Our Team

Loretta Lees

Director of the Initiative on Cities

Stacy Fox

Executive Director

Ting Wei Li

Communications Manager & Administrator

David Glick

MetroBridge Faculty Director; Associate Professor & Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science

David Gross

MetroBridge Program Manager

Kenton Card

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Starting September 2023)

Erin Tatz

Graduate Student; Research Assistant, Menino Survey of Mayors

Abby Enevoldsen

Student Communications Assistant

Dhruv Kapadia

Student Communications Assistant

Isabella Abraham

Student Office Assistant

Jaclyn Berman

Student Office Assistant

Sean Waddington

Student Office Assistant

Katharine Lusk

Co-Director Emerita of the Initiative on Cities

Graham Wilson

Director Emeritus; Emeritus Professor of Political Science

Daniel Abramson

College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Architectural Studies; Professor of American & European Architecture

Azer Bestavros

College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences; Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science; Founding Director of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing

Rébecca Bourgault

College of Fine Arts
Assistant Professor of Art, Art Education; Chair of Art Education

Jade Brown

Clinical Associate Professor of Law

David Carballo

College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies

Mary Churchill

Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives & Community Engagement; Program Director, Higher Education Administration; Professor of the Practice

James Feigenbaum

College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor, Economics

Kevin Gallagher

Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Professor and Director, Global Development Policy Center

Jonathan Jay

School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences

Gina Powers

Questrom School of Business
Senior Lecturer, Markets, Public Policy & Law

Carrie Preston

Director of Kilachand Honors College; College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Heather Schoenfeld

College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Benjamin Sovacool

Director, Institute for Global Sustainability; Professor of Earth & Environment

Linda Sprague Martinez

School of Social Work
Associate Professor; Department Chair, Macro Practice

Ian Sue Wing

College of Arts & Sciences Professor, Department of Earth and Environment

Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz

Metropolitan College
Assistant Professor and Director of City Planning and Urban Affairs Masters Program

Pamela Templer

College of Arts & Sciences
Director, BU URBAN Program; Professor of Biology

Marcus Walton

College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Political Science

Gregory Wellenius

School of Public Health
Director of the Center for Climate & Health; Professor, Environmental Health