Charles Buki
Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute

Charles Buki is the director of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute in Washington, DC. He has written and spoken widely on the subject of neighborhood revitalization and neighborhood dynamics and the interrelationship with the environment and implications for social equity. He was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and a Mesa Refuge Fellow in Point Reyes, California with the Common Counsel Foundation. He has lectured at Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, and elsewhere, and in 1992 addressed the full session of the United Nations on the subject of poverty and architecture and housing. He is way overdue on a book titled Effect and Case: Poverty and Beauty in America underwritten by the Graham Foundation. He has done consulting work for HUD, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and dozens for cities on the subject of neighborhood change. His most recent published article was for the University of Toronto on the state the American landscape at the end of the 20th century and is titled Free Lunch America. His favorite place in the whole world is Davenport, California, just north of Santa Cruz, his second favorite place. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.