Bio Josh Lerner is Co-Director
of The
Participatory Budgeting Project, an organization that works
with elected officials, public agencies, and community groups to
open up public budgets to public participation. He completed his
PhD in Politics at The New School for Social Research and a Masters
in Planning at the University of Toronto. In addition to teaching
at Fordham University and The New School, he has worked as a popular
educator with the Center for the Urban Environment and as a community
development adviser on UNDP projects in Slovakia. For the past decade,
he has researched participatory democracy in Latin America, North
America, and Europe, and advised organizations and institutions
such as Toronto Community Housing, the Right to the City Alliance,
and the Municipality of Rosario, Argentina. He has published in
venues such as The Christian Science Monitor, The National Civic
Review, YES! Magazine, The Good Society, Shelterforce, The Movement
Vision Lab, and the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and
Financial Management.
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