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CONTRIBUTORS Coeditor MICHAEL I. J. BENNETT is executive director of the Egan Urban Center at DePaul University in Chicago and an associate professor of sociology . He has been a community organizer, a banker, and a researcher in the fields of urban and rural economic development. He has degrees from Kent State University (B.A. 1968) and The University of Chicago (MA 1972 and PhD 1988). Before joining DePaul, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago under a joint appointment to the Jane Addams College of Social Work and the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. He also has taught in The University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and at Columbia College in Chicago. Over a twenty-three-year period, he held several positions with the Shorebank Corporation in Chicago: president of The Neighborhood Institute, a nonprofit affiliate; vice president of South Shore Bank; and vice president of the holding company, Shorebank. He served on the City of Chicago’s Economic Development Commission under Mayor Harold Washington. He coedited a book on Chicago’s Empowerment Zone, Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation (with Cedric Herring, Douglas Gills, and Noah Temaner Jenkins), Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998, and he has contributed chapters in books on race and economic development. Currently, he is coeditor of The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis (Temple University Press, 2006). Coeditor ROBERT P. GILOTH is director of the Family Economic Success at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He has been a practitioner, policy maker and researcher in the fields of workforce, economic, and community development for twenty-five years. He holds degrees from the University of Colorado (BA 1972), the University of Illinois at Chicago (MUPP 1978) and Cornell University (PhD 1989). Before joining the foundation, he was executive director of Southeast Community Organization of Baltimore, deputy commissioner of economic development for the City of Chicago, and executive director of Eighteenth Street Development Corporation in Chicago. He has taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore. He is widely published in the fields of workforce and economic development and has written a number of articles on the mayoral administration of Harold Washington in Chicago. He 237 238 CONTRIBUTORS edited the recent collections Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practices , Sage Publications, 1998; Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-First Century , Temple University Press, 2004; and Workforce Development Politics: Civic Capacity and Performance, Temple University Press, 2004. STEPHEN J. ALEXANDER is a senior research associate for DePaul University’s Egan Urban Center. His current work includes a variety of policy-based research and advocacy activities involving social justice and equity issues that affect low- and moderate-income individuals, families, and communities . Before joining the Egan Urban Center, he was the director of the Center for Urban Politics and Policy at Chicago State University and worked for the Chicago Urban League in the Research and Advocacy Departments. As deputy commissioner for Mayor Harold Washington’s Department of Economic Development (DED), he helped establish the city’s economic development policies, administered DED’s budget activities, affirmative action hiring and contracting policies, and managed the budget process including economic and neighborhood development resources. He earned an MA in economics and a PhD in urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His publications include “Public Resource Allocation in Chicago : Impact of the City’s Budget Process on Low- and Moderate-Income Communities,” Policy Research Action Group, Loyola University Chicago (1998); “Balanced Regional Growth Strategies to Revitalize Chicago’s InnerCity and Inner-Suburban Communities,” Chicago Urban League (October 1998); “Industrial Policy and Local Development Strategies,” Chicago Urban League (January 1994); and coauthor (with Robert Giloth and Joshua Lerner), “Chicago’s Industry Task Force: Joint Problem Solving for Local Economic Development,” Economic Development Quarterly, 1(4), (1987), pp. 352–357. DANIEL E. BERRY is senior vice president, Organizational Advancement for the Greater Cleveland Partnership, one of the nation’s largest metropolitan chambers of commerce and the largest private-sector economic development organization in Ohio. Prior to that, he held various positions with the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, including senior vice president for strategic integration, where he was responsible for managing and successfully concluding the association’s merger with Cleveland Tomorrow and the Greater Cleveland Roundtable, which led to the creation of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. In addition, he has been a program officer and associate director of the George Gund Foundation and...

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