Barry Farm Tenants & Allies Association (BFTAA) 1312 Stevens

Barry Farm Tenants & Allies Association (BFTAA) 1312 Stevens Road SE, WDC 20032

District of Columbia Zoning Commission c/o Secretary Schellin, The DC Office of Zoning 441 4th Street, NW, Suite 200S, Washington, DC 20001

June 16, 2014

Dear Zoning Commissioners,

The zoning record reflects our timely submission for Party Status request (Exhibit 27), which was subsequently supported by the required Letter of Authorization (Exhibit 35).

Following on from these earlier submissions, please find attached the curriculum vitae of our witnesses for today's hearing.

• Schyla Pondexter-Moore • Brett Williams (expert) • Sabiyha Prince (expert) • Josef A. Fuentes (expert) • Will Merrifield (expert) • Parisa Norouzi

BFTAA's authorization includes the power of agent or representative to bind Mrs. Belt in ZC Case No. 14-02. Mrs. Belt will lead our presentation of the witnesses.

Please contact us with any additional questions or let us know if you need any additional information to this regard.

Schyla Pondexter-Moore BFTAA Co-founder

ZONING COMMISSION District of Columbia

Case No. 14-02 ZONING COMMISSION District of Columbia CASE NO.14-02 DeletedEXHIBIT NO.43 Parisa Norouzi Executive Director [email protected] (202) 234-9119 x 100

Executive Director Parisa Norouzi has over 12 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations and organizingcommunities. Parisa co-founded Empower DC in 2003, and previously served as the lead organizer of the Child Care for All Campaign and the People’s Property Campaign, as well as led organizing efforts in the Ivy City community and created the Ivy City History Project. Under Parisa’s leadership Empower DC quadrupled its staff from 2007 to 2011. Parisa graduated with honors from Marlboro College in Vermont with a degree in Environmental Policy and Interest Group Politics, and later completed a Masters in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University. She has worked professionally as an organizer for her entire career, with her early work in the environmental and environmental justice movements. Parisa represents Empower DC on the Board of Directors of the DC Federation of Citizens Associations.

Schyla Pondexter-Moore Public Housing Organizer [email protected] (202) 234-9119 x 101

Affordable Housing Organizer Schyla Pondexter-Moore is a native Washingtonianand has lived in DC Public Housing with her four children since November 2007. Schyla became involved in community organizing when renovations – funded by both public and private sources – and forced relocations began at Highland Dwellings, the property where she resided. Schyla was angered by the situation, and began researching the practices of the District of Columbia Housing Authority. She found out that what happened at Highland Dwellings was typical of the treatment public housing residents receive from DCHA. Next, she went door-to- door and organized residents to fight back, and together they formed Highland Together We Stand. United, they were able to win changes to the relocation process that benefited tenants and filed a successful lawsuit against DCHA. The lawsuit guarantees that all 200+ residents of Highland Dwellings have the right of first refusal on the new properties, and will have the same rights as all public housing tenants (i.e.: no credit checks, no utility bills, etc.). Josef A Fuentes Address 1606 Isherwood St NE, Unit #3 Cell 518.364.0262 Washington, DC 20002 Email [email protected]

objective To be an associate of a creative, innovative and successful working environment that will allow me to reach my full potential as a project architect.

relevant Associate/Job Captain experience HKS Inc. (www.hksinc.com) Washington, DC Winter 2014‐Present  Capital One Mclean II high rise Type I building to become Capital One's corporate headquarters. Supporting the team to provide technical guidance and design development of the unique design conditions of the building envelope. Design Advocate/Co‐founder Architecture for Humanity/DC Chapter (www.afh‐dc.org) Washington, DC Winter 2005‐Present  Working with a team of core members to establish ourselves as a socially responsible design organization to work with under resourced communities and develop social networks.  Project lead for local and international projects ranging from schools to community centers.  Chapter Director responsibilities include facilitate conversations between the headquarter office (San Francisco) and the Chapter, acted as a mentor/advisor to the volunteer project organizers and management of the Chapter’s communication, client interactions and management of funds. Project Manager/Architect The Eisen Group (www.theeisengroup.com) Washington, DC Winter 2012‐Winter 2014  One Loudoun is a master‐plan located in Ashburn, VA which encompasses multiple 2‐3 level mixed use buildings of about 40K‐60K square feet each in area. Lead managerial and technical support for three (3) of the buildings starting around the design development phase through to the end of construction. As LEED Coordinator, one of the buildings is anticipated to be LEED Certified.  17 & Wewatta is a multi‐family three tower on a podium high rise located in Denver, CO. The project is approximately 900K sf with various programmatic elements including an amenity deck and multiple tenants including a large grocery store. Lead managerial role working with the developer\contractor client to develop the project meeting their programmatic needs. Designer/BIM Coordinator RTKL Associates (www.rtkl.com) Washington, DC Fall 2006‐Winter 2012  BIM coordinator to enforce best practices on projects to team members and peers.  King Faisal Specialist Hospital scope included a 150,000 sf Oncology building and a 1 million sf academic and patient towers complex. Primary role was to develop the exterior design through design development for the Oncology building.  St Agnes campus modernization scope included several enabling projects and a 240,000 sf, 120 bed patient tower. I was one of the key team members during the Construction Administration phase through completion for the patient tower.  Clinicas Las Condes is a 650,000 sf Chilean hospital tower addition through Design Development. Program includes surgery suite, intensive care and patient room units. Performed solar incident radiation analysis (via Ecotect) to inform the design of the building envelope. Project Architect Group Goetz Architects Washington, DC Winter 2005‐Summer 2006  Worked on a multiphase, 1.8 million SF modernization project from concepts through construction documentation. The project was designed to achieve a LEED Silver rating upon project completion.  Implemented the usage of BIM within the team oriented modernization project (10+ architects).  Project was awarded the 2006 AIA/TAP BIM Award for the Analysis and Simulation category. education Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 1999‐2004  Bachelor of Architecture ‐ GPA 3.44/4.00 Dean’s List  Rome Study Aboard program in conjunction with University of Washington.

awards + Architectural Registration in New York April 2010 DC Council of Engineering and Architectural Society’s “Young Architect of the Year” February 2010 achievements AIA “Emerging Architect of the Year” November 2009 AIA/TAP 2006 BIM Awards ‐ Analysis and Simulation category April 2006 LEED Accreditation February 2006

special skills 3D Design, Graphics + Animation 2D Graphic Design Building Information Modeling Management Experience Environmental/Solar Analysis Sabiyha Prince, Ph.D. 5541 Windysun Court, Columbia, MD 21045 [email protected] 301/ 655-3716

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Anthropology 2000 City University of New York Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY

BA Communication Arts 1982 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALIZATIONS

• Urban anthropology • Research publication • DC Studies/DC Humanities • Educational programming Scholar • Public speaking • Ethnographic and community- • Community activism and based research networking • Curricula development • Fundraising

RESEARCH

Qualitative Researcher, Houses of Worship and the Environment (Ward 8), Anacostia Community Museum Sept 2013

Consultant/Data Analyst, Community Attitudes Toward the Anacostia River (Wards 7 and 8), Anacostia Community Museum Summer 2013

Ethnographer, Harlem Birth Right Project, The New York Urban League June 1993- June 1995

PUBLICATIONS

African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, DC: Race, Class, and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital, Ashgate Publishers, 2014

Hyra, D., and S. Prince, editors. A Post-Industrial Powerhouse: Growth and Inequality in Our Nation’s Capital. In preparation.

“Islam: As American As Sweet Potato Pie” The Atlanta Post, Sep 24, 2010 www.atlantapost.com/2010/09/24/islam-as-american-as-sweet-potato-pie

1 “Race and Comedy” The Huffington Post, May 6, 2009 www.huffingtonpost.com/sabiyha-prince/race-and-american- comedy_b_197814.html -

“Will the Real Black Middle Class Please Stand Up? In More Unequal, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2007

“Will the Real Black Middle Class Please Stand Up? In The Monthly Review, Vol., 58(3): 67-79, July/August 2006

“Manhattan Africans: Contradiction, Continuity, and Authenticity in a Colonial Heritage,” in Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora, Kevin Yelvington, ed.: 291-327, Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research, 2006

Constructing Belonging: Race, Class and Harlem’s Professional Workers, New York: Routlege, 2004

PROGRAMMING AND COMMUNITY WORK

Humanities Scholar, The WISH Archival Project DC Humanities Council grant Spring 2010

Collaborated with local community workers to make key archival materials associated with DC housing activists available to Martin Luther King Library.

Humanities Scholar, Far Southeast Voices: Oral Histories from Barry Farm, Washington, DC, DC Humanities Council grant Summer 2010

Facilitator, Classlines, The Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, Washington, D.C. Fall 2009

Facilitated discussion about class and race following performance of Classlines.

Director, Oral History Workshop, The Woolly Mammoth Theater Co., Washington, DC Fall 2006

Directed a one day workshop for community documentarians and future playwrights on the importance and use of oral history data and shared strategies for collecting this kind of information from D.C. residents.

Humanities Scholar, Capers, DC Humanities Council, Summer 2005

Facilitated discussion following performances of the one woman play which examined the displacement of African Americans from a public housing project in D.C

Coordinator, Greenpeace Celebrity Tour to Cancer Alley, Louisiana 2 Greenpeace, USA, Washington, DC Sept 2000-June 2001

Coordinated tour of artists, entertainers, and politicians to view and assess the impact environmental pollution in communities along the Mississippi River industrial Corridor in Louisiana and draw attention to the violation of human rights and the urgent need for action by policy makers, industry and citizens.

Coordinator, Congressional Hearings on Namibia, Washington Office on Africa, Washington, DC 1987

Logistics Coordinator, Ndilimani Educational Tour, Washington Office on Africa, Washington, DC 1986

Co-coordinated tour of Namibian refugees to New York, Chicago and northern California to draw attention to their plight under apartheid.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Applied Social Sciences, Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD Aug-Dec- 2013

Visiting Anthropologist, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Fall 2013

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology American University, Washington, DC Aug 2003-Dec 2011

Courses: The Anthropology of American Life, The Roots of Racism, Ethnographic Research Methods, Dissertation Seminar, Critical Whiteness Studies, Race, Gender and Social Justice Seminar, Culture: The Human Mirror, Poverty and Culture, Urban Field School, African American Cultures, Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology, Race, Class and Inequality in Washington, DC, Women in the African Diaspora

PRESENTATIONS

Guest Speaker, Author Talk, African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, DC, Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC 2014

Panelist, Equitable Development Symposium, George Washington University, Washington, DC 2014

Race and Class in the Capital: Examining African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, DC, paper presented during an invited session for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois 2013

Lecturer, Race, Class and The Help, Black Parent’s Association, Holton Arms Girls School, Bethesda, Maryland 2012

3 Panelist, Studying Black Communities: Then, Now, Here and There, American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Montreal, Canada 2011

Lecturer, Class Disparities in Washington, DC Avodah, The Jewish Service Corps, Washington, DC 2011

Panelist, Gentrification in Washington, DC, Howard University 2010

Panelist, Arts 360, American University, Washington, DC, Event organized by Dr. Caleen Jennings which brought artist, Bobby McFerrin to campus for workshop with D.C. high school students2010

Panelist, Class Disparities in Washington, DC, Avodah, The Jewish Service Corps, Washington, DC 2010

Key Note speaker, The City Former Known as Chocolate: Class, Race, Neoliberalism, and Change in Washington, DC Urban Transformations Conference, American University, Washington, DC 2009

4 BRETT WILLIAMS AMERICAN UNIVERSITY June 2014

Education

1969 BA in History, Tufts University, Magna cum Laude 1975 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois

(Selected) Publications

Books: New Landscapes of Inequality, co-edited with Jane Collins and Micaela di Leonardo), School of American Research Press, 2008 Debt For Sale, University of Pennsylvania. 2004. Selected as one of the National Chamber Foundation’s (NCF) Books That Drive the Free Enterprise Debate. The Politics of Culture. Smithsonian Press, 1991. Editor Upscaling Downtown: Stalled Gentrification in Washington, DC. Cornell University Press, 1988. John Henry. Greenwood Press, 1983. Exploring Total Institutions. Stipes Publishing, 1977. Co-edited with Robert Gordon

Research Reports Park Users and Neighbors: Civil War Defenses of Washington and Anacostia Park, District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1997. With Tanya Ramos, Jacqueline Brown, Ray Chesterfield, Melinda Crowley, Benjamin Daugherty, Robin Dean, Lisa Kinney, Sherri Lawson, Susie McFadden, Patrick Pierce, Kenneth Pitt, and Terik Washington

Ellen Wilson Dwellings, in Volume II Case Studies, and Journal of Research, for HOPE VI, Washington, D.C.: Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1996, and 1998. With Jenell Williams, Sherri Lawson, Jonathan Ortiz, Angelito Palma, Melinda Crowley, Marianna Blagburn, Katrina Green, and Sheila Wise

Book Chapters Fragments of a Limited Mutuality. In Mutuality: Anthropology’s changing terms of engagement, edited by Roger Sanjek. Univesiity of Penn Press, forthcoming. Race. In a Companion to Urban Anthropology, edited by Don Nonini. Blackwell Press 2014. Body and Soul: Profits from Poverty. In The Insecure American, edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. University of California Press 2010. The Political Ecology of the Anacostia River. In East of the River: Continuity and Change. Smithsonian Institution Press, edited by Gail Lowe. John Henry. In Encyclopedia of African American History. Facts on File. . Embodying Inequality: Race, Illness, and Poverty in Washington, D.C. Since the 1960s. In African-American Urban History Since World War II. Edited by Kenneth Kusmer and Joseph Trotter. University of Chicago Press, 2009. pp 142- 160 The Precipice of Debt. In New Landscapes of Inequality. Edited by Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams. School of American Research.2008. John Henry. In West Virginia Encyclopedia. West Virginia Humanities Council: 2006. What’s Debt Got To Do With It? In The New Poverty Studies : The Ethnography of Politics, Policy, and Impoverished People in the US, edited by Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky. NYU Press, 2001: 79-102. Reprinted in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, Routledge Press, 2010. A Man Ain’t Nothin But a Man. In A Question of Manhood edited by Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine. Indiana University Press 2001: 371-386. Research Practices. In Festival of American Folklife Program Book, Smithsonian Institution, 2000. With Marianna Blagburn. Babies and Banks: 'The Reproductive Underclass' and the Raced, Gendered Masking of Debt. In Race, edited by Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek. Rutgers University Press, 1998. There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrification, Displacement, and Homelessness in Washington, DC. In There's No Place Like Home: The Ethnography of Poverty and Homelessness and Public Policy in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, edited by Anna Lou DeHavenon. Bergin and Garvey, 1996. Three Approaches to Community Sustainability. In Sustainable Communities Review (2003) Volume 6, nos. 1 & 2, pp. 55-59. Review Essay, Experiencing Community in the United States, Reviews in Anthropology 31:2, 2002.

Articles Introduction (pp. 1-5) and Gentrifying the Water and Selling Jim Crow (pp. 93- 121) In Urban Anthropology 31:1 (Special issue on Urban Legends, which I edited with Sabiyha Prince. 2002. “DC’s Ghosts,” First of the Month, July, pp. 11-15. 2001 A River Runs Through Us. American Anthropologist 103: 2 (June 2001): 409-431. Poverty Among African Americans in the Urban United States, Human Organization, Summer 1992. Reprinted in Sociological Abstracts. Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture and Gentrification, Journal of Urban Life, 1985. BRETT WILLIAMS AMERICAN UNIVERSITY April 2011 Education

1969 BA in History, Tufts University, Magna cum Laude 1975 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois

(Selected) Employment 1969-1970 Tenant organizer in public housing for the Alliance of Settlement Houses, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1976-2006 Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, American Studies and Anthropology, American University. During this time I have served as Director of the Women’s Studies Program, Director of the American Studies Program, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology. Spring 2002 Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Louisville, Department of Liberal Studies.

(Selected) Honors and Awards

Seafarers’ Yacht Club Commitment Award 2007 Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America; Society for the Anthropology of North America, 2002 American University Alumni Legacy Award, 2002 John Henry Memorial Award, John Henry Memorial Foundation, 1997 Praxis Award, Society for Applied Anthropology, 1989 President, Gold Key Honor Society, Tufts University, 1969

(Selected) Publications

Books: Contesting Urban Nature: Struggles over land and water in Washington, D.C. In preparation. New Landscapes of Inequality, co-edited with Jane Collins and Micaela di Leonardo), School of American Research Press, 2008 Debt For Sale, University of Pennsylvania. 2004. Selected as one of the National Chamber Foundation’s (NCF) Books That Drive the Free Enterprise Debate. The Politics of Culture. Smithsonian Press, 1991. Editor Upscaling Downtown: Stalled Gentrification in Washington, DC. Cornell University Press, 1988. John Henry. Greenwood Press, 1983. Exploring Total Institutions. Stipes Publishing, 1977. Co-edited with Robert Gordon

1 Research Reports (Selected)

Park Users and Neighbors: Civil War Defenses of Washington and Anacostia Park, District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1997. With Tanya Ramos, Jacqueline Brown, Ray Chesterfield, Melinda Crowley, Benjamin Daugherty, Robin Dean, Lisa Kinney, Sherri Lawson, Susie McFadden, Patrick Pierce, Kenneth Pitt, and Terik Washington

Book Chapters (Selected) John Henry. In Encyclopedia of African American History. Facts on File. In press. Casino Capitalism, Inequality, and the Forgiveness of Debt. For edited book on the alleviation of poverty, University of West Indies. Under submission. The Political Ecology of the Anacostia River. In East of the River: Continuity and Change. Smithsonian Institution Press, edited by Gail Lowe. 2011 Kredit: Schuld und Schulden. In Versuche das Gluck Im Garten Zu Finden, Franciska Bark Hagen and Gunther Vogt, editors. Lars Muller Publishers, 2011: 66-78. Body and Soul: Profits from Poverty. In The Insecure American, edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. University of California Press 2010. Embodying Inequality: Race, Illness, and Poverty in Washington, D.C. Since the 1960s. In African-American Urban History Since World War II. Edited by Kenneth Kusmer and Joseph Trotter. University of Chicago Press, 2009. pp 142-160 The Precipice of Debt. In New Landscapes of Inequality. Edited by Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams. School of American Research.2008. John Henry. In West Virginia Encyclopedia. West Virginia Humanities Council: 2006. Celebrating Kris Leman. John Gatewood, editor Gentrification. In The Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Berkshire Publishing Group 2004: Environmental Justice. In The Encyclopedia of Community. Sage 2003: 458-462.

2 Environmental Justice. In Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Volume II. Pp. 451-454 Ed by Shepard Krech III, J.R, McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant. Routledge: 2002. Gentrification, Stalled. In The Encyclopedia of Community. Sage 2003: 547. Washington, District of Columbia. In The Encyclopedia of Cities. Grolier, 2002: 386-393. What’s Debt Got To Do With It? In The New Poverty Studies : The Ethnography of Politics, Policy, and Impoverished People in the US, edited by Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky. NYU Press, 2001: 79-102. Reprinted in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, Routledge Press, 2010. A Man Ain’t Nothin But a Man. In A Question of Manhood edited by Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine. Indiana University Press 2001: 371-386. Research Practices. In Festival of American Folklife Program Book, Smithsonian Institution, 2000. With Marianna Blagburn. Babies and Banks: 'The Reproductive Underclass' and the Raced, Gendered Masking of Debt. In Race, edited by Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek. Rutgers University Press, 1998. There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrification, Displacement, and Homelessness in Washington, DC. In There's No Place Like Home: The Ethnography of Poverty and Homelessness and Public Policy in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, edited by Anna Lou DeHavenon. Bergin and Garvey, 1996.

Articles (Selected): Review of Lee Baker, Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture. American Anthropologist, in press Flows of investment and disinvestment in Ivy City (with Susan Bennett, WCL), in preparation. Review of Alisse Waterston, ed. An Anthropology of War. North American Dialogue, Autumn 2010. ‘Life Inside a Watershed: The Rebirth of the Anacostia River,” in the Newsletter for the American Association of Geographers 45:1, January 2010, pp. 1-8. “No Justice, No Peace? North American Dialogue Volume 11, No. 2 October 2008. 1ff. “The Paradox of Parks.” Identities 13:1 (Spring 2006): 139-172 Review Essay, “American Pie.” (The Fractious Nation?, Life in America, and Beneath the Crust of Culture), American Anthropologist. “Washington’s ‘People Without History,” with Susie McFadden- Resper, Transforming Anthropology 13:1: 3-14. 2005 “Root Shock,” First of the Month.

3 “Without Go-Go This Shit Ain’t The Same Dog.” (with John Henry Pitt). City and Society XIV: 1 (2002}: 87-102. Three Approaches to Community Sustainability. In Sustainable Communities Review (2003) Volume 6, nos. 1 & 2, pp. 55-59. Review Essay, Experiencing Community in the United States, Reviews in Anthropology 31:2, 2002. Introduction (pp. 1-5) and Gentrifying the Water and Selling Jim Crow (pp. 93-121) In Urban Anthropology 31:1 (Special issue on Urban Legends, which I edited with Sabiyha Prince. 2002. “DC’s Ghosts,” First of the Month, July, pp. 11-15. 2001 A River Runs Through Us. American Anthropologist 103: 2 (June 2001): 409-431. Poverty Among African Americans in the Urban United States, Human Organization, Summer 1992. Reprinted in Sociological Abstracts. Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture and Gentrification, Journal of Urban Life, 1985.

Symposia (Selected):

Discussant, Organizing for a New Economy, Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore March 2012; Session Organizer: Boone Shear Discussant for session on ethnographic collaboration, organized by Niki Fabricant and Emily Steinmetz, Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, March 2012. Discussant, Craftsmanship and Creativity, organized by Brian McKenna and Sam Beck, American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 2011 Conversations on Urban Political Economy (with Julian Brash and Ahmed Kanna), Society for Economic Anthropology, Montreal, November 2011. Invited paper “The Foreclosure Crisis in Washington, D.C.” for Session: Mutuality at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 2011, organized by Roger Sanjek. Panel Moderator, FLOW, American University Eco-Sense, November 10, 2012. Panel participant, Congressional Black Caucus, Pathways out of Poverty, September 15 2010. Seminar “The Land, the City, the Economy,” Society for the Anthropology of North America, April 2010. Denver Discussant, The city in ruins? American Studies Association, November 6, 2009, Washington D.C. Freshman Service Experience, Organizer and Moderator for panel on Gentrification in DC August 2009

4 Discussant for Session “Raising Contentious Issues in Conservative Settings.” Organized by Catherine Kingfisher. American Anthropological Association. November 21, 2008. Walking Tour: The Environmental History of T Street NW. With George Middendorf and Charles Nilon. Washington Historical Society. November 8, 2008 Racial Inequalities in Washington, D.C. (with Sabiyha Prince, Damien Thompson and Rachel Watkins), Washington Association of Practicing Anthropologists, May 2005. Invited Session, The Force of a Thousand Nightmares, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, 2002. Organized Session (with Sabiyha Prince), Urban Legends, Montreal: American Ethnological Society, 2001. Discussant, Sessions on Welfare Reform, The New Americanist Ethnography, and Studies of Whiteness, Chicago: American Anthropological Association, 2000. Organized Session, “History, Inequality, and Place.” Philadelphia: American Anthropological Association, December 1998. Discussant for Key Symposium, “African Americans in the South,” Southern Anthropological Society, April 1990

Lectures (Selected): Keynote address, International Conference on the Alleviation of Poverty. University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad, October 20, 2011. Diversifying Derivatives: Exploring Foreclosures in a Community Museum. The Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland Knowledge and Interculturality Workshop November 13, 2010. Environmental Justice along the Anacostia River. House of Sweden Science Café October 7, 2010. Invited Alumni Speaker: Anthropology at the University of Illinois, American Anthropological Association, December 2009. Walking Tour of Mount Pleasant. Eastern Mennonite University Washington Semester Program, February 3 2010. A D.C. State of Mind. EnvironMentors Orientation. October 1, 2009, NCSE Bringing It Home, Greater Washington Allies in Reconciliation, 2nd Annual Community Conference, July 18, 2009 Peoples Economic Forum, Washington DC, April 25 2009. The Wrong Side of the River: Living Poor and Dying Young in Washington, D.C. University of Missouri School of Ecology. October 8, 2008. What’s the Next Move? Housing East of the River. Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, May 13, 2008. .

5 No Justice, No Peace? Plenary Session on Race and Justice. Society for the Anthropology of North America, Wrightsville Beach, April 2008 Keynote address, Metropolitan Dilemmas and Solutions: A Focus on Housing in the Baltimore Region. Towson University March 5, 2008. Keynote address, Earth, Wind, Flood, and Fire. Interrogating Diversity conference. American University March 22, 2008. Hurricane Katrina. Focus the Nation conference. American University, February 2008. “Body and Soul: Profits from Poverty.” American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. In Invited Session “The Insecure American. November 30, 2007. “Embodying Inequality.” Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora. Barbados, October 15, 2007. “The Anacostia Watershed.: Washington, D.C.: EcoSense, October 24, 2007. Public Anthropology Day “Doctor on a Boat? Addressing Racial Inequalities in Health in Washington, DC. Society for the Anthropology of North America April 2006. “On the Waterfronts: The Struggle for Urban Rivers.” University of Iowa April 2006. Discussant for panel, “Locating Racial Formation: Urban, Regional and National Spaces in Portugal, Spain, and Cuba.” American Anthropological Association December 2005. “The Death and Rebirth of North Central Philadelphia,” Temple University/Renaissance Community Development Corporation, Philadelphia, PA: October 1, 2004 “The Impact of Segregation on Culture” Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Housing Conference, Washington, DC, June 18, 2004. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “A History of Segregation, Urban Renewal, and Housing in Washington, DC,” March 1, 2004. “A River Runs Through Us”, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, February 2002. Plenary speaker, “Social Justice and Anthropology,” Joint meeting of the Canadian Anthropological Society and the Society for the Anthropology of North America, Windsor May 2002. “Without Go-Go…” In Anthropology and Its Interlocutors. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association 2001. Ethnographic Methods for Park Planners, National Park Service. New Orleans, 1999. Anthropology’s Ageless American Cities, American Anthropological Association, December 1998.

6 Keynote Speaker, John Henry Memorial Festival, Hinton, West Virginia, October 1997. “Washington’s People Without History,” with Susie McFadden, IN “Back to Black – and the Future: African American Ethnicity on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century.” American Anthropological Association, November, 1997 “Urban Renewal Revisited,” with Jenell Williams, IN “Update on the War on the Poor,” American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 1997 “Canary of Gentrification,” University of North Carolina, Conference, “Toward a Public Anthropology: Strategies and Prospects,” April 1997. “Why is the Pawn Shop There?” Invited session on “Taking the Measure of Tally’s Corner –30 Years Later,” AAA Meetings, Washington D.C. November 1995. Gentrification, Displacement and Homelessness. Ethnographic Research and Urban Policy Problems Conference. Howard University. December 1994. “Ethnographic Contributions to Prevention Research.” NIMH National Conference on Prevention. April 1993. “The Carolina-Washington Connection,” Fifteenth Annual Conference on Washington, DC Studies, Columbia Historical Society, February 1988. Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “Failed Integration in Washington, DC,” January

Productions (Selected) Co-curator, American Dream exhibit, Anacostia Community Museum, in production. Teach-in on the financial crisis, Philadelphia, December 3, 2009 Appearance in film Un-Natural State, directed by Kirk Mangels. Premiered at Filmfest DC Interviewed for The Big DC Movie, May 2009 The Financial Crisis, interview for film produced by Anke Schwittka, University of California at Berkeley. “The Debt Trap.” Canadian Global Television/Proximity Films. Directed by David Adkin. Premiered April 2, 2008 Humanities Scholar/Consultant, “Working.” Produced by Frank Hamilton, Funded by the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., for NPR’s Metro Connection. Consultant, “A Man Ain’t Nothing But A Man,” GreenHouse Pictures Consultant “Ready to Play,” Humanities Council of Washington, DC Curator (with Marianna Blagburn), Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, Washington, D.C.: It’s Our Home.

7 Curator, “Soccer Medley,” traveling exhibit on soccer in the new multicultural city, 1995. Steel-Drivin Man. Produced by Ginna Allison. 1995. Humanities Scholar/Consultant, "In Search of Common Ground video and museum exhibit (Anacostia Museum Winter 1994-95) Fishing in the City. Produced by Karen Brodkin Sacks. The Carolina-Washington Connection, multimedia production including lectures, music, workshops on storytelling, cooking, and healing traditions, 1987. (With Carol Hausner) The Mount Pleasant Folk Arts Workshops (with Olivia Cadaval, Nancy Riker, and Leslie Prosterman), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, 1985. Mount Pleasant Multicultural Festival (with John Henry Pitt), 1982, 1983.

Interviews (recent) Russia Today, on the US as crumbling empire, October 22, 2010 Telesur, on student loan debt, April 20, 2010 Author’s Audio. June 17, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education, “Digging Deep for the Real ‘John Henry.’ By Jennifer Howard. February 9, 2007. Washington Post. Live Online discussion. Perspective on D.C.'s Development Wednesday, October 4, 2006; 2:00 PM Philadelphia Inquirer. Young candidate has post position Frederick News. Local experts explain how gentrification may affect city. September 4, 2006. El Mercurio. Gentrification. August 17, 2006. Newsweek.com. Debt. August 22, 2006. Better Homes and Gardens, June 2006, James McCommons, “Take Charge Of Your Debt.” Pp. 176, 179. East of the River, August 11, 2004, Gabriel Pacyniak, “Preventing History From Repeating Itself Along the Anacostia: An Interview with Anacostia Waterfront Anthropologist Brett Williams” Washington Informer, July 22-28, 2004, Khalilah Karim, “Historic Policies Fuel Legacy of Segregation and Pollution in Anacostia,” p.4

(Selected) Professional Service: Mentor, School without Walls, Washington, D.C. Training for Environmentors, Martin Luther King Library, September 25, 2008 Walking tour of Mount Pleasant for visiting class from Eastern Mennonite University, September 3, 2008, January 2010 Outside Reviewer for Tenure, Africana Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan Referee for University Distinguished Professor, CUNY; UCLA

8 Referee for Promotion to full Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Duke University, Western Michigan University Board Member at-large, Society for the Anthropology of North America. Manuscript review for University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, New York University Press, Routledge Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, University of Arizona Press, and others., Article review for Journal of Latin American Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Identities, Social Science and Medicine, Human Organization, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Journal of Urban Affairs, City and Society, Feminist Economics, and others. Panel Member/Reviewer, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Council of Learned Societies, Environmental Protection Agency, American Association of University Women, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and others. Portfolio evaluation at Bell High School

Grants and Stipends (Recent)

“New Landscapes of Inequality,” (with Jane Collins and Micaela di Leonardo), School of American Research Seminar, March 2006. “Anacostia Watershed Education” training course for teachers, July 2004.

Doctoral Dissertation Committees Chaired

David Nkweti, The aged in Black middle class families: a study in intergenerational relations. 1982 Monica L. Heppel, Harvesting the crops of others: Migrant farm labor on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. 1982. Martha Daughdrill, Urban growth and family farmers: strategic responses. 1986 Paul Longo, National mathematics standards and communicative competence: a sociolinguistic analysis of institutionalized and emergent forms of classroom discourse / 1993 Abby Thomas, Involuntary compliance: cultural aspects of the American Income Tax Transaction, 1997 Jenell Paris, African-American women's activism and ghetto formation in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood / by Jenell Lora Williams Paris.1998 Audrey Brown, Imagining a nation: cultural politics and transformative social action among late-twentieth century African-American women / by Audrey Lawson Brown., 1999 Linda Kaljee, Urban Renewal and youth in Baltimore. Samuel Collins, Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; Power and Ideas of Information Society at the Library of Congress

9 Sheila Wise, In or out? The paradoxical positions of socially responsible black gay men in the black community, 2000. Sherri Lawson Clark, Policy, perceptions, and place: an ethnography of the complexities of implementing a federal housing program. 2003 Sandra Joss, Beyond the dreamings: identity and representation in Australian Aboriginal urban art 2004 Heather Reisinger, “Young and Thuggin’”: The Unresolved Life of a Young Hustler, 2004 Jonathan Ortiz, Almost home: the federal halfway house as a rite de passage and inmate as liminal personae / by Jonathan Anthony Ortiz, 2005. Damien Thompson, Pictures on the Wall: Urban Restructuring, Gentrification, and the Struggle for Place in 21 st Century Washington, D.C., 2006. Christine Elwell, From Political Protest to Bureaucratic Service: The Transformation of Homeless Advocacy in the Nation's Capital and the Eclipse of Political Discourse, 2009 Kelly Feltault, The Taste of Tradition: Maryland Crabcakes from Thailand, 2009 Kelly Ernst, We are the Revolution we make: Freegans in New York City, 2010 Jennie Simpson, Mental Illness and Police Practice in Washington, D.C. 2011 Esther Holtermann, Day Laborers on the corner 2011

Dissertations in progress that I am advising:

Matthew Wickens, Homelessness and Debt in Japan (ABD) Dvera Saxton, organic food production and migrant farmworker health (ABD) Ariana Curtis, Dislocation and identity in Panama (ABD)

Dissertation committees (last two years):

Jodi Barnes (completed) Rodolfo Tello Abanto (completed) Dylan Kerrigan (completed) Shelley Harsche (ABD) Kalfani Ture (fourth comp) Kristin Monteperto (ABD) Mysara Abu Asalem (ABD) Tiwanna DeMoss (ABD) Becka Frischkorn (ABD) Jacqualine Reid, (4th comp)

Masters Theses Advised

10 Marni Finkelstein, Communication and Compromise: or, a tale of two communities. 1995. Emily K. Steinmetz, Access denied: the construction of criminality and the consequences of felon disenfranchisement. 2003. Katie McElhinney, Organic food accessibility Meredith Marchioni, Watermen on the Chesapeake Bay Emily Binder, Comparative democracies Ryan Scherzinger, Environmental History of Louisville, Kentucky Julie Koppel, Dams and Displacement Abby Weil, Torture and Community Therapy in Guatemala Erika Hill, Somos Mestizos? Race and Afro-Latinos in Mexico

Senior Theses Advised (recently)

Shauna Ruda, How Jesus Became White Emily Thomas, SIS, Honors Capstone, Biofuels Lindsey Vierra: A Study of Black Leadership in Local Non-Profit Organizations in Washington, DC, Senior Thesis 2006 Jen Turner: Neighborhood Public Art, Senior Thesis 2007 Aditi Fruitwalla, Honors Capstone on the Race Monologues Sarah Brennan, Honors Capstone on Race

University Service, 2009-11: Freshman Service Experience CAS Research Conference, Judged undergraduate social science positions Pre-medical advisor Preview Days Board of Advisors, Community Action and Social Justice Coalition Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Anthropology Search committee, Department of Anthropology Department of Anthropology Rank and Tenure Committee Department of Sociology Rank and Tenure Committee Board of Advisors, Arab Studies Program At-large senator, University Senate Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Club American Studies Program Advisory Board

11 Will Merrifield, Staff Attorney (202) 328-5502 [email protected]

Will joined the Legal Clinic in 2011, having previously worked with Legal Aid of Western Ohio initially as an AmeriCorps attorney on their Homelessness Prevention and Housing Opportunity Project and then as a staff attorney focusing on housing and consumer law.

At the Legal Clinic, Will works on the Legal Clinic’s Affordable Housing Initiative, focusing on preserving and expanding the supply of affordable and subsidized housing for low-income residents of DC. He represents tenant associations in affordable housing preservation cases and low-income tenants in eviction proceedings that arise out of building-wide issues.

He advocates with various DC government agencies for the creation and preservation of affordable housing. He also conducts trainings on the rights of tenants and tenant associations.