Lisa Servon wins the 2024 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award

The Kensington neighborhood in northeastern Philadelphia has become synonymous with the opioid addiction, its proximity to I-95 offering easy access to illegal drugs stored in empty warehouses. But this wasn’t always the case. Up until the second half of the twentieth century, Kensington was a thriving manufacturing district, with factories and a bustling local business corridor. The Kensington Corridor Trust (KCT) is working to rebuild this neighborhood anchor and has partnered with Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, through an Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) course: Housing, Community and Economic Development Practicum. Through this capstone course, students earning a Master of City Planning degree work with community members on projects identified by KCT. A professor in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Servon was recognized for her work with the Kensington Corridor Trust. The honor was presented by Provost John L. Jackson Jr. and Netter Center director Ira Harkavy on Dec. 16.

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