Steve Dubb is research director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland and has worked for the Collaborative since 2004. Dubb is the principal author of Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development (2007) and Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems,, published by The Aspen Institute in 2005. In 2010, Dubb coauthored a number of reports, including The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads (with Rita Axelroth) and Growing a Green Economy for All: From Green Jobs to Green Ownership. (with Deborah Warren). Dubb also (with Ted Howard) conducted the initial strategic planning that led to the development of the Evergreen Cooperative initiative in Cleveland, OH, and currently assists efforts to replicate that model in other cities.

Previously, Dubb was executive director of the North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO), a US and Canadian nonprofit association that provides education and technical assistance to university and community-based housing and retail cooperatives. For much of the past two decades, he has worked in various positions in the cooperative or civil society sector. Dubb received his Masters and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. He received his Bachelors in Economics (with honors) and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley.