2000115-Strengthening-Communities-with-Neighborhood-Data

About the Essayists 417
community and regional planning and her MS from The Johns Hopkins
University in environmental sciences.
George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at
Wayne State University. He has held positions at the Universities of Harvard,
Berkeley, North Carolina, Amsterdam, Delft, Glasgow, Mannheim,
Oslo, and Western Sydney, among others. Galster served as director of
housing research at the Urban Institute before coming to Wayne State
University in 1996. His research has focused on urban neighborhoods
and housing markets, exploring how they change and how they change
the people who live within them. His latest book is Driving Detroit: The
Quest for Respect in the Motor City (2012). He has provided housing policy
consultations to public officials in Australia, Canada, China, Scotland,
and the United States. He earned his PhD in economics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lina Hedman is a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban
Research, Uppsala University, and at the Institute for Future Studies,
Stockholm, Sweden. Her main research interests are residential segregation,
processes of neighborhood selection, and neighborhood effects.
Most of her empirical research is carried out using Swedish register data,
but she has also published papers discussing these issues in more general
terms. She holds a PhD in human geography from Uppsala University.
Julia Koschinsky is an associate research professor at Arizona State University’s
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (SGSUP),
where she is currently engaged in a national collaborative research project
on the neighborhood context of subsidized housing. She is also the
research director of the SGSUP GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis
and Computation, which focuses on the development of spatial analytical
methods and their implementation in free and open-source software
programs. Koschinsky’s research addresses questions at the intersection
of spatial data analysis and evaluation methods in application areas such
as housing, crime, and health. Her research and evaluation experience
involving neighborhood-level data in the academic, business, and nonprofit
sectors spans almost 20 years.
Sheila Martin is director of the Institute of Portland Metropolitan
Studies and the Population Research Center and a faculty member in