Prof. Jon P. Gant is a fellow of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Media and Technology and is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Gant served as the co-author of EDAC’s Building Bridges: Community Development Corporations and the World of Employment Training published by the Ford Foundation. He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and both a Masters and a Doctorate in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.