DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT / Boston, Massachusetts
With a background in urban planning and management consulting, Alexandra has strong research, analysis and writing skills as well as significant knowledge of physical planning. She has managed physical planning projects both for a Boston non-profit, A Better City (ABC), and at Harvard University, where she served as a Harvard Presidential Fellow for the Allston Development Group (formerly Harvard Planning and Allston Initiative).
At ABC, Alexandra managed the stakeholder process with businesses and institutions for the Boston Crossroads Initiative. At Harvard, Alexandra managed the stakeholder process for Undergraduate House Renewal and the Faculty Housing Taskforce, as well as feasibility studies for re-use of buildings, and demand modeling for housing in Harvard's new Allston campus. As part of the work, Alexandra synchronized the demand data with the University's Master and Capital Plans.
With Demographic Perspectives, Alexandra has helped lead strategic housing initiatives for a variety of higher education clients, including St. John Fisher College, Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard Business
Job Titles:
- Principal
- in 2016 As a Senior Advisor
- PRINCIPAL / Brooklyn, New York
Carol Shuchman joined Demographic Perspectives in 2016 as a Senior Advisor and brings a strong background in market research, institutional real estate, strategic planning and sustainability.
For the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Carol developed its first business case and framework for environmental sustainability and implemented its sustainability program with metrics for the real estate portfolio and the Bank as a whole. She also guided a significant acquisition for the FRBNY's real estate portfolio. For Columbia University, she managed 350,000 RSF of commercial real estate in University-owned buildings on three separate campuses, with a strong focus on neighborhood character, needs of both students and faculty, and revenue; she helped develop the urban street-front strategies for Columbia's new Manhattanville campus. During an 18-year career with the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, Carol had a senior management role for the agency including managing the Environmental Scanning unit for Strategic Planning and managing the large-scale retail concourse in the World Trade Center.
With Demographic Perspectives, Carol has guided the development of climate assessments and campus climate studies for non-profits and colleges using survey instruments, interviews and focus groups to ensure an emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion. Carol specializes in
conducting rigorous stakeholder interviews to gather background information needed to develop the program assessment instruments that are necessary to best understand their populations and markets. Carol's strength in data-driven analysis of race, ethnicity, gender, and disability allows an organization to ensure that they have the information to develop actionable outcomes to eliminate bias and instill respect.
Carol has also developed enrollment and occupancy management projections, and long-term demographic projections for the Massachusetts State College Building Authority's biennial Strategic Plans. She has led strategic housing initiatives for numerous higher education clients, including Ithaca College, Lafayette College, and Vanderbilt University. Carol has also spearheaded the development of retail market analyses for mixed-use properties in university/college real estate portfolios.
Carol has designed and analyzed surveys, led focus groups, conducted and managed teams conducting stakeholder interviews, managed environmental scans, peer benchmarking studies and market studies, and helped clients develop future planning strategies.
Carol earned her MA in Sociology and Demography from Brown University, following her B.A. from Brandeis University. She is a licensed New York State Real Estate Broker, certified in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace, certified as a LEED AP and active in a wide range of both professional and community organizations.
Job Titles:
- ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE STRATEGIST & CONSULTANT
Dr. G. Christopher Hunt (he, him, his) is a consultant and higher education senior administrator in diversity, equity, inclusion and student life. At both private and public institutions, he has served in a range of student life functions including multicultural affairs, housing and residence life, sexual misconduct prevention, student conduct and outreach support, international student advising, and student involvement. Chris' experience also includes oversight of the counseling center, Greek life, student government, religious and spiritual life, gender and sexuality programs, and recreation services.
As a consultant, Dr. Hunt has facilitated training and development for non-profit service organizations, major corporations, and higher education institutions on topics such as unconscious bias in the workplace, gender inequality, teaching pedagogy, race and ethnicity, bias incident response, and identity exploration. As a scholar, his research, "When Millennials Meet Baby Boomers: Multiple Case Study on the Experiences of Black Male College Students," explores the lived experiences of students of color across multiple generations.
A father of three Generation Z children, he speaks at colleges, universities, and local organizations, businesses, and national conferences.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Founder
- Principal
- CEO and FOUNDER / New Haven, Connecticut
Rena is the Principal and Founder of Demographic Perspectives, LLC. A well-known researcher, evaluator, speaker and author, Rena is an expert in providing custom data and analysis for strategy, assessment, communications, and for managing change. Formerly with Yale University's Office of Institutional Research, Rena has conducted research to inform decision-making at over 75 colleges and universities, nonprofits, and businesses. She also conducts public outreach for planning processes.
Job Titles:
- Housing Service and Product Consultant
With over 40 years' experience in residential real estate, Susan's experience includes management; rehabilitation; new construction; leasing; and sales in subsidized, market, and institutional residential real estate.
Susan's more recent experience has been in creating housing policies and managing and developing graduate student and faculty housing at Harvard University. She led the expansion of graduate student housing by adding 1500 new beds from 1999 to 2008.
Susan inaugurated the Harvard University Faculty Real Estate office to support the recruitment and retention of Faculty members at the University. She developed Faculty condominiums (sold at below market prices) and instituted concierge housing services in a partnership with the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Advantage Program.