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Biography

Anne Kubisch manages a variety of research and leadership development programs aimed at improving policies and practices that address the needs of poor communities.  She works on topics such as community economic development, racial equity, evaluation of anitpoverty programs, philanthropic practice, and the role of government, and has authored many publications on those issues.  Prior to her joining the Aspen Institute, she had been working at the Ford Foundation for 10 years - first in the Latin American/Caribbean office, then in Nigeria as the foundation's representative, and in New York as Deputy Director of the Urban Poverty Program.  She sits on several Boards, including the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, the National Community Building Network, the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, and United Neighborhood Houses of New York.  The Roundtable on Community Change originated out of an ad hoc group of foundation representatives that met informally to discuss new comprehensive, community-building approaches to poverty and distressed neighborhoods in urban America.  It became a Policy Program of the Aspen Institute in 1994.