*POSTPONED* Power of Diversity Lecture Series: "Building Bridges Across Differences."

Mark Chupp, PhD

Assistant Professor and Chair, Community Practice for Social Change

CWRU Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Mark Chupp, MSW, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, where he chairs the master’s concentration in Community Practice for Social Change. He is also the Founding Director of the Community Innovation Network, a cross-sector network of community building experts, nonprofit organizations, researchers, and grassroots community organizers who are cultivating a new culture of deeply collaborative community change. Mark has extensive experience working with Cleveland’s community development system. He regularly provides consulting to public officials, practitioners, activists, and organizations across the country and internationally. In 2009, he founded the East Cleveland Partnership, a service learning and community based participatory research effort to support the revitalization of a disadvantaged community next to the Case Western campus. He has lived in Central America and continues to serve as a resource in Latin America. He is a founding trustee of the National Peace Academy and serves as an adjunct faculty of the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University. Mark also serves as an instructor for the Mandel Foundation’s Neighborhood Leadership Development Program. He earned his MSW from the University of Michigan and his PhD from Case Western Reserve University.