Marie Kennedy

Marie Kennedy is Professor Emerita of Community Planning in the College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston and Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles.  She combines the roles of activist and scholar, teaching, working in and writing about community development, planning education, participatory action research and social movements in the U.S. and Latin America.  Marie has supervised numerous collaborative projects, through which students learn and earn academic credit while providing technical assistance to community organizations focusing on anti-displacement, anti-racist and community empowerment issues.  She has worked extensively with communities in the Greater Boston Area, as well as in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua.  Marie serves on the board of directors of Grassroots International and the advisory board of the College of Public and Community Service and is co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Planners Network and co-editor of Progressive Planning.