I am Adjunct Professor of Real Estate and Urbanism at The George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C., and the George Mason University School of Business in Fairfax, Virginia. I teach a variety of 300 and 400-level courses at George Mason on real estate development and finance. I have taught in real estate graduate programs in the Washington Metro Area since joining the Real Estate Program faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 1999. I have also taught professional development and executive education workshops, led multi-day training programs, and spoken at industry conferences since 1985. I also have published extensively on The Huffington Post, the New Geography, and LinkedIn Pulse, as well as in a variety of professional journals and industry periodicals. I hold a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown College in public administration and a juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center. In addition to my teaching, for more than 35 years I’ve held various positions of responsibility in the private and public sectors in real estate, including creating a real estate practice group in a law firm I helped found in Washington, D.C.; serving as a senior official in a redevelopment authority, including running the authority’s Tax Exempt Bond Program; serving as a senior executive for a national company pioneering the workforce housing industry; and founding and running a national consulting practice focused on public, workforce, and mixed-income housing development and management, as well as community revitalization and urban regeneration programs and initiatives. Fundamentally, I think of myself as a teacher and writer. However, I probably should have been an artist—a furniture designer/maker, custom builder, metal sculptor or perhaps a musician—as a full time avocation, because I have a deep desire and need to design and create things. I revered and respected art and artists from a very early age but didn’t recognize my own passion for things like architecture and design, drawing, painting, and sculpture, until after I had graduated from law school. My parents were both professionals (my father worked for the Greek Embassy; my mother was a medical doctor) so there was considerable pressure to not only go to college after high school but also professional school. I had no social context or educational background for architecture as a discipline, for example, so it just wasn’t on my radar screen in college as a prospective career path. I have devoted considerable time to satisfying my creative passions indirectly--for example, founding Del Ray Artisans Center in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1992, and serving as a Founding Director and executive officer of the Washington Architectural Forum--but have spent less time than I would have liked actually designing and making things. Perhaps, in my next career, I’ll choose something that better satisfies my need to design and make things. I do, however, think of my real estate law course and my new textbook--Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process (Routledge, NOV 2016)--as an act of creating.
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