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Ken Colburn has held positions in national and local government as well as with national non-profit organizations. He has served as Legislative Director of the Congressional Black Caucus, Deputy Research Director for the Joint Center for Political Studies, and as a Deputy Executive Director of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, which was headed by the Secretary of the Treasury and provided oversight of the Resolution Trust Corporation. Mr. Colburn has also administered local housing programs, including homeownership, rental housing, and managed community development programming and budgeting in Washington, D.C. In 1992, he was a deputy cluster coordinator on the presidential transition team.
Mr. Colburn has also performed research at the Metropolitan Applied Research Center under Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, at the AARP and for the House District of Columbia Committee. He has done work for the African Development Foundation and for the Department of Agriculture (through the American Institutes for Research), where he co-authored a study on housing and equal opportunity.News articles on studies prepared by Mr. Colburn have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Afro-American newspapers, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Call and Post, Newhouse newspapers, Birmingham Times, Chicago Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Detroit News, Philadelphia Inquirer and Houston Chronicle, among others.
He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Michigan Law School.