Bill's research focuses on processes of economic restructuring in US metropolitan areas and their impact on income inequality and labor market outcomes. While examining the impact of traditional measures of economic change (e.g., globalization, technological change), he is particularly interested in the role of social institutions and governance processes—particularly those that form at the urban and metropolitan scale—in influencing economic outcomes.
His past research and professional practice focused on closely related issues including: evaluating economic development policies, measuring the labor market impacts of big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart, and examining the role of federal and state spending on urban sprawl.
Currently, he studies issues of economic resilience and equitable community development with Dr. Karen Chapple and the Center for Community Innovation. He has also worked with Dr. Ted Egan and ICF Consulting on economic development strategies for the City of San Francisco.
As a practicing planner in the field of economic development, Bill has worked as a researcher at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and as an Economic Development Planner at the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also interned with the Planning Department in the city of his birth, Chicago.
Before coming to Berkeley, Bill received a Bachelor of Arts (1999) from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master or Urban Planning and Policy (2001) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bill has also served as a Graduate Student Instructor in 2004 and 2005 for CP204A "Methods of Planning Data Analysis," and is generally proud to wear the label "data dork." |
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