9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth:
9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth:
Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities Conference
February 4 - 6, 2010 – Seattle, WA
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Please note: the LGC has made every attempt to collect a brief biography from each speaker participating in the conference. However, as of January 28th, there are still a few bios missing from this document.
Adrianna Abariotes
Joining LISC in 1999, Ms. Abariotes, Executive Director, Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (TC LISC), leads one of its most creative and robust local offices, focused on shifting toward more collaborative approaches, growing diverse leadership, and strengthening regional community development capacity. With nearly 20 years of experience, she holds a B.A. from Macalester College and M.A. from University of Minnesota.
Norman Abbot
Norman Abbot has been with the Puget Sound Regional Council for 17 years. He manages a team responsible for the Council’s Growth Management Program and also serves as the agency’s Environment Officer. Norman has worked as both a city planner and a regional planner. Prior to the Council, he was Community Development Director in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the City Planning Director in Portland Oregon. Norman has a BS in Geography, a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning, and a Doctorate in Urban Design and Planning.
Seema Agnani
Seema Agnani, Executive Director, was one of the initial founders of Chhaya CDC - a community-based organization in Queens, New York, working primarily with new immigrants. She has over 15 years of experience in housing, community development and immigrant rights advocacy in the nonprofit and public sectors.
Julie Early-Alberts
Julie Early-Alberts is Program Manager of the Health Assessment and Consultation Services, Oregon Office of Environmental Public Health. She oversees Oregon's Health Impact Assessment Program as well as other programs making connections between environment and health.
Erin Aleman
Erin Aleman, senior planner with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, has been leading CMAP’s public engagement activities for the GO TO 2040 plan. Erin is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.
Bob Allen
Bob Allen is the director of the Transportation and Housing Program at
Urban, a regional environmental justice organization that works in partnership with low-income communities and communities of color to advance social, economic, and environmental justice in the Bay Area region and beyond. Mr. Allen received both his BA in Political Science and History as well as his MPA from Rutgers University.
Clark Anderson
Clark directs the Sonoran Institute’s Western Colorado Legacy Program, bringing to the job a decade of experience working with communities to align land use planning, community design and resource conservation. Clark holds a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Colorado and a master’s in geography from the University of California, Davis.
Stephen Antupit Stephen Antupit is a Senior Associate with MITHUN. He has 20 years of urban design and neighborhood redevelopment experience in creating vibrant, walkable communities that are resource-smart, climate-intelligent, and transit-focused. As a public servant and professional consultant, he frames policy, program and physical design responses that promote ecological, social, and economic resilience. As a citizen and collaborator, he seeks, identifies, and translates design opportunities and responses to stimulate invention and leverage durable connections among diverse stakeholders who comprise urban communities.
Geoff Appel
Geoff Appel, AICP, LEED AP is a Certified Planner and LEED® Accredited Professional with the planning and engineering firm Reid Middleton in Everett, Washington. Mr. Appel specializes in sustainable site planning, master planning, infrastructure planning, and land use and in-water permitting for public and private sector clients.
Danielle Arigoni
Danielle Arigoni, AICP, is a Senior Policy Analyst in EPA’s Smart Growth office. Her work there focuses on the affordability and environmental benefits of more compact, green housing and redevelopment. Ms. Arigoni represents EPA on the Affordability subgroup of the HUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities, and is the principal author of “Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection” and co-author of “Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation” and “Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities.”
Alan Arthur
Alan Arthur has served as the president/CEO of Aeon since 1988. Alan oversees the organization’s 1,705 units of affordable homes in the Twin Cities metropolitan area and brings nearly 40 years of experience in housing and real estate development, including construction, project development, lending, code enforcement and city planning. He earned a BA in political science from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Alan teaches affordable housing development, financing and organizational governance issues to a variety of organizations, and serves on numerous local housing boards and task forces.
Lucia Athens
Lucia Athens, LEED AP, ASLA is the author of the new book, Building an Emerald City: A Guide to Green Building Programs and Policies, published by Island Press. Lucia has over 20 years of experience leading public and private organizations to embrace green building and low impact development practices.
Erick J. Aune
Erick J. Aune is the Director of the La Plata County Planning Department in Colorado and the former Director of Planning for Aztec, New Mexico. He completed his M.S. at Michigan State University with a degree in Natural Resource Development. He has over thirteen years of land use planning experience in the Southwest.
Katherine Baer
Katherine Baer is Senior Director of American River’s Clean Water Program, where she leads federal clean water policy work on reducing sewage and storm water and increasing green infrastructure. Before joining American Rivers she worked as a policy analyst for the legal think tank the Center for Progressive Reform and as Director of Headwaters Conservation for the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in Georgia. Katherine has an M.S in Conservation Ecology from the University of Georgia, her JD from the University of Maryland, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Stanford University
John Bailey
John Bailey is the policy director for 1000 Friends of Minnesota where his focus is state and metropolitan policy reform that supports smart growth. He has worked at the federal, state and local level on a variety of smart growth initiatives in the Midwest and on the coasts.
Sonali S. Balajee
Sonali Sangeeta Balajee is the Program Manager for the Health Equity Initiative in the Multnomah County Health Department. The Health Equity Initiative’s mission is to eliminate the root causes of social injustices leading to racial and ethnic health inequities.
Sonali moved to Portland in 1999, from Bloomington, Indiana, where she earned a graduate degree in Education and Reform from Indiana University. She also obtained a BA in Business from the same college. She has been working in areas of social justice, community engagement of diverse populations, and policy development in Portland since 2000.
M. Scott Ball
Scott Ball is a Senior Project Manager with Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects and Town Planners (DPZ). Mr. Ball has managed several major post-storm redevelopment efforts along the gulf coast for DPZ. Mr. Ball has been actively engaged in the promotion of the independent living and health of aging citizens, and has authored the “Aging In Place Tool Kit” and “Lifelong Communities: A Regional Guide to Growth and Longevity” for
The Atlanta Regional Commission, as well as co-authored the “Land-use and Public Health Toolkit” for the National Association of Local Boards of Health. Mr. Ball received a BA from Bowdoin College and M. Arch. from Yale University.
Kalila Barnett
Kalila Barnett became ACE’s Executive Director in February 2009. She was previously a Senior Organizer at Community Labor United and served on ACE’s Board of Directors for 5 years. She is a Roxbury native and lifelong resident of Boston. Kalila graduated from Bates College in 2001 with a degree in American Studies and Spanish. She has also worked at Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation and Madison Park Development Corporation, organizing around community development issues and affordable housing in the Roxbury and Jamaica Plain area. Kalila was also the field director for a local city council campaign in 2005.
Laura Barrett
Ms. Barrett has been a community organizer for more than 20 years. She is currently the National Policy Director for the Gamaliel Foundation and the Transportation Equity Network (TEN). She has helped groups to win millions in public transportation funding and helped groups to negotiate community benefits agreements and positive workforce development policies on the state, local and federal level. She holds a Master's in Social Work from Washington University.
Charlie Bartsch
Charlie Bartsch has nearly 30 years experience in economic and community development. Currently he is Senior Fellow for Community Development at ICF International, and serves as ICF’s Brownfield expert. He is a nationally recognized authority of emerging public-private and state and federal Brownfield financing and process initiatives. Prior to joining ICF in 2006, he was Director of Brownfield Studies at the Northeast-Midwest Institute, based in Washington, D.C.
Subrata Basu
Subrata Basu, AIA, AICP has forty years of experience in both public and private sectors directly related to land planning and development. As the Assistant Director for Planning in Miami Dade County Department of Planning and Zoning, he directs and supervises all the Long and Short Term Growth Management initiatives.
Leonard Bauer
Leonard Bauer is Managing Director of Growth Management Services at the Washington State Department of Commerce. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and a Certified Park and Recreation Professional.
Patricia Beard
Patricia Beard is Redevelopment Manager for the City of National City, California, a San Diego suburb. “She has 20 years of experience in community development, the most recent 10 years being focused on leveraging resources for Brownfield projects. “Pat” is a graduate of Michigan State University.
Constance Beaumont
Constance Beaumont manages Education and Outreach for the Oregon Transportation and Growth Management Program (TGM). Before joining TGM, Ms. Beaumont served as Director for State and Local Policy at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She has written extensively on land use, transportation, and historic preservation issues. Her publications include: Better Models for Superstores: Alternatives to Big Box Sprawl; Smart States, Better Communities; and Why Johnny Can’t Walk to School.
Gordon Beck
Mr. Beck is the Director of the School Facilities and Organization department for the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Gordon has broad state, municipal, and educational administrative background, and specializes in policy planning and development, along with program implementation. Mr. Beck’s previous experience includes K-12 classroom teacher, community college administrator, city and county parks and recreation director, and Washington State Department of Natural Resources administrator.
Judith Bell
Judith Bell oversees policy development, strategic planning, program implementation, and policy campaigns as President of PolicyLink, a research and action institute focused on advancing social and economic equity. She also leads the work of PolicyLink as the Program Director of the national Convergence Partnership. Bell has extensive experience advancing policy change at the local, state and federal levels.
Lisa Bellefond Lisa Bellefond, Director of Federal Government Relations, The Nature Conservancy, oversees the Conservancy’s federal government affairs and public grants fundraising program in Washington. Her duties include lobbying at the federal level and she brings over ten years of expertise in collaborating with nonprofits, state and federal agency partners to protect and restore habitats for endangered species recovery
Rob Bennett
Rob is the executive director of the Portland Sustainability Institute, a new organization to accelerate the adoption of smart and transformational sustainability practices in the Portland region. Prior to founding PoSI, Rob was the residential and cities policy manager for the Clinton Climate Initiative and worked for the cities of Portland and Vancouver, BC for 8 years leading sustainable development program and policy development.
Autumn Bernstein
Autumn is responsible for overseeing ClimatePlan's activities and managing its day-to-day operations. She is the author of several publications including, most recently, Dangerous Development: Wildfire and Sprawl in the Sierra Nevada. Autumn graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. in Conservation Biology. She is a fourth-generation Californian and recently moved to Sacramento.
Stephanie Bertaina
Stephanie Bertaina is a Policy Analyst with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Smart Growth Program in Washington, D.C. Stephanie received an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Bachelor degrees in Biology and Psychology from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.
Tim Bevan
Tim Bevan, P.E., is the Principal Technologist and Project Manager for CH2M HILL’s Transportation Business Group in Bellevue, Washington. He has 30 years of experience in transportation planning and design. He is a national expert in application of sustainability to transportation infrastructure projects, including defining sustainability options for urban streets projects.
Lyle Bicknell
Lyle Bicknell is a senior urban designer with the City of Seattle's Department of Planning and Development. His specific areas of expertise include street and open space design, and creating successful, walkable communities. Before joining the City of Seattle Lyle worked in the private sector as an architect and urban designer. Lyle currently heads Seattle’s neighborhood and station area planning team. He received his architecture degree from the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Dave Biggs
Dave Biggs has been a pioneer in the use of computer tools to engage stakeholders in discussions about sustainable futures. He is a co-developer of MetroQuest, a Sim-City-type software that has been applied to cities on four continents. Dave is an internationally recognized facilitator and author on sustainability and the role of scenario tools in inspiring positive change.
Douglas Bisson
Mr. Bisson serves as HDR’s Community Planning Manager and has expertise in urban design and redevelopment. He is an expert in bringing together key city leaders, business owners, and residents to stimulate economic development and neighborhood revitalization through the use of environmentally friendly, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use development practices. He was the Project Manager for several notable initiatives within the region, including the Downtown Omaha Master Plan, Aksarben Village, Destination Midtown, the North Downtown Redevelopment Plan, and the Omaha Streetcar Feasibility Study. In addition, Doug serves on numerous community-based boards.
Sam Black
Sam Black has contributed to many aspects of smart growth, including air quality, evaluation of development and parkland proposals, transit issues, and visioning. His work as an attorney includes counseling on some of these topics, on urban and rural redevelopment and finance, and on the governance of nonprofit organizations. He divides his time between Washington, DC and Maine.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer
A lifelong resident of Portland, Oregon, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) has devoted his entire career to public service. In 1978, Earl Blumenauer was elected to the Multnomah County Commission, where he served for eight years before being elected to the Portland City Council in 1986. There, his 10-year tenure as the Commissioner of Public Works demonstrated his leadership on the innovative accomplishments in transportation, planning, environmental programs and public participation that have helped Portland earn an international reputation as one of America’s most livable cities.
In 1996 he was elected to the US House of Representatives.
Ed Bogucz
Ed Bogucz is Executive Director of SyracuseCoE, a collaborative organization that creates innovations in three areas: clean and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality, and water resources. More than 200 companies, organizations and institutions are engaged in SyracuseCoE activities, including research, development, demonstration, commercialization, education, and outreach. Ed came to Central New York in 1985 as a faculty member at Syracuse University. From 1995 to 2003, he served as SU’s dean of engineering and computer science. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Near Westside Initiative, the Erie Canal Museum, and Herley Industries.
Blaine Bonham
J. Blaine Bonham Jr., Executive Vice President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society founded its urban greening program Philadelphia Green (PG) in 1974. PG is in the forefront of urban greening nationally serving as a model to other cities. In 2003, Bonham helped PG create the Green City Strategy, a vacant land management program that converted millions of square feet of derelict land to green space.
Marcelo Bonta
Marcelo Bonta is the founder of the Environmental Professionals of Color and the Center for Diversity & the Environment, where he works with leaders and environmental institutions to strategically diversify their operations. Marcelo serves on the Portland/Multnomah Sustainable Development Commission, Orion Grassroots Network Advisory Board, the Land Trust Alliance Diversity Task Force, and the Diverse Partners for Environmental Progress National Council.
Tim Brennan
Tim Brennan joined the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC) in 1973 and since 1980 has served as the agency's Executive Director. The PVPC, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, is one of the Commonwealth's 13 designated, public Regional Planning Agencies and is responsible for the second largest planning region in Massachusetts. Mr. Brennan holds a BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master of Regional Planning degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
John L. Breuninger
John L. Breuninger is an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. He has served as the Area Manager in the Planning and Statistics Department since 1998. He received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and his Masters of Public Health Degree in Policy, Planning and Regulation from the University of California, Berkeley.
Teresa Brice
Teresa Brice is an Arizona native and recognized community activist with over 25 years of experience in the non-profit community development sector. Since 2006 she has led the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Phoenix office, where she emphasizes Smart Growth principles in promoting the development of Sustainable Communities.
Catherine Brook
Catherine recently led the transformation of the Crown Hill Elementary School property into the Crown Hill Center and park, using her engineering degree, 15 years experience as a business and systems analyst in the software industry, and long-term board-level participation in non-profit organizations and neighborhood planning.
Allison Brooks
As Chief of Staff at Reconnecting America (RA), Allison Brooks helps guide the strategic direction, core initiatives and partnerships. Prior to RA, Allison served over six years as a Program Officer at the East Bay Community Foundation. Allison holds a Masters in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University.
Camille Manning-Broome
As Director of Planning at Center for Planning Excellence, Camille Manning-Broome oversees statewide planning efforts that provide grant funding, technical assistance, and model tools to communities who wish to create and implement community-driven plans incorporating smart growth principles. She has been involved in statewide recovery planning since the 2005 hurricanes.
Ralph Buehler
Ralph Buehler is an Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech. His research seeks to disentangle how international differences in travel behavior are shaped by policies, land use, and socioeconomic factors. The goal is to determine what countries can learn from each other to achieve more sustainable transportation systems.
Nir Buras
Nir Buras Ph, AIA, ICA &CA, NCARB is a modern leader in universally admired classical & traditional planning, Buras scientifically established its benefits in increased profit, well-being and 100-year sustainability. Founder of the Washington Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and chairs McMillan II, Buras offers his clients the opportunity to do good while doing well.
Dan Burden
Dan Burden is a nationally recognized authority on livable communities, healthy streets, traffic calming, and bicycle and pedestrian programs. His efforts to get the world “back on its feet” have been recognized by TIME magazine, the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, New Partners for Smart Growth, the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, the League of American Bicyclists, and the 2,500 communities he has visited along the way.
Kim Burnett
Kim Burnett is a Director at the Surdna Foundation, leading the Foundation’s national work to build strong local economies– connecting residents to good jobs, affordable housing, and accessible transportation options. She has focused on urban policy for more than a decade and is considered an expert on revitalization strategies for older industrial cities.
Pat Callahan
Pat Callahan is founder and CEO of Urban Renaissance Group, a Seattle-based full-service commercial real estate company. He is a 15-year veteran of Equity Office, a Chicago-based national owner and operator of commercial real estate. There, Callahan served as a senior vice president from 2000-2006, overseeing a large region that included Seattle, Bellevue, Portland, and Denver. Pat is a former chair of ULI Seattle and the Downtown Seattle Association and now leads the Quality Growth Alliance.
Pilar Lorenzana-Campo
Pilar Lorenzana-Campo, an urban planner with Public Health Law & Policy, works on policies, regulations, and standards that support public health. Pilar researches cutting-edge planning tools and strategies, provides training to various stakeholders, and builds relationships among non-traditional partners with an eye towards environmental changes that make healthy choices possible.
Robert Cannon
Bob Cannon was born and raised in Ketchikan Alaska. He graduated from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks with a B.S. Degree in Natural Resource Management. He has worked for the University of Alaska, State of Alaska DNR and the State of Washington DNR. He has worked with the Federal Forest Legacy Program since 2000.
Jeremy Cantor, MPH
Jeremy joined Prevention Institute in July 2006. His work focuses on supporting the organization's projects in health disparities, community health, land-use and health, and health care reform; writing and editing materials; coordinating coalitions and partnerships; and consulting with government and community agencies. Jeremy holds a B.A. in psychology from Haverford College and a Masters in Public Health in Health and Social Behavior from the University of California, Berkeley.
Majora Carter
From 2001 to 2008 Ms. Carter was Executive Director of the non-profit she founded: Sustainable South Bronx – where she pioneered green-collar job training and placement systems in one of the most environmentally and economically challenged parts of the US. This MacArthur “genius” is now president of her own economic consulting firm, a co-host on Sundance Channel’s The Green, and host of a new special public radio series called, The Promised Land.
Stephen Cerny
Stephen Cerny (VA) Attorney, U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development; former neighborhood planner City of Cleveland. Related Volunteer Activities: Virginia representative to Transportation Planning Board, Reston Planning & Zoning Committee, Hunter Mill District Land Use Committee. J.D.
Ross Chapin
Ross Chapin, AIA, leads a 6-person design firm on Whidbey Island near Seattle. He has long been an advocate, designer and builder of sensibly-sized houses and vibrant neighborhoods. His “pocket neighborhood” prototypes have received national media coverage and professional peer review, and are shifting the direction of the housing industry.
James F. Charlier
James F. Charlier, AICP, is a transportation planner. His firm, Charlier Associates, Inc., provides consulting services to public and private clients throughout North America with an emphasis on the western states. Charlier is an expert in “smart mobility” and sustainable transportation systems, and teaches Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Colorado.
Don Chen
Don Chen is the former founder and outgoing executive director of Smart Growth America, departing in February 2008 to take a position with the Ford Foundation Throughout his career, Don has published numerous writings on land use, transportation, social equity and environmental policy, including "The Science of Smart Growth," which appeared in the December 2000 issue of Scientific American, and co-authoring Once There Were Greenfields, an authoritative review of the economic, environmental and social costs of sprawl. a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Yale University and a Master's Degree from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Erin Christensen
With 10 years of experience in urban design and mixed-income planning across the country, Erin serves communities responding to changing environments, resources, and economies. She promotes resilient, healthy, and equitable neighborhoods by enhancing the link between individuals and their environment.
Carole Christopher
Carole Christopher is an environmental and social activist with strong interests in sustainable food and transportation systems in her home city of Vancouver, BC. She is on the Vancouver Food Policy Council and is a board member of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation.
Sally Clark
Sally Clark joined the Seattle City Council in 2006. She is chair of the Council’s Committee on the Built Environment. Sally started her career as a print journalist. Her work experience includes Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods, the Metropolitan King County Council, Northwest Association for Housing Affordability, and Lifelong AIDS Alliance.
Scott Clark
Scott Clark is a project manager for the Local Government Commission. His work focuses on improving public health by increasing opportunities for active living through sustainable transportation and land use planning. His projects involve working with a diverse mix of stakeholders – elected officials, planning and transportation staff, developers, public health professionals, and concerned community members and advocates.
Charlotte Claybrooke
Charlotte Claybrooke is the Safe Routes to School Coordinator for the Washington State Department of Transportation. She has been with that agency since 2004. Before that time she worked for the Washington State Department of Health. She has a Masters of Science Degree from the University of Colorado.
Joyce Coffee
Joyce Coffee, LEED AP, is Director of Project Development, Policy and Research, for Chicago’s Department of Environment. She is leading Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) efforts to decrease citywide greenhouse gas emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020, including creating the Plan’s continuous improvement and adaptation strategies. She manages the City’s green leadership team, facilitating implementation of more than 400 climate-related initiatives for the Mayor’s Office. Ms. Coffee completed her Masters Degree in Urban Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she focused on innovations in municipal service delivery. She holds undergraduate degrees in Biology, Environmental Studies and Asian Studies from Tufts University. She also attended the University of Hanoi, Vietnam under a Henry Luce Fund scholarship.
Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen is founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, a nonprofit national center dedicated to improving community health and equity through effective primary prevention: systematic, comprehensive strategies to build resilience and prevent illness and injury before they occur. With an emphasis on health equity, Larry leads public health efforts on injury and violence prevention, mental health, traffic safety, and chronic disease prevention.
Nevin Cohen
Nevin Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at The New School. His teaching and research focuses on urban food policy and planning to support urban food production. He holds a Ph.D. in Planning from Rutgers University and a Masters in City Planning from Berkeley.
Stuart Cohen
Stuart Cohen is co-founder and Executive Director of TransForm, a powerful and effective voice for world-class transit and walkable communities in the Bay Area and beyond. Stuart helped conceive and launch the Great Communities Collaborative. He is also the co-founder and chair of ClimatePlan, a statewide network promoting smart land use and transportation as critical components of California's climate strategy.
Dow Constantine
Dow Constantine was sworn in as King County Executive on November 24, 2009. He has served King County for seven years, most recently as chair of the County Council and has held elected office in Washington State for 13 years. A Seattle native, Dow graduated from West Seattle High School and the University of Washington. He received University of Washington post-graduate degrees in law (1989) and urban planning (1992). As King County Executive Dow is working to make King County government more efficient and performance-based – giving citizens maximum value for each tax dollar. Dow is a member of both the Sound Transit and RTID (Regional Transportation Investment District) boards of directors.
Satya Rhodes-Conway Satya Rhodes-Conway is a senior associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, where she works on high-road policy. She has researched and written extensively about energy efficiency and renewable energy at the state and local level, focusing on implementation and equity issues. Satya also serves on Madison’s City Council.
Nate Cormier
Nate Cormier is Senior Landscape Architect at SvR. Nate has led the integrated design of over 30 urban green infrastructure projects, drawing inspiration from the allied disciplines of civil engineering and applied ecological design. A noted author and speaker, Nate is currently working on an online green infrastructure certificate program.
Joseph Cortright
Joe Cortright is President and principal economist with Impresa, a Portland consulting firm specializing in regional economic analysis, innovation and industry clusters. Joe is senior policy advisor for CEOs for Cities, a national organization of urban leaders, and is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also the chief economic analyst for the Oregon Business Plan. Joe is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College and holds a Master’s degree in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
Stephen Coyle
Stephen Coyle, AIA, LEED AP is a national leader in sustainable design and planning, is founder and principal of Town-Green (town-), and co-founder of the National Charrette Institute (NCI), a non-profit organization that trains professionals in the art and practice of facilitating collaborative planning (). He has designed resilient, compact, and walkable projects throughout the country, lectured widely on sustainable development, and published numerous articles on progressive planning. He is currently writing ‘The Resilient Community Guidebook’ for Wiley & Sons Publishers, and is the primary contributing author of the Charrette handbook.
Matthew Dalbey
Matthew Dalbey is a senior policy analyst with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Development, Community, and Environment Division. Dalbey speaks, writes about, and provides technical assistance on rural development issues. Currently he is preparing a document that outlines the rural version of smart-growth development strategies. He also works on strengthening partnerships with universities, particularly in curricula, technical assistance to communities, and college and university development practices. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary (bachelor’s degree), the University of Virginia (master’s degree in city planning), and Columbia University (doctoral degree).
Karl Dalla Rosa
Karl Dalla Rosa is currently the Forest Stewardship Program Manager for the USDA Forest Service. She attended Yale University from 1990-1992.
Andrew L. Dannenberg
Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH, is a Medical Officer in the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He oversees CDC's activities related to the health aspects of community design and the use of health impact assessment as a tool to inform decision makers outside of public health about the health impacts of proposed projects and policies.
Frank Darrah
Frank Darrah has lived in Cedar Falls for 35 years where he's been a special education teacher and school administrator. He is beginning his second 4-year term on the Cedar Falls City Council. Prior to being elected, he served for 10 years on the Cedar Falls Park and Recreation Commission and 15 years on the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Flozell Daniels, Jr.
Flozell Daniels is the President & CEO at Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. He attended Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, and University of New Orleans.
Lynn Davis Lynn Davis is a project manager with the Activate America® Healthier Communities Initiative; ACHIEVE (Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and Environmental change). This CDC-funded project seeks to empower communities to develop and implement policy, systems, and environmental change strategies that can help prevent or manage health-risk factors for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, obesity, and arthritis. Lynn earned her Master’s of Education degree from the University of Texas and her Bachelor’s of Arts degree in media studies from the University of Houston – Clear Lake.
Tim Davis Tim Davis, the Montana Smart Growth Coalition's Director, has been instrumental in the development and passage of many of the growth policies, most of the land use and planning legislation, and a wide variety of the cutting edge land use regulations adopted throughout Montana since 1999.
Benjamin De La Peña Benjamin de la Peña is Associate Director for Urban Development at The Rockefeller Foundation. Benjamin has extensive expertise in urban planning, change management, leadership development communications and innovation technologies. Benjamin has a Master's in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Communications (Journalism) from the University of the Philippines. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and his two children.
Ryan Dicks
Ryan Dicks is the Sustainability Manager for Pierce County. Ryan has worked for the King County Executive’s office, Cascade Land Conservancy, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and recently ran his own environmental consulting firm. Today Ryan is focused on bringing sustainable solutions to Pierce County Government.
Drew Digby
Drew Digby is a regional analyst for the State of Minnesota. He has a B.A. in religious studies from the University of California and a M.A. in history from the University of Chicago. He chairs Fit City Duluth’s Active Living Committee and co-chairs Duluth’s Complete Streets Task Force.
Dr. Jennifer Dill
Dr. Jennifer Dill is an associate professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University and Director of the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium. She teaches courses in transportation and planning methods. Research interests include the relationship between transportation and land use, health, and the environment, travel behavior, and transportation finance.
Darin Dinsmore
Darin Dinsmore is an innovative and award-winning urban planner and landscape architect. He has spearheaded efforts to create the first bi-state regional sustainability framework with local climate action plans, and master planned two pilot LEED-ND pilot projects. He offers over 20 years of experience in helping communities to increase their livability and prosperity, reduce their ecological footprint and improve human and ecological health.
Shaun Donovan
Shaun Donovan is the 15th U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. Secretary Donovan previously served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. During the Clinton administration he was HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing. Prior to his first service at HUD, he worked at the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) in New York City. Secretary Donovan holds a B.A. and masters degrees in Public Administration and Architecture from Harvard.
Marc Draisen
A lifelong resident of the Boston region, Marc Draisen brings public policy, housing, and economic development experience to the position of Executive Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC). Mr. Draisen served two terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he represented neighborhoods in Boston and Brookline. He also worked for eight years as President and CEO of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC), the trade association for 70 non-profit community-based developers.
Pat Dugan
Pat Dugan has over 38 years of experience in community development and finance in local government in Washington, Oregon and California; serving as Finance Director of three cities, chief finance officer in two county organizations, and Planning Director in two regional planning agencies and in two suburban cities.
Gene Duvernoy
Gene Duvernoy is President of the Cascade Land Conservancy. Under his leadership, the Conservancy has risen to national prominence developing bold and innovative conservation strategies. He serves on a variety of boards including the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute and the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition. In 2008, he was named the first Nonprofit CEO of the Year by CEO Magazine.
Chad Edison
Mr. Edison has more than 12 years of experience in financial analysis, modeling and planning related to intercity rail and urban transportation. He frequently leads financial analysis of Amtrak’s passenger routes and supports strategic business decisions, and is actively involved in high-speed rail and light rail projects.
Ronald J. English
Mr. English has over 30 years of experience representing public agencies and private parties. His practice focuses on contract law, particularly construction matters, real property, and environmental matters. He is currently president of Washington Council of School Attorneys and past Chair of the Construction Section of Washington State Bar Association.
Randy Engstrom
Randy Engstrom has been a passionate advocate and organizer for arts and community development for over 10 years. He is currently the Interim Director of the King County Food and Fitness Initiative. He also currently co-chairs the Seattle Arts Commission, and chairs the Commission’s the Facilities and Economic Development Committee.
Mark J. Eppli
Mark J. Eppli is Professor of Finance and Robert B. Bell, Sr., Chair in Real Estate at Marquette University where he teaches courses in real estate development, real estate finance, and financial management to graduate and undergraduate students. Professor Eppli is widely published in a range of commercial real estate topics and is coauthor of Real Estate Development: Principles and Process and Valuing the New Urbanism, both published by the Urban Land Institute.
Tanyalee Erwin
Tanyalee Erwin is Research Associate Faculty at WSU Puyallup. Her focus is on creating and building programs for urban sustainable communities. A member of the leadership team for the City of Puyallup/WSU Stormwater LID project, she also heads the creation of wetlands educational and salmon restoration projects at the campus.
Todd Fagen
Todd Fagen is a Vice President at Sam Schwartz Engineering (SSE). Todd Fagen is a transportation planner specializing in private sector land use development and public sector community planning. Mr. Fagen has worked nationally in a variety of urban and suburban contexts. SSE is a nationally-known transportation company based in New York City.
Abe Farkas
Abe Farkas is the development services director with ECONorthwest. Farkas has nearly three decades of experience in structuring successful public-private partnerships that have improved urban neighborhoods, business districts, and university environments. Several mixed-use, public-private partnerships projects, which Farkas helped structure, have been transit-oriented developments, achieved LEED certification for sustainability, and were recipients of regional or national awards.
Eric Feldman
Eric Feldman, AICP, is an Associate at Rhodeside & Harwell, where his work focuses on land use planning and urban design, neighborhood revitalization, transit-oriented development, and environmental impact analysis. He joined the firm in 2004 after working on national efforts to promote smart growth and healthy communities. Eric holds a Master in City Planning degree from MIT.
Pamela Fendt
Economic Justice Program Coordinator
Pamela Fendt was a founding member of Milwaukee’s Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods Coalition. GJLN is a community, faith, and labor coalition created in 2003 to organize for responsible economic development policies. GJLN members staged two successful campaigns: the Park East Redevelopment Compact (PERC) and the Milwaukee Opportunities for Restoring Employment (MORE) ordinance. Pam has received a number of awards for her work in the community, including the 2004 Scott Greer Award for Postgraduate Contribution to Urban Affairs by the UW Milwaukee Urban Studies Program, and the MATC Apprenticeship Program Distinguished Service Award in 2009.
Geoffrey Ferrell
Geoffrey Ferrell is a founding member of the Form-Based Codes Institute and has spoken on the subject in numerous forums, including national conferences such as the American Planning Association, the Congress for the New Urbanism, EPA Growing Smart, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, as well as locally for the Washington Regional Network, and the EPA Smart Growth Speaker series in Washington, D.C.
Deeohn Ferris
Deeohn Ferris is President of the Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc. a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to metropolitan sustainability, environmental health, smart growth and regional equity. Ferris is an attorney whose interdisciplinary career spans government, industry and public interest. She directed compliance and enforcement activities at U.S. EPA; served as counsel to the American Insurance Association; and was the first senior African American environmental policy director at the National Wildlife Federation. She led the national campaign that resulted in the 1994 Presidential Executive Order on Environmental Justice and the EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Adrian Scott Fine
As Director of the Center for State and Local Policy for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Adrian Scott Fine directs the organization’s outreach, advocacy, research and overall response on key policy issues affecting historic preservation. The National Trust provides the leadership to assist and proactively address key policy issues and develop innovative solutions to assist local and statewide preservation efforts.
Karen Firehock
Karen Firehock is Director of the Green Infrastructure Center. She lectures at the University of Virginia and was a Senior Associate at UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation. Previously, she was the Director of the Save Our Streams program at the Izaak Walton League of America. She has a Master of Planning from UVA.
Kevin A. Fletcher
Dr. Kevin A. Fletcher serves as Executive Director for Audubon International, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) environmental organization focusing on environmental education, sustainable development, sustainable resource management, and sustainable community engagement.
John Floberg
John joined CLC as Stewardship VP in September 2006. Prior to CLC he worked for The Nature Conservancy in conservation planning and stewardship. John has also worked for North Cascades National Park as a wildlife biologist, and a field biologist in the Channel Islands of California. In addition to his conservation experience and education, including a graduate degree from University of Vermont’s Field Naturalist Program, John has an MBA in marketing and has enjoyed experiences in advertising and internet media. He also loves to camp in the wilderness, wander the mountains and paddle the sea.
Naomi Friedman
Naomi brings considerable experience in environmental and urban policy and planning to the National Association of Regional Councils – which represents multi-jurisdictional planning organizations. Naomi served as the Assistant Executive Director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, where she co-launched a regional climate change initiative and sustainability effort. At the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, she started one of the nation’s first programs to link urban planning with energy and climate change.
Nadine Fogarty
Nadine Fogarty is a Principal at Strategic Economics, an urban economics consulting firm based in Berkeley, California. She has over ten years of consulting experience, and specializes in implementation strategies to support transit-oriented development (TOD). She is the primary author of Capturing the Value of Transit, a 2008 report prepared for the Federal Transit Administration.
Radhika K. Fox
Radhika K. Fox, Federal Policy Director, coordinates the organization’s federal legislative agenda. She works with Congress, the Administration, key federal agencies, and partner organizations to ensure the voices of low-income people and communities of color are central to policy debates in Washington, DC. Fox previously worked on promoting equitable affordable housing strategies and bringing shared prosperity to the nation’s older industrial cities. Fox has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and masters’ degree in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a HUD Community Development Fellow.
Andy Frazier
Andy Fraizer is the Executive Director of the Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED). IACED is dedicated to serving those who build strong Indiana communities. Mr. Fraizer leads IACED’s public policy work on state and federal issues working with policy consultants, local and state officials, members of the General Assembly, and other partners. Before joining IACED, Fraizer was director of community development for the city of Indianapolis. His focus was working with local government agencies and community partners to enhance local quality of life and promote a holistic approach to community development.
Lawrence D. Frank
Lawrence D. Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA is the Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality, and health.
John W. Frece
John W. Frece is director of the Smart Growth Program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The program provides direct policy assistance to states, technical assistance to local governments, conducts research on smart growth policies and strategies, and oversees both the national Smart Growth Achievement Awards and the annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference.
John Fregonese
As president of Fregonese Associates, John Fregonese operates a full service planning firm that specializes in visioning, comprehensive and small area planning, implementation strategies, and public involvement strategies. Fregonese has been a planner for 30 years and is known for creating energizing visions for communities and developing concrete, workable solutions to urban problems.
Steven Frisch
Steven Frisch is the President of the Sierra Business Council, an 800 –member regional business organization dedicated to the advancement and implementation of sustainable business practices, smart community design, landscape level conservation and collaborative leadership in the Sierra Nevada.
David D. Fukuzawa
David D. Fukuzawa, M.Div, MSA is Program Director for The Kresge Foundation, an independent, private grant making organization. David directs the Health Program area, which seeks to reduce or eliminate health disparities through addressing inequities in the social and physical environments of vulnerable populations and improving access to quality health care.
Gen Fujioka
Gen Fujioka joined the National CAPACD team in September 2008, where he served as the interim California Advocacy Coordinator of the California Coalition of National CAPACD. He worked to develop our community-based strategy with local members and national staff to address the deepening foreclosure crisis and to serve disadvantaged communities. He later transitioned as the Senior Policy Analyst providing key insight into federal policies impacting economic and community development. A veteran attorney and community activist, Gen brings with him over twenty-five years of experience representing minority and low income communities with an emphasis on federal, state, and local housing and civil rights issues.
William Fulton
William Fulton, DC&E Principal, specializes in urban planning, metropolitan growth trends, economic development, TDR and policy projects with a focus on government and land conservation. He is a best-selling author, Ventura's Deputy Mayor, and a Senior Scholar at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California."
Brooke Furio
Brooke Furio is an Analyst with U.S. EPA Region 5’s Superfund Division/Land Revitalization. He is developing an urban agenda forMidwest local units of government on the overlapping polices of climate change, energy, transportation, infrastructure, real estate, water infrastructure, code enforcement, brownfields, superfund, and otherprograms that impact sustainable development.
Ronald S. Gaines
Ronald S. Gaines, Director of Developmental Services for the City of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a graduate of Iowa State University where he earned a B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering. As Director he oversees the Engineering, Building, Planning and Zoning, and Community Services Divisions and plays a vital role in the growth and development of the community.
Tim Gallagher
Timothy Gallagher is the superintendent of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department. Gallagher formerly directed Los Angeles County’s Department of Park and Recreation, overseeing a parks system with regional and neighborhood parks, 19 golf courses, arts and entertainment facilities, and community centers. Gallagher has led parks and recreation departments in California for the city of Yreka, San Luis Obispo County, the city of Stockton and Los Angeles County. Before that he was a sports editor for the Pioneer Press, and a naturalist for California State Parks and the National Parks Service.
Nathan S. Gaspard
Nathan S. Gaspard, AICP serves as director of planning for Moore Planning Group, LLC. Mr. Gaspard has thirty years of experience facilitating and coordinating research and tasking multiple federal, state and local agencies and groups. Nathan graduated from Louisiana State University in Landscape Architecture and is an AICP Certified Planner.
Richard Gelb
Richard Gelb is the performance management lead for King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks. He helps guide resource allocation and tracks outcomes across a range of program areas including parks, wastewater, solid waste, flood protection, resource conservation, and climate response.
Steve Gelb
Steve Gelb, Sustainable Works, Executive Director has over 20 years of Strategic Planning and Business Development leadership with growth-oriented, industry-leading companies. Steve worked to develop the Sustainable Works community-based energy efficiency retrofit model and led a successful effort to secure ARRA grants for start-up and financing programs. He now oversees all strategy, planning and management of Sustainable Works, which provides energy retrofits to residential and small commercial buildings. He also develops agreements with utilities, municipalities and community programs.
Andrew Georgiadis
Andrew Georgiadis is a project director with Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning, a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a LEED Accredited Professional. He has researched a number of topics such as converting elevated freeways into multi-way boulevards, the connection between walkable urbanism and low-carbon communities, and the creation of carbon sinks by planting native ecosystems.
Julia Gibb
Julia Gibb’s, J.D. career in local and regional government supports elected officials on legislative, planning, capital facilities and community development issues. She works for the Grays Harbor Council of Governments whose Board includes county, cities, transit, PUD, port, library and a public development authority.
Robert Gilman
Dr. Robert Gilman, former astrophysicist, founder/editor of the award-winning sustainability journal In Context, and currently Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Langley, has been doing research, writing, education, and consulting on developing sustainable communities since the early 1980s.
Marjory Givens
Marjory Givens is a Fellow with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, placed in the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Department of Health Services for her fellowship. Marjory has graduate training in environmental epidemiology from Emory University and biomedical sciences from the University of California, San Diego.
Angela Glover-Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, works to ensure that questions of equity receive the highest priority in addressing major policy issues that affect low-income communities and communities of color across the nation.
Doris Goldstein
Attorney Doris Goldstein has been closely involved with every aspect of the development of Seaside, Florida for more than 20 years. Through her ongoing experience with Seaside and many other new urban communities, she has worked to define the legal issues and best practices for sustainable mixed-use development.
James Goldstene
James Goldstene is the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board. The Board has 11 members appointed by the Governor and is responsible for California’s clean air programs and the implementation of AB 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. James oversees the development and implementation of regulations and policies adopted by the Board, manages the more than 1300 staff of the Board, and represents the ARB before the Legislature and in a wide variety of state, regional, national and international forums.
Sue Goodwin
Sue Goodwin, Recreation Director for the city of Seattle since July 2008, has been working in the Recreation field for over 20 years. As Recreation Director in Seattle, Sue has made it her focus to bring Green Living and Healthy Choices to the citizens. She has been a pioneer in introducing the Healthy Parks Healthy You program, which has taught youth to make choices with their lifestyles, eating habits, and environment that will benefit themselves, their families and their community.
Dan Gorin
Dan Gorin is a Policy Analyst with the Federal Reserve Board. He is co-principal investigator of the Federal Reserve System’s NSP Research project. This effort led to interviews and/or surveys with more than 60 NSP grant coordinators regarding planning activity, housing development capacity, and program performance.
Regina Gray
Regina Gray is a housing policy analyst in the Division of Affordable Housing Research and Technology for the Policy Development and Research office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She develops, manages, and conducts research on land use planning, growth management, and affordable housing issues. Her research interests vary widely, from urban planning, workforce investment strategies, and housing policy issues, to the broader scope of state and local politics and policy. Her work explores how state and local governments implement innovative strategies for overcoming regulatory barriers to affordable housing. Currently, Regina is investigating community
Ellen Greenberg
Ellen Greenberg, AICP is an urban planning consultant working at the complex intersection of land use, transportation, and urban design for public, private and non-profit clients. She holds Masters’ degrees from UC Berkeley in Transportation Engineering and City Planning. In 2007-2008 she is Visiting Practitioner at the UC Davis Sustainable Transportation Center.
Scott Greenberg
Scott Greenberg, AICP is Community Development Director for the City of Burien, Washington. Since 1999, he has overseen Burien’s transformation from a 1950’s first-tier suburb to an emerging transit-friendly mixed-use center. Scott is also President of the Washington Chapter of the American Planning Association.
Adrienne Greve
Adrienne Greve is an Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning Department at Cal Poly. Currently, she is working with cities, counties, and the State of California on local climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Darren Greve
Darren Greve is Manager of King County’s Transfer of Development Rights Program. In just the last two years he has expanded the market in development rights in new and innovative ways to achieve over 50,000 acres of land protection. Darren holds an M.A. in Environmental Economics & Policy (2005) from the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Chemistry from the Colorado College (1997).
William Grimes
Mr. Grimes has 20 years of project management experience in both public and private sectors. Before founding Studio Cascade, he directed the planning division of a large Southern California planning and engineering firm, specializing in the management of interdisciplinary policy development and physical planning projects. In the course of his experience, he has delivered over 400 public presentations to technical committees, design review boards, planning commissions, chambers of commerce, public service organizations, city councils, county commissioners and boards of directors. Mr. Grimes is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning and has won several awards for his achievements.
Debra Guenther
Deb Guenther is a principal and landscape architect at Mithun. Her work seeks to link the functions of nature with the urban environment. She works to integrate the function and beauty of natural systems into habitable places, showcasing her innate perception of the relationship between people and their surroundings. Deb is nationally recognized for her practice in sustainable landscape architecture and currently serves as an American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) representative on the steering committee for the Sustainable Sites Initiative, a national site rating tool, linking ecosystem services with social and economic value.
Abby Hall
Abby Hall is a policy analyst with EPA's Development, Community and Environment Division. After working in EPA's Office of Water on the intersection between land use and water quality, Abby now continues to work on green infrastructure, along with forging partnerships with state, regional and federal partners to better assist local communities hoping to implement smart growth approaches.
Laura Hall
Laura Hall is a founding principal of Hall Alminana, Director of the Smart Growth School, and co-author of one of the first SmartCodes in the U.S. in Petaluma, California. Her San Francisco firm provides SmartCode planning and design services for neighborhoods, cities and regions as they transition to pedestrian-based plans and codes.
Karla Hampton
Karla Hampton is an attorney with the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), focusing on policies that increase advocates, policymakers, and communities’ capacity to provide healthy eating and active living opportunities for children. She is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Glenn Harris
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Greta Harris
Greta has been involved in the community development industry for two decades. She completed her education at Virginia Tech and Columbia University with degrees in architecture and began building a diverse career in NY, NJ, PA and VA. She joined LISC in 1997 and oversees offices in five states and DC.
Alan Hart
Alan Hart, ASLA is the Director of Community Development for the City of Ridgeland, Mississippi. Mr. Hart manages the Codes and Enforcement Division, Permits and Inspection Division, Planning and Zoning Division, and Economic Development Division. Alan graduated Cum Laude from Mississippi State in Landscape Architecture.
Lafe Haugen
Lafe Haugen is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. He is the Executive Director for the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority located in Lame Deer, Montana. He has been working in Indian Housing for the last 18 years and has been the Executive Director for the last 5 years.
George S. Hawkins
George S. Hawkins is General Manager of the DC Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA), which operates the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant. Prior to joining DC WASA, George served for 2-1/2 years as the director of the District Department of the Environment. DDOE performs city, county and state environmental functions for the nation's capital.
Lisa Heinzerling
Lisa Heinzerling is the Associate Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation. She has served as a law professor at Georgetown University since 1993. She is lead author of the winning briefs for petitioners in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
Bridget Hennessey
Bridget Hennessey currently runs the Advocacy Associates's California office. She joined the firm in February 2006 and brings with her a broad array of experience in social welfare policy, community development policy and legislative strategy. At Advocacy Associates, Bridget works directly with clients to plan, strategize and implement their legislative agendas. Bridget Hennessey holds an M.P.P., with a concentration in Welfare Policy, from the George Washington University and a B.A. from Fairfield University.
Clark Henry
Clark Henry holds a B.A. in Community Development and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree. He manages the City of Portland Brownfield Program working toward mutual gains of environmental and community health, economic development, housing, and green space. Favorite projects include those that are community driven and owned.
Daniel Hernandez
Daniel Hernandez, Director of the Jonathan Rose Companies Planning Practice, has over 20 years of experience as a real estate developer and planner. Mr. Hernandez’s work spans the regional, city, town and neighborhood scales, and includes smart growth and infill projects, transit-oriented development, neighborhood revitalization programs, redevelopment and land use plans, economic analysis, and waterfront and open space plans. He teaches at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Pratt Institute, and is a frequent critic for urban design courses at major universities around the country. Mr. Hernandez completed his studies in architecture at the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Yianice Hernandez
As Senior Program Director of Green Communities, Yianice Hernandez manages Enterprise's evaluation efforts to assess the costs and benefits of green affordable housing. She previously worked for one of the largest supportive housing development organizations in NYC. Yianice has a master's degree in nonprofit administration from the University of Notre Dame.
David Hiller
David Hiller joined Cascade Bicycle Club in 2003. Since his arrival, the Club has grown into the largest non-motorized policy, advocacy and education organization in North America. Leading numerous successful projects and campaigns, Mr. Hiller established Cascade as a regional force. David was nominated for a Political Genius award by The Stranger newspaper in 2007.
Alex Hinds
Alex Hinds directs Sonoma State University's Center for Sustainable Communities. The Center works with experienced volunteers, and Environmental Studies and Planning faculty and students - assisting local governments in the development of sustainable community strategies. Previously, Alex directed community development agencies in California for 24 years, was a founding members of Green Cities, California, and a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador.
Curtis Hinman
Curtis Hinman is Professor with WSU Extension. He is author of the “Low Impact Development Technical Guidance Manual for Puget Sound” and Co-Director of the City of Puyallup/WSU Stormwater LID project. He is researching, designing and monitoring LID strategies, serving on advisory committees that develop regional stormwater management policy.
Kimberley Hodgson
Kimberley Hodgson is the Manager of the Planning & Community Health Research Center at the American Planning Association, where she works closely with a network of planning, health, and food policy researchers and organizations in the development of healthy, sustainable communities. She has a background in sustainability planning, public health nutrition and food policy. She is also a Registered Dietitian.
Jemae Hoffman
Jemae Hoffman is the Lead for Sustainable Transportation and Climate Change in the Seattle Department of Transportation. She prioritizes transportation investments to reduce reliance on the auto and encourages sustainable materials and construction practices. Previously, Ms. Hoffman was Seattle’s Mobility Manager, working on issues such as pricing and transit reliability.
Robin Holzer
Robin Holzer is a former business consultant turned civic leader in Houston, Texas. She earned her MBA from Rice University. Robin chairs the board of the Citizens' Transportation Coalition (CTC), an all-volunteer advocacy nonprofit, committed to engaging neighborhoods in the planning of transportation projects that affect quality of life.
Shane Hope
Shane Hope is the Community and Economic Development Director for Mountlake Terrace, Washington. She has helped her city develop an award-winning Housing Choices Program. Her prior work includes heading up Washington State’s Growth Management program. Shane holds a master’s degree and urban design certificate from the University of Washington.
Charlie Howard Charlie Howard is the Transportation Planning Director for the Puget Sound Regional Council, a position that he has held since February 2005. Charlie has been involved in state and regional transportation issues for the past 28 years, including an active role in developing and implementing the state’s growth management act.
John Houseal
John Houseal, AICP, is the Principal for Houseal Lavigne Associates (HLA) John is a dynamic, nationally-recognized leader whose firm, Houseal-Lavigne Associates has achieved significant recognition for innovations in planning and community outreach. Houseal Lavigne Associates is a professional consulting firm specializing in all aspects of community planning, economic development, and urban design. HLA’s commitment is to improve the relationship between people and their environment through creative, visionary, and viable planning, design, and development solutions. John has directed several complex assignments in several states and is a featured speaker at local, state, and national conferences relating to planning, transportation, and the environment.
Michael Hubner
Michael Hubner AICP has worked for the past decade with jurisdictions throughout the Seattle metropolitan area on policies, tools, and the review and evaluation of state-mandated growth management programs. Recently, Michael has led efforts toward coordinated implementation of Vision 2040 by King County and its 39 cities.
Deb Hubsmith
Deb Hubsmith is the director of the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) National Partnership, a growing coalition of more than 400 diverse organizations. She has worked on SRTS program implementation and legislative development for more than 10 years, and was instrumental in securing the $612 million in federal SRTS funds.
Jan Hudson
Jan Hudson, Chair of the Redlands Climate Action Task Force, is a Director with the Inland Empire Labor Management Cooperation Committee representing electrical contractors in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Jan has provided leadership in the expansion of education and training programs in the fields of alternative energy sources and green building for electrical contractors and for the development of workforce in these areas.
Peter Huffman
Peter Huffman has been the manager of Tacoma’s Planning Division for nearly nine years. Peter has held a leadership role in numerous planning projects including the update to the City zoning code, the development of the City’s critical area ordinance, development of a new downtown plan and most recently a complete overhaul of the City’s mixed use center zoning regulations.
Dat Hutch
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Amy Inman
Amy Inman, M.S. has more than 10 years of experience in directing large-scale, multi-
model, transportation planning projects. Leading Virginia’s Statewide Transit Planning
Program, she has established the protocol for linking transit and passenger rail with land-
use and multi-modal connectivity. Amy is actively pursuing the development of
Statewide Multi-Modal and Public Space Design Guidelines.
Congressman Jay Inslee
A Puget Sound native, US Representative Jay Inslee has represented the 1st Congressional District since 1999, where he has worked to protect the environment of Washington state and address the problem of global warming. He fought to restore protections for roadless areas in national forests and led a successful campaign in the House to keep limits on oil-tanker traffic in Puget Sound. Since 2005, Inslee has used his seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to promote his vision for a clean energy future, the New Apollo Energy Act, and advance other legislation that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2007, he was appointed to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Seema Iyer
Dr. Iyer received her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan in 2003 with an expertise in comprehensive planning in international contexts.She taught quantitative methods and international planning at the University of Pennsylvania until she assumed the position of Division Chief with Baltimore City's Department of Planning in October 2005.
Mary Jane Jagodzinski
Mary is the Community Housing Works project leader for SOLARA, nationally recognized sustainable multifamily development and 2008 ULI Award of Excellence; Headed national developer’s commercial real estate group; VP of national engineering/environmental firm; Senior executive/legislative posts State of California. She holds an M.B.A. Harvard Business School; B.A. CSU, Sacramento. Member: California Energy Commission’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (NSHP); USGBC; ULI; and, Build It Green (BIG) Certified Green Building Professional.
Steven N. Jensen
Steven N. Jensen, RLA, AICP the Omaha City Planning Director from June of 2005 until his retirement in August of 2009, was responsible for overseeing the City’s long-range planning, zoning and subdivision administration, annexation, capital improvement programming, housing and community development activities, economic development, code enforcement, permitting and inspection activities. He is now a Planning and Urban Design Consultant. He received a BS in Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University.
Terry Johnson
Terry Johnson directs HEAL New Hampshire, a statewide initiative to create healthy eating and active living environments for all residents. Mr. Johnson is employed by the Foundation for Healthy Communities and has spent 22 years creating health promotion environments in municipal, worksite, and health care settings.
Julia Lave Johnston
Julia Lave Johnston is a Deputy Director for Planning Policy in the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR). She focuses on land use policy and is currently involved in the state's Blueprint Planning Program, climate change activities, and updating OPR's General Plan Guidelines. Julia is the acting coordinator of the Strategic Growth Council. Julia is the Section Director of the Sacramento Valley Section, California Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) and serves on the California State APA Board.
Paul Joice
Paul Joice works in HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research. He is a former Presidential Management Fellow, and assisted with planning and implementing the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Current responsibilities include managing HUD datasets and overseeing evaluations of HUD programs.
Badili Jones
Badili Jones joined the MWC staff in 2008, as Leadership and Development Coordinator and is currently the Policy and Alliance Associate. He oversees leadership development and training programs at all levels within the organization. He also works on developing policy and coalition building for the Workers Center. Born in Orange, New Jersey, he has worked within the labor, gay rights and black liberation movements throughout his life. Within the labor movement he worked as an organizer with UNITE and more recently as a service specialist and administrative hearing officer for the Georgia Department of Labor. He is a founding member of In the Life Atlanta, the largest Black LGBTQ pride celebration in the United States.
Stephanie J. Jones
Stephanie J. Jones is Executive Director of the National Urban League Policy Institute and Editor-in-Chief of The State of Black America and Opportunity Journal magazine. She was Chief Counsel to Senator John Edwards, Chief of Staff to Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and Secretary’s Regional Representative in the U.S. Department of Education. Ms. Jones was a law professor at Northern Kentucky University and practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Jones earned her B.A. from Smith College and her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Meredith Judy
Meredith Judy, AICP, LEED-AP is a planner with 8 years of experience promoting livable communities through integration of urban and suburban land uses with appropriate public transit services, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and auto accommodations. Ms. Judy’s work emphasizes transit-oriented development, pedestrian scale design, parking and transit integration, and growth management policy.
Shyam Kannan
Shyam joined RCLCO after graduating from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Design School. In addition to directing much of the firm’s urban revitalization engagements as directing the firm’s green and sustainable development practice, he leads RCLCO's research endeavors surrounding green and sustainable development as well as changing consumer preferences for residential development. His research forms the foundation of sustainable development initiatives in both the public and private sectors nationwide, and has been featured in the LA Times, Money Magazine, and Builder Magazine.
Ken Katahira
Ken Katahira, Development Director with InterIm Community Development Association, has been involved with low income housing development and community development work for over 30 years, including the last 21 years with InterIm CDA, seven as Executive Director, where he has been responsible for InterIm’s real estate development projects, and has been involved with housing and community development public policy advocacy and neighborhood planning.
Gadi Kaufmann
Gadi Kaufmann is a Managing Director and CEO of RCLCO (Robert Charles Lesser & Co.), a premier end-to-end solution provider in the real estate sector around the world. He specializes in economic consulting for real estate projects and portfolios; in corporate strategy planning and management consulting at the enterprise level; in transactional and negotiation services; and in financing and capital formation strategy formulation and implementation.
Supervisor Paul Kelley
Supervisor Kelley is the Chair of the Board of Supervisors for 2009 and Board liaison to General Administrative Services. His current term started on January 1, 2007. Mr. Kelley began his professional career as an operations manager in a small chemical company. He spent a year working for Robert Young Vineyards (Alexander Valley) in the office as well as in the vineyard. Utilizing his degree in computer science, Mr. Kelley became a computer programmer and systems installer. He worked for several software firms, including Standard Structures (where he brought a new computer system online) and KLH Consulting (a small computer company based in Santa Rosa). Supervisor Kelley was born and raised in Sonoma County. He grew up just west of Santa Rosa on Olivet Road. He attended local schools, graduating from Piner High and Santa Rosa Junior College. Paul graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in computer science and a minor in history.
Daniel T. Kildee
Daniel T. Kildee has been Genesee County Treasurer since 1997. Before his election as Treasurer, Mr. Kildee served for 12 years as a Genesee County Commissioner, including 5 years as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners. In 2005 he completed a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellowship at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Dan Kildee is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Vacant Properties Campaign.
Roger Kim
Roger Kim is the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN). APEN organizes and builds the leadership of Asian immigrant and refugee communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN has developed powerful community organizing projects in the Laotian refugee community in Richmond and the Chinese immigrant community in Oakland, CA.
Peter J. Kindel
Peter J. Kindel, AIA ASLA, is the Director of Urban Design at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP (AS+GG). Mr. Kindel is an Chicago-based architect committed to the practice of sustainable urbanism. Recently, the AS+GG developed the groundbreaking Chicago Decarbonization Plan to reduce CO2 emissions in the Chicago Loop.
Dave Koch
Terracon’s Brownfields Sector Leader providing Brownfields and redevelopment expertise throughout 110+ offices. 31 years environmental experience includes being an early Brownfields pioneer and practitioner. A former Renewable Energy Sector Leader, Dave combines sustainable practices with Brownfields restoration in finding balanced business and economic development decisions by “consulting beyond the chemistry”.
Lynn Kohn
Lynn Kohn is a Project Manager for the Community Development Block Grant Program for the State of Washington, and a specialist in Capital Facilities Planning. She has over 25 years experience in planning.
Grey Kolevzon
Grey Kolevzon is a co-founder and co-director of Cycles of Change, a non-profit whose mission and activities are to build healthy and sustainable communities in East Bay urban neighborhoods. Since 1998, Cycles’ no-cost programs have inspired and enabled over 15,000 youth and adults to use bikes as primary transportation, grow organic food, and help create green businesses.
Natalia Komar
Ms. Komar is a project manager and analyst with CTG working on green building and sustainable design projects ranging in scale from the individual buildings to whole communities. Ms. Komar quantifies greenhouse gas emissions and develop innovative emissions reduction strategies and mitigation measures for communities and complex land use projects.
Janice Kong
Janice Kong worked as the Chinese Planning Outreach Liasion during the 2009 neighborhood Plan Update process in three neighborhoods of Southeast Seattle. In close partnership with the Seattle Neighborhood Group,, subcontractor, and City departments, Janice conducted outreach, facilitated language & culture based workshops, and provided translation and transportation services to the historically underrepresented Chinese communities.
Doris W. Koo
Doris W. Koo, a nationally respected leader with nearly 30 years of experience in affordable housing and community development, is president and chief executive officer of Enterprise Community Partners. Koo also serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Enterprise Community Loan Fund and as a member of the Board of Trustees of Enterprise Community Partners and the Board of Directors of Enterprise Community Investment.
Chuck Kooshian
Chuck Kooshian, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst at the Center for Clean Air Policy has more than twenty years experience in transportation and land use planning for regional and local government. At CCAP he evaluates national, state and local transportation policy alternatives and their effects on GHG emissions, governmental planning processes and institutional coordination issues. Mr. Kooshian works with state, regional and local governments and NGOs to assess the impacts of potential climate policy proposals on practitioners and the public.
William Kreager
William Kreager, MIRM, FAIA, LEED, a principal at Mithun, has led the firm’s urban housing and planning teams to national prominence in the housing industry. Focusing on the integration of sustainable site planning and building design, his market-oriented work runs the spectrum from small, contextual infill development to large master-planned and resort communities. His passion for affordable and workforce housing is reflected in the successful completion of communities for housing authorities, non-profit and for-profit developers across the nation.
Matt Kuharic
Matt Kuharic is the program manager of climate change response initiatives in King County, Washington’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks. His work focuses on greenhouse gas emissions reduction and carbon sequestration projects as well as efforts to help County government and citizens prepare for the inevitable impacts of climate change.
Renee Kuhlman
Renee Kuhlman directs the Helping Johnny Walk to School: Sustaining Communities through Smart Policy project, a program of the Center for State and Local Policy at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the program provides grants, technical assistance, and educational materials to encourage community-centered schools.
Diane Kushlan
Diane Kushlan, AICP is the sole proprietor of Planning and Management Services. In addition to her planning practice, Diane is an adjunct professor at Boise State University and serves as the Coordinator for the Idaho District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
Dave Laclergue
Trained as a landscape architect, Dave has worked for the Seattle Department of Planning and Development since 2007 as a planner and urban designer. Dave works on green infrastructure, with a focus on landscaping standards (including the Seattle Green Factor), open space, storm water management, and shoreline restoration.
Ray LaHood
Ray LaHood became the 16th Secretary of Transportation on January 23, 2009. Before becoming Secretary of Transportation, LaHood served for 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th District of Illinois (from 1995-2009). Prior to his election to the House, he served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Congressman Robert Michel, whom he succeeded in representing the 18th District, and as District Administrative Assistant to Congressman Thomas Railsback. He also served in the Illinois State Legislature. Before his career in government, Secretary LaHood was a junior high school teacher, having received his degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He was also director of the Rock Island County Youth Services Bureau and Chief planner for the Bi-States Metropolitan Planning
Jason Lally
Jason Lally is Director of Planning Technology at PlaceMatters, a Denver-based non-profit. PlaceMatters’ mission is to apply innovative decision-making tools and methods to the creation and maintenance of sustainable and vibrant communities. Jason adapts, develops and implements emerging tools to engage more people in planning processes to reach desirable outcomes.
Teressa Lange
Teressa A. Lange began with the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe in 2002 as the Tribal Accountant. She moved to the Housing Authority as the Accountant and Associate Director and has been the Executive Director for the last two and one half years.
Carol Landsman
Carol Landsman, AICP, Principal, Landsman Transportation Planning, has more than 25 years' experience. She focuses on working with small cities and rural areas to develop multi-modal transportation plans, integrate transportation and land use and stenghten communities. Before becoming a consultant she was the long range planner in Tigard, Oregon and Burlington, Vermont and a transportation planner for the Burlington VT area MPO.
Stephane Larocque
Mr. Larocque is the lead developer for HDR’s Sustainable Return on Investment (SROI) process, which emphasizes environmental and social benefits such as reduced emissions and improved health and safety. He has more than a decade of experience in applied finance and economics in both the private and public sectors, complemented with an MBA‐Finance. As HDR’s SROI Practice Group Leader, Stephane has successfully managed teams performing SROI studies for clients throughout North America including for example: the US Army, John’s Hopkins University, BSNF and UP Railroads, the City of Boston and the State of California.
Christopher B. Leinberger
Christopher B. Leinberger, a land use strategist and developer, combines an understanding of business realities with a concern for our nation's social and environmental issues. Currently, Mr. Leinberger is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Additionally, he president of Locus; Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, which advocates for the upcoming transportation, climate change and energy bills before Congress.
Anthony Leonard
Tony Leonard has worked at the Local Government Commission since 1996 and currently serves as a project manager. Recently, he has been focusing on community planning projects throughout California, with a particular emphasis on conducting outreach to lower income and minority communities.
Jennifer Leonard
Jennifer Leonard is the National Vacant Properties Campaign Director at Smart Growth America. In this position she coordinates the Campaign’s activities including technical assistance, publication and dissemination of model practices and strategies for reclamation, expanding a nationwide network of practitioners and experts, and communications efforts through e-newsletters and the Campaign web site. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona and a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Matt Lerner Matt Lerner is CTO of Front Seat, makers of Walk Score. Prior to Front Seat, Matt worked for Microsoft managing the core UI components for Windows. Prior to Microsoft, Matt was co-founder and CTO of EQuill, a Web development software company he sold to Microsoft. Matt is a board member of Fuse Washington and a trustee of the Sightline Institute.
Cara Letofsky Cara Letofsky is a Policy Aide to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, where she has covered environmental sustainability, housing and community development issues since 2006. She currently helps lead Homegrown Minneapolis, the City’s initiative to increase the growth, consumption and distribution of healthy and sustainably-produced foods in Minneapolis.
Adi Liberman
Adi Liberman is the Principal and Founder of ALA. Prior to starting his own firm in 2006, Mr. Liberman was Executive Vice President and led the Public Affairs & Issues Management practice at the Edelman Public Relations Worldwide Los Angeles office. Mr. Liberman has more than two decades of experience providing high-level strategic counsel on environmental issues to corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies. He has worked for the U.S. Department of Energy, the California State Legislature, the Los Angeles City Council, private sector corporations and non-governmental advocacy organizations. He has directed successful programs for corporate recycling in Los Angeles County and water conservation and recycling in the City of Los Angeles.
Thomas Liptan
Tom is a registered Landscape Architect and Senior Environmental Specialist with the City of Portland, OR, Bureau of Environmental Services. He manages the Portland Ecoroof Program and is a member of the City’s Sustainable Stormwater Team. He also sits on the Sustainable Sites Initiative Hydrology Committee, was recently co-chair of the 2008 International LID Conference and is a board member of the Urban Greenspaces Institute.
Matthew Lister
Matthew Lister works with Jonathan Rose Companies’ to provide public and private sector clients with socially, environmentally, and economically responsible strategies needed to fulfill their real estate development, land use and climate change goals. Mr. Lister holds an MS in Real Estate Development from M.I.T., and Masters of Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Miami.
Jeremy Liu
Jeremy Liu, executive director of East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) is a community development advocate, urban planner and artist with a passion for civic, social, cultural and political entrepreneurship. He combines his interests, training and experiences in art, environmental science, community organizing, and urban development to create innovative community development.
His work has been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC Digital Media and Learning Competition, The Ford Foundation/Environmental Simulation Center, NeighborWorks America, The Center for Future Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, The Boston Foundation, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
Nora Liu
Nora Liu is a Neighborhood Planning Senior Policy Advisor, working to create an area-wide development strategy around the new light rail stations, and to coordinate the city’s numerous efforts in Southeast Seattle to ensure that it is making and leveraging investment to benefit the people who currently live and work there.
Kacey Lizon
Kacey Lizon is a senior planner for the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. She manages the agency's I-PLACE3S land use planning model and assists member governments in implementing integrated land use and transportation policies. She specializes in land use planning and modeling.
Jill K. Locantore
Jill K. Locantore, AICP, is a Planning Communications Specialist at the Denver Regional Council of Governments. Her work focuses on providing stakeholders meaningful opportunities to participate in the regional planning process. She has a masters in community planning from the University of Maryland.
Erin MacDougall
Erin MacDougall, PhD is the Healthy Eating and Active Living program manager at Public Health – Seattle & King County. She collaborates with community-based health efforts to improve the food systems and physical activity environments through policy and environmental change strategies. Erin is currently an IATP Food and Society Policy Fellow.
Jake Mackenzie
Jake Mackenzie is currently on his 14th year on the Rohnert Park City Council. He chairs the following committee: RRWA, WAC, SCTA and RCPA (translation supplied on request). He is also vice president of public policy, Local Government Commission Vice Charir, government relationships GA and Vice Vhair of the NCIRWMP. In his previously life, he was a 30-year pesticide regulator for US EPA. He currently also serves on SMART and MTC. What else does he do you might well ask? He lives happily with his wife of 20 years, Barbara. He bikes, hikes and avidly collects books, records and Hawaiian Shirts.
John MacLean
John MacLean is City Manager of Keene, NH and has worked in Michigan, Vermont, Florida, and New Hampshire. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Western Michigan University, is an ICMA Credentialed City Manager, an Adjunct Faculty of Keene State College and a graduate of the University of Virginia Senior Executive Institute.
Jeremy Madsen
Jeremy Madsen is the Executive Director of Greenbelt Alliance, leading policy and advocacy efforts to protect the Bay Area's open spaces and promote the creation of vibrant urban places. As Environment Program Initiatives Coordinator at The San Francisco Foundation from 2005 to 2008, Madsen helped to launch the Great Communities Collaborative.
Jeannie Renee-Malone
Jeannie Renné-Malone leads HDR’s National Climate and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Management Program. She is an experienced program manager with extensive background in sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy program development and direction. She advises clients on policies and technologies that reduce GHG emissions, and she also helps clients explore carbon financing options to implement projects.
Anita Maltbia
Anita Maltbia is director of the Green Impact Zone initiative. She oversees staff responsibilities for implementing and coordinating a number of different initiatives in the zone. She works with neighborhood leadership to coordinate programs and outreach in the zone, building partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders, and fiscal and program monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Michael Mann
Michael Mann is the Acting-Director of the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) where he oversees, among other initiatives, the City's efforts to meet the Kyoto Protocol in carbon reduction and to restore Seattle’s urban forest. Michael has held various positions in City and Federal government. Before joining OSE, Michael was the Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of Policy and Management where he led the finance and policy team dedicated to city infrastructure. Prior to that, Michael ran U.S. Representative Jay Inslee's District Office. He has twice served as a Commissioner for the King County Redistricting Committee, and currently sits on various local boards, including the Green Seattle Partnership, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and the Seattle Pony Baseball and Softball Board of Directors. Michael earned a Master's Degree from the University of Notre Dame in International Peace Studies, and a BA from Whitman College.
Barry Manning
Barry Manning is a senior planner with the City of Portland, Oregon. His experience includes a range of community planning projects, including town center, main street, and light rail station-area planning. He recently completed the East Portland Action Plan, a guide for improving livability in Portland’s eastern neighborhoods. Barry received a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning Studies from the University of Washington and Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Portland State University.
Camille Manning-Broome
As Director of Planning at Center for Planning Excellence, Camille Manning-Broome oversees statewide planning efforts that provide grant funding, technical assistance, and model tools to communities who wish to create and implement community-driven plans incorporating smart growth principles. She has been involved in statewide recovery planning since the 2005 hurricanes.
Lauren Marchetti
Lauren Marchetti is the director for the National Center for Safe Routes to School. Her work focuses on supporting the Safe Routes to School National Program and providing States and communities with tools and resources for creating behavioral and environmental change. She was one of the initial organizers of International Walk to School Day.
Cecil Mark Corbin
Cecil Mark Corbin is the former Vice-President of his neighborhood association, and the former Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Committee of his Community Planning Board. He devotes a lot of time to mentoring young people, he serves as a mentor through the Friends of Island Academy - a program to assist formerly incarcerated teens. Cecil has lectured on the environment and environmental justice at Hunter College, Teacher’s College, The College of Mount St. Vincent, Buffalo State, Cornell University, Yale School of Forestry, and Columbia University School of Public Health.
Cecil Mark Corbin
Mr. Cecil D. Corbin-Mark is a life-long resident of Hamilton Heights in Harlem, New York, where his family has lived for the last six decades. He is the former Vice-President of his neighborhood association, and the former Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Committee of his Community Planning Board. He devotes a lot of time to mentoring young people, he serves as a mentor through the Friends of Island Academy - a program to assist formerly incarcerated teens.
Anna Markee
Anna Markee is the Seattle Outreach Director for the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County, a non-profit association of affordable housing providers and supporting businesses. She has advocated successfully for the adoption of Inclusionary Housing policies and was instrumental in the campaign to renew the Seattle Housing Levy.
Kate Marshall
Kate Marshall is a Principal with SRA International, Inc., and leads the Sustainable Community Technical Assistance practice area. She provides strategic land use, environmental, and economic analysis to all levels of government, and specializes in managing sustainability-oriented projects that identify and address connections between land use and environmental impacts.
Diane Silva-Martinez
Diane Silva-Martinez is a prosecutor with the San Diego City Attorney’s Office and has headed its Code Enforcement Unit since 1994. She has dedicated the past 25 years to aggressively prosecuting land-use, nuisance, and health and safety violations. She works in partnership with police, community members, and inspectors to creatively address problem properties.
Brice Maryman
Brice Maryman, SvR Design Company is a landscape architect concerned with urban green infrastructure. He has published extensively, both regionally and nationally, writing about his passion for making cities that are humane, ecologically-responsive, healthy and equitable. He co-directed Open Space Seattle 2100 to "design Seattle's green network for the next century.”
Martha Matsuoka
Martha Matsuoka is an Assistant Professor in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College where she teaches courses on urban policy, environmental justice, community development, organizing, and regional economic development. She is also affiliated with the Program on Economic and Environmental Equity at USC. She facilitates the work of the Port Work Group of GREEN LA, the citywide coalition of environmental and environmental justice organizations in Los Angeles. Martha received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA, a Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley, and an A.B. from Occidental College.
Robert Matthews Robert focuses on the relationship between urban form, energy use, and climate change -- blending technology and visual communication to tell the complex story of sustainability. Current work includes master planning for university campuses, visualization of land-use change at the regional scale, and the development of tools for interactive exploration of future growth scenarios.
Miranda Maupin
Miranda Maupin manages Community Planning and Design at E² Inc., which provides redevelopment and green infrastructure planning for communities nationwide. Ms. Maupin holds a MLA and was a recipient of the “Excellence in Government” Award from Harvard Business School for the City of Seattle’s innovative Natural Drainage Program.
Jonathan Maus
Jonathan Maus is a former marketing and public relations consultant to the bike industry who started as a hobby. Over the past 4 years, the site, which offers daily news coverage of the Portland bike scene, has become his full-time job and is also one of the most well-known bike blogs in the world. Jonathan grew up in Orange County California, then moved to Santa Barbara to attend to college and moved to Portland in 2004.
Shawn McCaney
Mr. McCaney is with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia where his grant making is focused on enhancing the quality of the built environment and advancing the overall economic competitiveness of the region. Mr. McCaney is also playing a leadership role in shaping the foundation’s investments in public affairs journalism.
Brad McCrea
Brad McCrea is the Bay Design Analyst at the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. In this role, he advises the staff and the Commission on issues regarding shoreline planning and design. He holds a Master of City Planning and a Master of Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley.
Mayor Gene F. McGee
Mayor McGee is currently serving as the Mayor of the City of Ridgeland, Mississippi. He has served Ridgeland in numerous capacities since 1989. Mayor McGee graduated from East Central Community College and the Institute of Insurance Marketing Washington, D.C.
Kelly J. McGourty
Kelly McGourty is a Program Manager in the Transportation Planning Department of the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Seattle/Central Puget Sound region. She is responsible for the agency’s air quality and climate change work program, and works closely with the region’s federal, state and local air quality partner agencies. She is also responsible for the region’s Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), including the project selection process for distributing PSRC’s federal funds. Kelly has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Policy and Assessment from Western Washington University and a graduate degree in Environmental Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Robert McKay
Robert McKay is the City of Lethbridge’s “Plan Your City” manager. A graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Planning program, and a full member of the Canadian and Alberta Planner’s Institutes, Robert has over 30 years experience in community planning, development, subdivision and land development.
Mim McKenzie Mim McKenzie is the Executive Director of the Community Development Branch at the Wichita YMCA and received her bachelor’s degree from Friends University in biology/health sciences. She has been working in community development for the past 16 years with special interest in health and youth. Ms. McKenzie developed the Wichita Health & Wellness Coalition in January 2004 and serves as the Coalition Chair.
Gary McLean
Gary McLean, Puyallup City Manager, promotes LEED and LID practices throughout the community he serves. A 1989 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, McLean was in private practice before government service, working for Seattle, Des Moines, and Puyallup, including tenure on the Board for Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys.
Jme McLean
Jme McLean, MCP, MPH is a Program Associate at PolicyLink with a background in public health and urban and regional planning. She provides technical assistance, research, writing and strategic guidance to local and national partners to foster equitable, healthy communities through policy and environmental change. Ms. McLean’s projects include the implementation of Richmond, CA’s health element and Convergence Partnership field building efforts. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and UC Berkeley.
Susan McMahon Susan McMahon (MA Tufts University), senior planner with Windham Regional Commission (Vermont), where she developed transportation, brownfields, byway and low impact development programs. For her work on brownfields she received an EPA Environmental Merit Award. Her grant writing has brought in approximately $2,000,000 to revitalize historic villages in southeastern Vermont.
Therese W. McMillan
Therese W. McMillan was appointed Deputy Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration in July 2009. Therese assists Administrator Peter Rogoff in leading a staff of more than 500 in the Washington D.C. headquarters office and ten regional offices throughout the United States and manages an annual budget of approximately $10 billion.
Ms. McMillan received her B.S. degree in Environmental Policy and Planning Analysis from the University of California, Davis (1981) and a joint M.C.P./M.S. in city planning/civil engineering science (1984) from U.C. Berkeley. She is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Taxation and Finance and has served on numerous federal and statewide task forces and working groups addressing various transportation planning and funding issues, including an appointment to the National Research Council Committee for the Study of Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects.
Ed Medeiros
Ed Medeiros has been the Executive Director of the Phinney Neighborhood Association for 30 years. As ED he has facilitated the purchase and renovation of the John B. Allen elementary school to serve as the Phinney Neighborhood Center, the place where community begins. Over the years, he has sat on and chaired several boards of directors. He has worked as a consultant for cities, chambers of commerce, and various non-profits, facilitating planning processes, teaching board roles and responsibilities and various methodologies of building community.
Steve Meineke
Steve Meineke is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Raleigh America. Meineke has more than 25 years of executive experience in the sporting goods industry, including a stint as president of Specialized USA. Most recently he was president of Equus Marketing & Design in Costa Mesa, California. He has also worked as chief executive officer of Mission Hockey, president of Nordica Sportsystem North America, vice president sales and marketing for Vuarnet-France and as North American marketing manager for Salomon North America.
Kate Meis
Kate Meis has worked with the Local Government Commission since 2006. Her work has focused on the relationship between land use and climate change. She is part of a statewide partnership to support local government implementation of the California Long-term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan, which connects energy efficiency with greenhouse gas reduction. Additionally she is working in San Luis Obispo and Fresno counties to develop climate change adaptation reports. In 2008 and 2009 she organized statewide workshop series, the first on CEQA and AB 32 co-hosted by the Attorney General’s Office, and the second on SB 375 co-hosted by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and Senator Darrell Steinberg.
Mark Melnik
Mark Melnik is Deputy Director for Research at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, leading projects related to economic and demographic trends in Boston. Currently, Mark is helping lead Boston’s efforts in analyzing the economic and environmental impact of the city’s ARRA projects. Mark also is a Ph.D. candidate in Northeastern University’s Sociology Department.
Karen Mendrala
Karen Mendrala is the Senior Planner in the Office of Planning and Development for the City of Holyoke, MA. She has led major revitalization and environmental health projects, including the Canal Walk, Center City Vision Plan, and Brownfield site assessments. She is a lead convener for the Holyoke Food & Fitness Walking & Biking Strategy Team.
Ivan Miller
Ivan Miller, AICP, is a principal planner in the growth management department at the Puget Sound Regional Council. Ivan is currently managing the EPA-funded grant to develop a regional TDR program in the central Puget Sound region.
Jeffrey Miller
Jeffrey Miller is President/CEO of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, the North American coalition of state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations. Prior to heading up the Alliance, Jeff was the Executive Director of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine for nearly 12 years. He serves on the boards of America Bikes and Adventure Cycling Association. Graduating from College of the Atlantic in 1992, he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and studied bicycle use around the world.
Joe Minicozzi, AICP
Joe Minicozzi works as New Projects Director with the Public Interest Projects located in Asheville, NC. In 2008, New Life Journal featured Joe as one of "Life's Leaders" and introduced him as: "Trained in architecture and with a master’s degree in urban design, Joe has worked in everything from real estate finance to town planning. He currently works with Public Interest Projects, a real estate development firm in Asheville, but he fills up his spare time volunteering for the city and its neighborhoods. He now serves as president of CAN [Council of Asheville Neighborhoods], as well as secretary for the Asheville Downtown Association.
Aaron Miripol
Aaron Miripol is the President and CEO of the Urban Land Conservancy. Aaron has over 20 years experience running community development and affordable housing companies. He has over seen more than $100 million in economic development, including 1,250 permanently affordable homes. ULC strategically acquires and develops, land and buildings to preserve and enhance their ability to create long-term benefits in underserved communities.
Jenny Molloy
Jenny Molloy has a B.A. in Biology and an M.S. in Aquatic Biology. She has spent many years in state and federal government working in nonpoint source, stormwater, TMDL and other water quality programs. She is currently with EPA’s Office of Water working in municipal stormwater, green infrastructure and related efforts.
James A. Moore
James A. Moore is a Senior Vice President and the National Director of Community Planning & Urban Design with HDR, an international, full-service architecture, engineering, planning and consulting company. His work focuses on urban redevelopment, mixed-use pedestrian-oriented neighborhood design, and planning for sustainable urbanism.
Patrick C. Moore
Patrick C. Moore, FASLA, APA, co-owner of Moore Planning Group, LLC, has led the firm as Managing Principal since 1982. He has guided projects ranging from land use / enhancement planning for entire regions to the design of urban waterfront parks. Mr. Moore serves as consultant to commercial, institutional, and governmental clientele and he manages professional multi-discipline teams on various projects.
Terry Moore
Terry Moore, FAICP, has been a vice president and project manager at ECONorthwest, an economics and planning consulting firm, since 1979. He has managed over 500 projects in transportation and land-use planning, economic development, growth management, policy analysis, and market and feasibility analysis for private and public clients.
Emily Moos
Emily Moos, AICP is the Senior Community Development Planner at Capitol Region Council of Governments in Hartford, Connecticut. Emily has led CRCOG’s work with EPA on regional smart growth implementation and is helping CRCOG develop its Sustainable Communities Initiative. She holds a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
Karin Morris
Karin Morris is the Manager of Smart Growth at DVRPC in Philadelphia. She received her Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan, where her Masters Thesis won the national Don Schon Award for practice-based learning, and was a Knight Fellow in Community Building at the University of Miami.
Anne Vernez Moudon
Anne Vernez Moudon, Sc.D., is Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she also directs the Urban Form Lab (UFL). Dr. Moudon’s books include Public Streets for Public Use and Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems.
Steve Muench
Steve Muench is an Assistant Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a licensed professional engineer. His interests include sustainability, construction, pavements, web tools and education. Before his academic career, Steve was a transportation design engineer and a U.S. Navy submarine officer.
Nancy Natoli
Nancy Natoli is the Department of Defense coordinator for conservation and compatible land use partnerships. Previously, she worked for the Army managing natural and cultural resources programs, and environmental policy and research. Ms. Natoli has BS and Master of City Planning degrees from MIT.
Kevin Nelson
Kevin Nelson, AICP is a Senior Policy Analyst with the EPA Smart Growth Program. Kevin is the project leader for an EPA-led process to develop a model smart growth code. Drawing upon his experience identifying barriers to smart growth implementation, he works to update and revise local regulations to encourage a range of smart growth objectives.
Gretchen Nicholls
Gretchen Nicholls is a Program Officer for Twin Cities LISC, coordinating the Corridor Development Initiative (CDI), and assisting regional strategies around transit-oriented development. In 2007 the Corridor Development Initiative received the National Planning Excellence Award for a Grassroots Initiative by the American Planning Association.
Sara Nikolic
Sara Nikolic is the Co-Director of the Washington smart growth advocacy organization, Futurewise, where she oversees urban policy in the Central Puget Sound Region. She co-authored the comprehensive report Transit-Oriented Communities: A Blueprint for Washington State. Sara is a Chicago native, and served as the Ohio State Director for American Farmland Trust before moving to Seattle in 2005.
Philippa Nye
Philippa Nye is a Managing Developer at Common Ground, a nonprofit housing and community development consulting firm. For eight years she was project manager for the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, which created and operates the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. She has been in the field of nonprofit housing and community facility development for fifteen years, as well as having a background in housing advocacy and community organizing.
Reverend Vien The Nguyen
Reverend Vien The Nguyen is the pastor of Mary Queen of Viet Nam Catholic Church in eastern New Orleans, Louisiana. Pre-Katrina New Orleans East had an enclave of Vietnamese Americans, predominantly Catholics, who came to the area after the war in 1975. In the aftermath of Katrina, this quiet and under-the-radar community was forced into the front and successfully fought against the plan to turn most of New Orleans East into green space and a toxic landfill in the midst of recovery. Fr. Vien also established and is the Chair of the MQVN Community Development Corporation that endeavors to create Viet Village as a contribution to the colorful ethnic diversity in New Orleans. Viet Village includes a cultural center, a community health center, a retirement community, an urban farm with a farmer’s market, a charter school, and a shopping mall.
Rob Odle
Rob Odle, Planning and Community Development Director for the City of Redmond, has more than 25 years of experience in land use planning, intergovernmental relations, project management, public finance and administration, and land use permitting in the Puget Sound area. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master Education degrees from the University of Utah and a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Washington.
Brian O’Malley
Brian advocates for improving transportation throughout metropolitan Baltimore with a non-profit, the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance. He was previously Concurrency Manager for Carroll County Maryland and an industrial corridor planner in Chicago. He is a graduate of Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington.
Peter Orser
Peter Orser is President of Quadrant Homes and Treasurer and Board member of the Cascade Land Conservancy. He is also a Commissioner of the King County Housing Authority, Board member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and past President of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. In addition, he served for five years as City of Mercer Island Planning Commissioner and held a four-year term on the Mercer Island City Council.
Anne Palmer
Anne Palmer is the program director for food and nutrition programs at Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. She serves on the Community Food Security Coalition board, is a Member of the Baltimore City Sustainability Commission’s Green Infrastructure working group and a member of Regional Steering committee – The Food Trust Farm to School for the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Daniel Parolek
Daniel Parolek is an architect and urbanist who is committed to creating walkable, sustainable places. He is the founding principal of Opticos Design, Inc., a founding board member of the Form-Based Codes Institute, an honorary fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals, and the co-author of Form-Based Codes: A Guide.
Alice “Ali” Patty
Alice “Ali” Patty has worked over the last five years at the local, state and national level for the Florida Department of Health. She first served locally as an Obesity Prevention Health Educator focused .She then moved to the state level and worked to develop state and local level partnerships around physical activity and obesity prevention. She then moved on to the national level at the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors as a consultant with the ACHIEVE grant program. She also holds a BS in Nutrition and MSH in Health Promotion and Education from the University of North Florida.
Paul Patu
Paul Patu works for World Vision US Programs as a Community Engagement Specialist in Seattle. He has been a resident of Skyway since the 5th grade & has been a part of the Skyway Solutions group since its inception
Mark Pellegrini
Mark Pellegrini, ACIP is the Director of Planning and Economic Development for Manchester CT. responsible for planning and administering programs in housing, economic and community development, and comprehensive and strategic planning. He holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Pittsburgh.
Joyce Phillips Joyce Phillips, AICP, Washington State Department of Commerce, Growth Management Services addresses climate change issues through land use and transportation planning. She was appointed by Governor Gregoire to the Commute Trip Reduction Board, served as a state liaison to the Climate Action Team, and served as primary staff to the state’s Land Use and Climate Change Advisory Committee.
Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips, Senior Development Manager, Seattle Housing Authority has been the developer of the High Point community since 2001. Currently he is also overseeing the building of an 86 unit sustainable mixed-income apartment building in north Seattle.
Robert Ping
Robert Ping is the State Network Director for the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) National Partnership. Robert was nominated to the National SRTS Task Force in 2005. Robert was formerly the SRTS Program Director for Oregon¹s Bicycle Transportation Alliance and Program Manager for Portland’s SRTS program serving 19 schools.
Christopher Podstawski
Christopher Podstawski, project director with Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning, is deeply involved in the firm’s efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and is co-creator of the Native Carbon Cure. He is also a member of the Miami-Dade Climate Change Advisory Task Force Built Environment Adaptation Committee.
John A. Powell
Professor John A. Powell is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy. He is Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University and he holds the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the University’s Michael E. Moritz College of Law. Previously, he founded and directed the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He also served as Director of Legal Services in Miami, Florida and was National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union where he was instrumental in developing educational adequacy theory.
Ilana Preuss
Ilana is the Outreach Director for the Transportation for America Campaign. In this role, Ilana directs engagement and recruitment of businesses, elected officials and organizations from across the country to reform national transportation policy. She builds strong advocacy partnerships across the country to ensure that transportation investments meet the needs of our communities – big and small. Ilana joined the Transportation for America Campaign after seven years in the smart growth division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, most recently as manager of the technical assistance program.
Linda A. Pruitt
Linda is co-founder and Principal of The Cottage Company, a nationally awarded development company based in Seattle, WA. Leaders in ‘smart growth’, completed communities pioneer medium density infill housing choices, provide models of land use policies & help meet housing growth needs in support of the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant economy.
Michael Pyatok
Michael Pyatok has been an architect and professor of architectural design for 42 years. Since opening his own office in 1984, Pyatok has designed over 35,000 units of affordable housing for lower-income households and developed participatory design methods to facilitate community involvement throughout the design process. He has been a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Washington for the past 20 years.
Kristin Raab
Kristin Raab, MPH, MLA works at the Minnesota Department of Health and coordinates training and assessment for HIAs and global climate change. She teaches a course in sustainable site design at the University of Minnesota and has participated in the development of health-related performance measures for the Sustainable Sites Initiative.
Dave Ramsay Dave Ramsay has been the City Manager for the City of Kirkland, Washington since 1997. Prior to that, he was the City Manager for the City of Glendale, California for nine years. He worked for Glendale for a total of 20 years serving in a variety of positions. He received his BA from the University of Washington and an MPA from the University of Southern California. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa from 1969-1972. He is currently a board member of Feet First.
John Randolph
John Randolph has been at Virginia Tech since 1979. He has produced 140 publications and conference papers, including two major textbooks; mentored 100 Masters and Ph.D. students; and (since 1990) directed or co-directed 19 sponsored research projects totaling 1.2 million dollars in grants and contracts. From 1988 to 1995, Randolph directed the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, from 1995 to 2003 he was UAP department head, and from 2003-2008 he was director of the SPIA. Randolph received the national 2006 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning presented at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; the 1991 Virginia Energy Award for his Evaluation of the Virginia Weatherization Program; and the 1984 University Certificate of Teaching Excellence.
Dr. Jamila R. Rashid
Dr. Rashid joined the Office of Minority Health in February 2009 after an exciting twelve-year career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In her new position, Dr. Rashid is the Associate Director for Research and Policy. Prior to coming to HHS, Dr. Rashid served in a senior level position as the Vulnerable Populations Officer in the Coordinating Center for Terrorism Preparedness and Response, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Rashid has a PhD in Policy Studies and Masters in Public Health, both from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition, Dr. Rashid is an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Tracey Rattray
Tracey Rattray, MPH, MSW is the Director of the Community Wellness and Prevention Program at Contra Costa Health Services. Recently her work on the built environment and health has involved collaboratively writing and implementing the Health Element in the City of Richmond, California's General Plan.
Barbara Raye
Barbara Raye is Executive Director of the Center for Policy, Planning, and Performance. Her focus is nonprofit and public sector effectiveness in building engaged and respectful relationships with diverse constituents. She provides public participation design and facilitation/mediation services in a variety of settings.
Milt Rhodes
Milt Rhodes is the Director of the Office of Planning and Environmental Sustainability for the Town of Bluffton. He is a planner, architect and urban designer. Milt previously worked as Planning Director for the NC Smart Growth Alliance, was a Project Director for the town planning firm, Dover, Kohl & Partners, and started New Urban Water Works, a Raleigh, North Carolina firm that specializes in integrating sound rainwater best-management practices with the demands of good urban placemaking and sustainable urbanism.
Deana Rhodeside
Dr. Deana Rhodeside, a co-founder of Rhodeside & Harwell, has been professionally active in planning and community outreach for over 35 years, both nationally and internationally. Much of her work has focused on the development of TOD settings, with particular emphasis on results that are grounded in reality.
Lynn Richards
Ms. Richards is currently a Senior Policy Analyst for EPA’s Smart Growth Program. Most recently she was the former Acting Director of the program. She has worked for the past 17 years on the wide range of sustainable development and smart growth issues. Currently with EPA, Lynn focuses on the wide range of water impacts from growth and development.
Kathy Rinaldi
Kathy is a County Commissioner in Teton County, ID and former executive director of a local smart growth organization. She is the chair of the District 6B Idaho Mobility and Pathways project and a board member of Idaho Smart Growth. Kathy and her husband co-own Yostmark Mountain Equipment in Driggs, ID.
Toby Rittner
Mr. Rittner runs the day-to-day operations of the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA), which includes management of a 32 member Board of Directors, and the organization’s various educational, advocacy and research initiatives. Rittner is a frequent speaker at local, state and national conferences and events focused on economic development finance. He is a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP) and has conducted dozens of economic development courses/seminars in his career. Rittner has also advised state and federal government leaders, including President Obama’s Administration Transition Team, on economic development finance policy and focus.
Cole Roberts
Cole Roberts leads the Energy & Resource Sustainability offering of Arup's San Francisco office. He will be moderating the questions and contributing to the discussion in the area of energy and water systems.
Paul Roberts
Mr. Roberts is a member of the Everett City Council and owner of Paul Roberts & Associates LLC, a consulting firm specializing in land use and environment. He is Chair of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Board of Directors and is a member of the Sound Transit Board of Directors.
David J Robertson
David J Robertson is the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), the regional council and MPO for the National Capital Region. Mr. Robertson received a Master of Urban Planning degree from George Washington University, and also holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Maya Rockeymoore
Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D., is president and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a social change strategy firm based in Washington, D.C., and director of Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The goal of Leadership for Healthy Communities is to proactively engage and support state and local policy leaders in the effort to help reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Rockeymoore has previously worked at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the National Urban League and on Capitol Hill in the offices of Congressman Charles Rangel and Congressman Melvin Watt and on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. Rockeymoore earned her Ph.D. in political science with a concentration in public policy from Purdue University.
Matt Roewe
Matt is a visionary architect who combines great design conceptualization skills with collaborative and innovative thinking. Striking a balance with feasibility, sustainability and delight, Matt brings VIA's projects to life with a dynamic three-dimensional approach. Matt also believes sustainable living is rooted in minimizing our ecological footprint. He sets an example by commuting to work with his bicycle, with his Zipcar membership and through his deliberate low-impact and walkable lifestyle choices. Matt is currently a city council appointed member of the Seattle Planning Commission and a former chair of the South Lake Union/Queen Anne Design Review Board. He is also an advisory board member of The Seattle Great City Initiative and active participant in The Seattle Streetcar Alliance.
Kathleen Rooney Kathleen Rooney is a senior associate at ICF International with several years experience in transportation planning and policy. Much of her work has focused on the successful integration of land use and transportation, as well as smart growth and sustainability in communities.
Karl Dalla Rosa
Karl Dalla Rosa is the National Forest Stewardship Program Manager with the Cooperative Forestry Staff of the U.S. Forest Service in Washington D.C. Before joining the Forest Service, Karl managed landowner and unity assistance programs in Hawaii, the Pacific Basin, and West Africa.
Kenneth Rose
Kenneth Rose, M.P.A. serves as the Associate Director of Policy for CDC’s environmental public health programs. In this role, Ken coordinates public health policy ranging from Congressional to strategic engagements. He’s an agency leader in healthy community design issues and co-chaired efforts to draft a CDC public health effects transportation policy.
Nancy Rottle
Associate Professor Nancy Rottle joined the Landscape Architecture faculty after over a decade of professional practice in the Pacific Northwest and a former career as an educator. Her interests center around the use of design as a means to create places that are culturally meaningful, ecologically healthy, and experientially resonant.
Victor Rubin
Victor Rubin is Vice President for Research at PolicyLink, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing policies for social and economic equity. He has 25 years experience as a community planner, consultant, university researcher, and teacher. His masters and doctorate are in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Harrison Rue
Harrison Rue, Principal with ICF International, has expertise in transportation policy, integrated transportation and land use planning, sustainability, climate change, transit planning and TDM, green building, affordable housing, and public participation and communications. He works with local, regional, state, and federal partners to create
sustainable solutions and practical action agendas.
Brian E. Saelens
Brian E. Saelens, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Seattle’s Children’s Hospital Research Institute and University of Washington. He examines environmental influences on physical activity and eating and pediatric obesity prevention and intervention. His work is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USDA, and the National Institutes of Health.
Don Samdahl
Don Samdahl is a Principal of Fehr & Peers in their Seattle office. Don has been active in growth management planning in Washington State since 1990. He recently managed a project to identify GHG planning tools for local agency comprehensive plans.
Marilyn Santana
Marilyn Santana is a Community Leaders Council and Steering Committee member with the Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council. She has worked as a parent organizer with the Holyoke Public Schools and is a dedicated mother with a vision of a healthier Holyoke for her children.
Jim Sayer
Jim Sayer is Executive Director of Adventure Cycling Association, based in Missoula and the largest bicycling non-profit in the North America, with more than 44,000 members. Adventure Cycling's mission is to inspire people of all ages to travel by bicycle. Jim has directed other non-profits involved in smart growth and transportation, including the Sierra Business Council and Greenbelt Alliance. He served as senior legislative assistant to Senator Tim Wirth and executive staff for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. Jim did his undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and his graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University.
Nancy Schaefer
Nancy Schaefer, with Land Conservation Services, has been assisting the Bay Area Open Space Council with the San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project since March 2004. Nancy has eighteen years of experience in land conservation transactions and planning with The Trust for Public Land, The Conservation Fund, Muir Heritage Land Trust, Coastal Conservancy and several other public and private organizations. Nancy holds a Masters of Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento, and a BS in Forest Science from the University of New Hampshire.
Joseph Schilling
Joseph Schilling is the Associate Director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. Professor Schilling leads the Institute’s new Sustainable Communities Initiative that investigates innovative ways of creating eco-sustainable communities through better design, planning, and collaboration. As a founding member of the National Vacant Properties Campaign Professor Schilling led assessment studies in Youngstown, Toledo, Buffalo and Cleveland. He holds a Masters of Environmental Law from GW and a JD from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
Will Schroeer
Will Schroeer is the State Policy Director for Smart Growth America. During the 1990s, Will was an Economist with the U.S. EPA, where he led the Transportation Group. He spent 9 years leading the smart growth practice at ICF, helping clients take smart growth from policy idea to built project.
Stefanie Seskin Stefanie Seskin, State & Local Policy Associate at the National Complete Streets Coalition is co-author of the Complete Streets Best Practices Manual issued by the American Planning Association, and has conducted research in dozens of communities on what it takes to successfully implement a Complete Streets policy. She also maintains the growing Inventory of Complete Streets policies, first published in the AARP report, “Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America,” and continues to conduct analysis of the strength of each adopted policy. She received her Master of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where her studies focused on sustainable development and public spaces, and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Vassar College.
Julia Seward
Julia Seward is Director of State Policy for Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) where she is responsible for development and implementation of state community development policy and coordination of LISC’s smart growth work. Her diverse career in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors includes management of the corporate community reinvestment and philanthropic programs for Signet Banking Corporation, work as a Special Policy Assistant in the Virginia Governor’s Office, community development consultant to financial institutions and community nonprofits, and chairmanship of The Consumer Advisory Council for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Vivek Shandas
Vivek Shandas is currently a faculty member in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and a Research Associate in the Center for Urban Studies at Portland State University.
Jill Sherman
Jill Sherman’s work is community development driven. Jill is experienced in working with public-private partnerships, non-profits, and projects financed using complex financing structures such as low-income housing tax credits and new markets tax credits. Jill manages pre-development activities including preliminary design and budgeting, entitlements, neighborhood outreach, negotiating agreements, and contracts and financing. In 2007, she was appointed to the Portland Planning Commission.
Ron Sims
Ron Sims was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 6, 2009, and sworn in as the Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on May 8, 2009. Sims previously served as the Executive for the King County, Washington, the 13th largest county in the nation in a metropolitan area of 1.8 million residents and 39 cities including the cities of Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond. Sims is also a proponent of Smart Growth programs and the preservation of green space before it is lost to development.
Dan Slone
Dan Slone is a partner in the Richmond office of the national law firm of McGuireWoods
LLP. He represents developers, green businesses and localities across the country in
developing innovative and sustainable projects including new towns, green utilities and
new approaches to zoning. Author of numerous books and articles, Dan also
represents the U.S. Green Building Council, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the
World Green Building Council and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. He serves on the
boards of the National Charrette Institute and the Form Based Codes Institute.
Brian J. Smith
Brian J. Smith is Director, Strategic Planning and Programming, for the Washington State Department of Transportation. From 1983 to 2005 he worked for the California DOT before retiring as the Deputy Director for Planning and Modal Programs. He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis. He served on the Davis City Planning Commission for 9 years.
Ken Snyder
Ken Snyder is President/CEO at PlaceMatters, a Denver-based non-profit. PlaceMatters’ mission is to apply innovative decision-making tools and methods to the creation and maintenance of sustainable and vibrant communities. Ken is a nationally recognized expert on a broad range of technical and non-technical tools for community design and decision-making.
Lee Sobel
Lee Sobel is the Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst in the US EPA’s Development, Community & Environment Division (the Smart Growth program). Mr. Sobel’s work focuses technical assistance, outreach and education, and research and policy, related to real estate development that achieves smart growth goals and outcomes. Mr. Sobel has been an active commercial real estate and mortgage broker in Florida for over eight years.
Amy Solomon
Amy Solomon, has responsibility for the Energy, Industry and Technology program area at the Bullitt Foundation. She shares coverage of Leadership and Civic Engagement and Urban Ecology. Amy serves on the boards of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. She has a BA from Yale University and an MBA Stanford University.
Vikrant Sood
Vikrant Sood is a senior planner at MIG with a background in architecture, urban design and planning. He combines his design and technical skills with experience in community involvement and consensus-building to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to projects. He has worked on projects ranging from land use and urban design to public health, climate change and higher education.
Peg Staeheli
Peg Staeheli, ASLA, LEED ® AP is president of SvR Design Company, a landscape architecture and civil engineering firm specializing in integrated and environmentally responsible design. SvR’s areas of practice include green infrastructure, complete streets, civic buildings, mixed-use development, housing, parks, and restoration. She works with public and private clients on planning, selecting, and funding capital improvement projects and development
Catherine Stanford
Catherine Stanford is Principal of CA Stanford Consulting, specializing in real estate related government and public affairs; strategic planning; property development; and historic preservation. Her clients include municipalities; developers; non-profit community groups and industry associations. She was owner’s representative for University Heights, and responsible for funding, acquisition and redevelopment planning.
Mathy Stanislaus Mathy Stanislaus began work as Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 8, 2009. As Assistant Administrator for OSWER, Mr. Stanislaus is responsible for EPA's programs on hazardous and solid waste management, hazardous waste cleanup including RCRA corrective action, Superfund and federal facilities cleanup and redevelopment, Brownfields, oil spill prevention and response, chemical accident prevention and preparedness, underground storage tanks, and emergency response.
Stephen Stanley
Mr. Stanley has a BS in aquatic biology and environmental studies from UC Santa Barbara and has more than 30 years experience in wetland and watershed assessment, management and regulation. At the Department of Ecology, Stanley has developed guidance and models for characterizing and analyzing watershed processes in Western Washington
Susan Stein
Susan Stein leads the Forests on the Edge Project for the USDA Forest Service, in Washington D.C. Previous national Forest Service positions have included Forest Stewardship Program Manager, NEPA Coordinator, and International Agroforestry Coordinator. Prior to this, Susan worked in forest conservation in East and Central Africa.
Harris M. Steinberg
Harris M. Steinberg, FAIA, is the executive director of PennPraxis, the consulting arm of PennDesign, and an adjunct assistant professor of city and regional planning at Penn. Harris’s work focuses on large-scale civic visioning such as the creation of the award-winning 2007 A Civic Vision for the Central Delaware.
Mr. Paul T. Steucke, Jr.
Mr. Steucke has been the Environmental Chief at Fort Lewis, Washington since 1997. Fort Lewis Public Works was ISO 14001 certified in 2000. In 2001, the forests at Fort Lewis were certified sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council. In 2002, Fort Lewis began its quest to achieve a sustainable Fort Lewis by 2025. Mr. Steucke has a BS Engineering degree, was a member of the drafting committee of the Governor’s Sustainable Washington Advisory Panel and is passionately working to bring about a sustainable planet.
Justus Stewart
Justus Stewart is an Associate at ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, where he supports local governments throughout the Pacific Northwest with technical and policy assistance on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Justus holds a Masters in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and works in fields as diverse as urban design, sustainable agriculture, and energy policy.
Maren C. Stewart
Maren C. Stewart, JD, APR is the first President and Chief Executive Officer for LiveWell Colorado, a nonprofit organization committed to reducing obesity through the promotion of healthy eating and active living strategies. Ms. Stewart holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Kansas and a J.D. from the University of Denver.
Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart is the Senior Planner at the Richmond Regional Planning District Commission. She has worked at the RRPDC since graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Master of Urban and Regional Planning in 2007. The primary focus of her work is environmental planning and data development.
Nancy Stoner
Nancy Stoner is a Co-Director of the Water Program at NRDC. She was a trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as the Director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the U.S. EPA.
Dan Stonington
Dan Stonington is the Conservation Policy Director for Cascade Land Conservancy in Seattle. He has a bachelor’s degree from University of Washington and a master’s from Yale University. In 2004, he was a summer research fellow with Smart Growth America. Dan is the treasurer for the High Country News Foundation.
Aimee Storm
Aimee Storm works on projects and initiatives which promote green and
healthy buildings and sustainable development practices within EPA
Region V. Her work supports EPA’s Brownfields and NPL property reuse programs. She holds Masters Degrees in City & Regional Planning and
Business Administration.
Dan Stroh
Dan Stroh has been Planning Director for Bellevue since 1998, over a decade that has seen the city evolve as an increasingly significant metropolitan center for the central Puget Sound region and a nationally recognized urban center. He oversees programs in comprehensive/strategic planning, neighborhood outreach, and community mediation.
Don Stuart
Don Stuart is Pacific Northwest Director for American Farmland Trust. He was previously with the Washington Association of Conservation Districts, managed a commercial fisheries trade association, and was a practicing attorney. Don is a University of Washington graduate and lives in Seattle.
Steve Sugg
Steve Sugg is Deputy City Manager for University Place, Washington, where he is leading the effort to create a mixed-use town center for this city of 32,000 residents. Since joining the City in 1996, Steve has been involved in several pedestrian, bicycle, and traffic calming projects that have received national recognition.
Megan Susman
Megan Susman is a senior policy analyst in EPA's Smart Growth Program. She works on climate change, technical assistance to communities, and other programs. Previously, she worked at the American Institute of Architects and at the Progressive Policy Institute. She earned her master's degree in public policy at Duke University and her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College.
Stacy Swartwood
Stacy Swartwood is a Biologist with U.S. EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization. Her expertise lies in the impact of land use onwater resources and the environmental benefits of brownfields reuse. She is the Program’s lead on sustainability issues.
Skip Swenson
Skip Swenson directs CLC's Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program. TDR conserves natural and working landscapes through a voluntary, market-based approach. Skip earned masters degrees in forest resources and public policy from the University of Washington and an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Tracy Tackett,
Tracy Tackett, PE is the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Program Manager for Seattle Public Utilities. She is responsible for the management, direction and decision making of capital improvement projects and significant programs focused on reducing the effects of Seattle's urban stormwater runoff on our receiving water bodies using sustainable stormwater solutions.
Morgan Taggart
Morgan Taggart is a Program Specialist with The Ohio State University Extension. She provides training and technical assistance to urban gardens throughout Greater Cleveland. As co-convener of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition, she works in collaboration with diverse stakeholders to inform policies related to urban agriculture and local food systems.
David M. Taylor
Mr. Taylor currently serves on HDR’s national transit planning staff, and he leads the firm’s Transit-oriented Development practice. In this capacity, Mr. Taylor’s experience includes transit systems plans and transit corridor plans, including Bus Rapid Transit projects in Charlotte, NC and Tampa, FL. His TOD work involves over 100 station area planning and development projects, including codes and ordinances. He also serves as the National Director for Sustainable Transportation Solutions, where he coordinates a program to incorporate environmental, community, and economic interests into every transportation project.
Katy Taylor
Katy leads the Washington State DOT’s Public Transportation Division, where she is responsible for advancing a more sustainable transportation system with reduced impact on the climate. Her division runs the nationally recognized Commute Trip Reduction program, as well as the Vanpool Investment Program and administers state grants programs for transit.
Sebhat Tenna
Sebhat Tenna is the Outreach Strategic Advisor for the City of Seattle in the Department of Neighborhoods. Sebhat immigrated with family to the USA from Ethiopia in 1980. Sebhat has extensive experience working with immigrant and refugee communities in Seattle, Washington.
Brewster Thackeray
Brewster Thackeray coordinates AARP’s public outreach for its livable communities program, with a focus on mobility and housing options for people over 50. Prior to joining AARP he worked with the National Organization on Disability, the League of American Bicyclists, and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
John Thomas
John Thomas is a senior policy analyst with the US EPA Smart Growth Program. He received a Masters in Urban Planning from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. Over the past 15 years he’s worked on sustainable transportation at the Federal level, provided technical assistance to local governments, and taught graduate level courses related to smart growth. Dr. Thomas also serves on various national advisory panels related to sustainable development, climate change and transportation.
Jenah Thornborrow
Jenah Thornborrow, AICP; is Garden City Idaho’s Development Service Administrator. During her tenure with Garden City, the city has adopted a new Comprehensive Plan as well as revised Development Code, both of which won Idaho Smart Growth awards in the category of “Best Public Policy”.
Tony To
Tony To is the Executive Director of HomeSight, the Vice Chair of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance, and chaired the Seattle Planning Commission in 2008. As a member of the Washington State Affordable Housing Advisory Board, Tony works with builders, realtors, lenders, jurisdictions, and officials on issues related to growth management, infrastructure planning, and affordable and sustainable development.
Aaron Todd
Aaron Todd is a community-planning specialist for the State of Iowa’s Rebuild Iowa Office. His work primarily focuses on researching and developing state policy regarding sustainable local and regional planning, watershed management, and cultural resources. He is a graduate of Iowa State University (BS) and Rutgers University (MPP).
Gary Toth Gary Toth is an experienced transportation professional with 34 years in transportation, and environmental planning. He has been a leader in Context Sensitive Solutions, particularly at NJDOT. He currently is the Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives with the Project for Public Spaces.
Vernice Miller-Travis Vernice Miller-Travis is Vice Chair of the Maryland State Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, and Co-founder West Harlem Environmental Action. Previously, Miller-Travis was executive director of the Environmental Support Center in Washington, D.C. and Groundwork USA, a network of nonprofit environmental organizations that help communities use their assets to eliminate environmental poverty and become vibrant, healthier, and safer places to live. She is a cofounder of West Harlem Environmental Action, a 20-year-old community-based environmental justice organization in New York City and she is a founding member of The National Black Environmental Justice Network.
Harriet Tregoning
Harriet Tregoning is the director of the Washington, DC Office of Planning, where she works to make DC a walkable, bikeable, vibrant, eminently livable, globally competitive and sustainable city. Tregoning developed her expertise in state level action in the State of Maryland where she served Governor Glendening as both Secretary of Planning and then as the nation's first state-level Cabinet Secretary for Smart Growth. Tregoning’s academic training is in engineering and public policy. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2003-2004.
Joanna Trotter
Joanna Trotter is the Manager of the Community Building Initiative for The Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC). MPC is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping a more sustainable and prosperous Chicago region. MPC’s Community Building Initiative helps communities address development challenges through best practices in planning and development. Joanna has a MA in Urban Planning from UCLA.
Cheryl Twete
Cheryl Twete is currently serving as the Interim General Manager of the Metropolitain Exposition Recreation Commission in Portland, Oregon. She joined MERC as Director of Community and Business Development in February 2009 and also previously served as a Project Manager on the Portland Expo Center Master Planning process and as the MERC representative in the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) planning process. Cheryl enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Portland Development Commission (PDC) from 1985-2008 where she held various senior management and executive positions, including Director of Development.
Caitlin Uzzell
Caitlin helps coordinate the National Housing Trust’s “Green Preservation” activity. Before the Trust, she worked on topics including public school reform, children’s health, permanent supportive housing, homelessness and youth violence intervention strategies. Caitlin has a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas’ School of Architecture.
Jeremy Valenta
Jeremy Valenta coordinates the Community Enhancement Initiative (CEI) as part of his work in the Office of the King County Executive. CEI is a collaborative effort to promote healthy, vibrant communities in the Skyway and White Center neighborhoods through equitable development.
Brett Van Akkeren
Brett Van Akkeren has been working on smart growth issues at the Environmental Protection Agency’s since 1997. He helped create and organize the Smart Growth Network, authored Smart Growth Illustrated and co-authored Getting to Smart Growth: One Hundred Policies for Implementation. In 2005, he coordinated the National Award for Smart Growth achievement.
Alison Van Gorp
Alison Van Gorp is Director of Urban Policy for Cascade Land Conservancy. In her 5 years with CLC, she has teamed with diverse stakeholders, to lead the development of urban policy and the effective planning tools necessary to create vibrant, livable communities throughout the region, while conserving working farms, forests and natural areas. Alison oversees efforts to advocate for regional, state, and federal policy to support well-planned growth and directs the Cascade Agenda Cities Program, a regional effort that partners with cities to help them understand their options and make smart choices for future growth. Alison holds a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Don Vehige
Don Vehige is an Architect and Urban Designer at GGLO, a Seattle-based integrated design firm. He is co-author of Envisioning Transit Oriented Communities: a Blueprint for Washington State, and has designed transit-oriented communities and mixed-use town centers within Seattle and its surrounding suburbs.
Lina Velasco
Lina Velasco is a Senior Planner at the City of Richmond, California managing and coordinating special and major projects for the Planning Department including the City’s historic preservation program and implementation of the Community Health & Wellness Element. Ms. Velasco joined the City of Richmond in 2005 after working as a planner in Vacaville, California.
Steve Veres Mayor Steve Veres is serving his second term as mayor of San Fernando, Calif., and has been a member of the City Council since 2003. His accomplishments and contributions include the development of the city’s first park in nearly 30 years, pedestrian improvements along a major roadway, nearly 100 units of senior housing and the planning and future development of a bike and walking path. He is also a board member of the San Fernando Valley Service Sector of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority. His educational background is in Latin American studies and urban planning.
Anne Vernez Moudon
Anne Vernez Moudon is Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. She directs the Urban Form Lab (UFL(), which specializes in the spatial analysis of the built environment as it affects active transport, physical activity, and access to food sources.
Jeff Vincent
Jeff Vincent, PhD is Deputy Director of the Center for Cities & Schools at the University of California-Berkeley. CC&S takes an interdisciplinary approach to creating equitable, healthy, and sustainable cities and schools for all. Jeff’s research focuses on the intersection of land use planning, public education, and community development.
Laurie Volk
Laurie Volk, Co-Managing Director of Zimmerman/Volk Associates, serves on the Boards of the Seaside Institute and the Remaking Cities Institute, and is an instructor on market analysis at the Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence, University of Pennsylvania. Volk was also a recipient of a 2002 Knight Fellowship in Community Building.
Kenneth Walker
Kenneth Walker is a Program Analyst with NOAA’s Office of Ocean & Coastal Resource Management. He works on a variety of coastal community issues including coastal smart growth, waterfront revitalization, and working waterfront issues. Kenneth holds Planning degrees from the University of North Carolina and University of Virginia.
Jerry Walters
Jerry Walters is a principal with Fehr & Peers transportation consultants and leads the firm’s sustainability practice. He serves on climate-change panels for the California Air Resources Board Regional, California Transportation Commission, American Public Transit Association, and co-authored the 2008 ULI book “Growing Cooler”, on urban development and climate change.
Karen Walz
Karen Walz FAICP, Principal of Strategic Community Solutions, has over 30 years of planning experience in communities nationwide; she manages (Vision North Texas(. She received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Darby Watson
Darby Watson, AICP, ASLA, LEED is an urban designer currently working for the Seattle Department of Transportation implementing their Complete Streets Ordinance and developing streetscape concept plans. She is Chair of the National APA Urban Design and Preservation Division and is a former member of the Seattle Design Commission.
Catherine Weatbrook
Catherine recently led the transformation of the Crown Hill Elementary School property into the Crown Hill Center and park, using her engineering degree, 15 years experience as a business and systems analyst in the software industry, and long term board-level participation in non-profit organizations and neighborhood planning.
Richard Weaver
Rich Weaver is Senior Program Manager, Planning and Programs under the Policy Department of the American Public Transportation Association in Washington, D.C. He serves as staff advisor to the APTA State Affairs Committee and the APTA Policy and Planning Committee, and its subcommittees. Rich has been with APTA for over 20 years. He lives in Arlington, Virginia. He has background in urban planning and economics from Villanova University.
Greg A. Weitzel
Greg A. Weitzel is Director of the Department of Parks & Recreation for the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Weitzel oversees a full-time staff of 60 and part-time staff of 220+ with an operating budget of $7 million and capital budget of $4 million dollars. The Department maintains and improves over 39 parks encompassing 2,000 acres, 35 miles of multi-use trails, five pools and two spray parks, a trout nursery, skate park and a myriad of programs, special events and activities for all ages and abilities. Mr. Weitzel is a 1996 graduate of Penn State University and 1999 graduate of Illinois State University with an M.S. in Park and Recreation Administration
Aaron Welch
Aaron Welch has broad experience with sustainability, comprehensive planning, climate planning, planning for public health, and green building. Many of his current projects involve implementation of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Neighborhood Development Rating System. He wrote portions of USGBC’s LEED-ND Reference Guide, has reviewed LEED-ND pilot project for USGBC, and has assisted several clients pursuing LEED-ND certification. He has also served as a planner for multiple general plans throughout California, including for the cities of South Gate, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Encinitas, Redwood City, and Mountain View. Aaron holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. from Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union.
Heaster Wheeler
Mr. Wheeler serves as the Executive Director of the Detroit Branch National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In this appointed position (since October 1999), he has tackled major issues including: regressive juvenile justice laws, driving while black, employment discrimination, the take over of Detroit Public Schools, voting rights and voter intimidation issues.
Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley is the founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion, a national policy advocacy intermediary organization which works to dismantle structural racism. A civil rights attorney and policy advocate since in 1989, Ms. Wiley has worked for the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Open Society Institute.
Donele Wilkins
Donele Wilkins has over two decades of experience in occupational and environmental health as an educator, consultant, trainer, administrator and advocate. In 1994, she co-founded and currently serves as the Executive Director of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, a non-profit organization addressing urban environmental issues in the City of Detroit. Ms. Wilkins is sought after as a public speaker addressing local and national audiences on topics of community driven sustainable development, environmental justice, and occupational and environmental health advocacy. As a consultant, Ms. Wilkins has assisted several community organizations and put them on the correct path toward increasing their capacity to transform their communities.
Jay Williams
Jay Williams is serving his second term as the City of Youngstown, Ohio’s 47th mayor. His historic election was viewed by many political observers as a watershed moment in the changing political landscape of the community. Williams is the city’s first African-American Mayor, and first elected at 33 years old, was also its youngest. Prior to being elected, Mayor Williams served as the Director of Community Development for the city, and before that he enjoyed a distinguished career in banking.
John Williams
Mr. Williams has spent the last 30 years as an advocate for community interests. In 2006 he was appointed to his current HDR position of leadership in sustainability, renewable energy, integrated solid waste planning, climate change, and greenhouse gas management. He represents the firm in a national forums focused on sustainability including: The Global Roundtable on Climate Change, The Clinton Global Initiative, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Council. Most recently Mr. Williams co-authored an article entitled, “Determining the Right Shade of Green for a Specific Community” published in the April 8th Issue of Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
Kerry Williams
Kerry Williams is Director, Environmental Health for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Her portfolio encompasses built and synthetic environment projects, including smart growth and HIAs, toxicology, and safe water. She is the project manager at ASTHO overseeing the HIA Capacity Building Grants for state health agencies.
Ray Williams
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Clark Wilson
Clark Wilson is an urban designer with EPA’s Smart Growth Division. His focus is ecologically sustainable development, specifically in advancing the transportation, livability, and environmental goals of smart growth in street design. Prior to EPA, he was an urban design consultant and adjunct faculty member at UC Berkeley.
Rachel Winer
Rachel Winer is Executive Director of Idaho Smart Growth. She previously served as the Outreach Coordinator for the Idaho Conservation League and worked for United Vision for Idaho. She has been honored as a 2009 “Idaho Women of the Year” and a 2007 “Accomplished Under 40” by the Idaho Business Review.
Michelle McDonough Winters
Michelle McDonough Winters is Program Director for LISC's Affordable Housing Preservation Initiative. She leads LISC's Green Preservation efforts, including the recent publication of the guide Getting Started with Green Preservation. Michelle has 15 years of experience in affordable housing and holds a master's degree in city planning from MIT.
Karen Wolf
Karen Wolf, AICP, is the Manager for Strategic Planning in the King County Office of Strategic Planning and Performance Management and as the co-project manager on the King County HealthScape Initiative. She specializes in integrating public health, climate change, and environmental considerations into land use programs and policies.
Kathleen Wolf
Dr. Kathleen Wolf is a Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment, University of Washington, and the US Forest Service PNW Research Station. Her research seeks to better understand and communicate the human dimensions of urban forestry and urban ecosystems.
Amanda Woodrum
Amanda Woodrum is researcher at Policy Matters Ohio (convener of the Ohio Apollo Alliance). Amanda received both a master's in economics and a law degree from the University of Akron. She released reports covering transit in the new energy economy, greening Ohio industry, and Ohio’s advanced energy fund, among others.
Laren Woolley
Laren Woolley is the Coastal Shores Specialist with the Oregon Coastal Program of the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD). From 1988 through 2008, Laren worked first as a planner with Curry County, Oregon and later served as Regional Representative for DLCD in central Oregon and the north coast.
Heather Wooten
Heather Wooten is a Senior Planning and Policy Associate with Planning for Healthy Places at Public Health Law & Policy, where she researches best practices, develops tools, and works with communities to connect land use, economic development, and health. Prior to joining PHLP, she co-authored the Oakland Food System Assessment: Towards a Sustainable Food Plan; she also currently serves on the Oakland Food Policy Council.
Ben Yazici
Ben Yazici has been the City Manager in Sammamish, Washington, for nine years, during which he has seen the community grow to 40,000 residents and climb in the “best places to live” rankings (11th best place to live – Money Magazine). A new town center mixing office, retail, residential, and public spaces, is at the top of his 2010 agenda.
Elizabeth Yeampierre
Elizabeth Yeampierre is the Executive Director of UPROSE, the oldest Latino community based organization in Brooklyn. Elizabeth works to build community power. In 1996, Elizabeth helped shift UPROSE's mission to organizing, advocacy and developing intergenerational, indigenous leadership through activism. In 1996, Elizabeth helped shift UPROSE's mission to organizing, advocacy and developing intergenerational, indigenous leadership through activism. She received her BA in Political Science from Fordham University and her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in the States of New York and New Jersey.
Deborah L. Younger
Deborah L. Younger is Executive Director of the Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), metro Detroit’s leader in community development helping community-based organizations revitalize neighborhoods. Previously, Ms. Younger served as Executive Director of ONYX, a community development corporation in Toledo, as well as Housing Commissioner, Director of Neighborhoods, Director of Economic Development, and Assistant COO for the Toledo Mayor. Younger earned a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary and is certified by the National Development Council as a Housing Development and Economic Development Professional.
Sam Zimbabwe
Sam Zimbabwe is an urban designer with a background in transit-oriented development planning and pedestrian-oriented design projects. With Reconnecting America, Sam leads efforts to create national standards and best practices with the American Public Transportation Association and provide technical assistance on TOD programs and policies in cities across the country.
Sara Zimmerman
Sara Zimmerman is a staff attorney for the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity, a project of Public Health Law & Policy. Sara’s work focuses on the built environment and policies that encourage active living and physical activity, including complete streets and safe routes to school, and she is a contributor to a forthcoming book on pedestrian friendly design. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (Phi Beta Kappa) and the UC Berkeley School of Law (Order of the Coif).
Paul Zykofsky
Paul Zykofsky manages the Local Government Commission’s land use and transportation programs and has been Director of the Commission’s Center for Livable Communities since 1995. During the past eight years, Mr. Zykofsky has directed projects, in collaboration with the California Department of Health Services and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to promote physical activity by improving the design of the built environment. Mr. Zykofsky is a frequent presenter at local, regional and national conferences on a wide range of topics related to land use and transportation. He conducts workshops on pedestrian safety, Safe Routes to School and Walkable Communities. Mr. Zykofsky is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for the New Urbanism. He was born and raised in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.
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