Since 1999, Bluestone has been the founding director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern in Boston, where he was also the founding dean of the University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs from 2008–2012. He served as a member of the senior policy staff of Congressman Richard Gephardt in 1995 and was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank in 2013.