Carmen Sirianni Author & Editor

Carmen Sirianni is professor of sociology and social publicy at the Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Most recently he was coordinator of the collaborative governance gropu within the Obama '08 urban policy committee. He served as senior adviser to the National Commission on Civic Renewal from 1996 to 1998 and as research director for the Reinventing Citizenship Project, in conjunction with the White House Domestic Policy Council and the Ford Foundation, in 1994. His many books include The Civic Renewal Movement: Community Building and Democracy in the U.S. (Kettering Foundation Press, 2005) and Civic Innovation in America (University of California Press, 2001), both written with Lewis Friedland.