Previous Gramlich Fellows

2025

Ariella Amit

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Ariella examined how community-based organizations in the NeighborWorks America network are responding to the rising cost of property insurance for multifamily housing.

Zack Lively

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Zack examined the experiences of organizations in the NeighborWorks America network that are developing limited equity housing cooperatives to create permanently affordable housing.

2024

Jein Park

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Building Resilient Communities: Lessons Learned for Sustained Revitalization of Commercial Corridors

Aaron Smithson

Master in Urban Planning, Master in Architecture

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Prefab the Gap: Off-Site Construction for Affordable Housing on Urban Infill Sites

2023

Aleksandra Czulak

Master in Public Policy & Master in Business Administration

Harvard Kennedy School & MIT Sloan School of Management

Local Place-Based Partnerships as a Pathway to Health Equity

Haewon Ma

Master in Design Studies

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Nonprofit Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Programs as an Affordable Housing Strategies

2022

Taylor Jones

Master in Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School

From Redlining to Resilience: How Residential Segregation Molded the Work of Community-Based Organizations in Historically Black Communities

Arielle Rawlings

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Mountain Town Migration: Understanding the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Middle Neighborhoods in the Mountain West

2021

Mel Miller

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Resident Services Funding & Delivery Models Among Affordable Housing Nonprofits

Sharon Welch

Master in Architecture

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Participatory Models of Housing: Promising Design Practices for Affordable Housing on Tribal Lands

2020

Ben Demers

Master in Urban Planning and Master in Public Policy

Harvard Graduate School of Design & Harvard Kennedy School

How NeighborWorks Organizations Have Responded to the Racially Disparate Impact of COVID-19 in Black Communities

Kyle Yoder

Master in Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School

Getting On Board: Promising Practices for Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Governance of Community-Based Organizations

2019

Margaret Haltom

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Empowering Resident Leaders: Lessons from NeighborWorks’ Community Leadership Institute

Hannah Hoyt

Master in Architecture

Harvard Graduate School of Design

More for Less? An Inquiry into Design and Construction Strategies for Addressing Multifamily Housing Costs

2018

Aneliese Palmer

Master in Public Policy and Juris Doctor

Harvard Kennedy School and Georgetown Law

Strategies for Sustainable Growth in Community Land Trusts

Susanna Pho

Master in Design Studies

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Totally Familiar Yet Completely New: Opportunities for and Challenges to Integrating Disaster Risk Management in Community Development

2017

Caroline Lauer

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Bounce Forward, Not Back: Leveraging Resiliency to Promote Equity

Matthew Schreiber

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Proactive Preservation of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing in Emerging Markets: Lessons from Atlanta, Cleveland, and Philadelphia

2016

Omar Carrillo

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Pay for Success: Opportunities and Challenges in Housing and Economic Development

Alina Schnake-Mahl

Doctor of Public Health

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Building healthy places: How are community development organizations contributing?

2015

Nathalie Janson

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

It Takes a Village – But the Village Needs a Vision: The Role of the “Quarterback” Organization in Comprehensive Community Development With case studies from Chelsea, MA, Los Angeles, CA, and the rural Midwest

Sam LaTronica

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Smaller, Faster, and Creative: Innovations in Affordable Single-Family Home Construction

2014

Matthew Furman

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Eradicating Substandard Manufactured Homes: Replacement Programs as a Strategy

Robert Wellburn

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Project: Promoting and developing sustainable and affordable senior housing, addressing barriers to greater coordination of housing and health services.

2013

Tom Skieweraski

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

“I worked for that”: The Rewards (and Challenges) of Youth Program Implementation in Four New England CDCs

Daniel Wu

Ph.D. in Public Policy and Sociology

Harvard Kennedy School, Secondary Field in Data Science, John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; JD candidate, Harvard Law School

Project: New models for community-development financial institutions.

2012

Matthew Singh

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

New Schools on the Block: Understanding and Expanding Community Developer Participation in Early Childhood Care and Education

Xueyi Yang

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Project: The extent to which "green" affordable housing developments may fail to realize their potential, the principal reasons for this shortfall and approaches that can be used to overcome these impediments.

2011

Stephanie Brown

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Beyond Gentrification: Strategies for Guiding the Conversation and Redirecting the Outcomes of Community Transition

Jeffrey Morgan

Master in Design Studies

Harvard Graduate School of Design

(Re)vitalizing Inner-City Neighborhood Business Districts: An Assessment and Strategy Framework for Integrated Micro-Business and Real Estate Development by Non-Profits

2010

Eduardo Berlin Razmilic

Master in Design Studies

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Information-Driven Housing: How Information can Change the Housing Market and Drive Sustainability Through Consumer Demand

Abigail Pound

Master in Public Administration

Harvard Kennedy School

Challenges and Changes in Community Based Lending for Homeownership

2009

Ivan Levi

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Stabilizing Neighborhoods Impacted by Concentrated Foreclosures: Scattered-Site Rental Housing Challenges and Opportunities

Adam Wodka

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Landscapes of Foreclosure: The Foreclosure Crisis in Rural America

2008

Rose Lindsay Finkenstaedt

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Organizational Capital: A New Approach to Lending in Nonprofit Affordable Housing

Daniel Fleischman

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Nonprofit Strategies for 1-4 Unit REO Properties: An Analytical Framework

2007

Jesse Mintz-Roth

Master in Urban Planning

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategies in Hot Housing Markets

Cassi Pittman

PhD in Social Policy

Harvard University

The Use of Social Capital in Borrower Decision-Making

2006

Emily Felt

Master in Public Administration

Harvard Kennedy School

Patching the Fabric of the Neighborhood: The Practical Challenges of Infill Housing Development for CDCs

Renu Madan

Master in Design Studies

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Demystifying Outcome Measurement in Community Development

2005

LIza Khan

Master in Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School

The Case for Rental Housing: A Nonprofit Perspective

Carolyn Leung

PhD in Education

Harvard University

Resident Participation: A Community-Building Strategy in Low-Income Neighborhoods

2004

Amy Chung

Master in Public Administration and Master in Business Administration

Harvard Kennedy School and Northwestern University

Bridging Sectors: Partnerships Between Nonprofits and Private Developers

Marc Paul Diaz

Master in Public Administration and Master in Business Administration

Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School

Assessing Property Management for Affordable Housing: Comparing Self-Management and Third-Party Property Management of Nonprofit-Owned, Affordable Multifamily Rental Housing

2003