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ANDREW DASH, AICP Andrew is the Assistant Director of neighborhoods and currently calls South home. In her free Strategic Planning for the City of time, Andrea enjoys exploring ’s parks, museums and Pittsburgh. He manages a team of 12 libraries with her husband and their two small, disproportionately fast planners, who handle long-range children. planning activities for the City, including: the development of the ASHLEY HOLLOWAY City’s first comprehensive plan, neighborhood planning, Ashley R. Holloway is a Neighborhood transportation planning, planning for Planner who hails from Cleveland, persons with disabilities, and Ohio. The neighborhoods Ashley environmental and open space covers are Flats & Slopes, planning activities. In addition to his the Hilltop, and South Hills. Ashley duties as a planner, Andrew served as earned his Bachelor of Science degree a member of the Mayor’s Land in Community & Regional Planning Recycling Task Force, which drove the creation of the Pittsburgh Land from Iowa State University in 2005 Bank, and serves as a board member to the Pittsburgh Housing and has worked for the Department Development Corporation and the Allegheny Commons Initiative. since 2011.

Andrew has spent the last 13 years as a planner, working at Marshall Before coming on as a Neighborhood Township (Allegheny County), the Mercer County Regional Planning Planner, Ashley worked as a Health Commission, and the City of Akron before joining the City over 6 Inspector for the City of Cleveland, years ago. When he’s not at the office, you’ll find Andrew out on his a Family Liaison for the Cleveland bike exploring the city, hiking in the wilderness, slowly renovating his Metropolitan School District, and a District Executive for the Boys 1880’s Italianate row house or playing at home or in the park with his Scouts of America, Cleveland office. three sons. JUSTIN MILLER, AICP ANDREA LAVIN KOSSIS Justin is a Senior Planner and has worked on a wide variety of projects, including Andrea serves as the City of Pittsburgh’s zoning changes, policy research, graphic Riverfront Development Coordinator. design, neighborhood plans, She works together with communities, comprehensive planning, and PGHSNAP, developers and other stakeholders a citywide online data resource. to ensure that neighborhood growth PGHSNAP, was the recipient of a 2010 and development activities are American Society of Landscape equitable, sustainable and informed by Architects honor award for analysis and collaboration. Her geographic areas of planning, and received a “planning focus include Lawrenceville, the Strip excellence award for best practice” from District, the , and the PA chapter of the American Planning the Southside Flats. Association that same year. Justin currently serves at the neighborhood Andrea’s experience includes planner for the Hill District, Uptown, and Oakland--he also serves on community planning and design, the board of the Oakland Business Improvement District. community-scale sustainability, participatory design, neighborhood Justin is native to the Pittsburgh area, having grown up just up the outreach and building-scale energy efficiency. Prior to joining Allegheny River in Natrona Heights. He moved to the city while Pittsburgh’s Department of City Planning, Andrea served as the Green attending Duquesne University in 2000, and has lived here ever since. Building Alliance’s 2030 District Property Specialist; as Community He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in 2004 Sustainability Coordinator with the Kingsley Association; and as from Duquesne, and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Affairs Community Project Services Manager with the Design Center. Andrea in 2007. Justin was an intern with City Planning starting in late 2006, earned her Master’s of Urban & Environmental Planning from the which turned into a full-time job with City Planning in August 2007. University of Virginia, and received her Bachelor’s from Wake Forest University with a double major in Anthropology and Spanish. Justin can often be found buying records at one of the city’s many record stores--his shelves cannot fit any more records, but he keeps Andrea moved to Pittsburgh in 2006. She has since lived in five buying them anyway.

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MICHAEL SMITH, AICP STEPHANIE JOY EVERETT Michael is a Senior Planner and leads Stephanie Joy is the Neighborhood and supports neighborhood Planner for most of the Northside planning efforts for communities neighborhoods of the City. She located within the East End. earned a Bachelor of Art degree in Additionally, he is responsible for Psychology from the University of implementing elements of the City’s Cincinnati and continued graduate comprehensive plan, notably the studies in Community Planning at Urban Design chapter. Prior to joining the College of Design, Architecture, City Planning in October 2014, he Art, and Planning at UC. Before served as Real Estate and Planning relocating to Pittsburgh in June Project Manager for the Hill CDC, 2015, Stephanie Joy worked at the managing the organization’s City of Yuma, Arizona for seven years homeownership and neighborhood as a planner. She worked in a variety planning initiatives. of capacities, including development review, policy Before relocating to Pittsburgh, Michael served as Neighborhood research, zoning code text Planner for the City of Charlottesville, overseeing development review amendments, and updating the general plan. She also served as a and public outreach for six distinct neighborhoods. This included liaison between the City departments/divisions and the residents, advising residents, developers, and design professionals on city codes developers, and design professionals. and regulatory processes. In addition, he provided research, analysis, and policy recommendations to public officials on planning/zoning Stephanie Joy has spent time abroad, teaching ESL at a private school activities and development applications. In his spare time, Michael in Bangkok, Thailand and studying urban sustainability practices in can either be found running along the rivers and bridges of the City, Curitiba, Brazil. In her spare time, she can be found practicing yoga, learning about the history of Pittsburgh neighborhoods, or rooting for hiking and biking the trails of Western , or exploring the Virginia Cavaliers. Pittsburgh’s art venues.

NENHA YOUNG SUSAN TYMOCZKO Nenha is a Neighborhood Planner and Susan Tymoczko is a Senior Planner covers neighborhoods in the Lower who has been with the Department East End (Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze, of City Planning for 34 years. She , Regent Square, Swisshelm began her career with City Planning Park), , and the 31st Ward . in the section that was known at the Nenha is originally from Englewood, time as the Division of Community New Jersey and came to Pittsburgh in Planning, and is happy to be back 2013 through the UDream (Urban working in the area of community Design Regional Employment Action and neighborhood planning after for Minorities) fellowship at Carnegie more than 15 years in the Zoning Mellon University in the Remaking Division. Cities Institute. She also served as a Public Affairs Fellow with the Coro Susan is a native and life-long Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh. resident of Western Pennsylvania. Her education background is in Geography/Earth Sciences and Urban Nenha earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Urban Studies with Planning, training that she will rely on in learning to navigate around a minor in Architecture from Cornell University. Before coming to the and work with the neighborhoods. Department of City Planning in May 2015, Nenha work in New York City for the Department of Transportation in the Office of Bicycle and Pedestrian Program and for the New York City bike share system, CitiBike. Nenha also worked for an affordable housing developer in the City of Pittsburgh.

In Nenha’s free time, she could found crocheting a new project, watching a documentary, or traveling the world.

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