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About Sherry Arnstein
- Sherry Phyllis Arnstein, (née Rubin) (11 January 1930 – 19 January 1997) is the author of the highly influential journal article "Ladder of Citizen Participation".
- Through the U.S.
- Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare (HUD), working as a special assistant to the assistant secretary, she developed the insights that led to the development of her seminal paper in the field of participatory decision making.
- In 1969, she wrote and published several papers that deal with public participation in decision making.
- Among them, "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" (1969), "Maximum Feasible Manipulation" (1972) and "A Working Model for Public Participation" (1975).
- Her first paper, in which she suggested different levels of public participation has a lasting impact in many areas of research, including geography, urban planning, public policy, health policy, and sociology, to name a few. Sherry Rubin was born in New York City to Bernard Rubin (born Russia) and Lucille Goldstein (born France).
- At a young age, her family moved to California.
- She studied physical education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and after graduation worked as a caseworker in Alameda County Juvenile Court.
- In 1955, she moved to Washington, DC.
- and received a Masters in communications from American University. After her work at HUD, she was a consulting public policy analyst at Arthur D.
- Little, a senior research fellow at the National Center for Health Services Research and vice president of the National Health Council.
- She served 10 years as executive director of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) between 1985 and 1995.
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