Lisa J. Servon is Dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Work Life Policy. Dean Servon holds a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, an MA in History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of urban poverty, community development, economic development, and issues of gender and race. Specific areas of expertise include microenterprise development, the digital divide, and capacity-building for community-based organizations. Her work has been funded by the Open Society Institute, the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation and others. She spent 2004 -2005 as Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. Servon is the author numerous journal articles and two books: Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy (Blackwell 2002), and Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor (Brookings 1999). She lives in Brooklyn.

Books and articles written by Lisa Servon:

Consumer Financial Literacy and the Impact of Online Banking on the Financial Behavior of Lower-Income Bank Customers 
The Journal of Consumer Affairs, Summer 2008

Microenterprise Development in the United States: Current Challenges and New Directions  
Economic Development Quarterly, 2007

Reassessing the Role of Housing in Community-Based Urban Development 
Housing Policy Debate, 2007

CDCs and the Changing Context for Urban Community Development: A Review of the Field and the Environment  
Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, Winter 2006

Gender and Planning: A Reader  
2005

By the Numbers: Measuring Community Development Corporations’ Capacity  
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2003

Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy 
2002

Four Myths about the Digital Divide  
Planning Theory and Practice, 2002

Community Technology Centers: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Low-Income, Urban Communities  
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2001

Microenterprise and the Economic Development Toolkit: A Small Part of the Big Picture  
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2000

Bootstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor  
1999

Lisa Servon Biography and Publications List:
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