family housing, business planning and community revitalization. |
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Anthony Moore, Sr., B.A. (Business Management), B.A. (Business Finance), Walsh University. Adjunct Lecturer in business planning, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President of A. Moore & Associates, Summerville, South Carolina. Has over 20 years’ experience in community economic development, business development and entrepreneurship. Former Executive Director, Historic Jackson Ward Association, Richmond, Virginia. |
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Henry Moore, M.A. University of Maryland, B.S. North Carolina A & T State University. Adjunct Lecturer in community building, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Faculty at the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, a research project of Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research. He co-authored with Deborah Puntenney, City Sponsored Community Building: Savannah’s Grants for Blocks Story, and published Leading by Stepping Back: A City Official’s Guide on Building Neighborhood Capacity. Former assistant city manager of Savannah, Georgia. |
| Karen Murrell, M.S. Marketing, University of Maryland. B.A. Communications, Temple University. Adjunct Instructor in housing & economic development, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President, Higher Heights Consulting and Training. Member of the Board of Directors of the DC Public Library Foundation. Formerly, Senior Director (Outreach and Education), Manager (Targeted Outreach), and Communications Specialist, Fannie Mae Foundation, Washington, DC. Ms. Murrell was named as one of the 50 most influential minorities in business by the Minority Business and Professionals Network. She manages a successful consulting practice to help companies with housing and economic development. Clients include: Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Annie Casey Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Aspen Institute, National Foundation for Credit Counseling, One Economy Corporation, Pay Rent Build Credit, Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and the National Council of La Raza. | |
| Jack Northrup, MBA Dartmouth College, MS in CED, New Hampshire College, B.A., School of Human Services. Adjunct Instructor in business development. President, New Hampshire Consumer Utility Cooperative. Previous experience includes: Project Director, Capital Networks; Assistant Director, Indiana Association of Community Economic Development; Director of Community Planning, Woodbury College; Project manager, Northern Community Investment Corporation. | |
| Jeffrey Nugent, B.A. Springfield College. Adjunct Lecturer in neighborhood revitalization, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Executive Vice President, Development Training Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. Twenty years of experience with DTI. | |
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Nicholas Nugent, Ph.D. Florida State University (Miami), MBA., B.A. University of South Florida. Professor of International Business, SNHU. With an eclectic background of business and academic experience in Marketing, he provides students a rich classroom environment. His focus is on effectively utilizing conventional business marketing practices in the nonprofit area. |
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Alyson Parham, MA Western Michigan University, B.A. Michigan State University. Adjunct Lecturer in proposal writing and resource development, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President, Partec Enterprise Group, a management consulting and training firm that has secured over $15 million in grants for its clients. |
| Paula Paris, MMHS Florence Heller Graduate School, BM Hart College of Music. Adjunct Lecturer in fundraising and promotion. Director of Development, Jobs for Youth, Boston. Formerly, Assistant Vice-President, Bank of Boston; Research Associate, Brandeis University; Program Director, National Center of Afro-American Artists. | |
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Randal Pinkett, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MBA Sloan School & MS School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MS (Computer Science) University of Oxford, England; BS Rutgers University. Adjunct Instructor in community technology & community building, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. CEO of Building Community Technology Partners a community technology services and consulting firm based in Plainfield, New Jersey. |
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Mark Blayton Robinson, Masters candidate, Eastern University, B.A. National Louis University. Adjunct Lecturer in community building, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Director of community building and leadership development at IMPACT Silver Spring. Former Training Consultant, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. |
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Carol Paige Rodrigue, AB Mount Holyoke College, Certified Mortgage Banker, Mortgage Banker's Association of America. Adjunct Lecturer in homeownership, faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute, and Instructor at North Shore Community College. Principal of CPR Consulting Services; over 20 years of mortgage banking experience, specializing in affordable financing for homeownership. Former Senior Vice President & Regional Manager of Commonwealth Mortgage Company in a $500 million underwriting department. |
| Reemberto Rodriguez, AICP, Masters of Urban Affairs, Georgia State University; Masters of Architecture, B.A., Georgia Institute of Technology; Fellowship, Development Training Institute; Certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners. Adjunct Instructor in organizational assessment, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. National Organizational Assessment, Special Initiatives, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Fifteen years of progressive experience in NRC. Former Division Manager, Housing & Economic Development, City of Atlanta Department of Community Development, Bureau of Planning. | |
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Jannis Ross, MA, BS DePaul University, Adjunct Lecturer in homeownership, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Consultant, J.P. Consulting, with a focus on affordable housing, housing education, finance, mortgage, and banking. Former Vice President and Midwest regional community lending manager for Bank of America. |
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Robert Michael Santucci, BS Georgetown University. Adjunct Lecturer in construction management, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Senior Development Consultant and primary editor of the Construction and Production Management Programs of Study at Urban Renovation Consultants. For two decades, he has shaped development & project management departments of governments, CDCs & contractors. Author of five books, he is nationally recognized for value engineering presented in The Consumer’s Guide to Home Improvement, Renovation and Repair. HUD, EPA and the national intermediaries tap his expertise in hazardous-material abatement. |
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Dean Shankle, Jr., Ph.D. & MPA at University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MS in CED at SNHU. Founding Executive Director of Gate City Community Development Corporation in Nashua (NH), and CEO of Aretao, an international community development consulting and training firm with offices in New Hampshire and Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Member of the Mayor's Ethnic Awareness Committee in Nashua, and a member of the International City Manager Association's Advisory Board on Graduate Education. Awarded an Honorary Professorship from Transcarpathian State University in Uzhhorod, Ukraine for teaching and training on public administration and economic development annually in Uzhhorod since 2000. Former Executive Director of the Southwest Regional Planning Commission (Keene, NH) and Community Development Director and Town Manager of Merrimack, NH. |
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Milton Sharp, Jr., Masters candidate, School of CED, Southern New Hampshire University. Adjunct Lecturer in homeownership, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Vice President, Isles, Inc. Financial Self-Reliance Program, where he oversees their home-ownership program, individual development accounts, and financial education. Former Assistant Vice President, Summit Bank.
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Steven M. Shulman. MBA in Finance, Columbia University, New York; B.A. in Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts MA; NEASC Accreditation Evaluator, Financial and Facilities Standards. Director of Budgets and Financial Planning, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire; responsible for a complex educational, clinical and research budget of $200 million. Adjunct Instructor in Financial Management, PhD Program, School of Community Economic Development, SNHU. Formerly, Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; founder and President, Jansson, Inc., Waltham, a niche manufacturing company. |
| Debra Stein, J.D. University of San Francisco School of Law, BS University of California at Berkeley. Adjunct Instructor in strategy and government advocacy, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. President, GCA Strategies, San Francisco. | |
| Arthur Sullivan, Masters of City & Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley, B.A. University of Washington. Adjunct Lecturer in planning and affordable housing, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Program Manager, A Regional Coalition for Housing, Redmond (WA). Former Housing Spcecialist, City of Bellevue, Washington. | |
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Ted Wilkinson, MS in CEDNew Hampshire College. Adjunct Instructor in housing & land policy. Extensive experience in the field of affordable housing, including low-income tax credit syndication, housing construction and community planning. |
| Susan Wilson, Certified Public Accountant, Bachelors in Accounting, University of Delaware. Adjunct Lecturer in low-income housing finance transaction structure and compliance, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Vice President, ESIC Partnership Accounting Department. Former Tax Principal with Reznick Fedder & Silverman, and Tax Manager at Coopers & Lybrand. | |
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David Wood, MS in CED, New Hampshire College. Adjunct Instructor in housing development. Executive Director of Affordable Housing, Education and Development (AHEAD). Previous experience includes: Community Development Director, North Country Council; Municipal Building and Environment Inspector, Piopolis, Quebec; and Carpenter, Brewster, MA. |
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Jason Gregory Zavala, As principal practitioner for MitiGate, Inc., Jason Zavala’s primary expertise is training on the intricacies of housing market issues. These topics include mortgage education, foreclosure prevention, predatory lending, housing counseling, financial literacy, and several other areas of related study. In today’s housing market, Jason has been immersed in providing non-profit foreclosure counseling management aid, grant review, supporting an advertising launch for homeownership preservation nationally, and defining direction for statewide collaboratives to dampen foreclosure impacts. Prior to this, he facilitated Gulf Coast training sessions for housing program access and enhanced management elements for a new Louisiana homeownership education program. Other field efforts include researching multifamily best practices in FICO scoring usage for IDA programs; performing a housing voucher program feasibility study in New Hampshire; and creating an investment education module for consumers across America. Before launching MitiGate, Inc., Jason specialized in foreclosure intervention and homebuyer education in rural New England as a Loss Prevention Initiatives Manager for Rutland West NHS, Inc. While there, he founded the Vermont Anti-Predatory Lending Coalition. Earlier while pursuing a career in consumer-finance banking, Jason successfully management-interned with Bank One of Louisiana. An alumnus of Louisiana Tech University, degreed in mathematics and English, Mr. Zavala is currently pursuing an MA from Southern New Hampshire University in Community Economic Development Policy. |
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Al Zelinka, Master in Regional Planning, BS in Public Planning. Adjunct Instructor in Planning, and faculty at NeighborWorks® Training Institute. Principal, RBF Consulting's Urban Design Studio in Irvine, CA. Al has over fifteen years of urban planning & design experience, is a registered planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners, a Certified Main Street Manager, and a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design. He co-authored (2001) SafeScape: Creating Safer, More Livable Communities Through Planning and Design (Planners Press, American Planning Association) and regularly makes presentations to professional organizations, professionals and students. |
| Name | School | Loc. | Dpt. | |
| Adjibodou, Expedit Michel | e.adjibodou@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Aricanli, Tosun | t.aricanli@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Barongereje, William | w.barongereje@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Bouchard, Bryan | b.bouchard@snhu.edu | SB | MAN | ECO |
| Brace, Susan | s.brace@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Camayd-Freixas, Yoel | y.camayd-freixas@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Chalu, Henry | h.chalu@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Clamp, Christina | c.clamp@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Furany, Kadry | kadry.furany@snhu.edu | SCED | DED | CED |
| Ghiden, Vanessa | v.ghiden@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Gonzalez, Juan | j.gonzalez1@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Hack, Nadine | n.hack@snhu.edu | SCED | CED | |
| Harper, Malcolm | m.harper@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Hishigsuren, Gaamaa | gaamaa.hishigsuren@snhu.edu | SCED | DED | ICE |
| Hotchkiss, Charles | c.hotchkiss@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Hutchins, Shannon | shannon.hutchins@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Jackson, Deborah | deborah.jackson1@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Jacobs, Eric | e.jacobs@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Kaiza-Boshe, Theonestina | t.kaiza-boshe@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Karim, Abubakr | a.karim@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Kayandabila, Yamugu | y.kayandabila@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Kazungu, Khatibu | k.kazungu@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Kisoza, Lwekaza | l.kisoza@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Lejter, Nelly | n.lejter@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Lett, Woullard | w.lett@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Maddocks, William | w.maddocks@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Maher, Patricia | p.maher@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Malone, H. | h.malone@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Manyanda, Julius | j.manyanda@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Marealle, Maria | m.marealle@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Masasi, Rukia Saleh | r.masasi@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Mburu, Chris | c.mburu@snhu.edu | SCED | CED | |
| Milton, August | a.milton@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Mutasa, Felician | f.mutasa@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Ngaruko, Deus | d.ngaruko@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Ngatuni, Proches | p.ngatuni@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Onyango, Monica | m.onyango@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| O'Reilly, Martin | m.oreilly@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Palakurthi, Puneetha | p.palakurthi@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Paris, Paula | p.paris@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Reese, T David | t.reese@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Richmond, Anne Elizabeth | a.richmond@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Rielly, Catherine | c.rielly@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Rivera, Jolan | j.rivera@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Roberts, Michael | m.roberts@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Seib, Rebecca | rebecca.seib@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Shulman, Steven | s.shulman@snhu.edu | SCED | CED | |
| Shungu, Hamidu | h.shungu@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Sinda, Sinda | s.sinda@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Swack, Michael | m.swack@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Walcott, Derrick | derrick.walcott@snhu.edu | SCED | CED | |
| Werema, Samwel | s.werema@snhu.edu | SCED | TAN | CED |
| Wilkinson, Alan | a.wilkinson@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |
| Wilson, Kimberley | k.wilson@snhu.edu | SCED | MAN | CED |