JEREMY CHI-MING LIU

Boston, Massachusetts
 

AFFILIATION: Asian Community Development Corporation

AREA OF EXPERTISE: Community development, urban and environmental

planning, community organizing, participatory design, art/technology/culture and

community development. 

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE: Jeremy is an urban planner, community organizer, and artist with the Asian Community Development Corporation, a community-based nonprofit that builds housing, creates economic opportunity, and develops leadership in the Greater Boston region.  He manages a wide range of initiatives including housing and commercial real estate development, cultural heritage planning, community organizing, and neighborhood planning. Over the past ten years he has worked for and with communities of color, seniors, and youth, to creatively confront issues of social and environmental equity, affordable housing, and community empowerment.  He has written and lectured in the U.S. and abroad about participatory planning, technology, and the community development role for arts and culture, and has served as a consultant to several community development projects in Asia.   

Jeremy serves on the board of directors of the Boston GreenSpace Alliance and the New England Foundation for the Arts, and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.  Previously, he worked for Sverdrup Civil (now Jacobs Engineering), The Trust for Public Land, and Industrial Economics, Inc.   

RESEARCH INTEREST: Culturally resonant community development among ethnic enclave communities; community design strategies for sustainable development and Smart Growth, community participation in financing community development.

E-MAIL: jeremy@asiancdc.org