The University of Pittsburgh Community Outreach Partnership Center and the Center for Race and Social Problems

present:

“THE GEOGRAPHY OF OPPORTUNITY”

By Xavier de Souza Briggs

Associate Professor, Sociology and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006

12:00 Noon – 1:30 p.m.

2017Cathedral of Learning

University of Pittsburgh

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:

Xavier de Souza Briggs is associate professor of sociology and urban planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a former faculty member at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a former senior policy official at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration. He received a BS from Stanford University's School of Engineering, an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a PhD in Sociology and Education from Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has been an adviser to the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and other groups and has also worked closer to the streets as a community planner in the South Bronx, Chicago and other cities. He is editor of the new book, The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (Brookings Institution Press, 2005).

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