This is the first in a series of posts in which we'll introduce you to the folks behind MoveSmart.org.

We're incredibly excited to announce that Prof. Maria Krysan of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs* has joined the MoveSmart.org board of directors. Maria's work on the Chicago Area Study has been enormously influential on this entire project and she is going to be a huge asset as we get into the nitty gritty of designing the neighborhood search mechanism.

It should come as no surprise that Maria's latest work is a must-read. As part of IGPA's "Illinois Report 2009", she contributed the chapter Racial Residential Segregation and Exclusion in Illinois. She describes it in the video below:

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