Engaged Speaker Tea and Conversation with Ken Reardon
Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30pm to 4:45pm
About this Event
Ken Reardon is professor and director of UMass Boston’s MS In Urban Planning and Community Development Program where he conducts research, teaches, and outreach related to resident-led planning and development, municipal government reform, and community/university development partnerships.
Prior to joining the UMass Boston faculty, Reardon was a tenured faculty member at Illinois, Memphis and Cornell where he chaired the Department of City and Regional Planning and directed its post-Katrina planning activities in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Reardon and John Forester co-edited Rebuilding Community After Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative (Temple University Press, 2015) describing this effort.
Among the many awards Reardon has received for his public scholarship are the AICP President's Award, Ernest Lynton Award for Professional Service and Academic Outreach, and the Thomas Ehrlich Award for Engaged Scholarship. Reardon earned his BA in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, his Master of Urban Planning degree from Hunter College, and his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University.
Light refreshments provided.
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