Edward Seidman is a senior program associate at the William T. Grant Foundation. He previously served for seven years as senior vice president, program. At the Foundation, he is particularly interested in facilitating higher quality theory, measurement, and intervention research on youth-serving organizations that successfully impact policy and practice. Before coming to the Foundation, his research examined the nature and course of the positive development trajectories of economically at-risk urban adolescents, and how these trajectories are affected by the social contexts of family, peers, school, and neighborhood, and their interaction. He is a Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University, and previously at the universities of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Manitoba, as well as the Vice President and Dean, Research, Demonstration, and Policy at Bank Street College. He has been a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Belagio Center, a Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar, and the recipient of several national awards for distinguished contributions to research and science, education, and ethnic minority mentoring. Dr. Seidman received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology & Medical Behavioral Science from the University of Kentucky.