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Richard Greenwald
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
rcg5@columbia.edu
Biography:
Richard Greenwald is a Senior Fellow of the Center of Civic Innovation, Manhattan Institute. As part of the Manhattan Institute's commitment to urban social entrepreneurial initiatives, Mr. Greenwald is assisting Newark Mayor, Cory Booker, and his team in designing and planning the implementation of a pilot program to assist formerly incarcerated individuals and the chronically unemployed both in finding and retaining employment and in strengthening family ties.
Until early 2007, Mr. Greenwald was the first President and Chief Executive Officer of the Transitional Work Corporation (TWC) and served in that capacity for over eight years. TWC is an eight year old independent organization which leverages its unique position as a partnership of state and municipal government and private philanthropic organizations. TWC operates a national work program, the largest of its kind in the country, which employs and prepares unemployed people for private sector jobs.
For over a decade, Mr. Greenwald has been addressing the complex economic development and human services issues facing unemployed people. At America Works - a New York City-based private company that places welfare recipients into the labor market - and then at TWC, Mr. Greenwald has developed strategies that provide the right combination of employment, training, and supportive services that help unemployed individuals find and keep jobs. Mr. Greenwald has built coalitions among the private, nonprofit, and public sectors in order to coordinate the resources needed to address the multifaceted needs of the unemployed and their families as they transition into the world of work. Mr. Greenwald has had the opportunity to take the experiences from the frontlines of local service delivery and communicate it to researchers and policy makers in the United States and abroad.
Mr. Greenwald has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in information management in Washington, D.C. and in the Superfund Program in New York City. He also spent two years on Capitol Hill working for Albert Gore Jr. in the U.S Senate. Mr. Greenwald served on the National Transitional Jobs Network Steering Committee. And, he was a Member of the Board of Matrix Research Institute, a research and training center focusing on employment programs and policies targeting people with disabilities.
Mr. Greenwald is an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he received a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Administration. He completed his Bachelors Degree at Connecticut College.
Richard Greenwald was raised in Memphis and currently lives in Philadelphia.