MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
May 23, 2007
Poverty Center presentation of AEC study at '07 AAG Conference.
Kristen Mikelbank presents an AECF study at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco. The presentation was titled, "Residents" Perceptions of Neighborhood and the Implications for Community Change."
Kristen Mikelbank, research assistant at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, presented "Residents’ Perceptions of Neighborhood and the Implications for Community Change" at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, California. Along with Claudia Coulton, Poverty Center Co-Director; Tsui Chan, Poverty Center Programmer/Analyst; and Ned English from the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Kristen has been analyzing how residents in ten cities across the United States define their neighborhoods. The work is part of The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative, which strives to improve the social, economic, and physical conditions in urban neighborhoods as a way to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and their families living in those areas.