Thursday, April 23, 2009
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs Atrium
Cleveland State University
Glickman-Miller Hall
1717 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115

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Lavea Brachman
Co-Director of Greater Ohio and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

As Co-Director of Greater Ohio and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Lavea Brachman manages the Restoring Prosperity to Ohio Initiative as well as several other regional or statewide initiatives, including ReBuild Ohio, a statewide vacant property redevelopment coalition . Lavea serves on the National Vacant Property Campaign Advisory Committee as well as the Ohio Department of Development's Strategic Planning Advisory Committee.

After practicing environmental law at a Washington, D.C. law firm, Lavea was a partner with a Cambridge, Massachusetts consulting firm advising Fortune 500 companies on brownfield redevelopment strategies. Since then, Lavea has dedicated her work to the non-profit and public sectors. While at the Department of Energy (DOE) in the Clinton Administration, she worked on redevelopment and community involvement strategies for decommissioned DOE sites. As director of Ohio work at the Chicago-based non-profit Delta Institute, Lavea worked with community leaders throughout the Midwest to promote local watershed and brownfield redevelopment projects.

Before returning to Ohio, Lavea was a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and taught in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT , both in Cambridge, MA, where she developed, taught workshops and wrote about the role of community development organizations in brownfields development and neighborhood revitalization efforts. Lavea graduated from Harvard College and The University of Chicago Law School, and received a master's in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.