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Cities and the challenge
of regionalism, social change, the environment,
government performance — Lenneal Henderson
has focused on them all in a distinguished academic
and civic career. At the University of Baltimore,
Henderson is Distinguished Professor of Government
and Public Administration and a Senior Fellow in
the William Donald Schaefer Center. Earlier he served
on the faculties of St. Mary’s College, the
University of San Francisco, Xavier College of New
Orleans and Howard University, and headed the Department
of Political Science at the University of Tennessee
in Knoxville.
Raised in the housing
projects of New Orleans and San Francisco, Henderson
as a high school student was involved in the Save
the Bay Campaign for San Francisco Bay. As a graduate
student at the University of California, studying
under a pioneer in metropolitan governance studies,
Victor Jones, he became a member of the Regional
Task Force on Open Space of the Association of Bay
Area Governments.
That civic commitment
continues today in numerous task forces and committee
memberships connected with regional governance and
environmental issues in the Baltimore area and the
state of Maryland, including chairmanship of the
Environment 2000 Steering Committee for the state’s
environmental agency.
The Innovations Program of the Ford Foundation/Kennedy School of Government selected Henderson to be site evaluator of Hope VI -- the federal government's major effort of recent years to relieve class conflict and strengthen cities by introducing market-oriented, mixed-price housing for varied income groups at a single integrated site, as an alternative to traditional public housing. The program did win one of the coveted Innovations awards.
With wit and charm audiences long remember, Henderson has lectured
on metropolitan issues across the United States
and in Europe, Africa, India, China, South America
and Australia. He served on the interview team for
the Peirce Report for the Baltimore Sun and was
a long-standing board member of the National Civic
League. He is a trustee of the Institute for Regional
Community, co-editor of The Regionalist Journal,
and author of a number of articles on regionalism
and metropolitan issues.
Henderson is active
in professional trade associations, especially those
representing the interests of African-Americans.
He also actively speaks, studies and writes on energy
issues, neighborhood revitalization, public administration
and diversity management.
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