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Dr. Michael Bennett, Executive Director, EUC |
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Phone:
(312)362-6518
E-mail: mbennett@depaul.edu |
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Dr. Bennett is also an Associate Professor in the Sociology
Department at DePaul University. He conducts research and
evaluations in urban community economic development programs and
policies, with an emphasis on low-income and minority
communities. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Kent State
University, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the
University of Chicago.
Dr. Bennett came to DePaul from the University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC), where he helped conceive of and manage the
National Empowerment Zone Action Research Project that was
initially funded by the MacArthur and Joyce Foundations. At UIC,
he held joint appointments in the College of Urban Planning and
Public Affairs and the Jane Addams College of Social Work. He
was among UIC’s first Great Cities Scholars, a program he helped
develop.
Michael’s activities have ranged from managing community
development organizations in Ohio and Chicago to teaching
positions at the University of Chicago and in South Africa. In
1978, Michael joined Shorebank Corporation to launch The
Neighborhood Institute (TNI), now called the Shorebank
Neighborhood Institute. Becoming president of the TNI in 1983,
he oversaw the organization’s economic development, job
training, community and tenant organizing, housing development
and cultural programs. He moved from TNI to become
Vice-President of Shorebank in 1986, first to do commercial
lending and then to work with a Shorebank affiliate in Arkansas.
He is co-editor and author of two chapters in The New Chicago: A
Social and Cultural Analysis (co-edited with John Koval, Larry
Bennett, Fassil Demisse and Roberta Garner), Temple University
Press 2006; and Economic Development in American Cities: The
Pursuit of An Equity Agenda (co-edited with Robert P.Giloth).
SUNY press 2007. |
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Kiljoong Kim -
Research Director, Faculty and Community Research Center Lab |
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Phone:
(773)325-4957
E-mail: kkim@depaul.edu
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Mr. Kim is a full-time
instructor in the department of sociology at DePaul and research
director of the EUC’s Faculty and Community Research Laboratory,
where he assists DePaul faculty and students with research
design and applications. He has extensive experience in
quantitative research, with a particular emphasis on census
data. He has conducted workshops on Introduction to Census
Information and How to Use Statistical Software (SPSS)
and GIS Software (ArcView) in Social Science Research.
He has worked on numerous multi-year contracts for statewide
assessments. He was a research analyst at the American Medical
Association and a research consultant at Riverside Publishing
Company, a leading developer of IQ and standardized tests, where
he was involved in sampling and measurement. He was a research
statistician at Nielsen Media Research, the nation’s only
television ratings research organization, where he maintained 53
metropolitan area samples for television households with a
maintenance budget of more than $5 million.
Mr. Kim has an M.A. in Sociology with Distinction from DePaul
and a B.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin
Madison, as well as a certificate in the Concentration in
Analysis and Research Program. He is currently in the doctoral
program at the University of Illinois-Chicago where he is
concentrating on incorporating spatial concepts to the areas of
demographics, urban demographic and behavioral research,
education, and race and ethnicity. |
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John Zeigler -
Project Director, Neighborhood and Community Partnerships |
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Phone: (312)
362-6524
E-mail: jzeigler@depaul.edu |
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John Zeigler is the project director of Neighborhood and
Community Partnerships at the Egan Urban Center at DePaul
University where he serves as a liaison to underserved
communities of metropolitan Chicago. He is also the director of
the Englewood Community Cultural Planning Council, an
organization that uses art and culture to address social issues
in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. In addition, he is the
director of Connextions International, a non-profit organization
employing education, cultural awareness, technology and skills
building to promote self-help and social change. He continues
those efforts in Ghana, where he has been involved in building a
primary school, a medical facility for elders and a library.
For the last 20 years, he has been involved as a social worker,
counselor, educator, community activist, community organizer,
lobbyist, therapist, researcher and creative artist. He has
helped develop several Community Schools in Chicago; founded a
community youth theater group that performed plays throughout
the country on such themes as teen pregnancy, gangs, drugs,
HIV/AIDS, self-esteem and cultural pride; and founded a
Rites-of-Passage program to develop adolescents into conscious
community builders.
He sits on the Boards of many non-profit organizations in
Chicago and has been the recipient of many awards for his
commitment to community building. He holds a Bachelor of Science
degree from Roosevelt University and a Master's in Social Work
from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. Currently John is a doctoral student in the
School of Education at DePaul University. |
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