Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also holds the Theodore Bo Lee and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Environmental Design. Prof. Chapple specializes in community and economic development, metropolitan planning, and poverty, and has published recently on the relationship between job growth and housing price appreciation, regional fair share housing programs, workforce development in information technology, housing dispersal programs, and regional collaboration.Chapple holds a B.A. in Urban Studies (Phi Beta Kappa) from Columbia University, an M.S.C.R.P from the Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to UC-Berkeley.