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Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 324-330

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From page 324...
... Office of Management and Budget; and deputy county executive of Fairfax County, Virginia. He has served as member and chair on a wide range of panels and committees of the National Research Council.
From page 325...
... JAMES GIBSON serves as project director and president of DC Agenda, a nonprofit community assistance corporation dedicated to addressing issues facing the District of Columbia. He has been a senior associate at the Urban Institute since January 1993, where he focuses on civil rights policies, community development, urban governance, economic and social opportunities, and antipoverty strategies.
From page 326...
... STEPHEN GODWIN is director of the Studies and Information Services Division of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council.
From page 327...
... FAITH MITCHELL is director of the Social and Economic Studies Division of the Commission on Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education at the National Research Council. From 1993 to 1994, she was senior coordinator for population in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the U.S.
From page 328...
... He is the author or editor of over 60 articles and 17 books, including Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter, Learning from School Choice, The Politics of School Reform: 1870-1940, and City Limits. He chaired the Social Science Research Council's Committee on the Urban Underclass and has served on many National Research Council committees.
From page 329...
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF 329 on migration, locational issues, and the service sector and has written widely on urban development and nonprofit provision of services. His current research interests include federalism issues and the niche of charity and philanthropy in the nation's three-sector economy.


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