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Lavea Brachman, JD, MCP is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution鈥檚 Metro Program in Washington, D.C.聽 As a scholar and practitioner,聽Lavea focuses聽on the plight and transformation of struggling post-industrial cities and regions聽(also known as legacy cities or 鈥渓eft-behind places鈥�). She has developed, analyzed, and overseen policies and practices formulated to boost聽place-based prosperity,聽combat聽economic and racial inequities, and overcome barriers to economic mobility.

Before joining Brookings, Lavea served as聽Vice President of Programs at the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, a philanthropic organization in Detroit, Michigan, where she developed investment strategies aimed at fostering upward mobility to middle skill, middle wage jobs and generating inclusive neighborhood growth. Previously, Lavea co-founded and spent a decade as Executive Director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC), an influential, nonpartisan 鈥渢hink and do鈥� non-profit organization championing economic revitalization and equitable growth in disinvested communities.

Lavea has also聽served as resident fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts and as urban and regional policy fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C. 聽She has taught courses on neighborhood development practices and community-driven efforts to derive value from industrial site redevelopment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University. She has published widely on legacy cities and related redevelopment policies and practices.

Lavea graduated with honors from Harvard College, holds a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, and earned a master in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Project description:

While at 香港六合彩中特网, Lavea will investigate聽the聽impact of national investments on聽鈥渓eft-behind鈥� UK cities and regions, such as Manchester, Nottingham, West Yorkshire and North Tyne,聽and the role of local institutions in聽leveraging these investments to spur聽economic growth.

Recent聽national investments in the US represent an unparalleled opportunity for local leaders to deploy funds strategically, addressing economic and racial inequities. This opportunity also demands new thinking on the local level to seize the moment. With this project, Lavea will analyze efforts in select UK communities to maximize sizeable national investments and drive prosperity and greater equality. She will investigate whether and how local leaders have organized to聽regenerate their economies -- with new partnerships and civic infrastructure, strategic investments, or systems-based transformations -- to provide a springboard for turn-around of disinvested areas.

Through data collection and on-the-ground interviews with local and national policymakers, Lavea聽will evaluate聽UK policies and investments, and their impacts, and analyze where local implementation practices appear to advance equitable regrowth -- and, conversely, where challenges and missed opportunities emerge.聽Policymakers in both the UK and the U.S. are grappling with ways to catalyze renewal in these 鈥渓eft-behind places鈥� and for the people living there. From this study, Lavea will identify聽and disseminate 鈥渓essons learned鈥� for U.S. and UK local leaders and policymakers.聽

This work informs a larger project documenting and analyzing the power of local 鈥渃hangemakers鈥� in designing and implementing innovative programs and generating civic infrastructure in economically challenged regions.