yoel camayd-freixas

 

Yoel Camayd-Freixas is Professor and Chair of the M.A. and Ph.D. programs in policy, and founding director of the Applied Research Center where he is principal investigator of sponsored research studies, School for Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University.

He received his Ph.D., M.A. from Boston College. He is a Trustee at the Hyams Foundation, director of the Nellie Mae Educational Foundation, Laborers AGC union national worker training program, and theSNHU Academic Senate. Prior to SNHU he ran a firm that restored distressed CDCs to performance, and consulted in the U.S. and Latin America. He served as gubernatorial appointee, commissioner, and executive vice president for policy & management with oversight over a $4 billion budget and 55,000 employees. He founded the Office of Research & Evaluation at Boston Schools, and trained at the Boston College Laboratory of Psychosocial Studies and the Social Epidemiology Research Group at Harvard School of Public Health. Former assistant professor of Urban Studies & Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.