CDP Final MA Project Topics

Angeline Bilotta-Sousa (CDP/MA '08): Worcester’s Arts District: Contributing Influences, Factors, and Recommendations for Sustainability

Etel Capacchione (CDP/MA '08): Transforming Urban Education: The Lone Vision That Started It All

Amar Cid (CDP/MA '08): Health of a Community Trying to Undergo an Economic Renaissance in West Sacramento, California: Who is in and who is out?

Kwabena Owusu-Ansah (CDP/MA '08): Eliminating Health Disparities among Minorities, a Case Study in Worcester, Massachusetts – A Community Planning Approach using Healthy People 2010

Sarah Parmenter (CDP/MA '08): Enhancing Health Promotion through Community Collaboration: Working with Ghanaian and Liberian Immigrants in Worcester, MA

Fauna Shaw (CDP/BA/MA '08): A Nonprofit Merger Success: Board Transformation, Geographic Differences and Fundraising Prospects

Dana Sillers (CDP/MA '08): The Relationship Between Management’s Attitudes and Financial Performance in Mixed Housing Communities: A Case Study of AvalonBay, Inc Mixed-Income Multifamily Housing Communities in Massachusetts

Sheryl-Ann Simpson (CDP/MA '08): Recovering Communities: Resident-Led Alternatives to Contemporary Trends in Public Housing Redevelopment

Kristen Wilson (CDP/MA '08): The Housing Needs for Young Professionals in the Region: Northborough, Southborough and Westborough, Massachusetts

Erin Anderson (CDP/MA '07): “Change starts here:” Participatory Oral History for Community Development

Rebecca Dezan (CDP/MA '07): Youth Making Change: A Case Study of a Social Justice Youth Development Program in Worcester, MA

Traci McCubbin (CDP/MA '07): The Study of the Somali U.S. Workforce Insertion Process

Timothy Dzurilla (CDP/MA '06): The Voices of Mainsouthspeaks.Com: Representation Issues of a Working Class Urban Neighborhood. Read more about Tim's continued collaboration with the Main South Speaks project and his current research in Colombia.

Matt Hertel (CDP/MA '06): What is its Worth – A Cost Benefit Analysis of Career Development for Worcester’s GED Youth

William Holbrook (CDP/MA '06): A Consultancy Report for the Boys & Girls of Worcester, Massachusetts: An Organizational Assessment of the Need for Two-Way Communication and Participatory Management

Sara Kathleen Marie Kilroy (CDP/MA '06): Youth Voice Mechanisms: Students Ability to Create Real Change in Small Learning Communities

Catherine Rose Lowe (CDP/MA '06): Putting Principles into Practice: Everyday Collaboration in a Community Based Research Project

Patricia C. Mallios (CDP/MA '06): Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Strategies for the Girl Scouts of Montachusett Council, Inc.

Lauren Burkert (CDP/MA '05): The Federal Brownfield Tax Incentive

Michael Colan (CDP/MA '05): "The Role of Advocacy and Coalition Building on the Establishment of Inclusionary Zoning Legislation in Highland Park and Evanston, IL"

Kate Driscoll (CDP/MA '05): Mapping Local Knowledge

Erin Ellison (CDP/MA '05): The Political Economy of Problematic Decision Making in the International Monetary Fund and Sri Lanka

Oriana Eversole (CDP/MA '05): United Teen Quality Center Program Evaluation Consultancy

Brandy Finley (CDP/MA '05): African Americans and Differential Police Treatment

Garrick Harmal (CDP/MA '05): CDCS: Greening Affordable Housing

Heather Kamyck (CDP/MA '05): Preparing for an Aging Population

Stephen Metts (CDP/MA '05): Mapping Local knowledge: GIS as a New Mode of communication in Post - Industrial Urban Neighborhood.

Meredith Milesi (CDP/MA '05): Utopian Visions for a Dying Mill Town

Corrine Robinson (CDP/MA '05): Warren Metropolitan Resident Council

Colleen E. Schacht-Adams (CDP/MA '04): Access to Continuity of Care: A Community Look at Vulnerable Populations in Worcester, MA (Advisor: L. Ross)

Amy R. Mosher (CDP/MA '04): "Expressive Capital" in U.S. Community Development: Making the Case for Creative Self-Expression as a Tool for Sustainable Communities (Advisor: L. Ross)

Angel Elizabeth Riepe (CDP/MA '04): Developing a Culture of Student Voice: Facilitating a Student Research Initiative (Advisor: L. Ross)

Anna Marie Terry (CDP/MA '04): Structural Impediments to Mobility: A Community Analysis of Binghampton, Tennessee (Advisor: L. Ross)

Mia Joy Davis (CDP/BA/MA '03): Transforming Brownfields into Public Green Open Space (Advisor: L. Ross)

Anna Gorski (CDP/MA '03): Dynamics in Collaborative Neighborhood Planning: An Assessment of the University Park Partnership Planning Process in Main South, Worcester, Massachusetts (Advisor: L. Ross)

Josephine Ann Shagwert (CDP/BA/MA '03): High Mobility Rates in the Chandler and Elm Park Elementary Schools of Worcester, Massachusetts: A Case for Why the Geography of Mobility Matters in Urban Community Development and a Strategy for Reducing It (Advisor: L. Ross)