City to City Peer Exchange | Denver, CO | May 20-24, 2019 Speaker Bios and Session Information
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City to City Peer Exchange | Denver, CO | May 20-24, 2019 Speaker Bios and Session Information Monday, May 20 Our Changing Cities | Building a livable, affordable and equitable foundation In 2018, Denver launched an “Equity Platform” to take an even stronger role in connecting people with opportunity, so no one is left behind. The Equity Platform includes new and expanding and initiatives focused on job opportunities, business SUGGESTED SESSION RESOURCES growth and city support to more residents, businesses and neighborhoods . Neighborhood Equity and including formation of a Neighborhood Equity and Stabilization Team (NEST). NEST Stabilization Team works to understand and identify displacement issues and proactively implement . The State of the City – City and actions and programs to mitigate the impacts of public and private investments at County of Denver the neighborhood level. The City and County of Denver’s Office of HOPE (Housing & Opportunities for People Everywhere) works with community partners and agencies to connect individuals and families to affordable housing, health services and jobs. Irene Aguilar [email protected] Director-Neighborhood Equity and Stabilization Team (NEST) 720.913.1662 City and County of Denver www.denvergov.org Born and raised in inner city Chicago, educated in Chicago Public Schools, Dr. Aguilar was the first in her family to attend university. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biology at Washington University in St. Louis, she completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1988, then worked as a primary care physician at Denver Health’s Westside Family Health Center for 22 years. In 2010 Dr. Aguilar was selected by a vacancy committee to represent Denver’s Senate District 32 in the Colorado State Legislature. Senator Aguilar’s legislative focus included health care reform, disability rights and advancement of the Latino population. Senator Aguilar became a fierce advocate for social justice. Due to term limits, in 2018 she began working as the city of Denver’s Neighborhood Equity and Stabilization Team (NEST) director. NEST is focused on preserving the culture and character of Denver’s neighborhoods experiencing significant change by giving longtime businesses and residents the opportunity to remain in place. Laura Brudzynski [email protected] Director - housing policy, programs and HOPE Initiative 720.913.1575 City and County of Denver www.denvergov.org Laura Brudzynski is Denver’s director of the housing policy, programs and HOPE Initiative at the Office of Economic Development. Among her duties are working with agencies in the city to address homelessness and housing. Brudzynski volunteered with Habit for Humanity before working with them full-time. She started working on the policy front after an advocacy trip to Washington, where she got a better sense of the systemic changes that were needed to improve affordable housing options. She ended up in Denver for grad school, working for housing advocacy organizations before she started working for the city in 2013. In her role, she oversees the largest dedicated affordable housing fund in the state and this year led the effort year to double the fund from $15 million to $30 million. It’s a fund she believes will have help generations to come. Sarah Showalter [email protected] Citywide Planning Manager 720.865.2923 City and County of Denver www.denvergov.org Sarah Showalter, AICP, is a city planner with a unique background in planning, housing, and urban design. She draws on over 15 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, where she has led and coordinated several project types including transit-oriented development, neighborhood and citywide plans, and affordable housing. As the Citywide Planning Manager for Denver’s Community Planning and Development, she oversees planning and policy at the citywide scale. She played a lead role developing Denver’s Comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver, the city’s land use and transportation, which city council adopted in April 2019. Both plans have a strong focus on equity and inclusivity. Sarah has a Masters in City and Regional Planning and a Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. 1 | P a g e City to City Peer Exchange | Denver, CO | May 20-24, 2019 Speaker Bios and Session Information Tuesday, May 21 The Making of a Mega Project | Lessons from Colorado’s Central 70 The Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Central 70 Project will reconstruct a 10-mile stretch of Interstate-70 that serves as an economic backbone for the State of Colorado, and includes the addition of tolled express lanes, SUGGESTED SESSION RESOURCES removal and replacement of aging infrastructure, and new park and open space . CDOT Central 70 Project amenities. This multi-jurisdictional project began in 2018, and when completed, . Central 70 Project Snapshot will reduce congestion, improve safety and better accommodate future growth . Video: along a vital transportation corridor. This multi-jurisdictional project provides an Central 70 Project Overview example of how communities and agencies across a metro region can come together to advance a major infrastructure challenge, while supporting communities adjacent to the project corridor, and has lessons and implications for the forthcoming Interstate-5 Bridge replacement project. Keith Stefanik [email protected] Central 70 Project Director 303.886.1389 Colorado Department of Transportation www.codot.gov Keith Stefanik brings more than 18 years of public and private sector experience in the transportation engineering and construction industries. Currently the Project Director for the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Central 70 Project – the state’s largest transportation project – Stefanik began his career as a Transportation Engineer for PBS&J before serving as a Capital Projects Manager in Douglas County, Colorado and Project Manager with Atkins North America. He joined CDOT in 2013 as a Resident Engineer before becoming the Central 70 Deputy Director of Project Delivery in 2017. Stefanik has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering Technology from the Pennsylvania College of Technology and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. Stacia Sellers [email protected] Central 70 Communications Manager 720.280.5291 Colorado Department of Transportation www.codot.gov Stacia Sellers is the Colorado Department of Transportation's Central 70 Communications Manager and has been with CDOT for three years. Prior to joining the Central 70 team, Stacia has taken the communications lead on various campaigns and projects including "Winter Wise", a campaign focused on winter driving safety, the C-470 Express Lanes, westbound I-70 Peak Period Shoulder Lanes, and I-70: Floyd Hill to Veterans Memorial Tunnels Improvements. In addition, she’s garnered national media attention for many of CDOT’s snow fighting efforts. Stacia graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a Bachelor of Science in journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in English. Before CDOT, Stacia worked at a PR agency and was a contributing writer and editor for Alaska Magazine. Diane Barrett [email protected] Chief Project Officer, Mayor’s Office 720.865.8780 City and County of Denver www.denvergov.org A lawyer for nearly twenty-five years, Diane Barrett practiced primarily in the areas of project finance, public finance and land use/development. She was a partner with a major regional firm for many years and her practice emphasized infrastructure finance for both local governments and private development. In 2005, Diane was recruited by then-Mayor Hickenlooper of Denver to provide City oversight for the Regional Transportation District’s $500 million redevelopment of the Denver Union Station site into a multi-modal hub for its Fastracks transit program. Denver’s participation and financial contributions to the Denver Union Station project were critical to its success. The importance of Denver’s involvement in that success and the success of other FasTracks projects led to a recognition of the need for similar oversight for all development projects in the city. As a consequence, Denver’s current mayor, Michael B. Hancock, created the position of Chief Projects Officer when he took office in 2011 and appointed Diane to fill it. She continues to hold the position and is currently working on projects in Denver worth over $3.5 billion. 2 | P a g e City to City Peer Exchange | Denver, CO | May 20-24, 2019 Speaker Bios and Session Information David Spector [email protected] Director– Deal Advisory Infrastructure, former Director of HPTE 303.382.7792 KPMG LLP David Spector is a Director with KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory practice. David has focused his career on delivering public projects and solving complex public sector infrastructure and challenges. With fifteen years of experience across all stages of the project life cycle, David has executed over $4 billion in public private partnership (P3) transactions, run a congestion-priced Express Lanes network, and led implementation of complex public policy and programs. David is a lawyer by training. After leaving private practice, he served as Colorado Governor John W. Hickenlooper's legal counsel. Most recently, David ran the Colorado High Performance Transportation