Janice Perlman - author, academic, policy analyst: "How Research can Transform Urban Policy and Practice: Lessons from Rio's Favelas."
 
About the speaker:
Janice Perlman is the author of Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press, 2010). Favela is the sequel to The Myth of Marginality (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976), recognized with the C. Wright Mills and Guggenheim Awards. Her current work includes an evaluation of nine slum upgrading/livelihood projects in India, research on the Pacifying Police and the Program of Accelerated Growth in Rio and the Joint US-Brazilian Initiative on Urban Sustainability.
She is the Founder and President of the Mega-Cities Project, a transnational non-profit organization doing policy research on innovative approaches to urban problem solving. Founded in 1987 and working in 21 cities on issues at the intersection of poverty, environment and voice, the organization has brokered over 40 innovation transfers across boundaries of geography, ethnicity and nationality.
Perlman holds a BA in Anthropology and Latin American Studies from Cornell University and a PhD in Political Science with a minor in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT. She was a tenured professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at New York University, CUNY, Trinity College and in several Brazilian universities. She has also been a senior advisor to numerous international and domestic agencies, non-profits and grassroots groups.
For further information see www.mega-cities.net.
Refreshments will be served.
Doors open at 5:00pm, lecture begins 5:30pm.
Event open to the public.