| Robert H. McNulty is founder and president of Partners for Livable Communities, a nonprofit Washington, DC-based coalition of 1,000 organizations concerned with the economic health, quality of life and social equity of communities. McNulty's diverse career began as an archaeologist with Colonial Williamsburg and then moved to the Smithsonian Institution where he was assistant to the director of the National Museum of American History. Subsequently, he became director of environmental programs of the General Services Administration and the assistant director of the Architecture and
Environmental Arts program of the National Endowment for the Arts. There, he pioneered a series of small grants to local municipal authorities to improve the economic climate of their cities. McNulty is a lawyer with a JD degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California at Berkeley where he also obtained his undergraduate degree in business. He is a frequent lecturer and has been a fellow of Harvard and Yale universities. His written work has appeared in journals across the country and he has co-authored five books on achieving livability in urban America. |
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