Lynette Boswell, PhD Student
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Lynette Boswell received a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Ball State University. While working on her degrees, she studied urban design and international planning in various countries throughout South East Asia and Europe, including: Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Singapore, India, and Italy. During this time, Ms. Boswell also interned with various housing policy and community development organizations in the Midwest. She later completed a Masters of Urban Design at the University of Michigan, and subsequently worked for a planning consulting firm in Chicago; participating in town plans and urban design studies throughout the metropolitan area. She was also a Resident Research Fellow for the Genesee Institute in Flint, Michigan, studying housing foreclosures and researching opportunities for communities and institutions to forestall neighborhood decline. Currently, Ms. Boswell is working as a program analyst intern for the Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration. Her PhD interests include: neighborhood revitalization strategies for older inner-city neighborhoods and declining surrounding suburbs, housing market conditions and models, and international, state and local housing policies. While at UMD, Ms. Boswell will work with Dr. Angel Nieves as a CrISP scholar with the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE).