| Institution: | Anne Kubisch is the Co-Director of the Roundtable on Community Change at The Aspen Institute. The 30 members of the Roundtable are leaders in the field of community revitalization and social policy, representing the policy, funding, academic and practitioner communities. The members meet regularly to distill lessons that are being learned by the current generation of comprehensive, community-building initiatives and to work on cross-cutting problems facing the field. Anne directs a number of Round-table projects on topics such as evaluation, race and community revitalization, and financing for comprehensive community initiatives. She was the lead author on the Roundtable's two books on lessons learned about comprehensive community initiatives across the country (titled Voices from the Field I;and II) and has co-edited two books on new approaches to evaluating community initiatives. She has written numerous papers and articles about various aspects of comprehensive community initiatives. Prior to directing the Roundtable, Anne spent 10 years at the Ford Foundation, initially working on Latin American programs, then as Representative in Nigeria, and finally as Deputy Director of the Urban Poverty Program. She has a Master's Degree in Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. |
