Faculty
Lisa J. Servon
Professor, Urban Policy
Lisa J. Servon is Professor and former dean at Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Work Life Policy. Professor Servon holds a B.A in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A in History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of urban poverty, community development, economic development, and issues of gender and race. Specific areas of expertise include microenterprise development, the digital divide, and capacity-building for community-based organizations. Her work has been funded by the Open Society Institute, the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation and others. She spent 2004-2005 as Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. Servon is the author of numerous journal articles and two books: Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy (Blackwell 2002), and Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor (Brookings 1999). She lives in Brooklyn.
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Recent Publications
Books and articles written by Lisa Servon:
Consumer Financial Literacy and the Impact of Online Banking on the Financial Behavior of Lower-Income Bank Customers
The Journal of Consumer Affairs, Summer 2008
Microenterprise Development in the United States: Current Challenges and New Directions
Economic Development Quarterly, 2007
Reassessing the Role of Housing in Community-Based Urban Development
Housing Policy Debate, 2007
CDCs and the Changing Context for Urban Community Development: A Review of the Field and the Environment
Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, Winter 2006
Gender and Planning: A Reader
2005
By the Numbers: Measuring Community Development Corporations’ Capacity
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2003
Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy
2002
Four Myths about the Digital Divide
Planning Theory and Practice, 2002
Community Technology Centers: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Low-Income, Urban Communities
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2001
Microenterprise and the Economic Development Toolkit: A Small Part of the Big Picture
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2000
Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor
1999
Lisa Servon Biography and Publications List:
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