Tim Burke coordinates the Ash Institute’s research on social innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, including the Executive Session on Transforming Cities through Civic Entrepreneurship. He is working with Stephen Goldsmith and Gigi Georges on a forthcoming book on the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in changing the trajectory of community efforts to solve public problems. Burke is a 2006 graduate of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and received a B.S. in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997.