Josh Lerner is a PhD
candidate in Politics at the New School for Social Research
and Co-Director of The
Participatory Budgeting Project, an organization that
provides support for participatory budgeting processes in
North America. 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. Since 2003, 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 YES! Magazine, The Good Society, Shelterforce,
The Movement Vision Lab, and the Journal of Public Budgeting,
Accounting and Financial Management.
