Anthony provides equity focused training, facilitation, coaching, assessment, planning and technical assistance for mission centered clients.

With a rounded skill set at the intersections of organizational strategy, community engagement and public policy, he brings a cross-section of experience as a consultant and a practitioner regarding policy, programs, projects and operations, as well as individual reflection, relationship development and team building.

His assignments and partnerships take many forms, including: racial equity training and coaching; equitable development strategy and implementation; constituent engagement and inclusion; organizational and urban planning; inclusive placemaking; and mission alignment.

He is often called on to advise during start-up, transition, and transformation phases of organizations and collaborative efforts committing — or recommitting — to improving their mission performance by living in to their shared values and increasing their relevancy within systemically disinvested communities.

Recent and current projects include:

• • Project management of The Riverline for the Western New York Land Conservancy. The Riverline, a member of the High Line Network, will be a multi-use trail and greenway on the elevated former rail line adjacent to downtown Buffalo and the Buffalo River through the Old First Ward, Perry and Valley neighborhoods. Project includes including oversight of community based vision planning, international design ideas competition, equitable development planning, outreach and engagement and partner programming, conceptual and schematic designs.
  • Racial equity organizational training, coaching and technical assistance in association with the Race Matters Institute for more than 100 organizations across the country and in Western New York, including corporate, non-profit, foundation, governmental and coalition clients. 
  • Lead authorship, stakeholder engagement and project management of a regional racial equity analysis and indicators report with the University at Buffalo Regional Institute for the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, culminating in a public facing report to frame the work of the Greater Buffalo Racial Equity Roundtable.
  • Public outreach and engagement for the Buffalo Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative. The Buffalo ESPRI project is a New York State sponsored community collaborative of stakeholders aligned to reduce poverty in the City of Buffalo. Outreach was focused on communities and individuals experiencing financial hardship. The project included survey and additional input method design, collection and analysis, demographic and precedent research, and compilation and summary of community experience and opinions to inform Buffalo ESPRI implementation strategy development.
  • Development of regional housing and neighborhood reinvestment strategies as well as a comprehensive examination of opportunity and racial, ethnic and geographic inequality in the region and a set of programmatic and policy recommendations known as a Fair Housing Equity Assessment for the University at Buffalo Regional Institute as part of One Region Forward, a HUD Sustainable Communities regional planning initiative for Buffalo Niagara.
  • Organizational and programmatic development, staff hiring, partner relationship formation and collaborative work plan and contract development, and strategy formation and community impact efforts through the transition and start-up phase of Open Buffalo, a multi-million dollar initiative seeded by Open Society Foundations to establish an institutional home for local policy and systems change leading to a more open, just and free city.
  • State of the field research, data modeling and validation of resident mobility patterns and attraction efforts to guide efficacy analysis and program design for a national foundation in partnership with Detroit’s New Solutions Group.
  • Strategic planning and/ or organizational development work for a host of regional non-profits, including Open Buffalo, Clean Air, Grassroots Gardens of WNY, and Friends of Reinstein Woods.

Anthony has served as a program officer; project manager; board member, treasurer, and chair; coop founder; policy fellow; legislative constituent liaison; and government affairs representative. He holds a B.A. in Media Study from University at Buffalo Honors College, an M.S. in Urban Affairs from Hunter College and teaches Neighborhood Revitalization at Buffalo State College. He has been quoted on equitable and community development issues by media outlets such as the Buffalo News, Planning Magazine, Reuters, al Jazeera, StreetsBlog and USAToday. 

Anthony also is a confessed stat and map geek, relishing the occasion to curl up for a few hours with a good spreadsheet or heat map, a trait he – somewhat regrettably – seems to be passing along to his two young children. When not juggling their reluctant foray into youth sports, Anthony, his wife and their kids were frequent travelers in the before times. He is also a non-practicing indie-rock drummer, rides his bike a lot, runs a few times each year to maintain his end of he and his wife’s 19 consecutive year Turkey Trot streak, and will eventually finish rehabbing the family’s 19^th century home in Buffalo’s Allentown neighborhood.