Laura Wolf-Powers, Ph.D.

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1 Laura Wolf-Powers, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment School of Architecture Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY Phone: Fax: Academic positions September 2002-present Assistant Professor, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Adjunct Faculty, Milano Graduate School of Urban Policy and Management (Political Economy of the City) New School University, New York, NY Instructor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development (Development and Theory of Urban Planning) Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Instructor, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health (Introduction to Urban Studies) Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Journal Articles and Book Chapters Beyond the First Job: career-ladder initiatives in telecommunications and related information technology industries. In E. Melendez ed. Communities and Workforce Development. W.E. Upjohn Institute, Forthcoming. Up-Zoning New York City s Mixed Use Neighborhoods: Property-Led Economic Development and the Anatomy of a Planning Dilemma. Forthcoming in the Journal of Planning, Education and Research. Building a Workforce Infrastructure. In R. Hanley ed., Moving People, Goods and Information in the Twenty-First Century: The New Economy, Urban Technologies, and Cutting-Edge Infrastructures. Spon Press, Post-Cold War Conversion: Gains, Losses and Hidden Changes in the US Economy. (with Michael Oden, and Ann Markusen). In S. DiGiovanna, A. Markusen, and Y.S. Lee, eds. From Defense to Development? Military Industrial Conversion in the Developing World. London: Routledge, Technology and Urban Labor Markets in the United States. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25:2 (2001),

2 Contract Research Publications The Telecommunications Infrastructure Industry in New York City: Framing Issues for Workforce Developers. CUNY Workforce Development Initiative, Beyond the First Job: career-ladder initiatives in telecommunications and related information technology industries. Community Development Research Center, New School University, A Just Transition? Lessons from Defense Worker Adjustment in the 1990s. With Ann Markusen. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, Book reviews Review of Walter Thabit, How East New York Became a Ghetto. Forthcoming 2004, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. Review of Benjamin Miller, Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York, the Last 200 Years. Journal of Urban Technology 8:3 (2001), Review of R. Freeman and P. Gottschalk eds, Generating Jobs: How to Create Demand for Low-Skilled Workers. Journal of the American Planning Association. 67:2 (2001), Non-Academic Publications How the Far West Side Will be Won. Architect s Newspaper #13, July 27, Fuzzy Math on the West Side Stadium. Architect s Newspaper #10, June 8, Twilight Zoning. City Limits Monthly, December Academic Conferences April Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Washington Marriott, Washington, DC. Up-Zoning New York City s Mixed Use Neighborhoods: Property-Led Economic Development and the Anatomy of a Planning Dilemma. March Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia Marriott, Philadelphia, PA. Union-sponsored intermediaries in telecommunications: the success of geographic strategies in a transforming industry. September International Sociological Association Research Committee-21 conference, University of Milan, Bicocca, Milan Italy. Spatial Planning and Social Consequences in a Global City: The Up-Zoning of New York City s Waterfront Industrial Neighborhoods. Community Service Pratt Institute Academic Senate, Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development Strategic Planning Committee, ACSP/ACSA Joint Committee on Collaborations between Architecture and Planning,

3 Manufacturing Land Use and Zoning Initiative working group (Municipal Art Society of New York City and Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development), New Source Staffing Board of directors, (Workforce development initiative started by New Community Corporation and the Hispanic Development Corporation, Newark, NJ), Community Service Society Bedford-Stuyvesant Economic Development Advisory Committee, Center for An Urban Future Telecommunications Policy Advisory Board, President s Council, Legal Momentum, June Workshop Coordinator ( The Arts, Economic Revitalization and Community Development ), Planners Network Biennial Conference, New York, NY. April Presentation on zoning basics to Association of Neighborhood Housing Developers Inclusionary Zoning Workshop. April Presentation at inter-disciplinary workshop on arts and community development, Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development. May Coordinator of 2-hour mini-course session on inclusionary zoning co-sponsored by Hunter College and the Municipal Art Society of New York City. Honors and awards Susan S. Fainstein award for outstanding doctoral scholarship, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, 2003 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, October 2000 Rutgers University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Bevier Fellowship, Excellence Fellowship, and Teaching Assistantship, Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, New York City Urban Fellow, Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for best senior thesis in American Studies, Yale University, 1990 Education Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1990 (Summa cum Laude) Master of Public Affairs with a certificate in urban planning, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University,

4 Ph.D., Urban Planning and Policy Development, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, Dissertation: The Effect of Labor Market Intermediaries on Career Opportunity For Non-College-Educated Workers: A Supply- and Demand-Side Analysis. Chair: Ann Markusen 4

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