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Director
Clyde W. Barrow, Ph.D., Political Science
Executive Board
Clyde W. Barrow, Ph.D., Political Science, Chair, ex-officio
David Borges, M.P.A., Public Administration, Associate Director/Senior Research Associate
Colleen Dawicki, M.P.P., Public Policy, Project Manager, Urban Initiative
Chad McGuire, J.D., LL.M., Environmental Law, Public Policy
Joao Paraskeva, Ph.D., Education, Chair, Educational Leadership
Executive Staff
David Borges, M.P.A., Public Administration, Senior Research Associate
Colleen Dawicki, M.P.P., Public Policy, Project Manager, Urban Initiative
Nancy Trudel, Assistant to the Director
Gloria Pontes, Program Coordinator
Jason Hill, UMD MPP Candidate, Urban Initiative Graduate Research Assistant
Evan Desrochers, Economics, Urban Policy Intern
Robert Golder, UMD MPP Candidate, Urban Initiative Graduate Research Assistant
Advisory Board
David Augustinho, Executive Director, Cape & Islands Workforce Investment Board
Leonard Coriaty, Executive Director, Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board
David Cressman, Town Administrator, Town of Dartmouth
Tom G. Davis, Executive Director, New Bedford Industrial Foundation
Craig Dutra, President, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
Jean Fox, Project Manager, SouthCoast Rail, Chair, Freetown Board of Selectmen
Steven S. Howitt, Representative, Massachusetts House of Representatives
Fred Kalisz, Executive Director, Parents Alliance for Catholic Education
Andrea Klimt, Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime & Justice Studies
Robert M. Koczera, Respresentative, Massachusetts House of Representatives
Carl Nagy-Koechlin, Executive Director, South Shore Housing
Edward M. Lambert Jr., Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Devon Lynch, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UMass Dartmouth
Jill Maclean, City Planner, City of New Bedford
Sheila Macrine, Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning, UMass Dartmouth
Victor Mendes, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Portuguese, UMass Dartmouth
Jon Mitchell, Mayor, City of New Bedford
Susan Nagl, Executive Director, South Coastal Counties Legal Services
Wendy Northcross, Chief Executive Officer, Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce
Gail Russell, DNP Program Director & Professor, Community Health, UMass Dartmouth
Alan Silvia, Representative, Massachusetts House of Representatives
Ricardo Rosa, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, UMass Dartmouth
Shawna Sweeney, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, UMass Dartmouth
Jennifer True, Manager of Workforce Education, Workfoce Education Resource Center, Cape Cod Community College
