Lee Adams is Director of Community Development and also serves as the director of the Southcentral Michigan Planning Council. Adams’ research and work in these roles is primarily concentrated in the fields of economic development, regional planning, workforce development, housing, real estate development, and local government policy.
Adams received a Master of Arts degree in Urban and Regional Planning with concentrations in economic development and land use planning as well as a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development from the University of Michigan in 2010; he also received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and in the Social Sciences with concentrations in economics and history from Olivet Nazarene University in 2007.