沙维亚.布里格斯，麻省理工学院社会学与城市规划副教授，Hauser中心研究员。社区规划专家和前美国政府高级官员，他的工作涉及都市种族多样性，不平等，和民主。在中心的支持下，他发起了“社区问题解决”项目，一个独特的对公共部门、私营部门、非营利机构的民权领导、集体行动的网上资源共享。他亦地方、美国、巴西、印度、南非从事跨部门政治比较研究和管理，并在洛克菲勒基金会、Annie E. Casey基金会、福特基金会的支持下发起一项名为：“民主解决问题：全球社区公民的变迁”的计划。
沙维亚的研究成果被很多权威社会学、规划学、公共政策期刊所转载。他的新书被合编为：《机会的地理：美国都市种族与住房选择》。他曾是哈佛大学公共政策教授，并荣获Carballo优秀教师奖，他为美国及全球的重要机构提供咨询，入福特基金会、洛克菲勒基金会、世界银行等。在公职方面，他曾在克林顿时期主管美国住宅与城市发展部城市政策研究与开发项目，Aspen Institutes社区交流圆桌会议成员，以及其他咨询机构。他的观点曾为纽约时代杂志、Salon.com、国家公共广播网及其他主流媒体报道。
Xavier Briggs is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Hauser Center research fellow. A former community planner and senior U.S. government official, his work is about racial and ethnic diversity, inequality, and democracy in cities. With support from the Center, he launched The Community Problem-Solving Project a unique online resource on civic leadership and collective action across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He is also conducting comparative research on cross-sector politics and management at the local level in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, through a project called Democracy as Problem-Solving: The Civics of Change in Communities Across the Globe. This project is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Ford Foundation.
Xaviers research has appeared in leading journals in sociology, planning, and public policy. His new book is an edited volume, The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (Brookings, 2005). A former faculty member in public policy at Harvard, where he received the Carballo Prize for teaching excellence, he has consulted to leading national and international organizations, such as The Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and The World Bank. In the public sector, he ran the Clinton Administrations urban policy research and development unit at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is a member of the Aspen Institutes Roundtable on Community Change and other advisory groups. His views have appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, National Public Radio, and other major media.
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