Co-founder of the Earth House Center in Oakland, CA.
He has served as Acting Director of the Community and Resource Development Unit at the Ford Foundation, responsible for the Foundation’s world wide programs in fields of Environment and Development, and Community Development. He directed the Foundation’s Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative and the Regional Equity Demonstration in the United States.
Carl funded the national Conversation on Regional Equity (CORE), a dialogue of national policy analysts and advocates for new metropolitan racial justice strategies.
He was Co-President of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development (BAASD) composed of environmental groups, social advocacy groups and work, faith-based organizations.
He was also elected among other public officials to build a consensus on urbanization in the region of 6.5 million people, and more than 100 jurisdictions.
He was Founder and, for 12 years Executive Director, of the Urban Habitat Program in the San Francisco Bay Area.
With his colleague Luke Cole at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, he founded and published the Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal, the only environmental justice periodical in the United States.
Carl’s forthcoming book is entitled The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race.