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Xavier de Souza Briggs is a faculty member at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Beyond his nationally awarded research on young people, cities, segregation, and opportunity, he has been a community planner in the South Bronx and other inner-city communities, a senior advisor to The White House and Congress while in the federal government, and a consultant to leading national and international organizations. A sociologist by training, Xav teaches urban policy and planning, community building, negotiation, and strategy. Xav is currently at work on a major book and teaching project—The Art and Science of Community Building—focused on what shapes local, collective problem-solving efforts and their impact, and he continues research on segregation, social capital, and urban neighborhoods. Xav has been faculty chair and a participating faculty member in major programs in executive education, such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation/United Way of America Family Strengthening for Success Fellowship, that target leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. These programs are generating innovative new curricula for engaging communities in problem-solving and resolving differences among stakeholders. While in government, Xav led national efforts to understand and enhance teaching and training in the area of community building. Xav is an affiliate of several research centers at Harvard, including the Wiener Center for Social Policy, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Joint Center for Housing Studies. He chairs the Faculty Committee on Cuba exchanges at Harvard’s Rockefeller Center on Latin American Studies, and his overseas experience includes Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and Western Europe. Xav holds an engineering degree from Stanford, an MPA from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has held fellowships of the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, and Rotary International. In the year 2000, he was named the third annual Robert C. Wood Visiting Professor in Public and Urban Affairs at the University of Massachusetts/Boston. The professorship is awarded annually to a "distinguished and thoughtful public figure who…links the scholarly pursuits of the academy with the practical problems and policies of the larger society." Xav has been an expert witness in civil rights litigation, an editorial board member of leading scholarly journals, and an advisor or member of a number of national policy groups and research projects. |
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