įrom 2003 to 2009, Lander was a director of the university-based Pratt Center for Community Development. For his work he received the 2000 New York Magazine Civics Award, and FAC received the 2002 Leadership for a Changing World award (sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Sustainable Communities). Career įrom 1993 to 2003, Lander was the executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC), a Park Slope not-for-profit organization that develops and manages affordable housing.
Truman Scholarship, and master's degrees in anthropology from University College London on a Marshall Scholarship and in urban planning from the Pratt Institute. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1991, where he received a Harry S. He grew up in the Creve Coeur suburb of St. Lander is a Missouri native, and son of Carole Lander and David Lander, a bankruptcy attorney.