What Do Regions Want?: A Report on the Millennium Breakfast Series of the Council on Regional Development

Charles Levenstein, Ph.D., M.S.O.H.
Charles Levenstein is professor of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His book of poems, Lost Baggage, was published by Loom Press in 2001. He is the editor of New Solutions, an international journal of occupational and environmental health policy, and the author and editor of many books, including "The Point of Production: The Political Economy of the Work Environment", with Professor John Wooding of UMass Lowell.

Gregory F. DeLaurier, Ph.D; Linda Silka, Ph.D.
Gregory F. DeLaurier is a political scientist affiliated with the Work Environment Department of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His has written widely on labor and environmental issues and on progressive politics. His work has appeared in, among other places, The Boston Globe, The Boston Book Review, New Solutions, Peace Review, the Journal of African and Asian Studies, and New Political Science.

Linda Silka, Ph.D.
Linda Silka, PhD, University Professor in the interdisciplinary Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, co-directs the Center for Family, Work, and Community at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. A social and community psychologist by training, Dr. Silka develops programs that create and evaluate community and university partnerships. Recent partnerships include the Southeast Asian Environmental Justice Partnership and the New Ventures Partnership funded in part the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a Community Outreach Partnership Center begun through funding from U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s Office of University Partnerships, and the Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment. Dr. Silka involves community residents, students, and faculty in using new technologies such as community mapping to address long-standing community challenges. She teaches graduate courses in research ethics with underserved groups, applied research, program evaluation, geographic information systems, and grant writing, and consults to partnerships around the country on capacity building strategies in program evaluation and community-based research. Dr. Silka co-chairs the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs/University of Massachusetts Working Group on Community Preservation and is a member of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs’ Environment Justice Advisory Committee. In 1999, she was honored with the University of Massachusetts President’s Award for Outstanding Professional Service. Dr. Silka was recently 1 of 8 faculty nationally recognized for Ernest L. Lynton Honorable Mention for her work with refugee and immigrant communities. The HUD Community-Outreach Partnership Center that she co-directs has received a HUD “Best Practice” Award and been featured in the HUD National COPC Newsletter for outstanding work using technology with communities and engaging in economic development with refugee and immigrant communities.

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