John P. Kretzmann
Co-Director, The Asset-Based Community
Development Institute
Research Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 1983
j-kretzmann@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae
John Kretzmann (Jody) is Co-Director of the Asset-Based Community
Development (ABCD) Institute, a research project of the Institute
for Policy Research at Northwestern University. ABCD Institute works
with community building leaders across North America as well as
five other continents to conduct research, produce materials and
otherwise support community-based efforts to rediscover local capacities
and to mobilize citizens’ resources to solve problems. The
Institute continues to build on the stories and methods about successful
community building reported in the popular book, Building Communities
from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s
Assets (1993, with John L. McKnight.)
A much-traveled speaker and trainer, Kretzmann brings more than
thirty years of community experience and study to his current position.
He was a founding faculty member of the Associated Colleges of the
Midwest Urban Studies Program in 1969, and served as director of
that institution for six years. He has been a community organizer
in Chicago’s West Side, and served as a consultant to a wide
range of neighborhood organizing and development groups. In addition
to the ACM Program, he has taught at Northwestern University, Valparaiso
University and the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.
Kretzmann has worked to develop community-oriented public policy
at the national, state and local levels. In Chicago, he served as
chair of the Neighborhood Planning Committee for Mayor Harold Washington,
and was an active policy consultant through Washington’s four
and a half years in office. He serves on a wide range of civic,
community, and foundation boards.
Kretzmann’s educational background includes a B.A. from Princeton
University (Magna Cum Laude); a M.A. in English Literature from
the University of Virginia; and a Ph.D in Sociology and Urban Affairs
from Northwestern University.
He is married to Ingrid Christiansen. They have two children, Marcus
and Katie.
Selected Publications
Building
the Bridge from Client to Citizen: A Community Toolbox for Welfare
Reform (with Michael B. Green). Evanston, IL: Institute
for Policy Research, 1998.
A Guide to Capacity Inventories: Mobilizing the Community
Skills of Local Residents (with John L. McKnight and Geralyn
Sheehan). Evanston, IL: Institute for Policy Research, 1997.
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding
and Mobilizing a Community's Assets (with John L. McKnight).
Evanston, IL: Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University,
1993.
"Community-based development and local schools: A promising partnership."
Institute for Policy Research Working Paper (WP-92-14), 1992.
"Opening up a closed city," in Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods.
Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Mapping Community Capacity (with John L. McKnight). Evanston,
IL: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University,
1990.
"Community organizing in the 80s" (with John L. McKnight).
Social Policy, Winter 1984.
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