Xavier Briggs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Xavier Briggs
Occupation	Sociologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 8, 1942(1942-01-08)
Age	82
Birthplace	Miami
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Capricorn

Xavier Briggs Biography

Xavier Briggs is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on January 8, 1942 in Miami, Florida, United States. Briggs is a Bahamian-American who has declared himself to be an ethnically diverse person of color. He was born in Miami, Florida, Briggs lived the first part of his existence at Nassau, Bahamas, where his family – which has origins in Brazil, his homeland of the Black Seminole nation, Brazil and Europe was a resident since the beginning of the 19th century. Briggs’s mother, Angela (1933-2015), was the daughter of Bill Aranha, Nassau’s crown land officer in the 1940s. His father Nevin Briggs (1932-1978) was an out island doctor who was brought up on the island of Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 2002, he was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at MIT. The edited book he co-authored, The Geography of Opportunity (Brookings 2005) and examined the distinct significance of segregation in America has grown more ethnically and racially diverse , and at the same as more economically disparate. The book suggested that important responses to segregation remain elusive and shaky in American society and politics and that the responses involve or “curing” segregation (by changing housing patterns, i.e. changing the place people reside) or reducing its significant social and economic cost (by altering the connections between the place of residence as well as exposure to risk and resources, not changing the patterns of housing the patterns themselves). It also contained the latest research on the attitudes of racial groups towards integration, racial discrimination within housing markets, connections between intelligent land use policies as well as housing affordability, segregation and as well as other important areas. The book received the highest award for planning books for 2007. (the Paul Davidoff Award).

A second book, “Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities across the Globe” (MIT Press, 2009) offers an account of transformative change and the politics of reform in the U.S., Brazil, India and South Africa. The book, which was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Prize, also offers an alternative theory of the functions and forms of democracy, focusing on local governance and grounded in core concepts of learning and bargaining, accountability, and stakeholder participation. Influenced by American educator and political philosopher John Dewey, this work argues that learning and bargaining are the twin capacities essential to collective problem-solving and shows the conditions under which it is possible to cultivate and advance both.

In January 2009, Briggs went on a public service leave from MIT, appointed by President Barack Obama to become Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. At OMB, he oversaw policy and budget for six cabinet agencies (Housing and Urban Development, Treasury, Commerce, Transportation, Justice, and Homeland Security) as well as the Small Business Administration, General Services Administration, and other agencies. He returned to the MIT faculty in August 2011. In January 2014, he went on leave anew, to join the Ford Foundation, one of the world’s largest private philanthropies, as Vice President of Inclusive Economies and Markets — leading the foundation’s economic opportunity work worldwide—and later, following a reorganization, its U.S. Programs. At the end of 2019, he left the foundation to begin a visiting appointment at New York University (NYU).

Within New York City, Briggs contributed to the development of the widely admired “quality-of-life” planning approach to revitalizing the neighborhood in 1996. In the same year, his work in the Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program in the South Bronx won the President’s Award of the American Planning Association. He started in his career as a teacher in 1996 at Harvard in 1996. He was absent to serve in the Clinton Administration from 1998 until 2000, then returned to Harvard and in 2005, he moved to MIT. He was also an faculty member to The Urban Institute, a top nonpartisan policy research group located in Washington, DC.

Xavier Briggs Net Worth

Xavier Briggs is one of the richest Sociologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Xavier Briggs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Xavier de Souza Briggs (born 1968) is an American social scientist, educator and policy analyst who is well-known for his research on the economic opportunities, social capital democratic governance, as well as the development of social transformation. He has had a profound impact on urban and housing policies across the United States, contributing to the idea of the “geography of opportunity,” which studies the effects of segregation in housing, based on the race or status of the person, to the well-being and perspectives of families and children (see the section on residential segregation in United States). He was a former part of both Harvard and MIT. Harvard as well as MIT faculties. He is currently appointed as a distinguished visiting professor of sociology, and public service in New York University as well as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

The child of his mother, Briggs returned into his home in the U.S. in 1976, just a few decades following the time that The Bahamas secured independence from Britain. In Miami He attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, which is a Catholic high school that had strong bonds with Cuba in particular the Cuban American community. Later, he earned an BS in Engineering in engineering from Stanford University, worked with the innovative planning company of Moore Iacofano Goltsman in Berkeley, CA, and won the Rotary scholarship to pursue community and education development in Brazil and live within Salvador, Bahia. In 1993, he graduated with an Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University. In 1996, he received an Ph.D. in sociology and educational studies in the field of sociology and education from Columbia University, where he was taught by Robert Crain, Herbert Gans, Charles Kadushin, and other researchers. While studying in Stanford, Briggs designed and taught the second edition of the Unseen America course, an method of democratic experiential learning. He was a part of David Lempert and others to create a book about this innovative approach to education.

From 2005 to 2014, he was Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a former faculty member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and faculty fellow of the Urban Institute. He was a presidential appointee in the Clinton Administration, serving as a senior policy official at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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