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Lisa Servon      

Author & Professor of City Planning

Lisa Servon is Professor of City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and former dean at The New School. She is the author of "Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy" (Blackwell 2002), "Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor" (Brookings 1999), "Gender and Planning: A Reader" (With Susan Fainstein, Rutgers University Press 2005), and "Otra Vida es Posible: Practicas Economicas Alternativas Durante la Crisis" (With Manuel Castells, Joana Conill, Amalia Cardenas and Sviatlana Hlebik. UOC Press 2012).

She has contributed to the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on PBS News Hour, Marketplace Money and Radio Times and her research is featured in the forthcoming documentary Spent: Looking for Change. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children, and a dog named Friday.

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