Anne C. Kubisch, Director. Anne directs a number of Roundtable projects on topics that are key to community revitalization, such as racial equity, civic capacity, and evaluation of community change initiatives.  She has been the lead author of six books published by the Roundtable and has written numerous papers and articles about efforts to promote significant change in distressed communities.  Anne also serves as the lead facilitator and trainer in Roundtable convenings of researchers, practitioners, policymakers and funders, and she frequently gives public presentations on the Roundtable’s work.

Anne serves on several boards:  United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson School, the Levitt Foundation, the Roundtable on Health Disparities at the Institute of Medicine, and the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development.  She is the Chair of the Board of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education.

Previously, 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 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

akubisch@aspenroundtable.org
212-677-5510 ext. 25

Patricia Auspos, Senior Associate. Pat works on various projects designed to build knowledge about effective practice in community change efforts.  She is a co-author of several Roundtable publications, including Voices from the Field III: Lessons and Challenges from Two Decades of Community Change Efforts, and Living Cities and Civic Capacity: Leadership, Leverage, and Legitimacy; and a co-editor of Community Change:  Theories, Practice, and Evidence.   She is also developing a curriculum on racial equity and health as part of the Roundtable’s signature series of leadership seminars.

Before coming to the Roundtable, Pat was a Senior Policy Associate at MDRC, and also worked as a consultant for foundations and research organizations.  She has a Ph.D. in British History from Columbia University.

pata@aspenroundtable.org
212-677-5510 ext. 32

Raymond Codrington, Project Manager. Raymond manages the domestic and international racial equity seminars at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. In addition, he is currently developing a youth focused curriculum around structural racism.

Before joining the Roundtable, Codrington worked at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County as the Founding Director of the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies and curator in the Department of Anthropology. Before joining the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Raymond was a professor in Anthropology and Black Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase. Prior to teaching at (SUNY) Codrington was Sandy Boyd Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center For Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Raymond holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research interests include: race, diaspora and popular culture.

raymond.codrington@aspeninstitute.org
212-677-5510 ext. 30

Tom Dewar, Co-Director. Tom co-authored the Roundtable’s recently published Voices from the Field III: Lessons and Challenges from Two Decades of Community Change Efforts.

Prior to coming to the Roundtable, Tom lived in Bologna, Italy and taught at Johns Hopkins’ School for Advanced International Studies, helping direct its Center for Democratic Development.  Prior to that he was Director of Evaluation for the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago; Senior Associate with Rainbow Research in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, where he taught and conducted action research for over 15 years.

Tom has also helped to start and run a range of community organizations and projects, and his research, writing and training have addressed a variety of topics, including: community leadership development, the role of mutual aid and informal networks in community building, the social and economic organization of neighborhoods, asset based community development, and the dangers of an over-reliance on experts to “solve” problems. He has led evaluations on efforts to reform juvenile justice, revitalize neighborhoods, re-integrate formerly institutionalized people into local communities, provide employment for lower skilled and less experienced workers, carry out peacemaking and conflict resolution, and promote strong community organizing.

tom.dewar@aspeninstitute.org 
410-200-1878

Karen Fulbright-Anderson, Senior Fellow. Karen works on a number of Roundtable projects that are designed to build the capacities of leaders and institutions in community revitalization, social justice, youth development, and related fields to alleviate poverty and promote racial equity. Prior to becoming a Senior Fellow, Karen was Co-director of the Roundtable on Community Change and the Chair of Policy Programs for the Aspen Institute.  She stepped down from those positions in 2007 when she and her husband relocated to the Midwest. 

Before joining the Roundtable, Karen was the Director of Research for the Vera Institute of Justice. Prior to that, she worked at the Ford Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund where she developed funding strategies to improve outcomes for young people in high poverty communities. She has also worked in academia as faculty member at The New School for Social Research and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She is currently on the board of trustees for YouthBuild, USA and the Institute for Community Peace.  Karen has a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning and a Master of City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. from Wellesley College.

karenfa@aspenroundtable.org
212-677-5510 ext. 24

Keith Lawrence, Project Manager. Keith has been a leading contributor to the Roundtable's work on structural racism and author of several related publications including Structural Racism and Community Building; Structural Racism and Youth Development; and Constructing a Racial Equity Theory of Change.  He has also contributed essays and opinion pieces on race and community building to a number of edited volumes, periodicals and other publications. Keith coordinated a project with The Open Society Institute’s After Prison Initiative to apply a critical race lens to crime and punishment in the U.S., and edited a volume, Race, Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Connection in America, at the culmination of that two-year effort. Along with his work at the Roundtable, he is currently involved in a post-disaster Oxfam-sponsored community planning initiative in Haiti. 

Before joining Aspen in 1999, Keith held management positions at the New York City Housing Authority and taught political science at the City University of New York and the NYU School of Continuing Education.   He also was an elementary and high school teacher in New York City and the Caribbean.  He holds a Ph.D. in International Politics from the City University of New York Graduate Center, an M.U. P in Urban Planning from Hunter College, and a B.A. in Geography from the University of Guyana.

keithl@aspenroundtable.org
212-677-5510 ext. 29

Gretchen Susi, Research Associate. Gretchen directs the Roundtable’s Racial Equity and Society Peer Learning Forum.  Her research has focused on the social production of housing, particularly public housing, the role of grassroots alliances in producing supportive environments, and on the challenges presented to such efforts by race and class.  In a previous life Gretchen was a fiction editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell publishers.  She holds a Ph.D. in environmental psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

gretchens@aspenroundtable.org
212-677-5510 ext. 31