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Marie
Kennedy
M.Arch., Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Professor, Emerita, Community Planning
marie.kennedy@umb.edu
Marie Kennedy is Professor Emerita of Community
Planning in the College of Public and Community Service, University
of Massachusetts Boston. She combines the roles of activist and
scholar, teaching, working in and writing about community development,
planning education and participatory action research. Over the years,
Marie supervised numerous collaborative projects, through which
students earned academic credit while providing service to community
organizations focusing on housing, anti-displacement, anti-racist,
human service and community empowerment issues. She was the faculty
sponsor of Women in Community Development and previously of the
Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization. Through these programs,
low income women are supported in acquiring a college education
while focusing their academic work on issues of importance to homeless
and low income women. Marie has worked extensively with community
organizations in the Greater Boston Area, as well as in San Francisco,
Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, and Nicaragua. In 2007 she will be
working with the Colegio de Tlaxcala, a graduate college in Mexico,
on curriculum development and to evaluate planning projects throughout
the state of Tlaxcala. Currently, she serves on the board of directors
of La Alianza Hispana and on the advisory boards of the Mauricio
Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public
Policy, Common Ground, the Planners Network, and Grassroots International.
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