Barbara Ferman

Barbara Ferman is a professor of political science at Temple University and founder and executive director of the University Community Collaborative, a social justice initiative that provides media-based leadership development programming for high school and college students. She is the author of Governing the Ungovernable City: Political Skill, Leadership, and the Modern Mayor (Temple University Press, 1985) and Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh ...See more

Barbara Ferman is a professor of political science at Temple University and founder and executive director of the University Community Collaborative, a social justice initiative that provides media-based leadership development programming for high school and college students. She is the author of Governing the Ungovernable City: Political Skill, Leadership, and the Modern Mayor (Temple University Press, 1985) and Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh (University of Kansas Press, 1996) and coauthor of The Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs (Pergamon Press, 1985). She has published journal articles and book chapters on community development, racial integration, civic engagement, youth media, community-based research, and pedagogy. She also directs the Philadelphia node of the Urban Based Research Action Network (URBAN), a community of scholars and change makers committed to exploring the intersections of education policy and social justice in order to improve public policy. See less