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City Club of Cleveland - Mark J. Salling, Ph.D. & Myrna Pérez
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Mark Salling, Ph. D. manages a team of researchers, programmers, GIS Specialists, and student employees involved in data dissemination, demographic analysis, and urban and GIS applications. He also serves at the Research Director at The Center for Community Solutions. He is the State of Ohio's Liaison to the Census Bureau for its redistricting data programs and is Chairman and Key Person for the Cleveland Census Statistical Areas Committee (CenSAC). He also serves on the Council of the Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program (OGRIP), representing higher education. At the national level, Dr. Salling has been active in the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), is a past board member, and has been the editor of the URISA Conference Proceedings since 1986. He is chair of the Core Committee of GISCorps which matches GIS professionals to volunteer opportunities in underprivileged communities, particularly in developing countries. He was the recipient of URISA's 1988 and 2000 Service Awards. He is also a member of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU).



Dr. Salling has published papers dealing with computer applications in planning, data dissemination, geographic information systems, poverty, residential mobility, environmental equity, and demography. He was a recipient of a Visiting Fellowship from the National Science Foundation-funded National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. He has taught courses on GIS, urban geography, statistical and computer methods, and demography. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from Kent State University and an M.A. in Geography from the University of Cincinnati. He is a certified GIS Professional (GISP) by the Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute (GISCI).



Myrna Pérez works on a variety of voting rights related issues, including redistricting, list maintenance, and access to the ballot box. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Pérez was the Civil Rights Fellow at Relman & Dane, a civil rights law firm in Washington, D.C. Ms. Pérez graduated from Columbia Law School in 2003, where she was a Lowenstein Public Interest Fellow. Following law school, Ms. Pérez clerked for the Honorable Anita B. Brody of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Myrna Pérez earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Yale University in 1996. She obtained a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1998, where she was the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service. Prior to law school, she was a Presidential Management Fellow, serving as a policy analyst for the United States Government Accounting Office where she covered a range of issues including housing and health care.

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January 21, 2011