2015 NEXT VANGUARD CITY

RENO NEVADA FROM THE MAYOR OF RENO

Dear Vanguard Attendee,

It’s my pleasure to extend to each of you a warm welcome to Reno, Nevada: The Biggest Little City in the World. We are gathering at an exciting time for those of us who are working in the areas of urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media.

Next City has selected 55 applicants whose smart ideas for cities, experience in the field and ambition for the future all show great promise. I’m honored that you’ve gathered here in Reno to help us find ways to improve our quality of life.

Reno is a place where residents and visitors enjoy a consistently sunny, high-desert climate and have access to renowned arts, dining, recreation and special events. We’re known internationally as the gateway to Burning Man and the home of the month-long Artown festival. The Truckee River runs through the heart of our downtown, and beautiful Lake Tahoe is a mere 30-minute drive away.

Reno’s economic history transitions through booming eras of mining, progressive divorce laws and legalized casino gaming. Today, Reno is pioneering a future in advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and technology and has become a launching pad for startups and entrepreneurs.

Welcome to The Biggest Little City!

Sincerely,

Hillary Schieve Reno Mayor

2 2014 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 3 Photo by Chris Holloman by Photo Matt’s wisdom and capture his lessons on short-term action for long-term change.

With walking tours and panels that showcase Reno and its opportunities and challenges, as well as lessons from cities across the world, Vanguard is a time for experiential learning and informed conversation. We hope it also stirs your passion for great cities.

But at Next City, we always strive to ensure that our conversations lead to impact. And with that in mind, Vanguard 2015 will culminate in Reno’s first Big Idea Challenge.

Next City, with the support of the City of Reno, the Nightingale Family Foundation, United Construction and Dermody Properties will organize a competition to come up with the best Tactical Urbanist intervention for three opportunity sites in Reno. This is the chance for you, the best and brightest urban thinkers from across North America, to prototype a design intervention that, when successful, will be replicated elsewhere. Why? Because great WELCOME, 2015 VANGUARDS! ideas are addicting!

As you enter Reno, leave your pre-conceived notions at the Last, I wanted to share my affinity with you at this most special gate. You’re in for three days of information, engagement and Vanguard. As I begin my tenure at Next City, I join you with the excitement! Today, you join a community of urban leaders from excitement of a newbie, as well as the trepidation of living up to across North America who have decided to be the change they great expectations. We will forever share this special moment, and seek. Get to know each other well, and do well, by continuing as my inaugural class, you will always be remembered as these collaborations beyond the boundaries of The Biggest Little my “first.” City in the World. I look forward to sharing the Vanguard experiences with you, and Next City is proud to host the 2015 Vanguard, with a line-up of ask that you bring the information, lessons and memories back to activities and events that will inspire and motivate you to take your city to inspire social, economic and environmental change. on projects that will make a measurable difference. This year, Vanguard focuses on Tactical Urbanism, and brings in Matt Tomasulo, Chief Civic Instigator of the startup Walk [Your] City and 2012 Vanguard to share insights and lessons for small-scale Tom Dallessio actions that will unlock the potential of city streets and engage Executive Director neighborhoods like never before. You are encouraged to absorb Next City

4 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 5 ABOUT NEXT CITY IMPORTANT INFO AND VANGUARD Next City Staff Contact Info Sara Schuenemann - 267.770.6870 Next City is a non­profit organization with a mission to Ariella Cohen - 410.802.9107 inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities Jessica Gregan - 610.470.3438 by creating media and events around the world. Our vision is for a world in which cities are not in crisis, but are instead Taxi Service Whittlesea Taxi Service - 775.322.2222 leading the way toward a more sustainable, equitable future. Yellow Cab Co - 775.355.5555 Next City provides daily online coverage of the leaders, policies and innovations driving progress in metropolitan Airport Shuttle $10 regions across the world. In addition to our online journalism, Whitney Peak Airport Shuttle - 775.398.5400 Call with 24 hours advance notice to make reservation we produce events, including the Vanguard conference. for return flights Vanguard is an annual gathering of the best and brightest young urban leaders working to improve cities across Accomodations sectors, including urban planning, community development, Whitney Peak Hotel 255 N Virginia St, Reno, NV 89501 entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, 775.398.5400 design, art and media. Emergency Each year, Next City selects applicants — whose bold ideas 775.379.4327 for cities, experience in the field and ambition for the future Lost & Found all show great promise — to become members of the new 775.379.4327 Vanguard class. Along with alumni, host committee members and Next City staff, Vanguards convene to collectively learn Social Buzz and think about how to tackle the challenges our cities face. Use the hashtag #VanguardReno when sharing your ideas and photos on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, After hosting Vanguard conferences in Washington, D.C., Vine or any other platform. Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland and Chattanooga, Next City  is pleased to present the sixth annual conference in Reno,  Nevada, where a host committee of local urban leaders has played an integral role in shaping this unique event.

6 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 7 PAUL KLEIN AMY HOST COMMITTEE Paul is an award ­ CUMMINGS winning creative Amy Cummings, director that AICP, LEEDAP, ALEXIS HILL Environment. He oversees the Black Rock specializes is the Director Alexis Hill, Special Design Institute architecture and design in campaign of Planning at Events Program program and a design conference known design and team the Regional Manager, manages as DICE: Reno. management. Transportation and plans parties He has a B.A. in PreLaw­ and a M.B.A., Commission of Washoe County (RTC). on a large scale RICHARD graduating Magna Cum Laude, from the Amy has an undergraduate degree for Reno. Her BARTHOLET University of Nevada. Paul works as the from Florida State University, a Master of background Richard Bartholet Creative Services Manager for the City of Community Planning from the University in governmental regulations, special is the Director Reno government and has founded two of Maryland at College Park and a events and nonprofits makes her of Research small businesses. masters degree in history with a focus passionate about how special events at the Nevada on transportation from the University of transform cities. Hill earned her Small Business ALICIA Nevada, Reno. Bachelor’s in Political Science from Development BARBER Texas A&M Unitersity and Master’s in Center in the College of Business at Dr. Alicia Barber is DOUG ERWIN Public Administration from University of University of Nevada, Reno. His projects an urban historian Doug is the VP of Nevada, Reno. focus on economic impacts, economic and founder of Entrepreneurial and fiscal policy recommendations the historical Development at BRYAN and energy efficiency. Formerly, he consulting firm EDAWN and an MCARDLE was the owner of a business brokerage Stories in Place entrepreneur who Bryan McArdle is firm, a civil engineering firm and a LLC. She is the editor of Reno Historical, a has successfully the Manager of small software development company. smartphone app and website dedicated launched six Entrepreneurial Bartholet is also involved in the National to Reno’s history and the author of startups. In addition, he’s an Insignia Development at Security Forum, Regional Alliance Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation Member of the Entrepreneurs EDAWN. He helps for Downtown and Nevada Capital in the Biggest Little City.​ Organization, a Rainforest Architect & entrepreneurs Investment Corporation. Trustee for the Global Innovation Summit launch startups and grow their REBECCA in Silicon Valley and an organizer of businesses throughout the Biggest ABBI JAYNE GASCA TEDxReno. He also sits on the board of Little City. He is an organizer for WHITAKER Inspired by her the Reno/Tahoe EO Chapter and The Startup Weekend Reno and is also the Abbi is a public ambassadorial Discovery Museum. Operations Manager for the Summit relations industry service Venture Mentoring Service that provides veteran, having with Rotary SHYLA mentorship to high growth startups. worked with International PHEASANT clients in a variety and fellowships Shyla is a COLIN of industries through the US State Department, cowgirl at heart ROBERTSON ranging from start­ups to healthcare. Her Rebecca brings her love of community whose passion Colin M. Robertson vast knowledge and close relationships development and citizen diplomacy as a is to encourage is Curator of with media, elected officials and industry lobbyist to the Nevada state legislature, and grow Education at the leaders drive results for clients on a consulting grant writer and advocate entrepreneurial Nevada Museum local, regional and national level. She is for socially minded enterprises. She is innovation in Reno, NV as the of Art. He directs a thought leader. People look to Abbi a business owner and Spanish/English Coordinator of Entrepreneurial programming for guidance. People listen when Abbi bilingual. Development at EDAWN. She plans driven by the museum’s collections, speaks. and implements startup events, is an exhibitions and initiatives, and helped organizer of TEDxReno and serves in develop the programmatic strategy and the operations role for the Summit plans for the Museum’s Center for Art + Venture Mentoring Service that provides mentorship to scalable startups.

8 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 9 MARIA PARTRIDGE Maria Partridge has been teaching drawing, painting, watercolor and graphic design at Truckee Meadows Community College since 2000. She has curated multiple art exhibits and has been the Project Manager installing public art in Reno from the Burning Man event via their nonprofit organization, Black Rock Arts Foundation, since 2008.

ALEX BYBEE Alex Bybee is a student at the University of Nevada, Reno pursuing a B.A. in Political Science. During his most recent role as Vice President of the University of Nevada’s student government, he focused on university­ community relations with the belief that keeping college ­educated talent in a city is crucial to its economic vitality and the robustness of its workforce.

COLIN LORETZ Colin is the founder of Reno Collective, a coworking space in downtown Reno that has played a key role in the development of Reno’s tech and startup communities. He is also involved

in many local events to encourage and Photo by Audrey Lovea via Flickr teach technology including Ignite Reno, Hack4Reno and NASA Space Apps.

10 RENO, NEVADA 11 PARTNERS CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Nightingale TUESDAY, MAY 5 from Reno’s Regional Transportation Family THE DEPOT @ 3​25 E 4th St Commission. Tour 4th Street with Foundation 5:00pm — 9:00pm­ guides Andy Durling, APA and Alicia Meet up with fellow Vanguards, Barber, Stories in Place. Stops will be alumni and staff at the Depot for an made at Cuddleworks, Tutto Ferro, SPONSORS informal gathering to kick off the Community Resource Center Buildings events. and the Morris Burner Hotel.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 3:30pm — ­4:00pm We will be leaving the hotel for Walk Virginia St to the Library the day. Come prepared to tour downtown on foot, and bring what WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY you need for the afternoon and @ 301 S Center St evening. 4:00pm — ­5:00pm Panel Discussion: Short­Term ACES STADIUM @ 2​50 Evans Ave Tactics for LongTerm­ Change­ 8:00am — ­9:00am Andy Durling, Oscar Delgado, Noah Registration & Breakfast Silverman, Karen Kubey, Theresa Hwang 9:00am­ — ­12:00pm How can temporary interventions FRIENDS Welcome Speaker to the built environment influence Introductory MadLibs­ longer-­term change on 4​th Street? A panel of urban planners, architects 12:00pm­­ — ­12:30pm and local Reno stakeholders will Walk Evans Ave discuss small ­scale actions that could serve a larger purpose on a EVANS PARK @ 200 E 9th St commercial corridor deep in flux. 12:30pm­ — 1:30pm Picnic Lunch with Nom Eats and 5:00pm — ­5:30pm Sublime Food Trucks Introduction to the Big Idea Challenge 1:30pm — ­2:00pm Introduce Group Names and Walk Virginia St Elevator Pitch

RTC @ 4TH St. & Evans Ave. 5:30pm­ — 6:30pm 2:00pm — ­3:30pm National Trust for Historic Tour: A Corridor in Transition Preservation​ Tour Meet Amy Cummings and Lee Gibson

12 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 13 POST OFFICE @ 50 South Virginia St 10:15am — ­11:30am Teams will have one hour to work evening. It will be your last chance to 6:30pm­ — 8:00pm Panel Discussion: on their powerpoint for this evening’s relax before the evening’s events. National Trust for Historic Art for Public Impact­ presentation in a conference room at Preservation​ Cocktail Reception Colin Robertson, Maria Partridge, Whitney Peak - 3rd Floor. 6:00pm — ­8:30pm Join the Reno host committee Bryan Lee Jr., David France CARGO @ WHITNEY PEAK members and other local leaders Art changes our perception of place. FRESHEN UP BIG IDEA CHALLENGE for light appetizers and drinks at the How can Reno leverage its strong Group D, Group E, Group F Each team will have 5-7 minutes to historic Reno Post Office. local art scene to change perceptions Take this time to get ready for the pitch their ideas to a public audience of the city? A panel of arts evening. It will be your last chance to and a panel of judges. Presentations 6:30pm — ­6:45pm administrators will consider how to relax before the evening’s events. will be evaluated and the winning Opening Remarks use art to build a stronger downtown idea announced. Grant Stevens from The National community. 4:00pm — ­5:00pm Trust for Historic Preservation will HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOMS 8:00pm welcome Vanguards and local guests 11:30am­ — 1:00pm Group D (Sierra room) DINE AROUNDS(Multiple Locations) and provide some background on the Tour: Small Business & Group E (Summit­ room) Join members of the Host committee #thisplacematters campaign. Next Entrepreneurship Group F (Alpine room) for dinner at select restaurants in City Board President Jess Zimbabwe Meet with local business owners from Teams will have one hour to work Downtown. will share a brief history of the downtown Reno and start­up row, on their PowerPoint for this evenings Vanguard conference and explain and hear about how their business presentation in a conference room at FRIDAY, MAY 8 what’s in store for the 2015 class. models are changing Reno. Whitney Peak - 3rd Floor. 8:30am­ — 11:00am RENO PROVISIONS 8:00pm HUB RIVERSIDE @727 Riverside Dr CARGO @ WHITNEY PEAK @100 N Sierra St DINE AROUNDS (Multiple Locations) 1:00pm — ­3:00pm Group A, Group B, Group C Join members of the Young WORKING LUNCH Take turns performing a dry­ run of 8:30am­ — 9:00am Professionals Network of Reno for With Nom Eats and Still Rollin your program in front of a select Introduction by Mark Estee dinner at select restaurants in Mid­ Food Trucks group of host committee members town. (Vanguards pay their own way.) to ensure success for this evenings 9:00am­ — 9:30am Big Idea Challenge planning sessions: presentations. ZipCar Presentation THURSDAY, MAY 7 Work with your team in your area of THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART focus to come up with a short-­term 5:00pm­ — 6:00pm 9:30am­ — 10:30am @ 160 W Liberty St solution for long-­term impact. These CARGO @ WHITNEY PEAK Panel Discussion: 2 hours will be spent in the field Group D, Group E, Group F The Future of Transportation 8:00am­ — 9:00am generating ideas for your PowerPoint Take turns performing a dry­run of Earl Kaing, Amy Cummings, Jeremy Breakfast presentations. your program in front of a select Pomp, G. Emmanuel Hernández, Meet up for breakfast and mingle group of host committee members Valerie Hermanson with the local chapter of the 3:00pm­ — 4:00pm to ensure success for this evening’s Panelists will discuss how trends American Planning Association. HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOMS presentations. in transportation and mobility are Group A (Sierra room) reshaping cities and our lives 9:00am­ — 10:00am Group B (Summit­ room) FRESHEN UP Introduction by Mike Lydon Group C (Alpine room) Group A, Group B, Group C 10:30am­ — 11:00am Keynote Speaker, Matt Tomasulo, Take this time to get ready for the Closing Session with Tom Dallessio Chief Civic Instigator, Walk Your City

 14 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 15 ABOUT THE PROCESS Vanguards will take multiple tours throughout Reno’s neighborhoods and visit Nightingale Family Foundation Big Idea all three challenge sites, seeing each in their urban context. They will hear about Challenge presented by The City of Reno, BIG the sites from key stakeholders and reflect upon what they see through multiple Dermody Properties and United Construction. discussions, both as a large group and in their smaller challenge teams. Each Challenge team will be given time to develop a proposal to be presented as a 5-7 IDEA minute PowerPoint at a public reception on the evening of May 7. Presentations will be evaluated based on creativity, feasibility, community impact and overall presentation. One winning proposal will be selected by a panel of local and CHALLENGE national judges. RENO 2015 MAKE THE PITCH Each team’s PowerPoint presentation should include the following:

ABOUT RENO­ • At least one relevant precedent or best practice from a U.S. or Reno is a city built on innovation. In the earliest days, Reno was a place that international city provided gold seekers a place to rest, purchase a meal and exchange ideas with • Outline of implementation other prospectors. Later, it made a name for itself as America’s leader in quickie • Description of public impact divorces and 24­-7 vice. Today, Reno is reinventing itself again and the world is taking notice. Apple, Urban Outfitters, Google and Tesla are just a few of the large companies to recently establish outposts in Reno. For the first time in OPPORTUNITY SITES decades, new businesses are opening in the city’s downtown core, bringing new

energy and vitality. 4th Street Yet like many growing cities, Reno is grappling with a built environment ­​From manufacturing to tourism, designed for cars, not the people who want to take advantage of the city’s railroads to restaurants, East 4th increasingly active street life. It is struggling with how to spread energy from Street has played an important revitalized corridors into other areas still in need of investment. and multifaceted role in the With this challenge in mind, the City of Reno, the Nightingale Family history of Reno for more than Foundation,​ U​nited Construction and Dermody Properties have underwritten a century. First operating as a the 2015 Vanguard Big Idea Challenge. A competition to come up with the county road and railroad corridor best tactical urbanist intervention for three opportunity sites in Reno, the populated by isolated industries Big Idea Challenge is a chance for the brightest urban thinkers from the and scattered homes, the street’s Americas to prototype a design intervention that, if successful, could proximity to Reno’s commercial be replicated elsewhere. The winning idea will be funded with a $10,000 downtown made it an early implementation grant. streetcar line and then, a state highway. Renamed U.S. 40 in the late 1920s, the former Lincoln Highway remained the primary east-west route through Reno until the completion of Interstate 80, three blocks to the north, in 1974. ABOUT THE PROPOSALS With all this highway development, the road grew increasingly inhospitable to We are looking for temporary interventions to the built environment people and instead, catered to the cars speeding on its wide asphalt lanes. The that address issues of walkability, safety or connectivity, if not all three. heavy traffic made it a natural destination for inexpensive motels and transient The proposals should seek to improve perceptions of Reno’s downtown populations, which didn’t help local perceptions that the street was unsafe. In neighborhoods and encourage activity in the public realm. The interventions 2010, the corridor got a big boost when the Reno Transportation Commission should be feasible to accomplish with a budget of $10,000 within the next 12 built a new transit center on 4th Street that will soon become the terminus of a months. Lastly, they should be legal within Reno’s regulatory framework. new bus rapid transit line. The momentum continues to grow; last year, the RTC received a $16 million federal TIGER grant that will be used to modernize and upgrade infrastructure on the corridor and all the while, new businesses have been opening there. Without a doubt, 4th Street is on the rebound and now is the time to imagine how best to redesign this historic corridor to lead to a brighter future.

16 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 17 The Lids ­ With eight floors of guest rooms plus a lobby, mezzanine, and service floor, the The railroad has played hotel served as a prototype for the vertical hotel casino. For more than three a major role in the ebb decades, the Mapes was one of Reno’s most elegant hotel casinos, hosting high and flow of life in Reno. school proms and local dinner dates as well as world-class performers. Financial Throughout the first struggles prompted by an ill-timed expansion of their Money Tree Casino in half of the 20th century, 1978 led the Mapes organization to file for bankruptcy a few years later. The trainfuls of people building closed for good in 1982, changed hands, and was sold to the Reno came to its casinos and Redevelopment Agency in 1996. courts seeking to take advantage of Nevada’s relaxed divorce and gambling laws. More recently, the Despite a vigorous campaign by preservationists to adaptively reuse the Mapes train, running straight through the city’s downtown, became a hazard, colliding Hotel, the Reno City Council voted in September 1999 to demolish the building. with pedestrians and passenger vehicles as well as stopping traffic more than It was imploded on January 30, 2000. By 2008, the site​, named City Plaza, ​had 20 times per day. By 1995, the city knew something had to be done. It raised been paved with concrete for use as a​n open space​ and seasonal ice skating $265 million for the largest public works project ever undertaken in Northern rink. Today, ​City​ ​P​laza is underused and in need of a new civic identity befitting Nevada: the Reno Transportation Rail Access Corridor, or ReTRAC. of its grand past.  The ReTRAC project depressed more than two miles of train track that ran directly through Downtown Reno. A 54-foot wide, 33-foot deep train trench was built, utilizing state-of-the art planning and construction processes. By all measures, ReTRac was a win-win for Reno. It greatly improved traffic and pedestrian safety, reduced air pollution by routing trains underground and reducing idling and increased property values in the areas adjacent to the trenches. The most exciting opportunity to come out of the project, however, has yet to be realized. The covering of the trenches created more than 120 acres of real estate available for development or to be used as open spaces right in the heart of downtown. A vision is needed to turn this now-vacant corridor so essential to Reno’s past into a space that embodies Reno’s future.

City Plaza­, formerly the Mapes Hotel The 12-story Mapes Hotel became the tallest building in Nevada when it burst onto the Reno scene in 1947. One of the first high-rise hotels built in the U.S. after World War II, the Mapes was situated on prime real estate, replacing the city’s old post office on the northeast corner of the Truckee River and Virginia Street, Reno’s main downtown thoroughfare.

The descendant of a pioneering Reno family, Charles Mapes, Sr., and his wife Gladys bought the parcel and hired architect H. F. Slocombe of Oakland, California to draw up plans for a luxury hotel influenced by the Art Deco style of New York City’s Empire State and Chrysler Buildings. On opening day, the Mapes family announced, “The hotel is informal in keeping with the western tradition which makes Reno so hospitable. Come in full dress if you want any time…or come in cowboy boots. You will feel equally at home.”

18 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 19 WHAT IS TACTICAL URBANISM?

Merriam Webster defines of “tactical” as “of or relating to small-scale actions serving a larger purpose,” or “adroit in planning or maneuvering to accomplish a purpose.” Translated to cities, Tactical Urbanism is an approach to neighborhood building and activation using short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions and policies. Tactical Urbanism is used by a range of actors, including governments, business and non-profits, citizen groups, and individuals. It makes use of open and iterative development processes; the efficient use of resources; and the creative potential unleashed by social interaction. It is what Of course we recognize that not all city building efforts lend themselves to Professor Nabeel Hamdi calls, ‘making plans without the usual preponderance tactical approaches —we don’t advocate using temporary materials to pilot-test of planning.’ bridges or prototype skyscrapers. When done well, large-scale projects can be In many ways, Tactical Urbanism is a learned response to the slow and catalytic, if not iconic. Tactical Urbanism also has very real limitations. It’s not siloed conventional city building process. For citizens, it allows the immediate the, or even one, solution for many of our most vexing urban problems. It can’t reclamation, redesign or reprogramming of public space. For developers solve the affordable housing crisis facing our most desirable cities, nor will it fix or entrepreneurs, it provides a means of collecting design input from the bridges in need of repair. It can’t build high-speed rail lines and it won’t resolve market they intend to serve, to the benefit of that community. For advocacy the looming public sector pension crisis found in so many North American cities. organizations, it is a way to show what is possible to garner public and political The value of Tactical Urbanism is in breaking through the gridlock of support. And for government, it’s a way to put best practices into, well, practice— what we call the Big Planning process, with incremental projects and policies and quickly! that can be adjusted on the fly while never losing sight of long-term goals. It Because the places that people inhabit are never static, Tactical Urbanism is a movement based on contributing to a positive vision for the future. It is doesn’t propose one-size-fits-all solutions, but intentional and flexible responses. about developing responses and processes that can work in large cities and The former remains the fixation of numerous and overlapping disciplines in the small towns. It is about building social capital with your neighbors and city urban development fields, which assume that most variables impacting cities leaders. It is, as Nabeel Hamdi says, about “disturbing the order of things in the can be controlled now and into the distant future. The latter rejects this notion interest of change” and creating livability gains where we all notice it most: our and embraces the dynamism of cities. This reframing invites a new conversation neighborhood. about local resiliency and helps cities and citizens together explore a more — Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia, Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for nuanced and nimble approach to citymaking, one that can envision long-term Long-Term Change transformation but also adjust as conditions inevitably change.

20 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 21 NEXT CITY STAFF (a Catholic Worker community that JESSICA provides food and housing for the GREGAN homeless) in Camden, NJ. He has a Events + B.A. in Urban Studies and Regional Partnership TOM as a staff reporter for the Brooklyn Planning from Rutgers University­ Assistant DALLESSIO Paper in New York. She has reported Camden and a M.A. in Regional, Executive on community resiliency in Haiti, Economic, and Social Development Jessica Director toxic FEMA trailers on the Gulf coast from the University of Massachusetts joined Next City in July 2014. She and affordable housing in Brooklyn. ­Lowell. is currently pursuing her B.S. in Tom is the She prefers the bus. Follow her @​  Liberal Studies with concentrations Executive ariellacohen​ on Twitter. ALEXIS in Public Management and Peace Director of Next City. Before joining STEPHENS & Conflict Studies at West Chester the organization in 2015, he directed JANINE WHITE Urban University. Jess has worked with a the Center for Resilient Design at Senior Editor Economics variety of nonprofits in the areas of the College of Architecture and Fellow conservation, youth empowerment, Design at the New Jersey Institute From political engagement, and LGBT of Technology. Prior to that, he ran infrastructure​ Alexis is Next rights. the Regional Plan Association’s New to e​conomic City’s urban economics fellow. She’s Jersey office, and served as a senior development​ written about housing, pop culture, SARA advisor on land use for two New to c​ulture, Janine​ oversees Next global music subcultures, and more SCHUENEMANN Jersey governors. Tom is a licensed City’s daily content. Her experience for publications like Rolling Stone, Events + professional planner, and a member includes gigs at an alternative SPIN, Shelterforce and MTV Iggy. Development of the American Institute of Certified medicine book publisher, an A&E She has a B.A. in Urban Studies from Manager Planners, as well as an adjunct weekly, and a daily newspaper. Barnard College and a M.S. in Historic professor at the New Jersey Institute Most recently, she served as exec Preservation from the University of Sara is a of Technology, where he teaches editor and online news editor at Pennsylvania. marketing and events mastermind land use planning and infrastructure Philadelphia magazine, where she with more than ten years of planning. covered everything from elections to ANTHONY experience supporting small the city budget to real estate. SMYRSKI businesses, artists and nonprofits. ARIELLA Creative Director She has worked with artists to COHEN JEFF donate tooth­related artwork for a Executive Editor MUCKENSTURM Anthony is a dental surgery fundraiser, planned Audience creative director, a flash mob for the Philadelphia Ariella Cohen is Engagement artist, and cultural Fringe Festival and raised money an award­-winning Manager producer. He works in both the cultural for children orphaned by the 2004 journalist with and commercial spheres with clients Indian Ocean Tsunami. 11 years of experience reporting on Before and artists around the world. He is a urban change, politics and policy. Prior joining Next City, Jeff was the recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the  to joining Next City, she co­founded Communications Director for Arts and a Sigma Delta Chi award from New Orleans’ first online investigative Healthcare­NOW!, a carpenter, and a the Society of Professional Journalists news outlet, The Lens, and worked community member of Leavenhouse for Best Investigative Journalism.

22 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 23 VANGUARDS Tsedey obtained her Masters in Nonprofit Management & Urban Policy Analysis at The New School. She has since held positions that Sasha Neha Ahuja is a community range from Director of the DMI organizer and advocate from New Scholars Program at the Drum Major York City. She has organized at the Institute for Public Policy, to Project intersection of migration and labor PAUL BAKER PRINDLE Manager for the Mayor’s Innovation for almost a decade. Sasha currently RENO, NV Delivery Team – an initiative of serves as Deputy Director of the Director, University Galleries, University Bloomberg Philanthropies. Presently, Policy & Innovation Division, within of Nevada, Reno Betru works passionately towards PAOLA AGUIRRE the Speaker’s Office, at the New York [email protected] neighborhood transformation in her CHICAGO, IL City Council. hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, as Research analyst and design strategist Paul is the director of University Vice President of Community LIFT. Place Lab, Arts and Public Life Initiative Galleries, the University of Nevada, at University of Chicago Reno’s museum of art. He clarifies, [email protected] through museum practice, how the visual arts make communities Paola Aguirre is an architect and stronger, safer and more resilient, urban designer based in Chicago. dynamic and innovative. He supports She recently joined Place Lab at The the next generation of artists as they University of Chicago and is founder transition into professional practice, of The Borderless Workshop, a ALEN AMINI, through mentorship, critique and collaborative initiative that focuses CINCINNATI, OH exhibition opportunities. He also BRYAN BOYER on the US­-Mexico border region to Executive Director, Corps Member cultivates a love for the arts among BROOKLYN, NY further the understanding of cities, Education Foundation; Owner and the museum’s viewership by sharing Co-Founder, Makeshift Society ecologies and cultures among the Director, Jamshid Rug Gallery; Special world-class exhibitions. [email protected] border condition. Projects Manager, Kentucky Campus Compact Bryan serves on the Board of [email protected] Directors at Public Policy Lab, is a co-founder of Makeshift Society (a Alen Amini operates Jamshid shared workspace and community Antique Rugs, LLC in Cincinnati and center for creatives in San Francisco is the Director of the Corps Member and Brooklyn) and co-founder of Dash Education Foundation, a nonprofit Marshall (a design studio). At Dash, working to provide educational Bryan consults with organizations opportunities for low-income TSEDEY BETRU, including Google, The Museum SASHA AHUJA, students. MEMPHIS, TN of Modern Art and the Knight BROOKLYN, NY Vice President, Community L.I.F.T. Foundation. Deputy Director, Policy & Innovation [email protected] Division, New York City Council [email protected]

24 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 25 School for Design in New York City, and Chris is from the Bay Area and has has since worked in roles ranging from a lived, worked and studied in Los junior designer for ABC, an experiential Angeles, Mexico City and Washington, designer with ICRAVE in New York City, D.C. He strives to advance social the lead on a redevelopment project in justice issues, such as poverty Kenya and a water conserving project in alleviation, income equality and racial Cambodia. Her latest project is a Reno- integration, through the formulation GINNY BROWNE based eco-concious, cold-pressed juice OSCAR DELGADO and implementation of urban policies, OAKLAND, CA bar, Rawbry. RENO, NV specifically in the field of affordable Project Manager, The Participatory Vice Mayor/Councilman, Ward 3, housing. Budgeting Project City of Reno, Nevada [email protected] [email protected]

Ginny completed her Master’s in Voters elected Oscar to represent Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA Ward 3 in 2012. Ward 3 is an area of with a concentration in Housing and northeast and central Reno, which Community Development. She joined includes the Wells Avenue and Mira PBP in 2012 to coordinate the first Loma neighborhoods, as well as city-wide PB process in the US, in CAITLIN CAMERON neighborhoods east of the University Vallejo, CA, and is now managing the PORTLAND, ME of Nevada, Reno. As a member of the KATE DIDECH organization’s West Coast project. Urban Designer, City of Portland, Maine Reno City Council, Oscar brings to the OAKLAND, CA [email protected] Council his education, experience in the Urban Planning Consultant, Flux construction industry, understanding of [email protected] Caitlin is a first wave millennial having economic development and practice lived as a car-free planner and designer within the social service/community Kate is an attorney, planner and in five cities. Her recent projects in outreach sector. landscape designer who has spent Portland include the India Street much of her career in the public Sustainable Neighborhood Plan and sector. Recently, Kate has been Form-Based Code, Congress Square applying her skill set to making Redesign, Complete Streets Design zoning ordinances more actionable BRIANNA BULLENTINI Manual, and improving immigrant and navigable for Flux Metro, RENO, NV community engagement methods. an application that renders 3D Owner/Founder, Rawbry Caitlin is also a board member of visualizations of the maximum [email protected] Portland Buy Local and an American buildout permitted under zoning Friend volunteer with Catholic Charities ordinances. Reno native Brianna Bullentini of Maine Refugee Services. CHRIS DICKERSIN-PROKOPP is a designer, entrepreneur and WASHINGTON, D.C. philanthropist. She obtained her Program Analyst, D.C. Department of Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Housing and Community Development Architecture from Parsons The New (DHCD) [email protected]

26 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 27 Zahra Ebrahim is a change-driven Steven Feldstein is the Deputy creative, deeply invested in using Assistant Secretary of State in the design and design process to explore Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights community engagement, institutional and Labor (DRL). He is responsible innovation and participatory city for DRL’s work in Africa, international building. As the Principal of the labor affairs and international design think tank, archiTEXT, she has religious freedom. He received his ANDY DURLING led innovation projects with some ALEX FELDMAN J.D. from Berkeley School of Law and RENO, NV of Canada’s largest charities and PHILADELPHIA, PA his A.B. from Princeton University. He Partner, Wood Rodgers governing bodies. Vice President, U3 Advisors was born and raised in Bloomington, [email protected] [email protected] Indiana.

Andy is a Principal Planner with Alex Feldman is a Vice President at Wood Rodgers, serving public U3 Advisors, a nationally recognized and private sector clients across consulting practice that specializes the Western US. With a career in real estate and economic marked by a wide variety of design development strategies around influences across multiple sectors, anchor institutions. Since joining U3 he draws from his experiences to in 2009, Alex has served as a project engage communities in meaningful JONATHON ENDE manager for the firm’s Midtown dialogues surrounding complex land NEW YORK, NY Detroit anchor strategy. He helped GINA FORD use and transportation planning CEO, SeamlessDocs lead the design and implementation WATERTOWN, MA issues. Andy also currently serves as [email protected] of the $5M Live Midtown employee Principal, Sasaki Associates President for the Nevada Chapter of housing incentive program, and [email protected] the American Planning Association. Jonathon is founder and CEO of the formation of the community SeamlessDocs, where he’s helping development organization Midtown Gina is a landscape architect, principal governments go paperless. He is Detroit, Inc. and chair of Sasaki’s Urban Studio. passionate about changing the way The Urban Studio is an energized and that governments interact with interdisciplinary group of practitioners their citizens, and is starting with solely dedicated to the improvement their forms. He and his team work of quality of life in cities through every day to make the world a more rigorous planning, exceptional design seamless place. But as Jonathon says, and strong community partnerships. it isn’t really work if you love what ZAHRA EBRAHIM you do. TORONTO, ON Principal, archiTEXT STEVEN FELDSTEIN [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of State [email protected]

28 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 29 believes that the intersection of Gunnar is a city and regional planner innovation, community and the arts by profession, an urban school district can catalyze social change and propel Board Member by passion, and an economic growth in a city. This belief all-around community organizer by catalyzed the launch of Revolution habit. From starting his own property of Hope, a nonprofit focused on reinvestment business and launching social impact through the arts in the rail-based transit advocacy nonprofits, RODNEY FOXWORTH inner city of Boston. He has taught LOPE GUTIERREZ-RUIZ to promoting energy alternatives BALTIMORE, MD enthusiastically in many countries PALO ALTO, CA and neighborhood beautification on Founder/Director, Invested Impact around the world including Bermuda, John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, various Boards, to finding ways to [email protected] Venezuela, Poland and India. Stanford University spend more time with his growing [email protected] family, Gunnar is a problem solver. Rodney is a social change advocate and philanthropy consultant Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz is a publisher, art focused on social entrepreneurship director and cultural manager, and and community engagement. He is passionate about the future of our co-founded the Baltimore Social cities and its relationship to media, Enterprise Network and is Vice Chair design, data and culture. He is currently of Thread, an innovative dropout a Senior Fellow at TED Conferences, prevention and youth development and a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford organization. Rodney is featured in KIMBERLY GARZA University. There, his research has “Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, SACRAMENTO, CA centered on data visualization, GREGORY HELLER Leading and Succeeding.” Co-Founder, ATLAS Lab database management, open BALTIMORE, MD Project Manager, Quadriga Landscape government, mapping techniques, CEO, American Communities Trust Architecture design thinking, product design and [email protected] [email protected] business enterprise growth. Gregory Heller is a practitioner Kimberly is a design professional and author with over a decade’s providing services in art, landscape experience in social-impact real estate architecture and planning. Her and community development. He is research-based design approach, CEO of American Communities Trust coupled with her ability to manipulate (ACT). Greg is also the author of DAVID FRANCE virtual models, helps to identify Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the MEDFORD, MA and illustrate complexities and Building of Modern Philadelphia. He is Founder/Executive Director, opportunities hidden within a site. a graduate of Wesleyan University. Revolution of Hope Her work aims to provide innovative GUNNAR HAND . [email protected] platforms for cultural, educational KANSAS CITY, MO and social engagement. Project Planner, BNIM David France is an active performer [email protected] and an innovative educator. He

30 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 31 Hernandez is part of the team Earl Kaing is a transportation planner “Planeación y Desarrollo,” an with the San Francisco MTA, where organization specializing in social he works to improve the walking, prevention of violence against waiting and riding experience for scholar communities and commuters. transit customers. In a past life, he His work focuses on developing was a management consultant with violence studies and strategies to Accenture. Earl holds degrees from VALERIE HERMANSON improve the security and mobility of THERESA HWANG UCLA (graduate), and the University of ALBUQUERQUE, NM peripheral areas in Mexico City. He LOS ANGELES, CA California, Berkeley (undergraduate). Transportation Planner, Mid-Region previously worked in the Architecture Director of Community Design and Council of Governments department at the National Planning, Skid Row Housing Trust [email protected] Autonomous University of Mexico. [email protected]

Valerie Hermanson is a transportation Theresa Hwang is the Director of planner at the Mid-Region Council of Community Design and Planning at Governments where she is planning the Skid Row Housing Trust, a non- and implementing Albuquerque’s profit permanent supportive housing pilot bike share in partnership with organization where she was the a local nonprofit. She also provides Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow ERIN KELLY technical and transportation planning from 2009-2012. Theresa is on the DETROIT, MI assistance to urban and rural local Board of Directors for the Association Blue and Green Infrastructure Program governments. She co-planned LAKISHA HULL for Community Design. She received Manager, Detroit Future City Albuquerque’s first open streets event, LOS ANGELES, CA her Master of Architecture from [email protected] known as ABQCiQlovía, serves as an City Planning Associate, Harvard Graduate School of Design educational lead on the New Mexico City of Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Erin Kelly is the Blue and Green Complete Streets Leadership Team, [email protected] Engineering and Art History from the Infrastructure Program Manager and volunteers with MiABQ. Johns Hopkins University. at Detroit Future City’s (DFC) Lakisha Hull is a City Planning Implementation Office. Prior to joining Associate at the City of Los Angeles DFC, Erin was a Detroit Revitalization Department of City Planning, in the Fellow at NextEnergy, where she Transit Neighborhood Plans Unit. managed a range of projects Lakisha has a dual Master’s degree in occurring between the public, private Architecture and City Planning from and nonprofit sectors in southeast the University of Pennsylvania, and Michigan, each aimed at creating a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture value from vacant buildings and from the University of Michigan. She structure-free land. G. EMMANUEL HERNANDEZ is a certified planner and LEED AP EARL KAING MEXICO CITY, DF BD+C under the USGBC. Lakisha is SAN FRANCISCO, CA Consultant, Planeación y Desarrollo S.C. also involved in mentorship programs, Transportation Planner, San Francisco [email protected] and has been a guest studio critic at Municipal Transportation Agency multiple colleges. [email protected]

32 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 33 Elected in 2013, he is the official Zakcq Lockrem is a principal and opposition’s spokesperson for director of planning for Asakura finance, government relations and Robinson, a planning, urban design international relations. He is also and landscape architecture firm Vice President of the Finance and based in Austin, Houston, Los Angeles Administration Committee at City Hall. and Tokyo. In his work, he focuses on Before entering politics, Guillaume the experience of urban space and KAREN KUBEY Lavoie worked in public diplomacy, LORA LILLARD the role of public space in shaping BROOKLYN, NY public policy and international PORTLAND, OR civic engagement. Executive Director, relations. City Planner, Urban Design Studio, Institute for Public Architecture City of Portland Bureau of Planning [email protected] and Sustainability [email protected] Karen Kubey is a New York-based architectural designer and educator Lora Lillard is an urban designer specializing in housing. Currently the with the City of Portland’s Bureau of Executive Director of the Institute for Planning and Sustainability (BPS). Public Architecture, Kubey began her She joined BPS’s Urban Design Studio career in affordable housing design. in 2005, where she works with MICHAEL MARTIN She co-founded both the Architecture BRYAN LEE, JR. communities to explore design issues BROOKLYN, NY for Humanity New York chapter and NEW ORLEANS, LA and opportunities that create better Place Based Innovation Lead, HD MADE New Housing New York, the city’s first Place + Civic Design Director, places for people. Lora has served as [email protected] design competition for sustainable Arts Council of New Orleans a guest speaker and design critic for and affordable housing. [email protected] the University of Oregon and Portland Michael is Place-Based Innovation State University. Lead at HD MADE and Partner at Plot. Bryan is an architectural designer, He is an interdisciplinary strategist artist, writer and devoted advocate who works at the intersection for social justice through design. of placemaking and interactive Throughout his professional technology. Over the past five career, Bryan has been dedicated years, Michael has worked with to promoting diversity within the organizations, cities and real estate profession, and relentless in his efforts developers to activate physical space. to elevate the design process as an GUILLAUME LAVOIE effective catalyst for community MONTREAL, QC change. He is currently the Place & ZAKCQ LOCKREM City Councillor, City of Montreal Civic Design Director for the Arts AUSTIN, TX [email protected] Council of New Orleans. Principal and Director of Planning, Asakura Robinson Guillaume Lavoie is a City Councillor [email protected] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

34 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 35 Adam Meagher is a Vice President Director of City Initiatives at KaBOOM!, for Planning and Development at the a national non-profit dedicated to New York City Economic Development ensuring that all kids get the balanced Corporation. At NYCEDC, he leads and active play needed to thrive. complex public-private initiatives that Most of her career has been spent in advance the City’s goals of promoting nonprofits and government, with a transit-oriented development, focus on public health and equity in LYNNETTE MCRAE building affordable housing and SARA MOKURIA urban environments. WASHINGTON, D.C. strengthening infrastructure to DALLAS, TX Team Lead Rockford, IL, White House support neighborhood growth. Adam Senior Research Associate, UT Dallas Initiative on Strong Cities, Strong is a graduate of the Master in Urban Institute for Urban Policy Research Communities, HUD Planning program at the Harvard [email protected] [email protected] Graduate School of Design. Sara Mokuria is a Senior Research Lynnette McRae is the Team Lead for Associate with The Institute for the White House Initiative on Strong Urban Policy Research at the Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) in University of Texas at Dallas, where Rockford, Illinois, and a community she brings high-level experience KEVIN MUSSELMAN development professional. She works in project management, program PHILADELPHIA, PA for the U.S. Department of Housing design, teaching and community Manager of Neighborhood & Resource and Urban Development and supports engagement. She is the co-founder of Planning, People’s Emergency Center communities across the country on Mothers Against Police Brutality and [email protected] economic resilience and place-based JUAN MENDIVE is committed to her city becoming a economic development initiatives. LAREDO, TX beacon of racial and economic justice. Kevin Musselman has worked on Compliance Manager, a diverse range of community NeighborWorks Laredo development efforts throughout [email protected] Philadelphia since 2006. He currently serves as a grant writer and project Juan Sebastian is an urban planner manager at People’s Emergency and avid community advocate who Center, overseeing a $1.5 million strongly believes that true urban budget for a community development change begins at the neighborhood corporation located within the level. Through his professional and federally designated West Philadelphia ADAM MEAGHER volunteer endeavors, he hopes to MYETA MOON Promise Zone. BROOKLYN, NY make a difference in his beloved WASHINGTON, D.C. Vice President, NYC Economic hometown. Riding public transit in big Director, City Initiatives, KaBOOM! Development Corporation cities is his pastime. [email protected] [email protected] Myeta is a native Washingtonian, lover of cities big and small, and current

36 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 37 Thor Nelson is an urban designer projects as a Senior Project Manager with the D.C. Office of Planning whose at the Detroit Collaborative Design work focuses on making cities more Center (DCDC). She joined DCDC livable places though streetscape and in 2012 as an Enterprise Rose public space design, park planning Architectural Fellow, and previously and public space design review. He practiced community design at is also an active civic leader who has bcWORKSHOP in Brownsville, Texas CLAIRE NAPAWAN served as a president of the Baltimore LIZ OKEKE-VON BATTEN and the Gulf Coast Community Design ALBANY, CA Architecture Foundation, where he WASHINGTON, D.C. Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi. Assistant Professor of Landscape focused on developing architectural Director, Center for Design & the City, Architecture, University of California, education and scholarship programs American Architectural Foundation Davis, Department of Human Ecology for disadvantaged students. [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Okeke-Von Batten is Director Claire Napawan is an architect, of the American Architectural landscape architect, urban designer, Foundation’s Center for Design & the and academic who has designed City, where she produces Sustainable and studied urban environments Cities Design Academy and City throughout the world for the past Managers’ Design Academy. Liz’s 10+ PAUL PERRY 10 years. She believes that urban years of professional planning and OAKLAND, CA resilience requires social resilience, preservation advocacy is informed by Executive Director-Bay Area, and designers and decision makers KRISTINA NEWMAN-SCOTT her belief that everyone deserves to The Reset Foundation need to explore new techniques for HARTFORD, CT live in beautiful, healthful places. [email protected] integrating urban communities with Director: Marketing, Events and Cultural their built environments. Affairs, City of Hartford Paul brings expertise as a teacher, [email protected] administrator and school designer to his work with The Reset Foundation. Kristina Newman-Scott, Director of Most recently, he was part of a team Marketing, Events and Cultural Affairs that designed and launched three (MECA) for the City of Hartford, new competency-based high schools Connecticut, has created artistic within the New York City Department and cultural programming that is of Education, the nation’s largest inclusive of the city’s many diverse CEARA O’LEARY school district. Paul earned his communities. Ms. Newman-Scott was DETROIT, MI Doctorate of Education Leadership THOR NELSON a popular television personality and Senior Project Manager, Detroit from the Harvard Graduate School WASHINGTON, D.C. visual artist in Jamaica, where she Collaborative Design Center of Education. Urban Designer, DC Office of Planning was born and raised, and became a [email protected] [email protected] U.S. citizen in 2009. Ceara O’Leary leads collaborative community design and planning

RENO, NEVADA 39 nation, including in her hometown Development & Urban Regeneration of Jackson, Mississippi. She is a teams in Sydney, Australia. With community advocate, spending much over 16 years of experience in the of her free time as Vice President of areas of development, construction, The Twenty Pearls Foundation, Inc., architecture, urban planning and which gives scholarships to graduating sustainability, Jason works to deliver students in South Fulton County and world-class urban precincts in CHARLES RATH sponsors several community projects. ALYIA SMITH-PARKER the most ecologically and socially ALBUQUERQUE, NM WASHINGTON, D.C. balanced manner possible. President and CEO, Resilient Solutions 21 Senior Associate, Health and Wellness, [email protected] National League of Cities [email protected] Charles is the President and CEO of Resilient Solutions 21, the world’s Alyia Smith-Parker is a Senior first holistic resilience consulting Associate for the National League consortium. RS 21 integrates the best of Cities’ (NLC) Institute for Youth, minds from multiple disciplines to help Education, and Families. She works cities, businesses and the developing NOAH SILVERMAN with local elected officials, their world create imaginative solutions RENO, NV staff and community partners to JAY WALL to thrive in the face of shocks and Executive Director, Reno Bike Project advance policies to address the TORONTO, ON stresses from the 21st century. [email protected] social determinants of health, reduce Creative Director, STUDIO JAYWALL health disparities, and build healthier [email protected] Noah is the Co-Founder and Executive communities. Director of the Reno Bike Project, a Jay is the Creative Director of community bike shop that makes Toronto-based design team STUDIO cycling affordable by providing JAYWALL, focusing on social, cultural, an inexpensive resource for the environmental and city-building community to purchase, repair and initiatives. Jay’s use of graphic design learn about bicycles. With the project, and tactical urbanism to improve Noah creates innovative programs cities landed him on a list of Canada’s RANADA ROBINSON to educate, enable and challenge the top public space champions in 2014. ATLANTA, GA community to think about the role He also enjoys competing in urban Research Manager, cycling can play in their everyday lives. JASON TWILL cycling races. Market Street Services SYDNEY, AU [email protected] Head of Sustainability, Development & Urban Regeneration, Lend Lease Ranada is the Research Manager at [email protected] Market Street Services and has led research for economic development Jason currently serves as Head strategy processes across the of Sustainability for Lend Lease’s

40 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 41 Amanda Wilson is the program NEXT CITY manager of Community Capital Fund — a community development funding BOARD OF DIRECTORS organization in Kansas City, Missouri — and board member of the Heartland Eugenie Birch | Penn Institute for Urban Research Conservation Alliance. She holds a Bruce Katz | The Brookings Institution Master’s in City & Regional Planning MARLON WILLIAMS from Cornell University and a B.S. in Barin Nahvi | Hearst Innovation BROOKLYN, NY Biology from Missouri State University. Tamar Shapiro | Center for Community Progress Director of Cross Agency Partnerships, NYC Department of Health and Mental Eric Shaw | City of Washington D.C. Hygiene Jess Zimbabwe | Urban Land Institute [email protected]

Marlon Williams is a public servant skilled in leading large scale economic empowerment initiatives that include collaboration across the public, non-profit and private sectors. As the current Director of Cross Agency Partnerships for the NYC Department of Health, he is leading urban planning and design efforts to improve public health.

AMANDA WILSON KANSAS CITY, MO Program Manager, Community Capital Fund/KCMO CDE (Community Development Entity) [email protected]

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44 2015 VANGUARD CONFERENCE RENO, NEVADA 45 Karen Kubey | Executive Director, Institute for Public Architecture 2015 VANGUARD DIRECTORY Guillaume Lavoie | City Councillor, City of Montreal

Bryan Lee Jr. ​| Place + Civic Design Director, Arts Council of New Orleans Paola Aguirre | Research analyst and design strategist, Place Lab, Arts and Lora Lillard | City Planner, Urban Design Studio, City of Portland Bureau of Public Life Initiative at University of Chicago Planning and Sustainability Sasha Ahuja | D​eputy Director, Policy & Innovation Division, Zakcq Lockrem | Principal and Director of Planning, Asakura Robinson New York City Council Michael Martin | Place-Based Innovation Lead, HD MADE Alen Amini | Executive Director, Corps Member Education Foundation; Lynnette McRae | Team Lead, Rockford, IL, White House Initiative on Owner and Director, Jamshid Rug Gallery; Special Projects Manager, Strong Cities, Strong Communities, HUD Kentucky Campus Compact Adam Meagher | Vice President, NYC Economic Development Corporation Tsedey Betru | Vice President, Community L.I.F.T. Juan Mendive | Compliance Manager, NeighborWorks Laredo Bryan Boyer | Co-Founder, Makeshift Society Sara Mokuria | Senior Research Associate, UT Dallas Institute for Urban Ginny Browne | Project Manager, The Participatory Budgeting Project Policy Research Myeta Moon,​ Director, City Initiatives, KaBOOM! Brianna Bullentini | Owner/Founder, Rawbry Kevin Musselman | Manager of Neighborhood & Resource Planning, Caitlin Cameron | Urban Designer, City of Portland, Maine People’s Emergency Center Oscar Delgado | Vice-Mayor/Councilman, Ward 3, City of Reno, Nevada Claire Napawan | Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Chris Dickersin-Prokopp | Program Analyst, D.C. Department of Housing University of California, Davis, Department of Human Ecology and Community Development (DHCD) Thor Nelson | Urban Designer, DC Office of Planning Kate Didech | Urban Planning Consultant, Flux Andy Durling,​ Partner, Kristina Newman-Scott | Director, Marketing, Events and Cultural Affairs, Wood Rodgers City of Hartford Zahra Ebrahim | Principal, archiTEXT Jonathon Ende,​ CEO, SeamlessDocs Liz Okeke-Von Batten | Director, Center for Design & the City, American Alex Feldman | V​ice President, U3 Advisors Architectural Foundation Steven Feldstein | Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of State Ceara O’Leary | Senior Project Manager, Detroit Collaborative Gina Ford | Principal, Sasaki Associates Design Center Rodney Foxworth | Founder/Director, Invested Impact Paul Perry | Executive Director, Bay Area, The Reset Foundation David France | Founder/Executive Director, Revolution of Hope Paul Baker Prindle | D​irector, University Galleries, University of Nevada, Kimberly Garza | Co-Founder, ATLAS Lab Reno Project Manager, Quadriga Landscape Architecture Charles Rath | Program Lead, Resilient Cities, Sandia National Lope Gutierrez Ruiz | John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, Laboratories Stanford University Ranada Robinson | Research Manager, Market Street Services Gunnar Hand | Project Planner, BNIM Noah Silverman | Executive Director, Reno Bike Project Gregory Heller | CEO, American Communities Trust Alyia Smith-Parker | Senior Associate, Health and Wellness, National Valerie Hermanson | Transportation Planner, Mid-Region Council League of Cities of Governments Jason Twill | ​Head of Sustainability, Development & Urban Regeneration, G. Emmanuel Hernandez | Consultant, Planeación y Desarrollo S.C. Lend Lease Lakisha Hull | City Planning Associate, City of Los Angeles Jay Wall | Creative Director, STUDIO JAYWALL Theresa Hwang | Director​ of Community Design and Planning, Marlon Williams | Director of Cross Agency Partnerships, NYC Department Skid Row Housing Trust of Health and Mental Hygiene Earl Kaing | T​ransportation Planner, San Francisco Municipal Amanda Wilson | Program Manager, Community Capital Fund /KCMO CDE Transportation Agency (Community Development Entity) Erin Kelly | B​lue and Green Infrastructure Program Manager, Detroit Future City

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