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Center for In Situ Policy Research
2019 - present
Instituto de Docencia y Análisis Geográficos, Ambientales y Regionales (INDAGAR)
2015 - present
Crónicas Callejeras (INDAGAR)
2023
Video cases studies on sustainable communities in Mexico (coming soon) [in Spanish]
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
2020
Collaborating with local community organizations and other stakeholders to develop and analyze place-based solutions to social problems.
INDAGAR tiene el propósito de diseñar, promover, y evaluar planes, programas, proyectos y acciones vinculadas con el desarrollo integral de la sociedad
Center for In Situ Policy Research
2020
NoBI Sureste (Yucatán, Mexico)
2019
Partnership between Colin Powell School at CCNY and Zahn Innovation Center to evaluate CONACYT-funded "Nodo Binacional" based in Yucatán, Mexico, designed to bring together researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors to promote technological innovation and start-up enterprises.
Consejo de Ciencia, Innovación y Tecnología (Yucatán, Mexico)
2013-14
Collaborative research project with group of undergraduate research assistants at CCNY to identify the market demand for chile habanero peppers (fresh and processed) in the United States, as well US regulatory context, import requirements, and rules for labeling and traceability.
Plan Estratégico de Yucatán
2010
Informal collaboration to contribute to development policy and other public and private-sector efforts to improve quality of life in Yucatán, Mexico.
Center for Rural Pennsylvania
2008
Comprehensive analysis of the warehousing and trucking industries in PA reveals that meeting the demand of these industries in rural Pennsylvania would generate greater impacts on total income, statewide, than meeting that demand in urban Pennsylvania alone. From a rural development perspective, the report reinforces an important policy issue – economic growth in rural Pennsylvania generates benefits not only for rural counties, but also for urban counties.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
2006-07
Collaboration with officials at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and international experts on an assessment of social and economic development policy in Yucatán, Mexico. The resulting OECD Territorial Review made an influential contribution to Yucatán's 2007-12 State Development Plan, as well as a related strategy for the long-term social and economic development of the region.