Evan McKenzie
Attorney; Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago; Adjunct Instructor, The John Marshall Law School
http://www.evanmckenzie.com/

Mildred Warner
Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
http://government.cce.cornell.edu/warner/

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Evan McKenzie is an attorney licensed in Illinois (active) and California (currently inactive) who has represented community associations and owners. He serves as an expert consultant and expert witness concerning the operation of community associations, land use, and other issues. He teaches political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and also teaches the law of common interest communities in the LLM in Real Estate Program at The John Marshall Law School.

McKenzie has been studying the rise of common interest housing since 1985 and has written extensively about it in academic and popular publications. His book on the subject, Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government, was published by Yale University Press and received the Best Book on Urban Politics Award from the American Political Science Association.

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Mildred Warner is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, where her work focuses primarily on local government service delivery and new community development models for addressing human services. Her work shows potential for market-based solutions in public service delivery but also raises cautions about the uneven incidence of markets in depressed inner-city and rural areas. Dr. Warner's research explores the issues of privatization, devolution and economic development.

Dr. Warner is author of one edited volume and more than 70 refereed articles, book chapters, extension and consulting reports. She has received major research grants from the USDA National Research Initiative and Hatch program to look at the impacts of devolution and privatization on local government service delivery, and from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to explore the regional economic impacts of child care. She consults widely on economic development policy, local government and child care issues at the local, state and national levels. She has worked closely with International City County Management Association, National League of Cities, National Association of Counties and public sector unions such as AFSCME and CSEA. She was a visiting scholar with the Economic Policy Institute in 2005. She has been a featured speaker at local government conferences in Australia, New Zealand and Spain, and childcare conferences all over the United States.

Dr. Warner has a Ph.D. in development sociology, a master's degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and a B.A. in history from Oberlin College. She served as a program officer with the Ford Foundation for three years and as associate director for nine years of Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute, where she brought policy-makers, community development practitioners and academics together to explore new approaches to community development.

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This event is part of the CED Lecture Series, which features noted visiting academics and professionals from a broad range of environmental design fields. All lectures are free and open to the public.