Brandon L. McGee, Jr. is a political contriver, public speaker, and the founder of SPEAK Consulting, a boutique firm which specializes in an innovative tier program that offers training and collaborative development, strategic planning and leadership and organizational development. …Continue Reading
As Assistant Director of Public Works/Environmental Services, Mike Slevin manages and operates three Public Works utilities for the City of Tacoma, Washington. The Wastewater, Surface Water, and Solid Waste utilities employ over 500 personnel with a biennial operating budget in excess of $240 million and total fund assets of $700 million. Slevin’s experience with Tacoma has provided him with a solid knowledge base in finance, budgets, personnel management, cost control, contract negotiations, infrastructure development, and urban redevelopment….Continue Reading
Lee Leffingwell is a native of Austin, and grew up in the Bouldin neighborhood in South Austin. His father was an Austin firefighter and later a Travis County Deputy Sheriff; his mother worked as an admissions clerk at the University of Texas….Continue Reading
Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, AICP is the principal and owner of Gelabert-Sanchez & Associates. He recently completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and worked as a Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the fall of 2011….Continue Reading
Greg Fischer was born in Louisville on January 14, 1958. He is an entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist and was elected Louisville’s 50th Mayor on November 2, 2010….Continue Reading
Chris Riley has been serving on the Austin City Council since 2009 and was reelected to his second term in 2011. He also serves on the boards of Capital Metro and the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO)….Continue Reading
Steven J. Bonafonte is Chair of the Hartford Redevelopment Agency and a partner in the law firm of Pullman & Comley, LLC. His practice includes providing general legal counsel services to corporate and government entities, privacy, information security, ethics and compliance, and anti-fraud and corporate internal investigations.
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Gaurav Srivastava is an urban designer at AECOM in Los Angeles. His work, focusing on urban cores for both private and public sector clients, is driven by twin passions. First: to reduce the footprint of human habitation through compact and sensitive urban redevelopment in the city center. And second: to continuously reinforce the importance of the pedestrian experience as the defining experience of cities….Continue Reading
Terry E. Mitchell is President of Momark Development L.L.C. based in Austin, Texas. As the principal of Momark he is heavily involved in the planning and development of various residential and mixed-use real estate developments involving approximately 6,500 residential units and related mixed-uses. Projects include The Austonian (development consultant and marketing manager), Plum Creek, Chestnut Commons, Edgewick, Gabardine, Macmora Cottages and The Sanctuary Lofts….Continue Reading
Architect and urban designer Frank Fuller has spent his professional career acquiring and sharing the knowledge that have made him one of America’s leading urban design practitioners. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Fuller teaches in the Master of Urban Design program at the University of California, Berkeley, conducts many panels and charrettes in the United States, and has won numerous awards for planning, urban design and architecture. Fuller has written articles about urban design and urban redevelopment, including for Urban Land, and is chair of the Urban Design Committee for the American Institute of Architects, California Council….Continue Reading