Faculty and Staff Affiliates
Institute for Metropolitan Affairs

Faculty and staff affiliates are members of Roosevelt University who have worked Institute for Metropolitan Affairs projects.

Steve Balkin
Director, Self-Employment Research Project
Professor of Economics

Al Bennett
Director, St. Clair Drake Center for African American Studies
Harold Washington Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Education

Heather Dalmage
Director, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice
Professor of Sociology

David Disabato
Department of Human and Community Renewal
Workforce Development Coordinator

LaVonne Downey
School of Policy Studies
Assistant Professor of Public Administration

David Hamilton
Professor Emeritus of Public Administration

Mike Helford
Director, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

June Lapidus
Mansfield Professor of Social Justice
Associate Professor of Economics

Mike Maly
Department Chair — Sociology and Anthropology
Associate Professor of Sociology

Steve Meyers
Director, Initiative for Child and Family Studies
Professor of Psychology

Sam Rosenberg
Professor of Economics
Director, Roosevelt Scholars Program

Lesley Slavitt
Vice President for Government Relations and University Outreach

Research Fellow

Research fellows are individuals outside the university pursuing research in collaboration with the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs

Rob Paral
Joseph Dusek