About the Author

Barry Kibel, Ph.D., is a lifelong student of esoteric psychology and spiritual traditions, particularly Jewish mysticism and self-inquiry. He has held faculty positions at Howard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Barry is a principal contributor to SEED, a pioneering, nonprofit venture with the mission of guiding social programs to grow their businesses and increase their impacts. Over a career that has spanned five decades, he has devised diverse planning and design tools and evaluation instruments to support the transformational work of not-for-profit organizations and governmental institutions. Barry holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in city and regional planning. He is author of Simulation of the Urban Environment, Success Stories as Hard Data, and numerous professional publications.