Carl Anthony is a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to that he was the Acting Director of the Community and Resource Development Unit at the Ford Foundation, where he also directed the Foundation’s Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration Initiative. The long-term goal of this initiative is to reduce the patterns of concentrated poverty in the United States, while influencing the patterns of metropolitan development to conserve natural resources.
He was Co-Chair of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development (BAASD) a multi stake holder collaborative bringing together business leadership, environmental groups, social advocacy groups, labor, faith based organizations, elected and other public officials. Anthony also served as President of Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization to protect and conserve the global biosphere.. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, the University of California Colleges of Environmental Design and Natural Resources. He has been an Advisor to the Stanford University Law School on issues of environmental justice. Anthony has a professional degree in architecture from Columbia University. In 1996, he was appointed Fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.