New York University

New York University

The Office of Public Affairs

Friday, Apr 20, 2007

n-424, 2006-07

Errol Louis, a political columnist for the New York Daily News, is the featured speaker at the 2007 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum to be held Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at NYU Wagner.

Louis’s talk is entitled “Political Reform, Mega-Development, and New York.”

Mitchell Moss, the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy & Planning at the Wagner School, and a distinguished and well-recognized expert on urban planning, politics and New York City, will moderate the forum.

Louis was born in Harlem, raised in New Rochelle and lives with his family in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. He is the son of a retired NYPD inspector and formerly served as associate editor of The New York Sun. He has taught college, co-founded an inner-city community credit union, run for City Council and was once named by New York Magazine as one of 10 New Yorkers making a difference “with energy, vision and independent thinking.” He holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and Brooklyn Law School.

The urban policy forum will take place at NYU Wagner, The Puck Buidling, 295 Lafayette Street (@ Houston), 2nd Floor, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, New York City.

RSVP online at http://wagner.nyu.edu/events.