Syed Ferhat Anwar (Institute of Business Administration, U. of Dhaka, Marketing Specialist; interested in marketing system studies of informal sector, stretching from the legal to the illegal; cross cultural studies pertaining to the marketing dynamics of the informal sector with the change in the formal economy). tamanina@bangla.net
Max E. Austin (Blue Max Horticultural Consulting, Professor Emeritus, The University of Georgia, interested in international consulting work, specialty - blueberries, home page at: http://www.surfsouth.com/~maustin). maustin@surfsouth.com
Regina Austin (University of Pennsylvania Law School - Lawyer; interested in the informal sector, local regulation of small-scale enterprises, and the Black public sphere). raustin@oyez.law.upenn.edu
Henry Bahn (U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Program Leader - Rural, Economic, & Social Development, Cooperative State Research, Education, & Extension Service). hbahn@reeusda.gov
Anne L. Balazs (Division Head and Associate Professor of Marketing, Mississippi University for Women; interested in elderly consumers in the marketplace, internet retailing, and retail evolution). abalazs@muw.edu
Steve Balkin (Roosevelt University - Economist; interested in microenterprise assistance to the poor; marketplace preservation, and street vendor advocacy). mar@topicbox.com
Ray Bromley (SUNY Albany - City Planner and Geographer; interested in geography of marketplaces, the informal sector; marketplaces in South America). rb438@cnsvax.albany.edu
Gwenda Brophy (Editor, Microenterprise News, a bimonthly magazine for disseminating news, views, features to those whose work, research or interest relates to the informal sector). <mentnews@netcomuk.co.uk> or <gbrophy@netcomuk.co.uk>
Allison Brown (U. of London, Geography Dept. - Horticulturist; interested in localized marketing systems for fresh horticultural products worldwide). ab34@soas.ac.uk
Lorig Charkoudian (Founder and Director, Community Mediation Program, Baltimore MD; Ph.D. candidate in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, with a focus on the role of community markets in development in South Africa). lorigc@jhu.edu
Alex Counts (Executive Director, Grameen Foundation and author of Give Us Credit, Times Books/Random House, 1996, a book about Grameen Bank; interested in micro-credit for the poor and related marketing issues, empowerment of women, developed-developing world joint problem solving and solidarity). grameen.found@action.org
John Cross (Sociologist with experience in Mexico City and Cairo, Egypt and currently in New York City. Interested in the "political economy of the informal sector", but mostly in looking at the informal sector through the prism of social movement theory. Click here for his home page). drcross@frontiernet.net
David Dewar (University of Cape Town, South Africa - Urban and Regional Planner; interested in interrelationships between small-scale economic activity and the making of settlements in both urban and rural areas, is on the National Development and Planning Commission of South Africa, co-author of Urban Markets: Developing Informal Retailing. London: Routledge, 1990). deward@centlivres.uct.ac.za
Steven Diamond (public historian & webmaster at Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Center in New Mexico). diamondz@nmia.com
Alphonse Diaz (Architect; Planner - Chicago; interested in marketplace design). alphonsex@aol.com
Carolyn Eastwood (Roosevelt University - Anthropologist; interested in ethnography and public policy related to street vendors). Fax: 312-341-3680
Simel Esim (Economist at the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, D.C.; interested in urban women's informal employment with a focus on street vendors and home-based workers). sesim@icrw.org
Andre W. Esselink (advisor and consultant for all markettrade in Europe; chairman of the Dutch Association of Markettraders(CVAH, 8600 members), president of the market and street trade division of the national retail trade commission (HBD-MSR, 26.000 vendors affiliated in Holland); general secretary of the European association of markettrade(UECA, more than a million vendors). ess@worldonline.nl
Harriet Festing (Research Associate, Wye College, University of London, researching farmers' markets and micro-enterprise development, food poverty and fair-trade; web page to be up December 1997, http://www.wye.ac.uk/FoodLink/). H.Festing@wye.ac.uk
Andy Fisher(coordinator of the Community Food Security Coalition - a network of anti-hunger, community gardening, farmers' market, environmental, and sustainable agriculture organizations; also developing community gardens and starting a food policy council in LA; currently researching farmers markets in low income communities). ASFisher@aol.com
Esther Freese (Fachhochschule Magdeburg/Germany - Nutritionist; interested in nutritional aspects of street foods particularly food composition, hygiene, socio-economic and cultural aspects connected with nutrition). esther.freese@Sozialwesen.FH-Magdeburg.DE
John Gaber (Dept. of Community and Regional Planning, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Urban Planner; interested in street vendors and vendors' markets; ethnic enterprises; poverty and U.S. social policy; and community development). jgaber@unlinfo.unl.edu
Arun Gandhi (Founder, M.K. Gandhi Inst. For Nonviolence, Memphis - at Christian Brothers University; interested in promoting nonviolence and helping build strong human relationships based on love, understanding, acceptance and appreciation). ArunGandhi@MSN.com
Gary Isaac Gordon (University of Chicago -- History Ph.D candidate; interested in the political economy of informal commerce in Mexico, the history of street vending and public markets, and retail development in developing countries). ggordon@dcez.com
John Grierson (Senior Specialist in Enterprise Development at FTP International in Helsinki, Finland; particular interest in the informal sector and skills training for self-employment, broad general experience of Africa and Asia) john.grierson@ftpinter.fi
John Hagedorn (Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at UIC; interested in gangs, drugs, violence, and the informal economy, has been studying the informal economy in Milwaukee for the past two years and teaches a course on it. His most recent book is about Female Gangs in America). huk@uic.edu
Robert Hunt (Illinois State U. - Political Scientist; interested in development project evaluation; Peace Corp training, African economic development). RWHunt@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
Mauricio D. Ibarra (Mexican Architect/Urban Designer interested in public spaces. Research focused on street vending phenomenon in the historic downtown Mexico City). deras@servidor.unam.mx
Carey Johnston (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer - Ghana 1991-1994; co-author of the Navrongo and Lawra Home Page) johnston@erols.com
Debi Kelly (Project Manager, Missouri Alternatives Center, U of Missouri information, resources and referral service for alternative agricultural opportunities, small farms and new family farms) kellyd@ext.missouri.edu
Jennifer-Claire Klotz (Economist, Wholesale and Alternative Markets Program, USDA. Interested in farm direct marketing, particularly farmers' markets). farmerdirect@hotmail.com
Bruce Kraig (Roosevelt University - Historian; interested in Chinese and Mexican marketplaces and the history of food; was producer of two PBS TV specials on food). janthomp@uic.edu
Ivan Light (UCLA - Sociologist; interested in ethnography of entrepreneurship and rotating credit associations).
Tim Locke (Director of Community Development, Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee; Founder: Milwaukee Farmers' Market Association. Currently developing a new market hall and kitchen incubator in Milwaukee. Interested in urban food systems and economic development, strengthening communities through local food production. Also developing a class "Planning for Urban Food Security" for UW-Milwaukee. <tim@hungertaskforce.org>
Larry Lund (Lund and Associates, Consultants; interested in retail, market research for marketplaces, and urban planning). lundlarry@msn.com
James Masters (Center for Community Futures in Berkeley, CA - Director; worked with over five hundred human service agencies, non-profit organizations, and federal programs in the realm of Urban and Community Based Development). jmasters@cencomfut.com
José Luiz Tejon Megido(Marketing Professor at ESPM Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing - São Paulo, Brazil; wrote books: Pequenas Empresas Grandes Vendedores - Small Business - Great Salespeople and Marketing and Agribusiness. Does Database Marketing and New Business Development for a communication company in Brazil). tejon@listas-amarelas.com.br
Jim Miller (Clemson University - Geographer; interested in cultural geography and Middle East Studies; worked primarily in Morocco on questions of economic development, water resources, and the Sijilmassa Archaeological Project; served as a political officer in the U.S. Dept of State in Zaire.). miller3@clemson.edu
Alfonso Morales (University of Arizona - Sociologist; interested in the informal sector and ethnography of marketplaces). alfonso@utep.edu
Julie Nordskog (Research Assistant at the SME Forum run by the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin; interested in information technologies for small and medium-business networking and development in Latin America). nordskog@info.lanic.utexas.edu
Maria Nowak (ADIE - Economist and Chairman of the Association pour le Droit a l'Initiative Economique, Paris; interested in rural development, microenterprises and microcredit).
Robin O'Brian (Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Elmira College). Anthropologist interested in market women and women's activities in the informal market; research with Maya crafts vendors in Chiapas, Mexico; also examining the phenomenon of women's vending cross-culturally.)
David O'Neil (Market Consultant, Director of Public Market Collaborative, former General Manager of the Reading Terminal Market; interested in reestablishing local production and support systems through markets). 102514.3327@compuserve.com
Vivek Patkar(Operations Research Specialist, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, Bombay; interested in the informal sector economy, employment of physically handicapped persons and human orientation aspects of public places). mmrda@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
Duane Perry (Planner - Reading Terminal Farmers' Market Trust; help organizations grow through assistance with financial development, physical planning, and program innovation, and develop community food micro-enterprises to help revitalize urban and rural communities). rtmarket@libertynet.org
Curtis Price (Editor of Street Voice, a Baltimore broadsheet distributed outside soup kitchens, shelters, drug treatment programs, and in public housing projects; interested in issues affecting homeless and very low income people). cansv@igc.apc.org
John A. Rasmussen, MAI (Public Market and Economic Development Consultant, Feasibility Research Group, Ltd., Ann Arbor, Michigan. Consulting team member for site selection, land planning, architectural design review and project feasibility for public markets and neighborhood revitalization since 1974). JRasmusMAI@aol.com
Robert D. Sisler (Managing Partner for Smart Productions, Centerville, Ohio., special events & promotions for commercial and open-air flea markets; consultants to the market industry: concept design, acquisition, renovation, new construction as well as basic planning. Member of National Flea Market Association -- watchdog on issues that effect the market industry.) iconsult2u@yahoo.com
Jeffrey L. Smith - The Frugal Gourmet (United Methodist Clergyman and TV cooking personality; interested in theology and food and the historical aspects of food being a key to the meaning of any culture. A cuisine is much more a way of thinking than it is a way of eating). 88 Virginia, Unit #2, Seattle, WA 98101; fax (for urgent use only) 206-448-9285.
Robert Sommer (University of California at Davis - Psychologist; interested in research on farmers markets). rosommer@ucdavis.edu
Ted Spitzer (Project Director, Portland Public Market, Portland, Maine; co-author with Hilary Baum of Public Markets and Community Revitalization, Market Consultant for feasibility analysis, market development and expansion planning, and management studies.) TSpitzer@portlandmarket.com
Kathleen Staudt (University of Texas at El Paso - Political Scientist; interested in informal sector of border regions). kstaudt@utep.edu
Katherine Stearns (Accion International - Vice President of U.S. Operations; interested in microenterprise and micro-credit banking). 72603.620@compuserve.com
Mark Thompson (Journalist; trained as a lawyer - interested in farmers markets, food and farm policy. Publishes a bimonthly 20-to-24-page newsletter called Farmers Market Outlook, about farmers markets in California, and also a Web site called In Season). inseason@cogent.net
Rick VanVranken (County Agricultural Agent - Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County, NJ; interested in vegetable production and marketing and is listowner of veg-prod and direct-mkt e-mail discussion groups at majordomo@reeusda.gov). vanvranken@aesop.rutgers.edu
Mark Weinberg (Attorney and publisher of the Blue Line; interested in anti-trust aspects of street vendor issues). blueline@mcs.com
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