Adjunct Faculty, Master of Community Development
School of Architecture
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI, USA
Email: echevara@udmercy.edu Phone: 708-522-4873
Website: https://architecture.udmercy.edu/programs/mcd.php
Interest in CDE Collaborative
I utilize a decolonizing approach to Community Development Education. In this way students get a perspective to community development from the margins as they consider issues of social justice.
Quick Bio
Raúl Echevarria is a community development practitioner with more than 20 years of experience, primarily in Humboldt Park, a historical Puerto Rican community in Chicago, Il. Raúl is currently employed as the Director of Land Use and Economic Development at Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, a local non-profit in the Latino/Hispanic community of Southwest Detroit.
Echevarria is also a student at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit pursuing a Master of Divinity degree. His long term goal is to be ordained as a pastor and facilitate the formation of faith communities that utilize action and reflection as their model for ministry. He approaches his work by uniting theories centered on community building/development with theologies based on the liberation of the oppressed, social justice and decolonization.