Co-Directors
of the Breakthrough Communities Project
Carl
Anthony, architect, author and urban / suburban / regional design
strategist, is co-founder of the Breakthrough Communities Project.
He has served as Acting Director of the Community and Resource
Development Unit at the Ford Foundation, responsible for the Foundation's
world wide programs in fields of Environment and Development, and
Community Development. He directed the Foundation's Sustainable
Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration
in the United States. Carl funded the national Conversation on Regional
Equity (CORE), a dialogue of national policy analysts and advocates
for new metropolitan racial justice strategies. He was Founder and,
for 12 years Executive Director, of the Urban Habitat Program in
the San Francisco Bay Area. With his colleague Luke Cole at the
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, he founded and published
the Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal, the only environmental
justice periodical in the United States. He has a professional degree
in architecture from Columbia University. In 1996, he was
appointed Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University. Resume
Paloma
Pavel, PhD, President of Earth House Center, is co-founder
of the Breakthrough Communities Project and served as Director of
Strategic Communications for the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities
Initiative at the Ford Foundation. Pavel's academic background includes
graduate study at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Harvard
University. Her research at LSE addresses South African Economics
in the pre- and post-Apartheid eras. Her dissertation (Organizational
Culture and Leadership Development) was part of a five-year study
by the Carnegie Foundation on the workplace in America, which culminated
in the publication Good Work. She has taught at many Bay Area institutions,
including the California Institute for Integral Studies, where she
co-chaired the graduate degree program in Organizational Development.
Pavel is a frequent lecturer and keynote presenter nationally and
internationally on the theory of living systems and urban sustainability.
At MIT Press, she co-edits the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities
Books series with Robert Gottlieb. Dr. Pavel is editor of the newly
released book entitled Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability
and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press, 2009). Resume
Carl
Anthony, architect, author and urban / suburban / regional design
strategist, is co-founder of the Breakthrough Communities Project.
He has served as Acting Director of the Community and Resource
Development Unit at the Ford Foundation, responsible for the Foundation's
world wide programs in fields of Environment and Development, and
Community Development. He directed the Foundation's Sustainable
Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration
in the United States. Carl funded the national Conversation on Regional
Equity (CORE), a dialogue of national policy analysts and advocates
for new metropolitan racial justice strategies. He was Founder and,
for 12 years Executive Director, of the Urban Habitat Program in
the San Francisco Bay Area. With his colleague Luke Cole at the
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, he founded and published
the Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal, the only environmental
justice periodical in the United States. He has a professional degree
in architecture from Columbia University. In 1996, he was
appointed Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University. 
Paloma
Pavel, PhD, President of Earth House Center, is co-founder
of the Breakthrough Communities Project and served as Director of
Strategic Communications for the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities
Initiative at the Ford Foundation. Pavel's academic background includes
graduate study at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Harvard
University. Her research at LSE addresses South African Economics
in the pre- and post-Apartheid eras. Her dissertation (Organizational
Culture and Leadership Development) was part of a five-year study
by the Carnegie Foundation on the workplace in America, which culminated
in the publication Good Work. She has taught at many Bay Area institutions,
including the California Institute for Integral Studies, where she
co-chaired the graduate degree program in Organizational Development.
Pavel is a frequent lecturer and keynote presenter nationally and
internationally on the theory of living systems and urban sustainability.
At MIT Press, she co-edits the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities
Books series with Robert Gottlieb. Dr. Pavel is editor of the newly
released book entitled Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability
and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press, 2009). 