Louis Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who is currently Professor of English and Director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University where he holds the George and Joyce Wein Chair. His books include the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the […]
Mary Churchill
Dr. Mary L. Churchill is the Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement at Wheelock College. In this role, she manages strategic partnerships, including the college’s relationship with Boston Public Schools where she represents the college at BPS Equity Roundtable convenings. She currently serves on several local advisory boards: Boston Universal Pre-K, BU’s Initiative […]
Elizabeth Clackson
Elizabeth is a graduate in Political Science who hopes to work in public policy and urban governance. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Elizabeth spent the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson in an on-campus Directed Study program. Through her Directed Study and her internship with the NLC, Elizabeth examined the Boston Centers for […]
Pinar Çobanyilmaz
Pinar Çobanyilmaz is a Turkish urban scholar who is currently researching urban and rural climate resiliency measures and management after forest fires. Her academic research areas include climate change and urban resilience, the right to the city, urban conflicts, the politics of urban space, mega projects and urban regeneration, and planning theories. Dr. Çobanyilmaz received […]
Mary Collins
Dean Collins is interested in child welfare policy, the transition to adulthood for vulnerable youth, compassion in social policy, and the evaluation of social services. She is currently teaching courses including Social Welfare Policy and Programs in Children and Social Program Analysis and Evaluation. Dean Collins is co-leading a research project along with Astraea Augsberger […]
Ziba Cranmer
Ziba Cranmer is the Director of BU SPARK!, an initiative for student-centered entrepreneurship and innovation in computing. Ziba is an innovation leader with a diverse range of experience spanning the public and private sectors. Prior to BU, Ziba served as Executive Director of a multimillion-dollar initiative supporting public sector innovators in cities across the United […]
Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is also a senior fellow at the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child and is a nonresident […]
Daniel Daponte
Daniel is pursuing a BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy with a minor in Urban Studies. He aspires to have a career in city planning or local government to create more sustainable and equitable cities. Through this Fellowship, Daniel will spend the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson in a Directed Study program. […]
Chelsea Desrochers
Read more about Chelseas’s experience as the 2014 Santo Domingo Ayuntamiento Fellow
Gary DeYoung
Gary DeYoung is originally from the Boston area and worked in education in Mississippi and Arkansas for a number of years after graduating from college. He returned to Boston for graduate school, first earning a Master’s in Psychology, and now wrapping up a PhD in Applied Human Development from BU Wheelock College—what he calls a […]