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Real Estate Weekly
December 31, 2015

The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) announced the election of Ingrid Gould Ellen, Faculty Director of NYU’s Furman Center and Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Carol M. Joseph, Former Partner and Business Department co-Chair at Blank Rome, LLP, to the CPC board of directors.

As the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center, Ingrid Ellen’s research focuses on neighborhoods, housing, and residential segregation. She has served as a policy advisor at HUD and held visiting positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.

She attended Harvard University, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, a Master’s in public policy, and a Ph.D. in public policy.

During her six years at the real estate finance law practice Blank Rome LLP, serving as the Business Department Co-Chair, Partner, and member of the Executive Committee until this year, Carol Joseph represented national developers and financiers. She recently left Blank Rome, LLP, to pursue opportunities in the real estate and nonprofit sectors.

Joseph is also the co-founder of Cassin & Cassin & Joseph, LLP. She received a Bachelor’s degree in accounting at New York University and her J.D. at Fordham University.