Leadership

Leadership

Faculty Director
Shankar Sastry
(510) 642-5771
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Shankar serves as the Dean of the College of Engineering and as Faculty Director of the Blum Center. He is professor of electrical engineering and computer science, bioengineering and mechanical engineering and has been on the Berkeley faculty since 1983.

Education Director
Ananya Roy
(510) 666-3704
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Ananya Roy is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches in the fields of urban studies and international development. She also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center and as co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Center. From 2005 to 2009 Roy served as Associate Dean of International and Area Studies.

Executive Director
Maryanne McCormick
(510) 847-6851
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Maryanne serves as Executive Director of the Blum Center and also holds an appointment at Berkeley Law School. She has a JD from Catholic University, an MBA from George Washington University, and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross. She is a member of the California Bar.

Chief Administrative Officer
Phillip Denny
(510) 666-9120
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Phillip serves as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Blum Center for Developing Economies, a position he assumed shortly after the Center was established in March 2006. Prior to joining the Center, he worked on political campaigns providing research and communications strategies for numerous candidates and organizations.

Director of Student Programs
Alexis Bucknam
(510) 666-9127
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Alexis serves as the primary administrator and advisor for the Global Poverty & Practice Minor housed in the International and Area Studies Teaching Program. She also plays an integral role in developing and hosting other curricular activities of the Blum Center including a major speaker series and student symposium series. Bucknam comes to the Blum Center with a decade of experience in higher education with a particular focus on service-learning and student leadership. She earned a BS in Management from the University of Utah and MA in Education –Counseling in Student Affairs from UCLA.

Program Coordinator, Student Advising
Chetan Chowdhry
(510) 664-4423
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Chetan serves as an Advisor for the Global Poverty & Practice Minor. Additionally, he coordinates workshops and events to support the success of students in the Minor. Prior to joining the Blum Center team, Chetan served as a Graduate Coordinator with the University of Maryland Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy Office. He holds a Master's degree in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Environmental Analysis & Design from UC Irvine.

Events and Facilities Specialist
Paula Zamora
(510) 666-9121
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Paula joined the Blum Center as an Events Specialist and also provides operational support to the Center's Faculty Director and Executive Director. In addition, she serves as Blum Hall Building and Safety Coordinator. Prior to joining the team, she worked in the Dean’s office of the College of Engineering. Paula received her BA from the University of Washington.

Poverty Scholarship Fellow
Emma Shaw Crane
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Emma is a Poverty Scholarship Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Prior to joining the Blum Center, she was a Fulbright Scholar with the Critical Medical Anthropology Group at the National University of Colombia in Bogot . She has an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Race, Gender and Political Economy, a minor in Global Poverty and Practice, and was a Student Teacher Poet in June Jordan's Poetry for the People. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on urban anti-gang injunctions and the criminalization of poverty in California.

Education Committee

Nezar Al Sayyed Professor, Architecture; Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies	Alain De Janvry Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics	Eva Harris Professor of Infectious Disease; President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
Percy Hintzen Chair, Center for African Studies	David Levine Professor, Haas School of Business; Chair, Economic Analysis and Policy Group	Kara Nelson Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aihwa Ong Professor, Anthropology	Raka Ray Professor of Sociology; Chair, Center for South Asia Studies	Isha Ray Associate Professor, Energy and Resources Group
Nora Silver Adjunct Professor and Director, Nonprofit and Public Leadership	Clare Talwaker Vice Chair, Global Poverty and Practice Minor; Lecturer, International & Area Studies

Sponsored Course Instructors

Name	Department	Course
Jenna Burrell	Information	Poverty and Technology
Jason Corburn	City and Regional Planning	Nairobi Summer Design Studio
John Danner	Haas School of Business	Entrepreneurship to Address Global Poverty
Brad DeLong	Economics	The World Economy in the 20th Century
Ashok Gadgil	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Design for Sustainable Communities
Paul Gertler	Haas School of Business	Selecting Successful Strategies to Reduce Global Poverty
Francesca Giovannini	International and Area Studies	Vulnerability and Resilience in Armed Conflicts and Post-Conflict Settings
Tara Graham	Visiting Lecturer	Field Reporting in the Digital Age: Using Media Tools for Social Justice
Khalid Kadir	Lecturer	The Ethics, Methods, and Pragmatics of Global Practice; GPP Reflection Course
Jonathan Lewis	Visiting Lecturer	Markets and Missions: A Practicum on Social Enterprise
Edward Miguel	Economics	Issues in African Economic Development
Janaki Nair	History	Cities & Citizenship in South Asia
Genevieve Negron-Gonzales	International and Area Studies	Educational Justice: The Dream Act and Struggles Against Poverty
Minoo Moallem	Gender and Women's Studies	Women, Poverty and Globalization
Jamie O'Connell	Legal Studies/School of Law	Law and Development
Aihwa Ong	Anthropology	Poverty, Rights and Culture in the Asia Pacific
Malcolm Potts	Professor of Population and Family Planning	Population and Poverty
Isha Ray	Energy and Resources Group	Water and Development
Robert Reich	Public Policy	Wealth and Poverty
Art Reingold	Public Health	Global Health

 

Initiative Principal Investigators

Name	Title	Initiative Association
Jenny Aker	Assistant Professor, Development Economics, Tufts University	Mobile Phones for Literacy
Ruzena Bajcsy	Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	SEND Project
Daniel Fletcher	Professor, Department of Bioengineering	Cellscope
Ashok Gadgil	Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	ARUBA Project; Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation; Darfur Stoves Project
David Graves	Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Ambient Gas Plasma
Eva Harris	Professor of Infectious Disease	Global Microclinics
Amy Herr	Assistant Professor, Engineering	SEND Project
Daniel Kammen	Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory	Tanzania Cookstoves
Kurt Kornbluth	Researcher, UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center	SMART Light
Travis Lybbert	Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics	Mobile Phones for Literacy
Roya Maboudian	Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Q-H20
Evan Mills	Scientist, Lawrence National Laboratory	LED Lighting
Kara Nelson	Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering	UV Tube; Q-H20; A-SODIS
Isha Ray	Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group	UV Tube
Fermin Reygadas	Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group	Health In Your Hands; Safe Water in Schools
Edmund Seto	Assistant Researchers, Public Health	SEND Project
George Shanthikumar	Professor, Industrial Engineering	Q-H20
Kirk Smith	Professor, Public Health	Cookstoves, Climate Change and Health
Laura Stachel	Graduate Student, Public Health	WE CARE Solar
Chris Stewart	Director, Global Health Clinical Scholars Program; Director, Pathways to Discovery in Global Health, UCSF	Teach for Health