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CURRICULUM VITA CLAUDIA BENOIT ISAAC, Ph.D. Community and Regional Planning Program School of Architecture & Planning University of New Mexico, MSC04 2530 Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131 505/277-5939, FAX 505/277-0076 Email: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD: January 1988 to Present: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (7/95 to present) REGENT’S LECTURER (9/05 – 6/08) DIRECTOR (1/97 to 7/00) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (1/88 to 6/95) Community and Regional Planning Program, School of Architecture and Planning Geraldine Forbes, Dean University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Recent teaching: PLANNING THEORY AND PROCESS, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS, COMMUNITY BASED PRACTICE, COMMUNITY ECONOMICS, LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, GENDER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INTERNSHIP SEMINAR, HOUSING PROCESS. Coordinator for dual master’s degree in Community & Regional Planning and Latin American Studies. Received UNM 2007-2008 Faculty of Color Lifetime Achievement Award and 2006-2007 Faculty of Color Award for “Outstanding Faculty of Color”, nominated 2010 for same award. Received 2007 “Honoring Women” award from Enlace Comunitario. Received research grant from UNM Center for Regional Studies for spring 2001. Honored for “Excellence at UNM” in Spring 2001 and Spring 1989. One of 2 nominated from UNM to submit NEH Summer research application, September 2000. Received YWCA "Women on the Move" award for Education, Training and Development in March 2000. Honored in 1997 by the UNM Women’s Resource Center and the Women Studies Program for service to women on International Women’s Day. Received a UNM General Library Outstanding Faculty Award in 1994. Women's Studies Research Scholar, Spring, 1990. Nominated 1990 for Outstanding Teacher of the Year. January 2002 to December 2004: DIRECTOR Latin American Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences Reed Dasenbrock, Dean University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Director of BA, MA and Ph.D. programs in Latin American Studies. Chair of Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies. Department of Educaction Foreign Language Area Studies Coordinator.

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CURRICULUM VITA CLAUDIA BENOIT ISAAC, Ph.D. Community and Regional Planning Program School of Architecture & Planning University of New Mexico, MSC04 2530 Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131 505/277-5939, FAX 505/277-0076 Email: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD: January 1988 to Present: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (7/95 to present) REGENT’S LECTURER (9/05 – 6/08) DIRECTOR (1/97 to 7/00) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (1/88 to 6/95) Community and Regional Planning Program, School of Architecture and Planning Geraldine Forbes, Dean University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico

Recent teaching: PLANNING THEORY AND PROCESS, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS, COMMUNITY BASED PRACTICE, COMMUNITY ECONOMICS, LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, GENDER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INTERNSHIP SEMINAR, HOUSING PROCESS. Coordinator for dual master’s degree in Community & Regional Planning and Latin American Studies. Received UNM 2007-2008 Faculty of Color Lifetime Achievement Award and 2006-2007 Faculty of Color Award for “Outstanding Faculty of Color”, nominated 2010 for same award. Received 2007 “Honoring Women” award from Enlace Comunitario. Received research grant from UNM Center for Regional Studies for spring 2001. Honored for “Excellence at UNM” in Spring 2001 and Spring 1989. One of 2 nominated from UNM to submit NEH Summer research application, September 2000. Received YWCA "Women on the Move" award for Education, Training and Development in March 2000. Honored in 1997 by the UNM Women’s Resource Center and the Women Studies Program for service to women on International Women’s Day. Received a UNM General Library Outstanding Faculty Award in 1994. Women's Studies Research Scholar, Spring, 1990. Nominated 1990 for Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

January 2002 to December 2004: DIRECTOR Latin American Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences Reed Dasenbrock, Dean

University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico

Director of BA, MA and Ph.D. programs in Latin American Studies. Chair of Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies. Department of Educaction Foreign Language Area Studies Coordinator.

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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD (continued): October & November, 1996: VISITING PROFESSOR Centro Universitario De Arquitectura, Arte Y Diseño, Universidad De Guadalajara:,

Maestria En Desarrollo Y Urbanismo

PARTICIPACION COMUNITARIA EN LA PLANEACION: intensive course carrying full semester credit, covering theory of participation and social movements in planning, techniques of participatory planning, and case study research.

September 1995 to December 1995: VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Urban and Regional Planning Program, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Robert Beckley, Dean University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

Graduate course in PLANNING THEORY. Facilitation of QUALITATIVE METHODS discussion group with Ph.D. students. Consultant in INTEGRATIVE PLANNING STUDIO. Guest lectures and student review in INTERNATIONAL PLANNING, SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF PLANNING AND DESIGN, and Ph.D. CORE SEMINAR. Reading course on FEMINISM AND PLANNING THEORY.

January 1993 to May 1993: VISITING SCHOLAR Women Studies Program Jean Potuchek, Director Gettysburg College Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Undergraduate course, two faculty seminars, and a one-day intensive workshop on WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT. Creation and distribution of faculty development materials in Women and Development, including bibliographies, syntheses on development theory and feminist theory, film lists, etc. One on one advisement of students and faculty with Women and Development research interests.

June 1992 to July 1992: ROCKEFELLER HUMANIST IN RESIDENCE Southwest Institute for Research on Women Janice Monk and Karen Anderson, Directors University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

Research and writing on book length manuscript titled: "My Wife Works as Hard as my Burro: Domestic Subsidy and the Women's Cooperative Movement in Mexico".

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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD (continued): August 1985 to December 1985: INSTRUCTOR Urban Studies Department José Hernandez, Director California State University, Northridge Northridge, California

Upper division undergraduate lecture/discussion course in THIRD WORLD URBANIZATION. Included an introduction to theories of urbanization and development; survey of the history of third world cities; and analysis of population pressure, rural-urban migration, the informal sector, and settlement issues.

September l980 to May 1981: ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN Graduate Programs David Redman, Assistant Dean Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

Preparation and analysis of a national survey of recipients of Graduate Professional Opportunity Program Fellowships and participation in design and implementation of programs to recruit under-represented minorities and women to Princeton's graduate programs.

September 1980 to January 1981 UNITED NATIONS INTERN Institute for Training and Research for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) Danielle Bazin, Coordinator United Nations One United Nations Plaza New York, New York

Inventory and analysis of research and training programs carried out by non-governmental organizations in selected countries for monthly papers published by the Institute.

June l980 to September 1980: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME INTERN Regional Project for Technical Cooperation Between Domestic Development Services,

United Nations Volunteers / United Nations Development Program Helmut Weyers, Project Manager Colombo, Sri Lanka

Survey of Sri Lankan non-governmental organizations involved in community development with recommendations regarding suitability for regional project. Compilation of appropriate technology bibliography. Research on rural self-employment generation and the informal sector. Liaison between UN Volunteers and headquarters staff. Drafting of policy statements. Editing of project reports.

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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD (continued): September 1976 to August 1979 ASSOCIATE (1/78 to 8/79) RESEARCHER AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (9/76 to 12/77) Overseas Briefing Associates Alison R. Lanier, President New York, New York

Planning and facilitation of seminars, workshops and individual consultations for relocating business people on selection of international personnel, inter-cultural training, and on-site personnel support. Research and revision of 20 ‘country updates' covering governmental and economic structure foreign policy, social/cultural institutions and professional daily life, written for relocating business people and published by the firm. Office management. Supervision of a free-lance staff of 25 and a permanent staff of two. Preparation of project budgets, quarterly financial reports, advertising copy and public relations materials. Negotiation of consulting contracts.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: ALBUQUERQUE ANTI-RACISM TRAINING INSTITUTE

Summer 2001 to 2006: Curriculum development for workshop on structural racism in planning and economic development institutions.

ALBUQUERQUE BORDER CITIES PROJECT July 16 and 22, 1995: Facilitation (in Spanish) of a board retreat and strategic planning session on organizational development, issue identification and prioritization, and constituent

identification and outreach.

ALBUQUERQUE HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS ALLIANCE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALBUQUERQUE POCKET OF POVERTY ALLIANCE):

November 1999 to February 2001: Technical Support Team (with James Richardson, Kate Hildebrand, Michael Morris and Diana Dorn Jones) for revision of 1995 Strategic Plan and response to downtown

development plans. Facilitation of "Historic Identity" Study Group. (funded by the McCune Foundation). Facilitation of member responses to draft Downtown 2010 Plan. (Funded by the McCune Foundation)

June 29, 1996: Facilitation (with James Richardson and Teresa Córdova) of the Alliance’s Second

Neighborhood Summit. October 1993 to March 1995: Technical Assistance (with James Richardson and Teresa Córdova) to the Alliance and its member organizations for organizational development, needs assessment and

capacity building, and development of a technical assistance resource guide (funded by the City of Albuquerque, Office of Economic Development).

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued): ALBUQUERQUE SAN JOSÉ COMMUNITY AWARENESS COUNCIL

July to October 1995: Technical Assistance to the Council and its partnering organizations (The USEPA, The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, and the International City

and County Managers Association) in their activities in preparation, implementation, and evaluation of the "Albuquerque Superfund Summit", the "Environmental Justice Forum", and the "Community Economic Partnership Seminar" held August 9 through August 11, 1995. (Funded by the SJCAC with EPA grant funding)

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE:

November 2009 – December 2012:

External and paticcipatry monitoring and evaluation of AFSC Albuquerque’s USDA-funded “Community Based Food Security for Albuquerque Public Schools and the South Valley” project, desgined to assist South Valley farmers technological capacity to extend their growing season in order to supply the Albuquerque Public Schools’ farm to school program year-round.

April 24 - 30, 1992: Participation in a delegation of African American academics, political figures, artists

and community activists to meet, in Mexico, with President Salinas, leaders of the PRI, PRD and PAN parties, federal program heads, university professors and administrators, union leaders, and human rights organizations on regional trade integration issues.

CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE/ BERNALILLO COUNTY

November 2010 to October 2011: Municipal Redistricting Committee. Charged with proposing City Council District boundaries based on 2010 Census data for presentation to City Council.

May to December 2007:

Workforce Housing Public Information Campaign (funded by the City Council through the 2006 Workforce Housing Opportunity Act). In collaboration with the City of Albuquerque Family and Community Services Department, and the Albuquerque Affordable Housing Coalition: Research on attitudes and values about affordable housing in Albuquerque, affordable housing needs in Albuquerque, comparative cases of Cities that have implemented Workforce Housing Ordinances; Generation of public education materials about workforce housing in the form of FAQ's, brochures, a power point presentation, a policy paper, and web site content; Design and implementation of a public education strategy to help create an informed public around affordable and workforce housing principles and policies.

March to September 2004: Commissioner, Albuquerque/ Bernalillo County Second Unification Charter Commission. Charged with drafting a Charter for Unifed Government for presentation

to voters by November 2004. Charter and unification proposal rejected ballot initiative in November 2004.

February to September 1994: Mayor's Planning Advisory Committee: Review of City's current planning processes,

policy development and implementation, and development review. Recommendations to Mayor on strategic reforms.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued):

May 1994: Community Services Department: Human Needs Community Development Task

Force: a citizen committee to provide input for Las Plazas Viejas: Plan for Revitalization of Historic Albuquerque, Albuquerque's successful application for designation as an Enterprise Community.

COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF ALBUQUERQUE:

May 26, 1999: Presentation on “Como Se Maneja Una Cooperativa Con Exito y Poder Colectivo”, to

members of the La Mesa Cooperative and other Cooperatives in the Southeast Heights. One on one consultation on common cooperative management problems.

CONTIGO RESEARCH, STRATEGY AND POLICY:

October, 2007 to Decermber, 2009: Contract consultation on qualitative research methods, research protocol and

evaluation strategies for an evaluation of the National Council of La Raza’s Escalera program.

CREDIT

June 13, and July 6, 1995: Facilitation of strategic and implementation planning sessions for Albuquerque- based campaigns around the Community Reinvestment Act.

DOWNTOWN ACTION TEAM: November, 1998 to June, 1999: Participant in “Neighborhood Outreach Committee” charged with building relationships between the DAT and neighborhood associations and community based organizations

in the downtown.. ENLACE COMUITARIO:

March 2012 to present: Ongoing evaluation focused technical assistance, intitally in response to the

LTG/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation process. Currently working with Enlace Comunitarioon an ‘empowerment evaluation’ of their intervention and prevention programs.

LA MESA COOPERATIVA:

May to December 2000: Technical Assistance in organizational structure, financial structure and and capacity

building to Spanish speaking members of an Albuquerque housekeeping cooperative.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued): LTG ASSOCIATES:

December 2009 to March 2012: ‘Project Capacity Consultant’ for Enlace Communitario on a two year, Robert Wood

Johnson Foundation funded Strengthening What Works Grant. Involves consultation, technical assistance and evaluation capacity building in service of a 3 year evaluation of Enlace Comunitario’s Youth Leaders project and Adult Promotoras project designed to increase community leadership and capacity to prevent intimate partner violence.

LUNA Y SOL MIDWIFERY CENTER:

January to June 2006:

Consultation and technical assistance in organizational structure, strategic planning, and site planning.

NEW MEXICO CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES:

March to October 2001: Participation in (and occasional facilitation of) working group sessions on service provider solutions to housing needs of substance abusing, homeless, sex workers.

Presentation to member Pastors about community based planning contexts for affordable housing work by faith-based organizations in Albuquerque.

NEW MEXICO FARMER’S MARKETING ASSOCATION

August 2009 to January 2010: Qualitative methods consultation, facilitation of collaborative planning by project

partners, and training of community-based researchers for “Community Foods Action Research Project”, a USDA-funded project designed to analyse challenges and opportunities for creating a nutritious and local food “value chain” for low and moderate income residents of Santa Fe and Española, New Mexico.

NEW MEXICO FIRST:

April 27 to May 1, 1994: Participation in the thirteenth New Mexico First Town Hall: "Economic Development in New Mexico: What Are the Goals?"

NEW MEXICO MAIN STREET:

October 2011 to present: Consultation, and facilitation with staff, consultants and partners of NMMS to to define

the aspects of capacity the NMMS team wishes to pursue, in order to create an implementable community capacity building, resiliency and sustainability plan.

RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARM:

July, 2011: Facilitated the Farm’s five year strategic planning process to revisit the RGCF mission,

clarify board responsibilities and commitments, and align current and proposed activities with the clarified mission and available human resources.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued): SOUTHEAST HEIGHTS COMMUNITY HEALTH COLLABORATIVE:

November 2009 to March 2010:

Communty education project funded by Saint Joseph’s Community Health Services Community to design and deliver a curriculum around “Sector Planning For Healthy Communities”; conduct workshops in English and Spanish based on curriculum, and provide technical assistance and training of trainers workshop for Collaborative members in anticipation of their participation in the International District Sector Plan process.

x UNIVERSIDAD DE QUINTANA ROO, CHETUMAL, MEXICO

July 2002 to June 2008: Program development (funded in part by USAID “Ties” Grant from August 2003

through October 2006, co-principal investigator with David S. Henkel) of a new Maestría en Planeación from proposal to implement stages. Participation in Academic Advisory Committee for the program. Liaison and academic exchange and partnership with UNM’s CRP program. Conduct of capacity building sessions for UQRoo planning faculty and advanced students in planning theory and participatory planning.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES:

September 1984 to May 1985: Project Director for the Statistical Abstract Data Base, a project to create an on-line statistical abstract for the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the California Spanish Language Data Base, including compilation of user-friendly statistical

abstracts, documentation and demographic profiles on the California Latino population based on l980 Census summary (file 4B) data.

January 1985 to March l985: Teaching Associate for Professor Peter Marris, Urban Planning Program, in graduate course in Social Theory For Planners, which included lectures on marxist social theory,

leading class discussions, student advising on class material, readings, papers, and commenting/grading final research papers.

March 1983 to January l985: Researcher for the Los Angeles Inter-Ethnic Census Project. Developed a research design, access programming, reorganization and analysis of 1980 Census and 1970

Public Use Sample data for study of changes in the quality of life for ethnic minorities in Los Angeles County for the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

June 1983 to December 1983: Field research associate for Professor Rebeccda Morales, Urban Planning Program, in Mexico and Arizona on the Cooperativa Sin Fronteras of the Arizona Farmworkers

Union. Fieldwork included assessments of bi-national organization strategies, non-state development planning, relationships between union rank and file and cooperative membership, and effects of the cooperative on migration.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued):

April 1982 to June 1982: Special Reader for Professor Ned Levine, Urban Planning Program, to provide teaching assistance for Survey Research Methods, a graduate course on the theory,

design, operation and analysis of survey research. Activities included leading project teams, supervising survey management, lecturing on sampling theory and method, and reading/grading reports.

January 1982 to March l982: Special Reader for Professors Leo Estrada and Ned Levine, Urban Planning Program, to provide teaching assistance for Urban Data Analysis, a graduate course on

application of demographic techniques to urban research. Activities included teaching problem sessions and special tutorials, and design/grading of assignments.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, URBAN PLANNING PROGRAM:

March 4 to March 9, 1994: King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Assistant Professor (Lectures and class presentations on the relation of class, gender and nation in development planning practice. Meetings

with organizations of students of color and women, and one-on-one discussions with students of color and international students in planning and architecture).

WESTERN RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER

May 19-20 1995: Facilitation of consensus structuring, issue identification, and strategic planning session

for a team of Alaskan social service professionals and activists in the "Pathways From Poverty Symposium", held in Albuquerque.

PUBLICATIONS:

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS “Learning from Difference: The Potentially Transforming Experience of Community/University

Collaboration”, with Margaret Dewar, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Summer, 1998. "Witchcraft, Cooperatives and Gendered Competition in a P'urepecha Community", Frontiers: A Journal

of Women Studies, Vol. 16, no. 2/3, 1996. "The Promotion of Women's Cooperatives in Mexico: Is 'Feminist Technical Assistance' An Oxymoron?",

International Planning Studies, Vol. 1, no. 1, February, 1996. "Implications of Cooperative Promotion on Class Stratification Among Rural Women in Mexico", Latin

American Research Review, Vol. 30, no. 2, 1995. BOOK CHAPTERS:

"La Pesada Carga de la Mujer Campesina en la Producción" in Los Obstáculos Para el Desarrollo, edited

by Fred Harris. Albuquerque: Office of International Technical Cooperation, 1991.

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):

BOOK REVIEWS: “Review of Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities”, Economic Development

Quarterly, Nov 2007; 21 (4). “Review of: Social Capital in Poor Communities”, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 69, #

1, Winter 2003, pp. 95-96. "Review of: Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia, and Latin

America," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring, 1994. PROFESSIONAL DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS:

With Amos Stoltzfus, “Implications of National and International Capacity Building Approaches for NMMS

Reflective Community Practice”, for New Mexico Main Street, April 9. 2012. With Amos Stoltzfus. “New Mexico Main Street Report on Capacity Building task Force Meeting: October

28, 2011”. With Amos Stoltzfus. “New Mexico Main Street Report on Capacity Building Task Force Meeting:

November 21, 2011”. With Amos Stoltzfus. “Report on New Mexico Main Street Capacity Building Symposium: December 2,

2011”. With Amos Stoltzfus. “Report on Staff and Associates Retreat, December 16, 2011”. With Amos Stoltzfus. “Report on Phase Two Capacity Building Meeting, April 13, 2012”. With Amos Stoltzfus. “Report on Phase Two Capacity Building Meeting, May 11, 2012”. “Report of Strategic Planning Retreat”, prepared for the Board and Staff of the Rio Grande Community

Farm, July 9, 2011. “Sector Planning, Land Use and Health Promotion in the International District: A Workbook for

Community Advocates”, with Moises Gonzales & Megan McKenna. For the Albuquerque Southeast Heights Health Coalition, February 2010.

“El Proceso de hacer los Planes Sectoriales, Uso de la Tierra, y la Promoción de Salud en el Distrito

Internacional: Un Cuaderno para los Promotores Comunitarios”, with Moises Gonzales & Megan McKenna. For the Albuquerque Southeast Heights Health Coalition, February 2010.

“Land Use and Health Board Games”: “Sector Planning Jeopardy Game”, “Assets, Blight and

Opportunity Game” with Moises Gonzalez and Megan McKenna. Produced for Southeast Heights Health Coalition for use in its community mobilization efforts for the Southeast Heights Sector Planning Process, February 2010.

“UNM/Community Engaged Scholarship Action Plan”, with Matthew Borrego, Tassy Parker & Marilyn

Davis. July, 2008, for the UNM Workgroup on CBPR, reporting on outcome of the Faculty for an Engaged Campus Charrette (FIPSE/Community Campus Partnerships for Health).

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PUBLICATIONS (continued): “Perceptions of Workforce Housing in Albuquerque: Implications for Housing Policy”, with Micaela

Cadena, Jerusha Daniels, Kate Hildebrand, Steve Lucero, Kileen Mitchell, and Nicole Sanchez-Howell for the City of Albuquerque, Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, December 2007.

“Albuquerque’s Workforce Housing Opportunity Act”, with Micaela Cadena, Jerusha Daniels, Edwina

Dubois, Jennifer Jackson, Steven Lucero, Mayra Madriz, Kileen Mitchel, Michael Montoya, Crhis Nolan, Ruji Rajbhandari, Andres Ranieri, Christopher Ramirez, Nicole Sanchez-Howell, and Aaron Sussman. DVD for the City of Albuquerque, Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, September 2007. Viewable at www.youtube.com (search ‘Workforce Housing Albuquerque’).

“Workforce Housing Public Education Project Factsheet: The Workforce Housing Opportunity Act”, for for

the City of Albuquerque, Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, September, 2007.

“Workforce Housing Public Education Project Factsheet: Community Impacts of Affordable Housing”, for

for the City of Albuquerque, Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, September, 2007.

“Workforce Housing Public Education Project Factsheet: Housing Conditions in Albuquerque”, for for the

City of Albuquerque, Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, September, 2007.

“Workforce Housing Public Education Project Factsheet: Who Qualifies?”, for for the City of Albuquerque,

Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, September, 2007. “Workforce Housing Public Education Project Factsheet: Community Concerns”, for for the City of

Albuquerque, Workforce Housing Public Education Plan and Implementation, September, 2007. “Proposed Charter for the Single Urban Government of Albuquerque-Bernalillo County 2004”, presented

by the 2004 Unification Charter Commission (Patrick Burke, Ernie C de Baca, Albert Chavez, Bianca Encinias, Tommy Hughes, Claudia Isaac, Mary Molina Mescall, Sander Rue, Ciel van Berkel) to the voters of the City of Albuquerque and of Bernalillo County for adoption on November 2, 2004. Not adopted by voters.

“Historic Neighborhoods Alliance in the Pocket of Poverty: Revised Strategic Plan”, with Kate

Hildebrand, James (Ric) Richardson, Michael Morris and Diana Dorn Jones for the Historic Neighborhoods Alliance in the Pocket of Poverty, September 2001.

“Historic Neighborhoods Alliance Proposed Amendments To Downtown 2010 Sector Development Plan:

Submitted To Councilor Adele Hundley, District 3”, with members of the Historic Neighborhoods Alliance, Kate Hildebrand, Diana Dorn Jones & James (Ric) Richardson, March 13, 2000.

"Community Report on the Albuquerque Environmental Justice and Superfund Summit, August 9-11,

1995" for The Albuquerque San José Community Awareness Council, October, 1995. "Capacity Building Resource Guide For Members of the Pocket of Poverty Alliance", with James (Ric)

Richardson and Teresa Córdova, for the Office of Economic Development, City of Albuquerque, March, 1995.

"Self Assessments of Organizational Capacity in the Pocket of Poverty", with James (Ric) Richardson and

Teresa Córdova, for the Office of Economic Development, City of Albuquerque, February, 1995.

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PUBLICATIONS (continued): "Report and Recommendations of the Mayor's Planning Advisory Committee", with Ron Brown, Norman

Churchill, Cleve Matthews, Robert McCabe, Don Newton, Hy Rosner, and Jay Sorenson, for Mayor Martin Chavez, City Of Albuquerque, September, 1994.

"Pocket of Poverty Alliance Strategic Plan for Re-Allocation of UDAG Funds" with James (Ric)

Richardson and Teresa Córdova for the Pocket of Poverty Alliance and City of Albuquerque Community Services Department, June, 1994.

"Barriers to Access and Success of Minorities and Women in Princeton University's Graduate Programs",

for the Princeton University Graduate Division, January, 1982. ARTICLES IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS:

“The Social And Cultural Costs Of Sprawl: Some Insights And Cautions From Albuquerque Community Members, Presented at the 1000 Friends of New Mexico, Annual Conference, November 9, 2002, forthcoming at http://www.1000friends-nm.org/conference_02.html.

“The Professionalization Of Community Based Practice: Municipal vs. Community Approaches to

Planning for Community Identity”, Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Meetings, 2002.

“Protecting the Rights of Immigrants”, Insight And Opinion Section, Albuquerque Tribune, Tuesday,

August 3, 1999, page D1. “Crossover Dreams: Gender & Development and Community Development Practice”, Planners Network

Newsletter, summer, 1998. "The Arizona Farmworkers Union and the Cooperativa Sin Fronteras: Lessons in Bi-National

Organizing," Mass Magazine, Fall, 1994. "Managing Transition: The State and Women's Cooperatives in Mexico", Mass Magazine, Fall, 1989. "The Value and Accessibility of Census Data For Social Science Research at UCLA", with W.M. Herron,

S. Guyette, and K.B. Yip. Perspectives, UCLA, Office of Academic Computing May/June, l985. "Using the Arts in Community Mobilization" UNV-DDS News: Asia and the Pacific #4, August, 1980. WORKING PAPERS: "Implications of Class Stratification on Cooperative Promotion Among Rural Women in Central Mexico”,

Southwest Institute for Research on Women Working Paper Series, # 31, 1993. "Development Planning, Rural Women and Reproductive Subsidy" Center for Research and Development

Working Paper Series, 91-1, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, 1991. "The Use of Cooperative Promotion as a Form of Agrarian Regulation in Mexico", Center for Research

and Development Working Paper Series, 91-8, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, 1991.

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS: “Teaching through Stories in a Multiplex Classroom”, article manuscript in progress. “An Emerging Identity-Based Paradigm in Planning Theory”, article manuscript in progress. “Contested Conceptions of Progress in Albuquerque’s Downtown Redevelopment Process”, article

manuscript in progress. “Insurgent Urbanism and Racialized Planning as represented in Star Trek Deep Space Nine”, article

manuscript in progress. PRESENTATIONS:

INVITED LECTURES: “Qualitative Methods”, UNM Graduate Student Resource Center Workshop Series, June 2011, October

2011, and April 2012. “Using Evaluation Logic Models in Grant Proposals”, Graduate Student Funding Initiative, UNM Office of

Research, April 2011, September 2011, April 2012 and July 2012. “Approaches to Qualitative Methods in Research”, UNM McNair Research Scholars, January 29, 2011. “Faculty Development for Community Engaged Scholarship”, with Matthew Borrego. UNM Health

Sciences Center, CBPR Seminar Series, November 18, 2009. “Gentrification and Race in Downtown Albuquerque”, Presented at Albuquerque White History Week,

January 9, 2008 (at Out Ch’Yonda) and April 19, 2009 (at 1Kind Theatre). “Contested Conceptions Of Progress In Downtown Re-Development: The Albuquerque Experience”,

Presented at Arizona State University, Community & Urban Development Seminar Series, March 1, 2007.

“The Social And Cultural Costs Of Sprawl: Some Insights And Cautions From Albuquerque Community

Members, Presented at the 1000 Friends of New Mexico, Annual Conference, November 9, 2002 “Getting Real About Redevelompent: The Sawmill Community Land Trust”, ‘Street Talk’ at the Paradise

Paved Symposium: Rethinking Utopian Ideas about the City, UNM Center for the Southwest, Albuqeurque, New Mexico, April 24, 2002.

“Contexts for Affordable Housing Work in Albuquerque” Jubilee Housing Luncheon Presentation, New

Mexico Conference of Churches, November 28, 2001

“Oral History as Expert Voice: Difference, Representation, and Rigor in Narrative Community Based Practices”, presented at Racialized Identities in the City: Implications for the 21st Century Conference, Wayne State University, March 22-23, 2001.

“Planners’ Complicity in Structural Racism”, presented at the Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs,

University of Minnesota, January 23, 2001. "How Social Theory Informs Social Practice" presented at Fort Lewis College, April 20, 2000.

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PRESENTATIONS (continued): “Community Organizing”, presented to the Rio Grande Coalition, April 19, 1998, “Neighborhood Construction and Community Planning in Albuquerque”, SAAP Wednesday Words Series,

February 4, 1998. “Communities Ask ‘Why Plan’ Claudia Isaac Responds”. Presented to the UNM 21 Club, September 30,

1996. "Bringing It All Together: Community Based Technical Assistance". Presented at "Binational Experiences

with Community Based Planning: Bridging Theory and Practice", UNM School Architecture and Planning, March 18, 1996.

"Witchcraft and Technical Assistance", College of Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty Research

Series, University of Michigan, November 1, 1995. "Practice as Scholarship, Participatory Research with the Albuquerque Pocket of Poverty Neighborhood

Alliance," Urban Technology and Environment Program Brown Bag Series, University of Michigan, October 27, 1995.

"My Wife Works As Hard As My Burro: Domestic Subsidy and Cooperative Production in Central

Mexico", Cornell University Lecture Series, April 7, 1995. "Possibilities for Technical Assistance That Empowers", General Library Faculty Acknowledgment

Reception, University of New Mexico, November 10, 1994. "Gender Bias in Systems of Technical Assistance in Mexico,” Urban Technology and Environment

Program Brown Bag Series, University of Michigan, March 4, 1994. "Women's Cooperatives in Mexico: Is Feminist Technical Assistance an Oxymoron?," Urban Planning

Program Thursday Evening Lecture Series, University of California, Los Angeles, February 24, 1994 "Racial Paradigms in an Historical Perspective: Does Post-Modern Theory Help Us Fight Racism?", Fort

Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, December 8, 1991.

"Women's Cooperatives in Mexico", Town And Gown Breakfast Club, University of New Mexico, August 24, 1990.

CONFERENCE PANEL AND ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATIONS:

“Identity Practices and Community-based Planning: A New Paradigm?”, UNM Community and Regional

Planning Program 30th Anniversary Celebration, September 30, 2011. “CBPR and Health Impact Assessment in Community Based Practice” Community Based Participatory

Research Series, UNM College of Medicine, April 14, 2010. “Contested Conceptions Of Progress In Downtown Re-Development: The Albuquerque Experience”,

Presented at The Planner’s Network Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30 – June 2, 2007.

“Historical Habits, Identity Practices and Structural Racism: Class and Identity Contestation in

Albuquerque New Mexico’s Downtown Redevelopment Planning”, presented at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, Missouri, October 27-30, 2005.

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PRESENTATIONS (continued): “Reflections on Action Planning for Diversity Within Academic Planning”, presented in the President’s

Roundtable on Diversity, at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Kansas City, Missouri, October 27-30, 2005.

“The Role of Women of Color in the Academy: Modelling Multiplexity”, presented in a colloquy on

“Women of Color in the Academy” at the Meetings of the Urban Affairs Association, Cleveland, Ohio, March 26-29, 2003.

“Teaching Through Stories in a Diverse Classroom”, presented at the Meetings of the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, MD, November 23, 2002. “The Professionalization Of Community Based Practice: Municipal vs. Community Approaches to

Planning for Community Identity”, presented at the Meetings of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, February 15-17, 2002.

"Structural Racism and Concentrated Poverty" Discussant of presentation by john powell: 'How Sprawl

Makes Us Poor', 1000 Friends of New Mexico Forum, Albuquerque, NM, March 17, 2000. "Negotiated Investment Strategies as a Means of Ensuring Community Voice in Community

Development" Discussant of presentation by Chuck Mathai: 'Keeping The Community in Community Development', 1000 Friends of New Mexico Development Forum, Albuquerque, NM, February 18, 2000.

"Planners, The State, and Alternative Theory: Comments on 'Planning, Urban Revitalization and the Inner

City: an Exploration of Structural Racism' by Catherine Ross and Nancy Greenleigh. Presented at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Chicago, October 1999.

"Cooperativismo como Estrategía Laboral", presented at Encuentro Laboral, Albuquerque, September 19,

1999. “Strategic Planning at the Program Level”, presented at the ACSP Administrator’s Conference, Chicago,

May 15, 1999. “Building University and Community Relationships", Plenary presentation at the ACSP Administrator’s

Conference, Chicago, May 15, 1999. “The Albuquerque Community Planning Program: Contradictions in Planning for Community Identity”,

With Susanne Kissmann. Presented at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Pasadena, November, 1998.

With Margaret Dewar. “Students as Technical Assistants: Dilemmas in Teaching Planning Studios With

Community Outreach Components”, Roundtable Discussion at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Toronto, Ontario, July 25-28, 1996.

"The Specificity of Women of Color In Planning Education and Practice", Roundtable Discussion at the

Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Detroit Michigan, October 19-22, 1995. "Global Approaches to Planning Education", Roundtable Discussion at the Meetings of the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Detroit Michigan, October 19-22, 1995. PRESENTATIONS (continued):

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PRESENTATIONS (continued): "Municipal and Neighborhood Models for Community Based Planning in Albuquerque", presented at the

Annual Board Retreat of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 17, 1995.

"Historical Lessons From Oklahoma City", presented at the Progressive Students Alliance Teach-in on

the Oklahoma Massacre, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1, 1995. "Witchcraft, Cooperatives, and Gendered Competition in a P'urepecha Community", presented at the

Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Phoenix, Arizona, November 3-5, 1994.

"Pedagogies for Diversity: Developing Inclusionary Teaching Methods in the Planning Classroom",

Roundtable Discussion at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Phoenix, Arizona, November 3-5, 1994.

"Subtle Forms of Institutional Racism" (with Teresa Córdova), presented at the Celebrating Differences

Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 3, 1994. "Implications of Class Stratification on Cooperative Promotion Among Rural Women in Central Mexico",

presented at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28-31, 1993.

"Implications of Cooperative Promotion on Class Stratification Among Rural Women in Central Mexico",

presented at the New Mexico Women Studies Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 11-13, 1993.

"Post Modern Racism", Paper presented at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of

Planning, Columbus, Ohio, October 29 - November 1, 1992. "Integrated Domestic and Market Production: Implications for Housing Policy", panel presentation (with

Maria Varela and Richard Asenap) to the Albuquerque Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy Task Force, October 12, 1992.

"The Impact of Feminism on Planning Education", presented at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the

UNM Women Studies Center/ Women Studies Program", Albuquerque, March 4-7, 1992. "Women Studies Scholars at UNM: Meeting the Challenge to Re-Search", presented at the 20th

Anniversary Celebration of the UNM Women Studies Center/ Women Studies Program", Albuquerque, March 4-7, 1992.

"La Pesada Carga de la Mujer Campesina en La Producción", presented in Guatemala City, Guatemala,

at the I Simposio en Obstáculos Para El Desarrollo, Universidad de San Carlos, as part of the University of New Mexico/ Universidad de San Carlos Exchange Program, March 15, 1990.

"Aspectos de la Educación en Proyectos de Crece-Ingreso Para Mujeres Campesinas", presented in

Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Tercer Congreso de Egresados de LAPE/OITEC, July 30 - August 1, 1990.

PANEL OR WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION OR MODERATION:

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Moderator and Discussant: “Planning Theory and the Matter of Race” Panel at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, WI, October 18-21, 2007.

PRESENTATIONS (continued): Moderator and Discussant: "Visibility and Invisibility” Panel at the Meetings of the Association of

Collegiate Schools of Planning, Atlanta Georgia, November 2-5, 2000. Discussant: "Does Women's Work Translate to Development and Empowerment?" Panel at the Meetings

of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Atlanta Georgia, November 2-5, 2000. Moderator: Second District City Council Candidates Forum, sponsored by 1000 Friends of New Mexico,

September 9, 1999. Moderator and Discussant: "Revitalizing East Central” Workshop sponsored by 1000 Friends of New

Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, November 1, 1999. Moderator and Discussant: “Social Institutions and Community Well Being”, Panel at the Meetings of the

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 7, 1997.

Moderator and Discussant: “Gender, Economic Restructuring, and Survival Strategies”, Panel at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 9, 1997.

Organizer and Moderator: "The Specificity of Women of Color in Planning Education and Practice",

roundtable at the Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Detroit, Michigan, October 21, 1995.

Moderator (with Chris Wilson), "Research on Difference in Architecture and Planning", Faculty

Development Workshop, UNM School of Architecture and Planning, April 27, 1995. Moderator, "Central America: After The Cold War", Roundtable of the Central American Peace Alliance,

Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10, 1994. Moderator, "Housing: Race, Gender, and Special Populations", Panel at the meetings of the Association

of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Columbus, Ohio, October 29 - November 1, 1992. Organizer, Moderator and Discussant: "Grass Roots Based Organizations", Panel at the American

Planning Association Four Corners Conference, Santa Fe, September 9-11, 1992. Moderator and Discussant, "Coordinated City Wide Planning", Symposium of the City of Albuquerque,

June 5, 1992. Workshop Leader, "Social Issues Along The Border", Workshop of the AmerEcology Conference,

University of New Mexico, March, 1992. Moderator, "Is Communism Dead?", Panel presentation at Salt of the Earth Books, Albuquerque, New

Mexico, March, 1992. Moderator, "Nuevas Investigaciones", Panel presentation at the II Simposio en Obstáculos Para El

Desarrollo, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of the University of New Mexico/ Universidad de San Carlos Exchange Program, November 28, 1990.

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"Theoretical Considerations on Household Production", presented in Portland, Oregon at the meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, October 4-7, 1989.

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PRESENTATIONS (continued): Organizer and Moderator: "A Woman's Domain: The Household and Production" Panel at the meetings of

the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, October 4-7, 1989. Moderator, "Roundtable on Women and Development", at the meetings of the Association of Collegiate

Schools of Planning, Portland, Oregon, October 4-7, 1989. "La Producción del Hogar Relacionada al Deseño de la Forma Urbana", Comentario presented in Cd.

Juarez, Chihuahua at the III Seminario de Desarrollo Urbano, Universidad Autonoma de Juarez, September 28-30, 1989.

"A Woman's Domain: Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding the Mexican Peasant Household as a

Locus of Production", presented in Reno, Nevada at the meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, April 12-15, 1989.

"El Continuo Rural-Urbano y la Division Sexual de Trabajo", presented in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua at the II

Seminario De Desarrollo Urbano De La Universidad Autonoma De Ciudad Juarez, November 10-12, 1988.

"Cooperativism as a Strategy for Autonomous Village Development", presented in Abiquiu, New Mexico at the Peter Van Dresser Village Development Conference, February 12-13, 1988.

"The Gender Division of Labor in the Shift from Household to Market Production in Rural Development"

presented in Los Angeles at the meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November 5-8, 1987.

EDUCATION: GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Ph.D. in Planning, 1993

Dissertation: "My Wife Works as Hard as My Burro: Domestic Subsidy and the Women's

Cooperative Movement in Mexico" (John Friedmann (Chair), Margaret FitzSimmons, Lucie Cheng). Major Field: Urban and Regional Development. Minor Field: Political Economy and Critical Studies

Awards: OAS Dissertation Fellowship `87, Danforth-Compton Fellowship `82 -`86, Graduate

Opportunity Fellowship `81 -`82, Alternate for Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship `86 -`87 and `87-`88.

WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey M.P.A./U.R.P (Public and International Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning), June, 1981

Major Field: Development Studies

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania B. A., May 1975

Major Field: Psychology Awards: National Merit Scholarship Finalist, Degree awarded cum laude

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: NM Association of Fundraising Professionals Workshop with Simone Joyaux on “Keeping your

Donors: Building Profitable Relationships that Last”, and “Fund Development, Governance, and Board & Organizational Development”, Albuqerque, May 23, 2011.

Faculty for the Engaged Campus Charrette, University of North Carolina, May 18-30, 2008 Albuquerque Anti Racism Training Institute Training, March 2001 City of Albuquerque Land Use Facilitation Training, October 1998 Institute for Cultural Affairs Facilitation and Action Workshop Training, Albuquerque, May, 1993 BOARD MEMBERSHIPS:

Young Non-Profit Professionals Network (Advisory Board Member, August 2010 to present) Albuquerque Affordable Housing Coalition (Board Chair May 2009 to September 2011; Member, January 2006 to present) Vote Yes for Workforce Housing Measure Finance Committee (Member, June - October 2009; June to October 2011, July 2012 to present) Sawmill Community Land Trust (Board Member, September 2006 to present, Secretary June 2010 to present, Vice President, July 2007 to April 2009) Supportive Housing Coalition (Board President June 2010 to July 2012, Vice President August 2008 to May 2010, Member, July 2006 to December 31, 2012) New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (Board Member, March 2010 to September 2011) Fair Lending Roundtable (Advisory Board Member, June 2002 to December 2006) Downtown Albuquerque Civic Trust (Board Member, August 2003 to October 2005, Steering Committee, August 2004 – October 2005) Albuquerque Border Cities Project (Board Member 1996 – 2001, Chair 1998 to October 2001) Interhemispheric Resource Center (Board member 1993-1997) NM Jazz Workshop (Board Member 1996) KIDSCOUNT Research Advisory Board (Board Member 1989-1993)

OTHER AFFILIATIONS:

American Planning Association Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Planners Network Urban Affairs Association

ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND SERVICE:

NATIONAL Editorial Board Member, Journal of Planning Education and Research February 2003 to present ACSP People of Color Interest Group, (Member and Mentorship Committee member June 2007 to

present, mentor September 2009 to present) Social Science Panel Member, Ford Foundation Minority Fellowship Programs Review Panel

Meeting, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 ACSP Faculty Women's Interest Group, Nominating Committee member July to December 2010,

Secretary, November 1994 to July 1996. ACSP Diversity Committee, Member, February 2000 to 2004 ACSP Ritzdorf Award Committee, Member, November 1998 to 2001 ACSP Rapkin Award Committee, Member, November 1998 to 2001, Chair, 2001 ACSP Fannie Mae Best Action Research Paper Award, Reader, November 2000. HUD-ACSP Best Paper Award, Reader, December 2000 – January 2001.

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ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND SERVICE (continued): UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

UNIVERSITY-WIDE:

Member, Faculty Committee to review equqity adjustment appeals (September 2012 to present) Member, Institutional Review Board, Main Campus Committee (January 2012 to present) Faculty Advisor, Black Graduate Student Association (6/11 to present) Faculty Commission on Shared Governance, June 2010 to June 2011 Black Faculty Alliance (Secretary, 12/05 to 6/07, member 12/05 to present) Faculty Senate Graduate and Professional Committee (SGPC) (Chair 6/09 to 6/11, member 8/03 to

6/11, Chair, Curriculum Sub- Committee of SGPC, 8/06 to 6/10, Chair Honorary Degree Committee of the SGPC 9/03 – 9/06)

Provost’s Academic Renewal Task Force, June 2010 to December 2010 Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies (90-91, 96-97, and 1/05 to 6/11) Latin American and Iberian Institute Executive Committee (1/02 to 6/07, Vice President 8/05 to 6/07) Women Studies Advisory Board (3/06 to 6/08) UNM Graduate Advisory Council (9/05 to 6/06) Search Committee for the Student Advisement Coordinator of the Latin American Studies Program

(1/05 – 6/05) Latin American and Iberian Institute Grants and Awards Committee (8/02 to 6/05) Search Committee for Director of African American Studies (8/04 – March 2005) Search Committee for Director of the Latin American And Iberian Institute (2/03 to 4/04) Graduate Review Site Team, American Studies Department (spring 2003) UNM Strategic Planning Task Force (summer/fall 2000) Search Committee for the Director of Development and President of the UNM Foundation (spring

through fall, 2000) African American Personnel Recruitment Committee (1999) Search Committee for the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning (97-98) Provost’s Task Force on Credit-Hour Generation (3 - 9/97) African American Information and Student Services Advisory Committee (8/90-6/91) award(7/95 – 6/96) Graduate Review Team for Water Resources Management Program (spring, 1996) Popejoy Dissertation Award Selection Committee (spring, 1995) Minority Women's Coalition (9/89 – 6/91) Chair, 90-91, Editorial Collective for Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (6/89 - 8/91) Council on the Americas (93-94) OITEC Advisory Committee (8/90-6/93) Women's Studies Advisory Committee (1/88-6/92) African American Council on Higher Education (9/90-6/92) International Student Services Advisory Committee (8/90-6/92) African American Council on Higher Education (from 6/90-6/93) Latin American Institute Internal Evaluation Committee (91-92).

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING Chair, Community Development Search Committee (August 2012 to present) CRP Student Learning Objectives Committee (July 2012 to September 2012) CRP Development Officer Liaison (October 2011 to present) Faculty Advisor, NMAPA Student Chapter (5/11 to present) SA&P Curriculum and Graduate Programs Committee (Chair, 8/08 to 5/11; member 8/08 to present) CRP Joint Degree Committee, (Chair, 8/09 to present) CRP Personnell Committee (9/02 to present, Chair 8/06 – 6/07)

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ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND SERVICE (continued): Academic Coordinator for MCRP/MALAS (8/89 to present) CRP Advisement and Support Committee (8/06 to 6/07) CRP Curriculum Committee (1/02 to 6/07, Chair 8/03 - 6/04) Chair, CRP Tenure and Promotion Committee (8/02-6/03) CRP Faculty Search Committee (8/98-6/99) JB Jackson Endowment Grant Review Committee (spring 1999) Academic Supervisor, HUD Community Development Work Study Program (94-98) SAAP Computer Committee (9/96 to 6/97) Academic Coordinator for CRP Community Development Program Emphasis (8/91-6/96) SAAP Research Committee (8/88-6/96) Commencement Committee (9/95-6/96) SAAP Personnel Committee (8/93-6/94) Planning Curriculum Review Committee (1/90-12/92) Planning Library Committee (8/88-12/92) Planning Recruitment Committee (8/88-12/92).

LANGUAGES:

English (first language), Spanish, Some French CITIZENSHIP: USA

September 2012