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Melvyn Colon
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Melvyn Colon has 25 years of experience working in different facets of community development, as a practitioner, teacher, researcher, and consultant. He was executive director of Nuestra CDC, a housing and community development corporation in Roxbury, MA. He developed a $2 million loan fund for YouthBuild USA for employment training programs. He was one of the (many) founders and a past president of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, an innovative community organizing and neighborhood planning organization that was the first community-based organization in the U.S. to be awarded the power of eminent domain to assemble land for development. He was on the faculty of Tufts University's graduate program in Urban and Environmental Policy for 12 years, teaching courses on various aspects of community development. He was on the faculty of UMASS Boston's College of Public and Community Service for three years teaching courses on housing development, housing finance, and community planning. Consulting projects include an evaluation of Rural LISC's mutli-year rural development initiative (with Nancy Nye), and work with a local foundation and a community group to define economic development priorities in a disinvested Boston neighborhood. Colon has a BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University and a Master's in City Planning from MIT. He is ABD at MIT's Department of Urban Studies. Dissertation work will review the experience of the MA Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development with the disposition of close to 2,000 units of federally subsidized housing to tenant groups or groups designated by tenants. Currently, Colon works for NeighborWorks America, where he is director of the Community Building and Organizing Initiative.
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